[ChatAction] Global scale study circles

Tue Dec 29 16:41:13 MST 2020

Thank you Ruthe, and Karen and Bruce and Marcia,  this is great!  The walls
woven between us, from beliefs held sacred and safe, keep us from seeing
how "they" thrive next door. Rising above our walls /differences, we have a
good chance of joining together for some fun and games in the Love/Light we
all are born in & from.

If (no if about it!) we *are* ONE, we need to weave ourselves together.
Shining light on our personal points of view in our circles, we all see
much better.  Yes,  please, more of this!

Gaian love (thx Ruthe, I love that!)
Shannon

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 1:47 PM Ruthe Schoder-Ehri via ChatAction <
chataction at communitymagic.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> I will add two more things here.
> First, my VERY FAVORITE "CIRCLE" process, and book, is by Christina
> Baldwin. I love her work, example and voice.
>
> About Quaker process.
> QuakerSpeak.com
>  Check it out, follow your own curiosity, this extensive set of short (3-7
> min) videos on all kinds of topics. I think you can search for things like
> "Quaker process" or "discernment" or "testimonies, SPICES".  Or just browse
> the five seasons of titles.
>
> (I am particularly proud of these, as our oldest son is the creative
> loving CEO of Quaker Publishing Corp in Philadelphia.)
>
> Here are a few short examples of the kinds of language you will find when
> exploring "Quakerese" !
>
> Community
> "Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with
> another, and forgiving one
> another, and not laying accusations against another, but praying one for
> another and helping
> one another up with a tender hand." Isaac Penington, 1667
>
> "From the beginning, Friends have recognized the importance of being in
> community. As early Friends struggled to follow God’s will, the Friends
> community provided spiritual support for their discernment of that will and
> material support for their families when they were imprisoned for their
> faith. Today, Friends continue to seek to be faithful, and their community
> continues to provide discernment and care."
>     --from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting *Faith and Practice*
>
> "It is not possible to be a human being without being part of a
> community.... The Spirit
> guides us when we worship in community and when we do business in
> community.
> Although we best know a sense of spiritual unity within our families and
> in our
> meetings, we look outwards and try in love to include others in our
> community—our
> neighbors near and far, the people we meet as we go out into the world,
> even the very
> living, breathing Earth that feeds us and clothes us and that we care for
> in our turn."
>      --Intermountain Yearly Meeting* Faith and Practice*
>
> I will be back more available after 8 January. Malini suggested setting up
> a time to share on zoom about Quaker ways.
>
> Gaian love,
> Ruthe
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 10:29 AM <bruceschuman at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Great, thank you, Ruthe.  I want to hear more.
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>> Years ago, I heard about a generic (Christian) book called “Discerning
>> God’s Will Together” – which I would say is a kind of master-principle for
>> collective thinking guided by wholeness – if we can filter out sectarian
>> ideology that tends to slant the perspective.  I do like Quakers and George
>> Fox – but I think we are entering into (are a long ways into) a new era in
>> religion – that maybe starts out for a lot of people with “I am spiritual
>> but not religious” – and then proceeds through a long stage of maturation
>> as people gradually begin to see ways to structure these principles – thus
>> perhaps to share them in community – which I feel we here are destined to
>> do.
>>
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>> This general and very simple idea, in my opinion, is the master-force
>> behind a global revolution in spirituality which I want to encourage – and
>> “whole systems visionaries and revolutionaries” should all get behind.
>>
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>> This is the awesome common ground of the human experience, in a form that
>> transcends culture and every type of “identity politics”.  “There is a
>> field, I will meet you there” – said Rumi, widely quoted
>>
>>
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>> Collective wisdom, descending through everybody – because they have
>> surrendered personal ideology to the laws of cocreation and sacred
>> listening – enabling them to enter into “the revolution of the heart” that
>> Malini and Shannon and others often talk about here.
>>
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>>
>> This is the power we want to invoke.  This is the transformative energy
>> that can drive an explosively transformative global movement – that
>> includes thousands of factors and facets – everything that Humanity Rising
>> has been talking about all these months – but brought together as common
>> ground – the master-principle for putting the jig-saw puzzle together….
>>
>>
>>
>> (oh, and Ruthe – I see you are a Tree Sister!  Let’s see, how about the
>> sacred tree at the center of an infinite circle of trees…..???)
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>> Bruce Schuman
>>
>> Santa Barbara CA USA
>>
>> bruceschuman at cox.net / 805-705-9174
>>
>> www.origin.org
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>> *From:* Ruthe Schoder-Ehri <ruthealaska at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 29, 2020 9:59 AM
>> *To:* Karen Ball <bluebonnetkaren at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* ChatAction List <chataction at communitymagic.org>;
>> bruceschuman at cox.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [ChatAction] Global scale study circles
>>
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>> Hi, I am following this chat from the “wings”.
>>
>> I have been familiar with Quaker discernment process for 40+ years. I am
>> not expert, but experienced and glad to offer what I can about this as
>> needed.
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>> From year end stillness by the Salish Sea,
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>>
>> Ruthe
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>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 09:31 Karen Ball via ChatAction <
>> chataction at communitymagic.org> wrote:
>>
>> As I read through this, I have a question regarding the "study circles".
>> Does anyone see parallels to how indigenous communities and Quakers handle
>> decision making?  Perhaps, we should reach out to indigenous communities
>> and the Quakers; they could guide us in discernment of how the Universal
>> Spirit may be collectively calling us.  I suggest Parker Palmer and the
>> Center for Courage and Renewal would be great partners to our Chat Action
>> efforts.
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>>
>> Peace,
>>
>> Karen
>>
>>
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>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 5:00 PM Bruce Schuman via ChatAction <
>> chataction at communitymagic.org> wrote:
>>
>> Today, I’ve been working though the ideas and vision of Duane Elgin.  His
>> vision is so in-synch with everything I am doing.  He was working with Jim
>> Garrison in the 1990’s
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>> Right now, I am particularly excited about his ideas for “Study Circles”.
>>
>>
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>> In this PDF, he outlines the basic principles behind Study Circles –
>> which I tend to see as the most powerful organizing idea in the world, and
>> probably the master-design for the emerging new world – if there is to be
>> one and we survive our initiation.
>>
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>> Take a look at this:
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>> https://duaneelgin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/global_consciousness.pdf
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>> This is not newbie stuff.  This is master vision from the masters,
>> written in simple and highly intuitive terms.
>>
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>>
>> And what is exciting for me is – the entire framework is written as a
>> series of questionnaires – surveys.
>>
>>
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>> Duane Elgin worked with “electronic town halls” for years.  Maybe this is
>> the new design for a vast electronic town hall.  That would be my dream.
>>
>>
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>> Malini – I actually think this meets all your standards.  I think that is
>>  probably true for just about everybody on Chat Acton.  This IS an “action
>> path” – maybe the most powerful collective action path ever possible – and
>> maybe the only way we human beings could possibly move forward together in
>> a way that converges into wholeness and ONE.
>>
>>
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>> Duane Elgin:
>>
>> https://duaneelgin.com/
>>
>> https://choosingearth.org/
>>
>> https://greattransitionstories.org/
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>> Bruce Schuman
>>
>> Santa Barbara CA USA
>>
>> bruceschuman at cox.net / 805-705-9174
>>
>> www.origin.org
>>
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