Just back from the Shalom conference and Greenbelt. Two places where I hung out with like minded people and was able to wonder out loud about thoughts and ideas around mission and god without people stucking in a loud mouthful of air like a builder does when you ask how much it is going to cost?
Didn’t really hear that much new at GB but through chatting with friend got some good conversations going that began to stretch the old gray cells. In particular how many of the arguments made are based on the same old dualist assumptions and around reconciling this rather than starting from a more unified worldview and the impact this has on who and how we are.
good to see you at GB for a brief chat. Agree with you on dualisitc thinking… really difficult for modernists and dogma dominated belief systems to get beyond black/white structured thinking. Dualism is the orginal sin !!
sorry above post by James
james any ideas on a process to help move beyond the dualist approaches to thinking??
instead of thinking – start feeling…
The best process to move from dualistic thinking is to embrace/ listen to the pain, failure and suffering of life and to be with anothers pain without trying to fix them. To embrace insecurity, vulnerability, not knowing instead of trying to fit these circumstances into old belief structures.
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