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Authentic Movement as a Deeptime Practice, Rev. Kacey Carmichael, MA, MEd

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So many Deeptime allurements beckoning, so many emergences bubbling.

Lately I’ve been especially focused on Authentic Movement as a Deeptime practice. While I’ve been practicing and teaching this particular form of developmental/spiritual/expressive arts for well over three decades, seeing it through a Deeptime lens brings me into even deeper appreciation of and participation in this powerful practice. As it says on my slide:

~ In Authentic Movement we deepen our experience of Differentiation, Subjectivity, and Communion.

~ Moment to moment, in embodied presence, we practice following our Allurements.

~ With awareness, we slip into the flow of the Universe unfurling through us, as us.

Since I had the privilege of presenting and facilitating this for our Wednesday, May 22 class (recording available), I won’t say much more about it here. I’ll just add that I recently began teaching a weekly in-person AM class in Marin County, California (Deeptimers welcome to come for free!) and am weaving DT awareness throughout.

In my monthly Sunday morning contemplative arts church services I’ve been weaving in DT awareness and practices into all my services for the past 9 months. The last one focused on Authentic Movement. The one before that focused on Syzygy: the alignment of Earth, Moon, and Sun during the total eclipse – sharing my experience of it, and through guided meditation and movement, helping everyone embody that beautiful awareness of the greater whole. For this I built upon the little opening meditation I created for our program earlier this spring: tenderly, lovingly feeling the full-bodied roundness of ourselves (as human form), of ourselves (as Earth) and of ourselves (as solar system) and savoring the three-dimensional, delicious, intimate relationships between all these beloved celestial bodies of our cosmic neighborhood. My June service will be the week of Summer Solstice and will focus on the relationship of Sun and Earth (including plants and animals, including us.) I’ll use contemplative arts practices (especially movement and poetic writing) to help people feel and embody the allurement between Sun and Earth, especially the amazing development of the chlorophyll molecule that emerged from our deepening intimacy. I’ll tie this into following our own allurements, allowing the deepening of intimacy and the new emergences that develop.

I’d like to mention some of my other bubbling emergences, many informed by my work as an expressive arts therapist, interfaith minister, poet, tantrika, and contemplative arts designer/facilitator. I would especially appreciate hearing any comments from Deeptime friends – do you know of resources relevant to these emergences, or have ideas you’d like to share? Would love to hear from you at: TheUniverseShinesForth@gmail.com

– experiences and writings that help us feel the energy of Eros or sexuality as a particular, very powerful power of the universe. Connecting with, celebrating and being vivified by Eros imbuing the entire Body, Earth and Universe.

– Authentic Movement not only as a DT/cosmogenesis practice, but also specifically as a form of Deeptime spiritual direction/companioning. Related to this is seeing Cosmogenesis or Deeptime Awareness as its own spiritual tradition/practice/theology/lineage (for those who want to see it this way.) I’d like to see this recognized generally and in interfaith seminaries such as the Chaplaincy Institute, from which I graduated in May. (I brought DT awareness into all my classes, and very much appreciated the synergy between the two trainings.)

– I would love for our community to find an all encompassing Name for this way that we use various names for now, like Deeptime, Story of the Universe, Third Story, etc. etc. I’m somewhat leaning toward Cosmogenesis myself, but not sure … curious to hear others’ ideas. “Process Cosmology” was coming up in me, but I found that it's already being used in a narrower way.

– how to help myself and others notice the moments in our lives of “knowing our wholeness first,” of recognizing our Interbeing, of knowing ourselves as the developing universe; and to help us write our own autocosmology – maybe prompts, a template, examples, exercises, inspiring quotations and poems, arts-based practices, a workbook/journal…maybe somebody has already done something like this?

– I wonder whether I might find a Deeptime writing buddy or writing group. I know having this kind of structured container and accountability helps me make the time to write, and enlivens the experience.

