(Greetings, FRIENDS, this episode of Called to Care is entirely in Spanish. Watch with English subtitles on YouTube.) EN ESPAÑOL: ¡Saludos! Estamos orgullosos de presentar este episodio completamente en español. Nuestro segundo episodio de Llamados a cuidar, 2023, presenta al Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, Rosa del Valle Araoz de Machaco (miembro de la Asociación Benditos Los Pobres) y Alirio Cáceres Aguirre (Movimiento Ladauto Si, Red Eclesial Panamericana). Ellos discuten: "Litio, Fe y Justicia Climática. ¿Qué es una Transición Justa desde la perspectiva de las comunidades religiosas en el Sur Global donde se extrae el Litio?"“Nada se puede hacer solo. Todo tiene que hacerse de manera comunitaria”. — Rosa de MachadoLos autos y las computadoras modernas requieren un aumento dramático en la extracción de litio y otros minerales críticos, extraídos de la Tierra, para funcionar. Esta poderosa conversación, creada y dirigida por el Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, reúne a dos ambientalistas católicos, Rosa del Valle Aráoz de Machado y Alirio Cáceres Aguirre, para discutir experiencias de primera mano con el tema, cómo se relaciona con su fe. , y cómo avanzar hacia una identidad más “circular”.~|~|~|~"Llamado a CARE: Explorando el cuidado como identidad en el mundo moderno".~|~|~|~PROGRAMA0:00 Bienvenida2:45 ROSA5:30 ALIRIO9:00 NEDDY9:30 Music video, "Todo está interligado" (https://youtu.be/uQvRnfPsn6g)16:00 Q1?16:45 Rosa23:30 Alirio31:30 Neddy34:00 Q2?34:30 Rosa47:30 Neddy49:00 Q3?49:30 Alirio58:00 Rosa1:03:00 NeddySobre Anfitriona e InvitadasRDO. DR. NEDDY ASTUDILLO (Anfitriona). Eco-teólogo venezolano y pastor presbiteriano radicado en EE.UU.; co-fundador, Angelic Organics Learning Center; coordinadora del programa de Español Justicia Climática y Fe en el Seminario Teológico Luterano del Pacífico. El Rev. Dr. Astudillo fue recientemente editor invitado de nuestra colección Eco-Teologîa. Actualmente enseña en todo el continente americano y se publica ampliamente. Es coautora de la histórica declaración del Consejo Nacional de Iglesias, La tierra de Dios es sagrada, y del libro, La tierra de Dios es sagrada.ROSA DEL VALLE ARÁOZ DE MACHADO. En sus propias palabras, “Aráoz es el apellido de mi padre (el de mi madre desapareció en los registros oficiales de identidad de las personas). Y Machado es el apellido de Lacho, mi compañero de vida, con quien sigo transitando este camino de encuentro y transformación. esa es nuestra existencia. Nací en 1950, a los 15 años me enamoré, y en 1970 tuvimos al primero de nuestros siete hijos, cinco niños y dos niñas.  Mi segundo nombre es "del Valle", y efectivamente , nacimos y crecimos en un valle, con el abrazo de los cerros, de esas magníficas y prodigiosas fuentes de agua que nos permiten vivir, soy parte del Territorio habitado desde la antigüedad por el pueblo Diaguitas, y que oficialmente la historia llama Catamarca, en el noroeste de la República Argentina. También formo parte de las Comunidades Eclesiales de Base, de la asociación Be. Pe., "Bienaventurados los Pobres", y, en representación de estos espacios territoriales, soy parte de la Comunidad Eco-espiritual de la Red Iglesias y Minería (Red de Iglesias y Minería)."ALIRIO CÁCERES AGUIRRE. Diácono Permanente de la Arquidiócesis de Bogotá (2002). Casado con Andrea y padre de Daniel Esteban, David Felipe y Laura María. Ingeniero Químico, especialista en Educación, Magíster en Teología. Fundador y Coordinador de la Mesa Ecoteológica Interreligiosa de Bogotá - MESETI. Actualmente trabaja como Campaña de Incidencia Hispanoamericana del Movimiento Laudato Si'. Asesor de la Red Eclesial Panamazónica, REPAM y de la Red Eclesial Ecológica Mesoamericana, REMAM. Miembro de varios equipos de Ecología Integral de la Iglesia Católica en América Latina y el Caribe.Mas: http://www.allcreation.org/care#################################Gracias por su atención.Creado, grabado y presentado por Neddy Astudillo.Producido y editado por Chris Searles.Presentado por AllCreation.org y BioIntegrity.net.Visite AllCreation.org/Care para obtener más contenido.To view this conversation with English subtitles: 1) Go to the YouTube video here. 2) Click the wheel on the screen, then choose: Subtitles, then Auto-translate, then English, and close the window. 3) Click play on the video, then click on "CC" for closed caption subtitles.  

