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Metaphor connects us with the Divine.
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Metaphor connects us with the Divine.

Metaphor connects our human brain with spiritual dimensions. When we shift from perceiving and knowing with our linear, analytical mind to a spatial, artistic way of knowing based in metaphor, we’re able to access a field of divine intelligence. This was documented in neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight. But because our…

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Finding your people to guide you home by Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

“Home isn’t Mom and Dad and Sis and Bud. Home isn’t where they have to let you in. It’s not a place at all. Home is imaginary.” “Home, imagined, comes to be. It is real, realer than any other place, but you can’t get to it unless your people show you how to imagine it—whoever…

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Creating third space when you teach, train, coach or mentor

Third Space is one of the things that I find most captivating about teaching, or any other situation where a group of people come together for an intentional purpose. The philosopher Hannah Arendt called this space “an in-between,” theologians define it as a “Divine Third,” and Martin Buber called it “Thou.” When we form a…

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What is aesthetic space and why is it important?

Philosophers throughout history have asserted that “the fundamental nature of the world is aesthetic” (Alfred North Whitehead, Gregory Bateson,James Hillman, Martin Foss,Donald Winnicott to name a few.) That said, it’s interesting that the word aesthetics comes from the Greek word “aisthenesthai” which is the ability to perceive. When he was alive, archetypal psychologist James Hillman…

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