– continue to work on developing Liturgy of the Universe. (Meditations and contemplative practices of all sorts, utilizing various arts … music, poetry, visual arts, dance/movement, rituals…) Planning to develop and present another version of the cosmic spiral with Brian in October.

– in general, I want to take more time for my movement and writing practice. I trust in the continued unfurling, and imagine that what emerges will continue to deepen and express my passion for helping us humans know ourselves as the brilliant, beautiful developing universe, and all the good that comes of this knowing.

– I am so open to seeing what wants to unfold …

– I treasure the deepening and synergistic emergences that come from communing in Deeptime community. Thank you.

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.

The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged

in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

— Teilhard de Chardin

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Authentic Movement as a Deeptime Practice, Kacey Carmichael

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You stand in the center of deep time past and deep time future, surrounded by the ancestors and the future ones. The universe has imprinted itself on the landscape that surrounds you in Place. Thus each Deeptime story, from every direction, is unfolding through you. Here.  Now.

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 Karen Kudebeh:                                                            "Centering in Time and Place" 

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I have chosen two projects to highlight for this certification program.  One project culminated on April 20 at the Horn Antenna celebration, where I offered an experience of Centering in Place to the Deep Time Network members gathered there.  I have been offering these Place-based stories for many years, and when the opportunity arose to do so at the “Bethlehem of the New Cosmic Story” site, I knew I had to be there.

The second project is being initiated this summer.  I’m inviting you to a class consisting of 3 online sessions during the month of July.  Its name: Centering in Time and Place.  The class will introduce what it means to come home to Here and Now. Experience the wonderment that accompanies learning something surprising about the location you thought you already knew. Enjoy the co-learning community that we’ll create together. These tools, interactions, and your allurements just might result in a lifetime of “Place Exploration.”   Please email me right away if interested!  karen@timetrace.com

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Deeptime 2024 Amanda Patt - Secondary Biosphere Hypothesis and Biology Eco-Art

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Deeptime 2024 Amanda Patt - Secondary Biosphere Hypothesis and Biology Eco-Art

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Cosmogensis

Context, Gratitude, Seamlessness,

The Great Work, Centration,

Nested Holons, Trust

Secondary Biosphere

Matrix, Despair, Cataclysm,

Current Dilemma, Emergence,

Differentiation, Discernment

Biology Eco-Art

Subjectivity, Seeing with New Eyes,

Interrelatedness, Transition to the Ecozoic,

Interiority, Transmutation, Attention

Science Monk

Action, Going Forward A-New,

Radiance, Ecological Spirituality,

Allurement, Communion, Intention

Secondary Biosphere Hypothesis

• Higher-level planetary organism: unnamed

• Malignant, it is consuming Gaia

• New meta-narrative, Upper-Level Sphere

Survival is being projected upwards from real, physical survival on the Earth

…into a proxy survival, for the economy of

upper-level organisms

Selected for survival by the economy (2nd

biosphere), not the biosphere

We cannot adapt against this selection

pressure

Biological Stories Merged Using Art

I am getting new ideas of how the beauty of the natural world fits with more familiar things, as in these two cases, with human anatomy.

The technique has evolved also, the acrylic paint adds coverage and depth to the colour, while the oil pastels add detail and vibrancy to the paintings.

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Judi Bauerlein

I have had two special projects in mind for a long time. One was collecting notes that I have been taking for the past years from our inspirational Cosmology sessions and publishing them in Montessori Life magazine. The other was to share some of my favorite poems and lessons that I have done with my students over these past 50 plus years that I believe effectively relate to Dr. Montessori’s vision of Cosmic Education.

Getting started seemed overwhelming then on a seemingly random chance I heard Jon Meacham speak about the current political divisiveness and my project took an entire new turn. Early in the morning I wrote to many of my Montessori friends both nationally and internationally this following message:

Yesterday I heard Jon Meacham (historian, presidential biographer and currrently Historian of the Washington National Cathedral) speak; he makes such sense and from a non-political position.  He spoke clearly and seriously that what we are experiencing is not a political matter and can’t really be discussed in those terms.  The question is whether or not you believe in decency and freedom.  This comment resonanted so deeply that I was even dreaming that voices were telling me to speak out.