(Greetings, FRIENDS, this episode of Called to Care is entirely in Spanish. Watch with English subtitles on <a href="https://youtu.be/EVFlOsEMaos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.) EN ESPAÑOL: ¡Saludos! Estamos orgullosos de presentar este episodio completamente en español. Nuestro segundo episodio de Llamados a cuidar, 2023, presenta al Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, Rosa del Valle Araoz de Machaco (miembro de la Asociación Benditos Los Pobres) y Alirio Cáceres Aguirre (Movimiento Ladauto Si, Red Eclesial Panamericana). Ellos discuten: "Litio, Fe y Justicia Climática. ¿Qué es una Transición Justa desde la perspectiva de las comunidades religiosas en el Sur Global donde se extrae el Litio?"“Nada se puede hacer solo. Todo tiene que hacerse de manera comunitaria”. — Rosa de MachadoLos autos y las computadoras modernas requieren un aumento dramático en la extracción de litio y otros minerales críticos, extraídos de la Tierra, para funcionar. Esta poderosa conversación, creada y dirigida por el Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, reúne a dos ambientalistas católicos, Rosa del Valle Aráoz de Machado y Alirio Cáceres Aguirre, para discutir experiencias de primera mano con el tema, cómo se relaciona con su fe. , y cómo avanzar hacia una identidad más “circular”. ~|~|~|~"Llamado a CARE: Explorando el cuidado como identidad en el mundo moderno". ~|~|~|~PROGRAMA 0:00 Bienvenida 2:45 ROSA 5:30 ALIRIO 9:00 NEDDY 9:30 Music video, "Todo está interligado" (<a href="https://youtu.be/uQvRnfPsn6g" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/uQvRnfPsn6g</a>) 16:00 Q1? 16:45 Rosa 23:30 Alirio 31:30 Neddy 34:00 Q2? 34:30 Rosa 47:30 Neddy 49:00 Q3? 49:30 Alirio 58:00 Rosa 1:03:00 NeddySobre Anfitriona e Invitadas RDO. DR. NEDDY ASTUDILLO (Anfitriona). Eco-teólogo venezolano y pastor presbiteriano radicado en EE.UU.; co-fundador, Angelic Organics Learning Center; coordinadora del programa de Español Justicia Climática y Fe en el Seminario Teológico Luterano del Pacífico. El Rev. Dr. Astudillo fue recientemente editor invitado de nuestra colección Eco-Teologîa. Actualmente enseña en todo el continente americano y se publica ampliamente. Es coautora de la histórica declaración del Consejo Nacional de Iglesias, La tierra de Dios es sagrada, y del libro, La tierra de Dios es sagrada.ROSA DEL VALLE ARÁOZ DE MACHADO. En sus propias palabras, “Aráoz es el apellido de mi padre (el de mi madre desapareció en los registros oficiales de identidad de las personas). Y Machado es el apellido de Lacho, mi compañero de vida, con quien sigo transitando este camino de encuentro y transformación. esa es nuestra existencia. Nací en 1950, a los 15 años me enamoré, y en 1970 tuvimos al primero de nuestros siete hijos, cinco niños y dos niñas.  Mi segundo nombre es "del Valle", y efectivamente , nacimos y crecimos en un valle, con el abrazo de los cerros, de esas magníficas y prodigiosas fuentes de agua que nos permiten vivir, soy parte del Territorio habitado desde la antigüedad por el pueblo Diaguitas, y que oficialmente la historia llama Catamarca, en el noroeste de la República Argentina. También formo parte de las Comunidades Eclesiales de Base, de la asociación Be. Pe., "Bienaventurados los Pobres", y, en representación de estos espacios territoriales, soy parte de la Comunidad Eco-espiritual de la Red Iglesias y Minería (Red de Iglesias y Minería)."ALIRIO CÁCERES AGUIRRE. Diácono Permanente de la Arquidiócesis de Bogotá (2002). Casado con Andrea y padre de Daniel Esteban, David Felipe y Laura María. Ingeniero Químico, especialista en Educación, Magíster en Teología. Fundador y Coordinador de la Mesa Ecoteológica Interreligiosa de Bogotá - MESETI. Actualmente trabaja como Campaña de Incidencia Hispanoamericana del Movimiento Laudato Si'. Asesor de la Red Eclesial Panamazónica, REPAM y de la Red Eclesial Ecológica Mesoamericana, REMAM. Miembro de varios equipos de Ecología Integral de la Iglesia Católica en América Latina y el Caribe.Mas: <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/care" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.allcreation.org/care</a> #################################Gracias por su atención. Creado, grabado y presentado por Neddy Astudillo. Producido y editado por Chris Searles. Presentado por <a href="http://AllCreation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a> y <a href="http://BioIntegrity.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BioIntegrity.net</a>. Visite <a href="http://allcreation.org/Care" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org/Care</a> para obtener más contenido. To view this conversation with English subtitles: 1) Go to the <a href="https://youtu.be/EVFlOsEMaos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube video here</a>. 2) Click the wheel on the screen, then choose: Subtitles, then Auto-translate, then English, and close the window. 3) Click play on the video, then click on "CC" for closed caption subtitles.

