Gift And Theft: A Conceptual Frame for LIfe After Drawdown
Chapter 50 Cell by Cell So, what is the role of individual memory in relation to the holonomous soul? In her book Holdfast, Kathleen Dean Moore wrote, “. . . it’s your memories that make...
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Chapter 51 Predecessors in Place Robin Kimmerer touches on this near the end of her book, Braiding Sweetgrass, where she uses her attempt to make a bow drill fire as a metaphor: “My struggle...
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Chapter 52 Memories in the Land An insight from Kathleen Moore further reinforces this awareness. She writes, “Memories live in places and you can find them if you go there. Sometimes . ....
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Chapter 53One Spirit, Many Bodies With this in mind, I wonder if, when Tibetan monks undertake the search for the reincarnation of a deceased Lama, they are looking not for someone who has...
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Chapter 54Life Eternal So, why did it take me almost forty years to come to this awareness when it seems obvious now? It is because I was born into a society that has reduced self-identification...
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Chapter 55After and Before Fear of death makes no more sense than the fear of birth. What we become after death is the same as what we were before birth. The reason we don’t fear birth is...
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Chapter 56Blood Dance The moral implications of holonic self identity thus become clear. Elisabet Sahtouris shows us how when she writes, “Rather than justifying our cruelties by accusing...
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Chapter 57Sacred TrustThis position may seem naïve given that the vast majority of Life’s procreative abundance — pollen, seeds, nuts, spores, fruit, sperm and eggs and even young produced and released...
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Chapter 58Zoë Life Individuals who deny holonic reality not only lose this awareness, they also fall prey to the assumption that there is nothing after death, just as they assume that there was...
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Chapter 59Moral Universe A holonomous sense of self allows us to identify with the Earth body and recognize our ‘self’ as distinct, but not singular nor separate from the greater Whole....
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Chapter 60Each in All, as One Such a view seems to be, not just a personal, but a cultural route to a care-fostering story of the very kind on which David Korten argues the human future will...
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Chapter 61Belonging This holonomous Oneness is the self-identity being expressed by salmon in the river, not eating. By shifting what might be called our reference holon from the individual...
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Epilogue: Antecoda And so, with the closing of this written round, we have reached the bounds of the frame, the limits of script, the edges of abstraction. To attain the next level of...
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