Early this morning the voices that I was hearing were those of Dr. Montessori, Betsy
Coe, Michael Dorer, Aline Wolfe, Ursula Thrush, Dottie Feldman, and (please think of others you would add to this list ). It really does seem that it is time that our
Montessori voice is heard.

I know that I would be preaching to the choir if I were to give the reasons why we must speak out; I believe that one of the reasons we chose to become committed to the
Montessori vision and way of life was her belief in Peace and Social Justice as well as Global unity.  Without becoming too dramatic I am fearful that our country is dangerously close to losing some of these most basic human needs.

So what to do I kept asking myself and knew that I must reach out to my Montessori friends whom I value and trust.  Is there a way that we can publically and non-politically proclaim our belief in Peace,Social Justice, Freedom, Decency , and One World?  I believe that there would need to be some united approach.  I can only come up with using our Montessori forums and speak directly to the Montessori people and hopefully reach further.  Ask AMI to join in this effort.  Begin to quote passages from Dr.Montessori’s Peace lectures~~~

As a result of this plea, a friend of mine, Lisa Lalama wrote two messages; one was meant for Montessori audiences and one for the general public. They are essentially similar in content; I want to copy the one meant for the general audience.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.”

Jon Meacham, historian, presidential biographer and visiting professor at Vanderbilt University is an inspiration as we face the challenges with the volatile and divisive 2024 presidential election. How do we, as mere citizens of the greatest democracy in the world, move in a democratic way to make a decision about what is best for the United States, based on our personal beliefs, balanced with the incredibly difficult political atmosphere?

As Meacham states, what we are facing today isn’t a political matter and can’t be discussed in those terms. The fundamental question is our belief in human decency and freedom. This comment distills the daily rhetoric we are bombarded with to its essence. Although I am not an historian, I have the history that was afforded me by Dr. Maria Montessori, the physician and creator of the Montessori method of education. Dr. Montessori founded her educational method in San Lorenzo, Italy by educating those children who were deemed to be uneducable. She discovered that they were indeed able to learn, to grow into productive citizens capable of contributing to their future world. This has been the foundation of my professional life and one on which many educators throughout the world base their teaching practice.

Dr. Montessori, three time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, was a contemporary of other noted peace makers such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. As we teach children the basics that we are all familiar with, Montessorians also teach peace. It is woven into the fiber of each lesson, each interaction and each day in the life of Montessori students. Homage is paid to those who came before us, the humanitarians who paved the way for us to live in peace. There is the acknowledgement of the injustice and unfairness that exists throughout the world. Instead of vitriol and blame, however, children are taught how others have made and continue to make a difference in the world. They learn that they, too, may impact change. They feel the outrage of unfairness and unquestionable indecency that too many citizens of the world are treated. They become empowered to create change, to address the fundamental needs of humans to live with adequate housing, food, clothing, safety, and beauty. Is that not what we want for all people? The lessons are there. Jon Meacham and Dr. Montessori say it beautifully. Politics may keep us from war, though that is becoming less and less certain. Education can lead us. The path is there. Will we take it?

Eventually an unofficial gathering of Montessorians formed a small group entitled Montessori Action Project with the intention of sending this letter to the editorial sections of various newspapers, to Montessori blogs, and to local Montessori organizations.

Unfortunately we have not yet had this letter published and we continue to try. I hope that our persistence will eventually bring some results. (I have learned persistence very well from Sarbmeet and the remarkable impact he has made with the Horn Antenna).

I did want to share my process with you; I do believe that the passion and the effort given to this message is the essence of my current project.