Called to Care: Litio, Fe y Justicia Climática (con Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, 2023)

Our first Called to CARE session for 2023 begins like a dinner conversation among friends. In this podcast, AfricaExchange.org co-founders and co-directors, Sam and Melody Harrell, share how their Baptist American-African lives led them to become global leaders in “integrated” sustainable development... “I am blown a-Way.” (Rev. Jimi Calhoun, co-host, legendary musician, author and pastor)Sam and Melody are saving lives and ending poverty with education and holistic, community care. Now celebrating their 25th year, AfricaExchange (AE) has built 14 “integrated child development” preschools in Kenya’s most-isolated / least-resourced regions. AE’s projects are providing and fostering nutrition, clean water, education, sanitation and infrastructure, jobs, job training, Creation care and restoration, and more, on an ongoing basis in these places to help these children and their communities defeat poverty. Meet. Notice. Exchange. Serve. AfricaExchange’s model is rooted in the best of Christianity’s and Africa’s worldviews. As the children of Baptist missionaries in Africa, Sam and Melody’s foundational insight is that CARING FOR OTHERS means: listening, noticing, and being empathetic before acting. AfricaExchange helps communities build upward-spiraling personal and collective assets which benefit the whole community and their local biosphere. AE is exemplar in their work. This podcast is worth multiple listenings for those interested in “learning the lessons that will propel us forward.” (Sam Harrell)#############About our guests • Melody Harrell, spiritual director, AfricaExchange.org • Sam Harrell, executive director, AfricaExchange.org • Rev. Jimi Calhoun, pastor, BridgingAustin.org, author/musician, JimiCalhoun.com • Rev. Julaine Calhoun, pastor, BridgingAustin.org • Chris Searles, director, BioIntegrity.net, exec. editor, AllCreation.org About this seriesIn this time of polarizations and extremes we seem to be going to our Media for answers, and yet our Media is not designed or intended to give us answers. Media is a business (not a healer). Looking honestly at today’s shared social challenges, all indicators indicate it is Care through kinship, attention, gentleness, safety, honesty, support, process, nurturing, love, detail, nutrition, structure, generosity, time, etc. — that humans today need most to overcome our current complex, human-made crises. What can More CARE do for modern people? Our guests are asked to share about the effectiveness of greater care for all in the living Creation through greater empathy, mutuality, relationship, conversation, listening, hearing, seeing, connecting, processing, balancing, healing, and nurturing of ourselves, each other, Earth’s biodiversity, and “the environment.” #############REFERENCESR.D. Laing#############PROGRAMI. 0:00 WELCOMEII. 2:00 INTRODUCTIONS III. 6:30 INVOCATION, Melody Harrell • “I love the concept of being called to care. It feels like an invitation and it feels like something I already have tools and capacity-for." • RD Lang reading.12:00 Sam, Real-life story  • “We were building an integrated child development center on the side of a mountain in Northwest Kenya…”18:30 Rev. Calhoun  • “…Now I go out of my way to make sure they know I’m aware of them and they matter and they count.”IV. 23:00 METHODOLOGY24:30 Values • S- “Melody and I are the product of missionary parents” • M- “God had already been there… He or She didn’t have to be brought from America” • S- “The example of Jesus (is) our motivating factor, but that does not mean you come into an empty slate. People already have an experience of God”30:30 Kutana • “KUTANA means to meet and exchange profound mutuality... so that we can love according to the way that love should be”  • “You won’t discover what a need is, unless you have dialogue and interaction… And that takes time and context and interaction and mutuality." • Melody, “The beautiful practice of story-telling takes time and being close and the space for that to happen.”39:30 Services • “We started with street children in Nairobi.”  • “I discovered there were a ton of children who didn’t have their needs met in the rural areas" • Their Integrated model: listen to the community, address food, water, health, school/center construction in participatory way.  • CHANGE FOR CHILDREN (program): Clean water, Nutrition, Immunity, Malaria prevention, Deworming ($1 per child), Teacher training, Help community maintain school48:30 Connections • Sam, “The incarnation is Kutana. It’s not God from afar, it’s God coming close. It’s conversation and hands and flesh. Our model is Jesus”  • Rev. Calhoun, "What’s happening globally does have an affect on you” • S, African philosophy is based on this one thing, UBUNTU, “I am because we are.” “I don’t have an existence on my own, I need others.”  • S, UJAAMA: “Without each other the whole thing collapses.” • Rev. Julian Calhoun, “I think it’s important to remind us that we do need each other."V. 58:00 CARE AS IDENTITY • 58:45 Melody, “A very natural response to our upbringing in that place, our love for the place and for the people, and our calling as people of Faith to love and care for others”  • 1:02:00 Sam, “We came about it naturally, we had good examples in our parents... and liminal spaces and events have led me to be conformed after the way of Christ, for the good of humanity… • “If we can be active in trying to engage the world, but also introspective enough to actually see what it is that we’re doing and listen for direction, then some wonderful things can happen. That’s all I’m looking for” • 1:06:30 Rev. Jimi Calhoun, “I want to address the missionary aspect — Julaine and I have led and received teams that come to paint buildings, pass out tracks, etc. — some kind of doing and very little being. What I’m hearing tonight, and what the importance of what I understand AfricaExchange to be, is the latter. They’re asking people to come and take part and BE with the people. I can unequivocally say that’s the most important thing we can do as Westerners”  • 1:11:15 Melody, “The work we do is made possible by incredible partners...and I can almost see God making these connections where maybe some resources can cross our borders” • 1:12:45 Sam, “We have a lot of volunteers, amazing people who teach us every day.” TREES FOR LIFE (program) • “In some of our work we try to help communities protect their environment, without trees and sufficient soil erosion protectant when their floods come it wipes them out • “Every four-year-old plants 3 trees a year, and their parents get paid $1 if that tree survives a year… from that comes clean water and soil health and all the rest of it, so, Trees for Life is integrated into our whole.NATURE AS TEACHER • “Whenever Nature teaches me something I take it as from God.” • Intermittent disturbanceON MIGRATION • “”No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark.” It’s not like people are trying to come and take your stuff. People can’t live where they are. Why don’t we go and see what’s happening to cause this? • “I gotta care for my neighbor and that’s basic to our Faith. Love of God, love of self, and love of neighbor are inextricable, and if we’re following the path of Jesus - boy, we better be caring for our neighbor.”VI. 1:19:15 CLOSING THOUGHTS  • 1:20:30 Melody, “Most of the good, the real, deep, good work, goes on under the radar.”  • 1:22:45 Sam, “I’ve come to realize, through the help of many wise-people, we really are operating on the basis of a myth of disconnection… A non-dual way of living, one that is about how things are unified in God, is my inspiration.” • “What we’re trying to help people who are marginalized have a voice so they can be part of the conversation, so we realize that we’re all in this together.” • 1:25:30 Rev. Calhoun, “To keep us mindful of our place in all of this: in my view, it’s something we have to give thought-to. It won’t come naturally. It won’t come from a book. You have to sit around and think who am I, where am I, why am I… why are we? And then reach the conclusion, what part do I have to play? And the answer is, you do have a part of play. Everyone has a part to play.”1:26:30 Chris Searles, Thank you everybody! #################################Thanks for listening. Produced, etc. by Chris Searles.Presented by AllCreation.org and BioIntegrity.net. Visit AllCreation.org/Care for more content. 

