I hear the sermon on the side of that mountain as a call for a paradigm shift, not a set of instructions for individuals to secure a cushy afterlife for themselves, but as prescriptions to whole communities.

And how the dominating forces that we are facing now, that wish to stifle the self-actualization, intuition, intelligence, and power of non-maternal feminine autonomy have always been there.

And have always been resisted.

‘Group whisperer’ Martha Crawford aims to help Americans revive in-person engagement skills that have gone dormant.‍

Religion is just as good a psychology as our scientific psychology is a doctrine of the soul which it denies.  ~ Rank

Some human exchanges remain wordless:

I need to take a breath sometimes.

I need a birds-eye, angel-eye, cosmic-view sometimes.

Just for a moment, so I can keep going.

Then one by one they wake up and become birds. They manifest themselves as birds, beginning to sing. Presently they will be fully themselves and even fly.

~ Conjectures of a  Guilty Bystander, Thomas Merton

Healthy community groups are circles of peers who (metaphorically) stand around a common center – a cause, a value, a belief system, an identity, a mission, a challenge, a shared story, or experience. The center is their shared concern, the deeper purposes of their gathering together.

The reverberations bring about a change of being.

~ Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Progenitors, creators and the earth have been too patient for far too long.

Beware a Mother’s Curse.

Not everyone is a dream geek.

We exalt the Explicit, we idolize the seemingly permanent.

We underestimate the power of the implicit.

One can try to think, feel, experience and communicate everything, but the moment such expressions see the light of day they are robbed of their significance and meaning and are thrown in the dump. - Dorothee Soelle