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Aligning the Wisdom Behaviors of Human Embryogenesis 

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Aligning the Wisdom Behaviors of Human Embryogenesis 

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with those of Cosmogenesis:

Embodying Autocosmology and Embr-Ecopoetic

I continue to share Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Education(PPNE) and Prenatal Science with my Deeptime Leadership and Wellness and Herman Greene’s Ecozoic Way cohorts. While what I share is well received, I wonder if some find it off-putting. As a trauma-informed PPNE, I am mindful that by aligning the behaviors of embryogenesis with cosmogenesis, there is the potential of for overwhelm as the implicit memories of womblife, or coming into form from seamlessness may have been less than ideal. Still, acknowledging the antifragile wayfinding wisdom by which, each of us, crossed critical thresholds of development is important. I believe the best way for me to tell the story of embryogenesis and birth is through the arts, storytelling, and a literary device called Ecopoetics. In “The Intellectual Legacy of Thomas Berry”, Anne Marie Dalton writes:

Ecopoetics is a crossover of sorts between ecology-themed poetry and literary criticism. ... It belongs to the postmodern focus on textuality - the significance and life of a text on its own. Ecopoetics asks the question: “What is it that is addressed and created by the

text itself?” The strictly postmodern literary critic focuses, however, on the text alone as real, based on the assumption that all reality is radically constructed. Ecopoetics, in contrast, holds that “nature is simultaneously real and constructed (p. 22).

Now as I approach Module Three of the DTLW course, I have reworked this question I’ve pondered for more than a decade. “If the indigenously wise wayfinding behaviors are telling us something about ourselves then embryonic performance is a language that can be interpreted, curated and cultivated to navigate the critical thresholds of the evolutionary shift in consciousness that will help us cross the planetary threshold that leads to the New Story.

TRANSITus LABwork supports the psycho-cosmic labor of embodying autocosmology by giving voice to the prenatal poet/shaman in each of us.

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Bruce Rippe - "How Loon Learned to Fly"  

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Bruce Rippe - "How Loon Learned to Fly"  

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My Emergence is unfolding as creative writing project.  My inner journey with this project began over 40 years ago at which time the seeds of this story were sown in my mind’s eye.  The title of the story is “How Loon Learned to Fly”.  My goal for this Emergence project is to compose the story, in writing, from a perspective that reflects the Deeptime principles that are being presented in the DTLWP.

“How Loon Learned to Fly” tells a story of subjectivity.  The primary intention of the story is to ‘influence the subjectivity of others’.  It is a story that focuses on self-image and the self-imposed limits that we place on ourselves because we’re not able to see a bigger picture.  A picture which places our awareness of self on a grander scale than a self-deprecating mindset often considers.  The story expands Loon’s limiting tunnel vision into a broader cosmology that reminds him of where he belongs in the ever-evolving Universe.

From his new perspective, Loon embraces his own unique physical form and affirm the wonderful attributes and skills which he does possess.  Using the form in which Loon is embodied to fly is quite challenging.  But, with an understanding of Loon’s belonging, he is able to put his efforts into action that actually accomplishes flight and his true subjectivity emerges in the process.

The story is intended to inspire readers to consider their own perceptions of subjectivity – theirs and others - and to encourage the acceptance of challenges which will help them achieve the full emergence of their own unique presence in the world.

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.  There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground Rumi

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Proposition

Set the intention to be open and available to fall into love with any manifestation of the Earth — to kneel with Rumi- 62 times during a turn around the Sun. This intention will be supported by monthly online gatherings, and 4 quarterly in person retreats - offering practices and community.

Introduction

Meister Eckhart, the 14th-century Christian mystic, suggests we should fall in love at least three times a day. This has resonated deeply with me as a way to practice living fully into the joyous gorgeousness of the Earth we inhabit.

As a way to practice this together, the invitation is to intentionally make space for falling in love on a regular basis and to connect monthly to share what is emerging. For the coming year, the challenge is to do this five times a month, for a total of 62 times. (Why 62 times? Read More…)

This practice will also seed the paradigm shift required by the current ecological crisis

What do we mean by falling in love?

Falling in love is the experience of being present, paying attention and giving ourselves over to something or someone: an experience of abandonment and dramatic permeability where we allow ourselves to be transformed by something outside of ourselves.

