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Marvin Maneve's avatar

Many thanks Anna-Marie for the light you shed. That's reassuring to me to read that your thinking and that of others are opening those spaces for a better world for all, including all race and species.

May I comment on worldviews and cosmologies, I sometimes experiment them as 'rapport', meaning they are intellectual constructs meant to justify a form of deep inner judgment. That judgment would be about the worth one believes he/she has vis-a-vis another. Which is actually both valid and invalid. Depending on which basis we consider it. I sometimes refer to it as our two natures.

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Anna-Marie Swan's avatar

Hey Marvin

Thank you so much for sharing your reflections. I've been pondering it, and what I keep coming back to is the noticing that what you share lands as a very interesting story about the stories we create :) And if we were engaging in enquiry in person, then I'd be fascinated to dive into that story and discover the multitude that I'm sure has informed it. Which makes me realise that it's very difficult (perhaps impossible) to bring enquiry onto paper, since it does ask of us to give a lot of time and care to diving into things.

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Marvin Maneve's avatar

Thanks Anna-Marie,

indeed, small things counts in life and adds up to provide access. And seems we resonate together... enquiry provides content... a lot... it may then mean that, when most of it is done as it happens, the space/system become available for that that requires more time. Which in itself reinforces the 'in time processing'... A kind of virtuous circle.

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Michelle Holliday's avatar

Stunning. I think my favorite part is the piece about staying in continual inquiry and how that's perhaps the most appropriate stance within an ecological world. But I love all of it and your openness in sharing these unfolding reflections.

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Anna-Marie Swan's avatar

Thank you dear Michelle. I love how this second shape has been so much more of a communal unfolding, and that you are very much 'in' this. And I loved highlighting enquiry too! Felt so right.

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Emily Bazalgette's avatar

I loved reading about these changes, and I love how this work continues to live and evolve!

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Anna-Marie Swan's avatar

Thanks, Emily!

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