Our first Called to CARE session for 2023 begins like a dinner conversation among friends. In this podcast, <a href="http://AfricaExchange.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AfricaExchange.org</a> co-founders and co-directors, Sam and Melody Harrell, share how their Baptist American-African lives led them to become global leaders in “integrated” sustainable development... “I am blown a-Way.” (Rev. Jimi Calhoun, co-host, legendary musician, author and pastor)Sam and Melody are saving lives and ending poverty with education and holistic, community care. Now celebrating their 25th year, AfricaExchange (AE) has built 14 “integrated child development” preschools in Kenya’s most-isolated / least-resourced regions. AE’s projects are providing and fostering nutrition, clean water, education, sanitation and infrastructure, jobs, job training, Creation care and restoration, and more, on an ongoing basis in these places to help these children and their communities defeat poverty. Meet. Notice. Exchange. Serve. AfricaExchange’s model is rooted in the best of Christianity’s and Africa’s worldviews. As the children of Baptist missionaries in Africa, Sam and Melody’s foundational insight is that CARING FOR OTHERS means: listening, noticing, and being empathetic before acting. AfricaExchange helps communities build upward-spiraling personal and collective assets which benefit the whole community and their local biosphere. AE is exemplar in their work. This podcast is worth multiple listenings for those interested in “learning the lessons that will propel us forward.” (Sam Harrell) ############# About our guests • Melody Harrell, spiritual director, <a href="https://www.africaexchange.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AfricaExchange.org</a> • Sam Harrell, executive director, <a href="https://www.africaexchange.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AfricaExchange.org</a> • Rev. Jimi Calhoun, pastor, <a href="https://www.bridgingaustin.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BridgingAustin.org</a>, author/musician, <a href="https://www.jimicalhoun.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JimiCalhoun.com</a> • Rev. Julaine Calhoun, pastor, <a href="https://www.bridgingaustin.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BridgingAustin.org</a> • Chris Searles, director, <a href="https://www.biointegrity.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BioIntegrity.net</a>, exec. editor, <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/care" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org </a>About this seriesIn this time of polarizations and extremes we seem to be going to our Media for answers, and yet our Media is not designed or intended to give us answers. Media is a business (not a healer). Looking honestly at today’s shared social challenges, all indicators indicate it is Care through kinship, attention, gentleness, safety, honesty, support, process, nurturing, love, detail, nutrition, structure, generosity, time, etc. — that humans today need most to overcome our current complex, human-made crises. What can More CARE do for modern people? Our guests are asked to share about the effectiveness of greater care for all in the living Creation through greater empathy, mutuality, relationship, conversation, listening, hearing, seeing, connecting, processing, balancing, healing, and nurturing of ourselves, each other, Earth’s biodiversity, and “the environment.”  #############REFERENCES<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">R.D. Laing</a></li></ul> #############PROGRAM I. 0:00 WELCOMEII. 2:00 INTRODUCTIONS III. 6:30 INVOCATION, Melody Harrell • “I love the concept of being called to care. It feels like an invitation and it feels like something I already have tools and capacity-for." • RD Lang reading.12:00 Sam, Real-life story  • “We were building an integrated child development center on the side of a mountain in Northwest Kenya…”18:30 Rev. Calhoun  • “…Now I go out of my way to make sure they know I’m aware of them and they matter and they count.” IV. 23:00 METHODOLOGY24:30 Values • S- “Melody and I are the product of missionary parents” • M- “God had already been there… He or She didn’t have to be brought from America” • S- “The example of Jesus (is) our motivating factor, but that does not mean you come into an empty slate. People already have an experience of God”30:30 Kutana • “KUTANA means to meet and exchange profound mutuality... so that we can love according to the way that love should be”  • “You won’t discover what a need is, unless you have dialogue and interaction… And that takes time and context and interaction and mutuality." • Melody, “The beautiful practice of story-telling takes time and being close and the space for that to happen.”39:30 Services • “We started with street children in Nairobi.”  • “I discovered there were a ton of children who didn’t have their needs met in the rural areas" • Their Integrated model: listen to the community, address food, water, health, school/center construction in participatory way.  • CHANGE FOR CHILDREN (program): Clean water, Nutrition, Immunity, Malaria prevention, Deworming ($1 per child), Teacher training, Help community maintain school48:30 Connections • Sam, “The incarnation is Kutana. It’s not God from afar, it’s God coming close. It’s conversation and hands and flesh. Our model is Jesus”  • Rev. Calhoun, "What’s happening globally does have an affect on you” • S, African philosophy is based on this one thing, UBUNTU, “I am because we are.” “I don’t have an existence on my own, I need others.”  • S, UJAAMA: “Without each other the whole thing collapses.” • Rev. Julian Calhoun, “I think it’s important to remind us that we do need each other."V. 58:00 CARE AS IDENTITY • 58:45 Melody, “A very natural response to our upbringing in that place, our love for the place and for the people, and our calling as people of Faith to love and care for others”  • 1:02:00 Sam, “We came about it naturally, we had good examples in our parents... and liminal spaces and events have led me to be conformed after the way of Christ, for the good of humanity… • “If we can be active in trying to engage the world, but also introspective enough to actually see what it is that we’re doing and listen for direction, then some wonderful things can happen. That’s all I’m looking for” • 1:06:30 Rev. Jimi Calhoun, “I want to address the missionary aspect — Julaine and I have led and received teams that come to paint buildings, pass out tracks, etc. — some kind of doing and very little being. What I’m hearing tonight, and what the importance of what I understand AfricaExchange to be, is the latter. They’re asking people to come and take part and BE with the people. I can unequivocally say that’s the most important thing we can do as Westerners”  • 1:11:15 Melody, “The work we do is made possible by incredible partners...and I can almost see God making these connections where maybe some resources can cross our borders” • 1:12:45 Sam, “We have a lot of volunteers, amazing people who teach us every day.” TREES FOR LIFE (program) • “In some of our work we try to help communities protect their environment, without trees and sufficient soil erosion protectant when their floods come it wipes them out • “Every four-year-old plants 3 trees a year, and their parents get paid $1 if that tree survives a year… from that comes clean water and soil health and all the rest of it, so, Trees for Life is integrated into our whole.NATURE AS TEACHER • “Whenever Nature teaches me something I take it as from God.” • Intermittent disturbanceON MIGRATION • “”No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark.” It’s not like people are trying to come and take your stuff. People can’t live where they are. Why don’t we go and see what’s happening to cause this? • “I gotta care for my neighbor and that’s basic to our Faith. Love of God, love of self, and love of neighbor are inextricable, and if we’re following the path of Jesus - boy, we better be caring for our neighbor.” VI. 1:19:15 CLOSING THOUGHTS  • 1:20:30 Melody, “Most of the good, the real, deep, good work, goes on under the radar.”  • 1:22:45 Sam, “I’ve come to realize, through the help of many wise-people, we really are operating on the basis of a myth of disconnection… A non-dual way of living, one that is about how things are unified in God, is my inspiration.” • “What we’re trying to help people who are marginalized have a voice so they can be part of the conversation, so we realize that we’re all in this together.” • 1:25:30 Rev. Calhoun, “To keep us mindful of our place in all of this: in my view, it’s something we have to give thought-to. It won’t come naturally. It won’t come from a book. You have to sit around and think who am I, where am I, why am I… why are we? And then reach the conclusion, what part do I have to play? And the answer is, you do have a part of play. Everyone has a part to play.”1:26:30 Chris Searles, Thank you everybody!  #################################Thanks for listening. Produced, etc. by Chris Searles. Presented by <a href="http://AllCreation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a> and <a href="http://BioIntegrity.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BioIntegrity.net</a>. Visit <a href="http://AllCreation.org/Care" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org/Care</a> for more content.

Called to Care: Africa Exchange (2023)

Cristian Daniel Camargo sobre Caricaturas y Ecoteología. En este podcast, Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo y Cristian Daniel Camargo conversan sobre el poder de los dibujos para inspirar, transformar y movilizar a las personas hacia otro mundo posible, con justicia social y ambiental. ¿Cómo nace un dibujo? ¿Qué papel juegan la fe y el amor en la realización de sus dibujos? Cristian nos cuenta la historia de la Red de dibujantes, su visión, su misión y sus sueños. Su arte se comparte públicamente y es de uso gratuito para cualquier persona. Cristian comparte sus consejos para otros artistas que sientan el deseo de sumergirse en el arte como herramienta transformadora y movilizadora. RecursoNovena por la Tierra: https://bit.ly/NovenaporlatierraFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Reddedibujantes Acerca de Nuestro Invitado  Cristian Daniel Camargo es dibujante y muralista de Mar del Plata, Argentina; misionero itinerante, uno de los dos coordinadores de la única Red de Dibujantes de América Latina basada en la fe.    Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo es editor invitado de nuestra colección Primavera 2023: Eco-Teología. Comparte dos podcasts adicionales en esta colección, ¿Qué es la “Ecoteología?" y What is “Ecotheology?"  Nota Especial Cristian es tan amable que creó una galería especial de algunas caricaturas favoritas para nuestra colección de Eco-Teología. La galería presenta arte de él mismo y de otros en Cartoonists Network. Ver la galería de Cristian aquí.¡Gracias por su atención!Más podcasts de AllCreation (principalmente en inglés) aquí: https://allcreation.transistor.fm/ 