We are available for something new and fresh to emerge; noticing what wasn’t noticed before, we experience joy, beauty, delight, possibility and compassion.

In our culture, the descriptor “falling in love” is primarily reserved for romantic sexual relationships.

This is way too small a playground for this dynamic energizing transformative experience, this modality of being awake, appreciative, of feeling buoyant, delighted, attracted and allured by indefinable potential.

Falling in love changes us, and by falling into love we are active contributors to generativity and the emergence of life beyond ourselves.

What does it look like to fall in love with the Earth?

Mary Oliver has been a mentor for many of us in this regard and says it so well!

When Death Comes

When death comes

like the hungry bear in autumn;

when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;

when death comes

like the measle-pox;

when death comes

like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:

what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything

as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,

and I look upon time as no more than an idea,

and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common

as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,

tending, as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something

precious to the earth.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life

I was a bride married to amazement.

I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder

if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,

or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.

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Joy flows through my grandsons so effortlessly

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Sarbmeet Kanwal - Spread Joy by letting Cosmic Love flow through me

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Sarbmeet Kanwal - Spread Joy by letting Cosmic Love flow through me

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My allurement is to experience my own subjectivity, not as intellectual reasoning based on a scientific story, but as a knowing within my body that expresses itself naturally in my interactions with the human and more than human world;

a way of being from which actions can naturally emerge.

My Emergence:

Practice a new way of being within the matrix of my closest family and friends that starts with the premise that human subjectivity has a common source – UNIVERSE; and my role is to use my own subjectivity to bring out the universe’s subjectivity in others starting with those that are closest to me.

As I bring my allurement into practice using the Deeptime principles, my confidence in having discovered the leading edge of my subjectivity keeps growing. Opportunities for exercising my allurement keep popping up everywhere

•in difficult conflicts that develop with loved ones,

•in new ways that show up for how I can bring out the best in my friends and colleagues,

•and in quickly saying yes to requests and projects that seem consistence with my allurement.

Context:

The context for my emergence is not a place or thing but a feeling of separation from the universe, a feeling of inadequacy that weighs heavy on me and keeps me from feeling peaceful.

Matrix:

What holds me back is my ego self that places conditions on what I can freely give to others.

Subjectivity:

What are the blocks? Where is the resistance? What needs to be healed?  Answering these questions and turning them into small action steps has been key to my breakthroughs.

When cosmic love flows freely through me it touches the lives of everyone and everything in my matrix. It inspires others to experience their own emergence. JOY SPREADS OUT.

Action:

Shifting from an old story to a new one:

•From asserting my individuality to sending out my love

•From being right all the time to being kind all the time

•From dominating others to just being there for them

•From condition based giving to putting faith in universe

•From win-lose mentality to a win-win perspective

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Richard Arnold - Kingfisher Family tell us your Story

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Richard Arnold - Kingfisher Family tell us your Story

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I love to get out into the forest and interact with the birds. Often I take photos of the birds that I see. One of my favourite species is the kingfisher - their colour, form and skills are amazing.

My emergence is to allow the Kingfisher family to tell their story, and hear how they have emerged on Earth in relationship with all life, including humans.

I plan to self publish this story and include photos of the 10 species of kingfisher which live in Australia.

My grandchildren are doing the graphic art for the booklet which I am hoping will be completed before the end of the course

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What is the greatest value I can bring forth from my life? I've known for some time that "...tell the story" is a deep and abiding allurement, that I am asked to contribute to how the New Story can emerge into the world. But in what way am I particularly able to assist in the story-telling? The emerging answer is so obvious, but also an answer that has waited a long time to be clear. It includes a home-coming in the Context of my relationship with my husband - one that had to be revitalized and nurtured back to life, but a relationship that indeed had its birth in the shared musical journey. It was the founding principle, that we would collaborate and bring our varied gifts together into songwriting and composition. That collaboration foundered along the way, as the trust and allurement of working together was usurped by more primary struggles. The healing and growth that has only recently born its fruit is the belief again in our shared musical collaboration. And in this way it has become obvious - that telling the story together, in song and verse and musical symbolism is what wants to finally take shape and form. The ideas have emerged over the years - in notebooks and margins filled with ideas that have come out of the Matrix - Earth-centered, visual, tactile, sensuous. That in singing or chanting or expressing through the musical interface is the Action that can be shared. But that these words and phrases must first be brought into being through the healed, collaborative relationship with my husband and musical partner. We will now begin in earnest to bring our gifts together toward a greater purpose. Crafting the words and ideas into Alluring melodies and rhythms that join the voice, body and soul in experiencing the call to Evolution and Transformation. We'll begin with a nice trinity of musical offspring. We have found ourselves where we began together, 34 years ago, but now with a shared and urgent purpose to ripen these long-gestating fruits.

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Gretchen Gundrum: An Evolutionary Perspective on My Life

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Gretchen Gundrum: An Evolutionary Perspective on My Life

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What is emerging for me is an allurement of some two years to write my memoir.

The Context is a calling to understand my own story as part of the bigger whole.   I want to view my life with an evolutionary perspective ~ how I have grown and what I have learned in the process. My hope is that I will feel a sacred continuity and wholeness which will help me heal wounds of the past and perhaps be of service to others who might read it.  The Matrix is starting where I am now, relating with the people who have been in my life ~ as mentors, teachers, bosses, friends, family, and even those who seemed not helpful at the time. My Subjectivity will consist of memories of these others, who will actually be co-creating the story with me. I will also be receiving energies from a special group of friends who have known me for over 50 years, former students and clients, the urban oasis of my garden, and my dog ~ a source of unconditional love. The Action will be the actual execution of this memoir, which I know will take some time as I harvest memories and lessons.  I will do my best to move beyond my fear of being transparent. “The more authentic we are, the more we are the Universe.”  (Lisa Verni)

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I feel called to tend to the earth every day in one of two forms: offering reiki and cleaning up debris.

Context: I have long felt that the best use of my life force energy is to serve nature, but was never sure how to do that. For a long time, I thought it meant I had to go against my natural inclinations and study ecology. Now, I feel this allurement to simply engage lovingly with nature - not as a career, but as a practice of kindness. Matrix: The ecosystem local to Louisville will be my practice space, with plants, trees, and trails being my focus. Subjectivity: I am starting to see flora (and fauna) as my relations, and that is changing how I see myself and how I see the world. Timeline: Because I do not have a specific goal other than to engage this practice daily, I do not have any objectives or sense of timeline for this project. Part of me is mortified to share this allurement at all because it is so non-academic and does not represent striving for an achievement. I'm taking this calculated risk in the Deeptime enviornment.

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Respond to the "Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor."

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Context: I am at a liminal period in my life – moving from full time ministry and preparing for a new way to engage with the members of my congregation and others. The learnings, knowledge and the global perspective I gained from my ministry of advocacy at the United Nations on Sustainable Development, Human Rights, Climate Change, Ecological Justice and other issues have created an urge to share them with a larger group to enlarge their horizon. Congregational leadership encouraged me pursue this pathway so that I can be a resource person for the organization in the U.S.A., India, Belize, Nepal, Botswana and Kenya as well as other groups or organizations. This whole will fit into larger wholes of Religious Life, Church, larger Society and the Universe.

Allurement: The is an urgency to act on the “cry of the Earth and the cry of the Poor” my reflection for a way forward led me to find a pathway to share the gifts I have received from the Universe with a larger group to raise awareness and prepare them for personal and communal transformation.

I want to integrate Deeptime learning into the talks/sessions I prepare – this is my current challenge, to contextualize material in the larger Universe context.