Cristian Daniel Camargo sobre Caricaturas y Ecoteología. En este podcast, Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo y Cristian Daniel Camargo conversan sobre el poder de los dibujos para inspirar, transformar y movilizar a las personas hacia otro mundo posible, con justicia social y ambiental. ¿Cómo nace un dibujo? ¿Qué papel juegan la fe y el amor en la realización de sus dibujos? Cristian nos cuenta la historia de la Red de dibujantes, su visión, su misión y sus sueños. Su arte se comparte públicamente y es de uso gratuito para cualquier persona. Cristian comparte sus consejos para otros artistas que sientan el deseo de sumergirse en el arte como herramienta transformadora y movilizadora. Recurso Novena por la Tierra: <a href="https://bit.ly/Novenaporlatierra" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/Novenaporlatierra</a>Facebook:  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Reddedibujantes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Reddedibujantes</a> Acerca de Nuestro Invitado<ul> <li> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/crisdibujante92/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cristian Daniel Camargo</a> es dibujante y muralista de Mar del Plata, Argentina; misionero itinerante, uno de los dos coordinadores de la única Red de Dibujantes de América Latina basada en la fe.  </li> <li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo</a> es editor invitado de nuestra colección Primavera 2023: <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/spring-2023" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eco-Teología</a>. Comparte dos podcasts adicionales en esta colección, <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/310e447e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">¿Qué es la “Ecoteología?"</a> y <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/d9fa4b7e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What is “Ecotheology?"</a> </li> </ul>Nota Especial Cristian es tan amable que creó una <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/cristian-daniel-camargo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">galería</a> especial de algunas caricaturas favoritas para nuestra colección de Eco-Teología. La galería presenta arte de él mismo y de otros en Cartoonists Network. Ver la galería de Cristian <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/cristian-galeria" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">aquí</a>. ¡Gracias por su atención! Más podcasts de AllCreation (principalmente en inglés) aquí: <a href="https://allcreation.transistor.fm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://allcreation.transistor.fm/</a>

Cristian Daniel Camargo sobre Caricaturas y Ecoteología

¿Qué es la eco-teología? con Neddy Astudillo. En este podcast, el editor invitado Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo explora ¿Qué es la eco-teología? ¿Qué significa ver nuestra relación con la Tierra, entre nosotros y con Dios a través de este lente? ¿Cómo dialoga la eco-teología con la Ciencia, la historia de la Iglesia y la Escritura para encontrar soluciones a las crisis ambiental y climática? Neddy señala tres eco-teologías bíblicas que vienen a nuestro rescate y aprovechan el poder de las comunidades de fe. Sobre Nuestro Invitado  Neddy Astudillo, eco-teóloga venezolana y pastora presbiteriana (PCUSA), ha enseñado eco-teología en seminarios teológicos de América Latina y Estados Unidos. En 1998 Neddy y su esposo Thomas Spaulding, co-fundaron el Centro de Aprendizaje Angelic Organics, una organización sin fines de lucro basada en una granja orgánica, donde las personas se conectan con la agricultura, los alimentos, y el cuidado de la tierra. Durante catorce años, Neddy sirvió a la Parroquia San José, una congregación conjunta de ELCA y PCUSA de habla hispana en Beloit, WI. Hoy en día, Neddy comparte funciones de coordinación con GreenFaith como organizadora para la región de América Latina; y el Centro para la Justicia Climática y la Fe en el Seminario Luterano del Pacífico, como Coordinadora del programa de Certificado de Español.  En 2020, recibió el premio anual Presbyterians for Earth Care por su compromiso con la Justicia Ambiental. Música"Es nuestro Tiempo", por la maravillosa Red Crearte: https://youtu.be/E-9_fVa0Tig Dr. Astudillo sobre Eco-Teología De la descripción general de su editor invitado:La crisis ambiental y climática amenaza con silenciar las voces de cientos de especies de animales y plantas a nivel planetario, pero desde hace más de 500 años, la voz de los pueblos y culturas también se ve amenazada por las mismas fuerzas responsables de la crisis ambiental: patriarcalismo, antropocentrismo, dualismo, racismo y colonización.“Para ayudar en el diálogo entre los diversos materiales de este número nos guiamos por la Eco-Teología, una disciplina crítica de reconstrucción de la relación entre Dios, los seres humanos, los ecosistemas y el universo.“Hay quienes dicen que la Tierra puede sobrevivir sin nosotros, pero si... todo lo que Dios hizo fue muy bueno, en tiempos de crisis ambiental nos toca a nosotros averiguar por qué; para salvar nuestra fe..."¡Gracias por su atención!Más podcasts de AllCreation (principalmente en inglés) aquí: https://allcreation.transistor.fm/ 

¿Qué es la eco-teología? con Neddy Astudillo. En este podcast, el editor invitado Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo explora ¿Qué es la eco-teología? ¿Qué significa ver nuestra relación con la Tierra, entre nosotros y con Dios a través de este lente? ¿Cómo dialoga la eco-teología con la Ciencia, la historia de la Iglesia y la Escritura para encontrar soluciones a las crisis ambiental y climática? Neddy señala tres eco-teologías bíblicas que vienen a nuestro rescate y aprovechan el poder de las comunidades de fe. Sobre Nuestro Invitado <ul><li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neddy Astudillo</a>, eco-teóloga venezolana y pastora presbiteriana (PCUSA), ha enseñado eco-teología en seminarios teológicos de América Latina y Estados Unidos. En 1998 Neddy y su esposo Thomas Spaulding, co-fundaron el Centro de Aprendizaje Angelic Organics, una organización sin fines de lucro basada en una granja orgánica, donde las personas se conectan con la agricultura, los alimentos, y el cuidado de la tierra. Durante catorce años, Neddy sirvió a la Parroquia San José, una congregación conjunta de ELCA y PCUSA de habla hispana en Beloit, WI. Hoy en día, Neddy comparte funciones de coordinación con GreenFaith como organizadora para la región de América Latina; y el Centro para la Justicia Climática y la Fe en el Seminario Luterano del Pacífico, como Coordinadora del programa de Certificado de Español.  