Emergence: Currently, I am reading, learning preparing to modules on sustainable development, care of the earth through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching, Laudato Si, Laudato Deum and Human Rights as well as the Deeptime perspective. Another project in the making is a paper on ‘Peace Education through Contemplative Dialogue.’ I would involve the preparation of different modules/lesson plans for different age groups. It would involve a lot of writing – for almost a year I have shied away from writing.

Matrix: The structures I belong to within my congregation create many matrices for me: I belong currently to the Western Province of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, the larger congregation and the Provinces and Missions in other countries. Other organizations have shown interest in what I am preparing and planning to engage in. Our educational institutions and retreat centers will be part of this.

Subjectivity: I need to move from my current sense of tentativeness and begin focused and disciplined preparations.

My subjectivity does affect the subjectivity of others at various levels of leadership in the congregation and membership. There is acceptance and encouragement from those who have the ability to let things happen. I am also in conversation with others with whom I can network to let my allurement become a reality.

Action: To move forward, I have begun constructive conversations with the leadership and need to smooth out the hierarchical channels of communication. This should lead to scheduling, finances and travels.

In a recent presentation on the United Nations and current challenges to a group High School Juniors, I incorporated the concepts of relationality, interconnectedness and interdependence of the Universe to showcase and introduce the United Nations. This is paralleled in the concepts of multilateralism, international cooperation and solidarity for common good at the UN.

Going forward into Module 3 I would like to formulate a framework to share what I am learning in Deeptime Leadership.

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Secondary biosphere / biological adapation amazement / deep deep pain

To survive the later, to teach about the former, to be able to treat the middle as sacred

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Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera - Allurement: To embody the wonder of Universal Consciousness & be the dream of the Earth.

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Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera - Allurement: To embody the wonder of Universal Consciousness & be the dream of the Earth.

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May 15,

Numerous 'projects' have emerged. Some are visible and require physical action, but most require inner action to allow the shift in consciousness needed to meet these times with grace and courage.

I just started my 7-month Mentorship: Being Earth. I'm giving the first two sessions to exploring Context as essential for re-storying our lives and our relationship with the Earth. This will be woven throughout the mentorship with eco-somatic and earth-ceremony processes. While I have touched on this in past mentorships, I'm putting it right up front this time.

I have invited Karen to share her beautiful spiral creations that walk us through our story as universe in expression. I have also asked Amanda if she would gift us with 30 minutes of wonder with the nature stories she has often shared in our Deeptime circle, and how this is a form of sustenance to our souls. I will speak more boldly, as Elana did tonight, of the systems that industry has set in motion, not for health or spiritual growth, but for profit. How we vote with our dollar (or not spending that dollar) and the food we choose. People don't like to hear these things. It's so easy to talk about the problems. I am more committed to not only helping people embrace the larger context but also bringing that down to very practical application.

At an internal level, my commitment is to deepen my practices so that I can surrender what I think I know and open more deeply to the great universal wisdom that is speaking to me all the time in nature and the nature of my body. There is so much more to share, but I will leave it at this. Thank you for this amazing journey with all of you.

March 16 - Allurement: Pondering this has brought much clarity.

It's clear to me now that we are all Allurement Becoming. Following my Allurement isn't about 'doing' a project although a project or something of that nature may be part of what emerges. I realize that my primary Allurement is to allow this power that I am to be the guiding force in my life. This comes down to very practical matters, such as listening to my body's wisdom (allurement) when choosing what foods are right for me. It's to trust the Allurements of my every moment.

Perhaps the hippie generation gave permission to step out of the 'norm'. Over the past five decades, I have learned to trust the calling of Allurement. I've also learned what it feels like when allurement is in alignment with my ecological self.

The Allurement to bring more of the Deeptime principles and perspectives into my work is already happening in magical and unexpected ways.

Mar 4 - PROJECT

I have included the Deeptime perspectives from Brian and Thomas for many years in my work. They come into everything I do with much more clarity and confidence now. It feels great. The main project is my main work, the Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings, particularly my 7-month Mentorship called Being Earth. I bring it into our community gatherings as foundational to how we vision and take action for creating the more beautiful world; into our Permaculture courses and my eco-somatic practices. I am being invited to offer these trainings to outside organizations. The Deeptime perspectives influence all of my relationships with my husband, friends, community and other than human beings.

I also want to include here that one of my long-time students is currently finishing her Ph.D. at U of Toronto and is being invited to speak as part of panels and at conferences to share perspective on our interrelationship with a living Earth and how somatics is integral to our experience of interconnection and ability to co-create with nature for this new era to emerge in a good way.

February - Context: It feels like I am moving into a new phase of my life where I can give much more attention to the work I have been developing over the past 35 years. We are transferring some of the responsibilities for the gardens, media, etc, to a younger man who is passionate about getting the word out. My passion is to listen more deeply and discover how this work will come into the world now. Much of it will feel the same but it will come from a different space inside of me.

Living now in a smaller house that breaths, by a pond, many stones beings and trees, feels like a perfect context for this dreaming to happen. My question: How do I deepen resonance with the creative dynamics of Nature and the Universe and be the hands and heart that enable all life and humanity to flourish is a guiding question for me.

Opening to the great wisdom that flows around, through and in me from Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Ether (Space) has been an enduring allurement for many decades. Taping into this wisdom as a guiding force allows me to trust the calling of my allurements more deeply. To then ask if they support subjectivity, differentiation and communion helps me to know if my allurements come from my industrial upbringing or my ecological self. Most of the time its pretty obvious.

Mostly, though, tracking the validity of my allurements comes from this primordial gift of self-awareness. It's undramatic, gentle and absolute. 'Do this.' And 'this' will always change as I grow and meet the needs of the Earth. It's such an exquisite deep listening process that evolution has provided. Amazing really. And to listen within doesn't mean I listen only to my own interiority. The messages from the trees, the wind, the soil, the stones are, for me, simply extensions of myself and equally, if not more, accurate. I feel supported by sn ancient wisdom speaking in different languages all around me. It's so beautiful.

And now, I can include the stars and planets. I didn't have this kind of relationship with the Universe a few months ago. I can literally feel myself held and that each being in their countless shapes is held. Even cataclysm makes more sense and is welcomed.

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Context and Allurements: There seems to be a movement to become more permeable, creative, and transparent to and with the universe in the expression of my self now. It feels like this movement is coming from a larger field of creativity that is wanting to express and deepen through me at this time.

Two expressions that feel especially alive now are to return to some creative writing projects that have been put aside for a while, and to continue to explore different forms of breathwork that I've become interested in. One form of breathwork I'm especially drawn to now is called Vivation, and it seems to be that the universe is seeking to "vivify" my life and take it to a new level. I'm following both of these allurements now and enjoying them.

Drawing the Context of my allurements really brought new insights and deepened my appreciation for the perspective and scope of what's happening now.

Matrix: Many overlapping matrices here, from the Deeptime community to the larger circles and spirals of friends and family. I don't consider myself much of a visual artist, but enjoyed the process of drawing and naming specific individuals and communities and drawing my Matrix helped make it more grounded, and I was surprised by what emerged in the artistic process. Drawing out the matrix showed me that there is a two-way influence between my life and that of others - I inspire and affect them as I am inspired and affected by them.

Breathwork is a direct expression of Matrix since I am breathing in and breathing out with the entire atmosphere and the living planet.

Subjectivity: Writing has always been an enjoyable process for me, and one in which I discover more about what I think and feel about a topic as I explore it on paper. So I feel my own Subjectivity in Deeptime deepening as I explore and express myself creatively. Others have shared how much they have enjoyed my books and writing in the past, so I know that they are being touched by my Subjectivity and creative expression. Breathwork has also deepened the experience of myself and created more permeability to the larger field of the Universe.

Action: I'm moving forward with engaging an editor to help refine a book on evolutionary ritual co-authored with Carol Kilby. I may also see about engaging a writing mentor/coach/editor once I have more time for writing on other projects.

This is all a living and evolving process, so stay tuned!