En 2020, recibió el premio anual Presbyterians for Earth Care por su compromiso con la Justicia Ambiental.</li></ul> Música<ul><li>"Es nuestro Tiempo", por la maravillosa Red Crearte: <a href="https://youtu.be/E-9_fVa0Tig" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/E-9_fVa0Tig</a> </li></ul> Dr. Astudillo sobre Eco-Teología De la descripción general de su editor invitado:La crisis ambiental y climática amenaza con silenciar las voces de cientos de especies de animales y plantas a nivel planetario, pero desde hace más de 500 años, la voz de los pueblos y culturas también se ve amenazada por las mismas fuerzas responsables de la crisis ambiental: patriarcalismo, antropocentrismo, dualismo, racismo y colonización.“Para ayudar en el diálogo entre los diversos materiales de este número nos guiamos por la Eco-Teología, una disciplina crítica de reconstrucción de la relación entre Dios, los seres humanos, los ecosistemas y el universo.“Hay quienes dicen que la Tierra puede sobrevivir sin nosotros, pero si... todo lo que Dios hizo fue muy bueno, en tiempos de crisis ambiental nos toca a nosotros averiguar por qué; para salvar nuestra fe..." ¡Gracias por su atención! Más podcasts de AllCreation (principalmente en inglés) aquí: <a href="https://allcreation.transistor.fm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://allcreation.transistor.fm/</a>

Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, ¿Qué es la “Eco-Teología?" 

What is “Eco-Theology?" In this podcast, guest editor Rev. Dr. Astudillo explores the meaning of eco-theology. What does it mean to see our relationship to the Earth, to each other and to God through this lens? How does eco-theology dialogue with Science, Church history, and Scripture to seek solutions to the environmental and climate crises? Rev. Astudillo points to three, biblical, eco-theologies that come to our rescue and harness the power of faith communities. About Our Guest   Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo is guest editor of our Spring 2023 edition, Eco-Teología / Eco-Theology, our first-ever bilingual collection. A Presbyterian pastor, a co-founder of the Angelic Organics Learning Center, coordinator of the Climate Justice and Faith Spanish program at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, and more, Rev. Astudillo currently teaches in Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, the USA and Venezuela. Her written works are published widely. Perhaps most notably, she is a co-author of the National Council of Churches declaration, God’s Earth is Sacred, along with Bill McKibben and numerous of America’s leading clergy, and the book, God’s Earth is Sacred: Essays on Eco-Justice. We are truly honored to welcome Rev. Dr. Astudillo and her work to the AllCreation collection. Dr. Astudillo on “Eco-Theology"From her guest editor’s overview: “The environmental and climate crisis threatens to silence the voices of hundreds of species of animals and plants on a planetary level, but for more than 500 years, the voice of peoples and cultures has also been threatened by the same forces responsible for the environmental crisis: patriarchalism, anthropocentrism, dualism, racism and colonization.“To assist in the dialogue between the diverse materials of this issue we are guided by Eco-Theology, a critical discipline of reconstructing the relationship between God, human beings, eco-systems and the universe.“There are those who say that the Earth can survive without us, but if... everything God made was very good, in times of environmental crisis it is up to us to find out why; to save our faith..."   Thanks for listening! Learn more about this collection: http://www.allcreation.org/home/spring-2023More AllCreation podcasts here: https://allcreation.transistor.fm/

What is “Eco-Theology?" In this podcast, guest editor Rev. Dr. Astudillo explores the meaning of eco-theology. What does it mean to see our relationship to the Earth, to each other and to God through this lens? How does eco-theology dialogue with Science, Church history, and Scripture to seek solutions to the environmental and climate crises? Rev. Astudillo points to three, biblical, eco-theologies that come to our rescue and harness the power of faith communities. About Our Guest <ul><li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/neddy-astudillo-067b449a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo</a> is guest editor of our Spring 2023 edition, <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/spring-2023" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eco-Teología / Eco-Theology</a>, our first-ever bilingual collection. A Presbyterian pastor, a co-founder of the <a href="https://www.learngrowconnect.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Angelic Organics Learning Center</a>, coordinator of the Climate Justice and Faith Spanish program at <a href="https://www.plts.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary</a>, and more, Rev. Astudillo currently teaches in Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, the USA and Venezuela. Her written works are published widely. Perhaps most notably, she is a co-author of the National Council of Churches declaration, <a href="https://seasonofcreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">God’s Earth is Sacred</a>, along with Bill McKibben and numerous of America’s leading clergy, and the book, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19310186-god-s-earth-is-sacred" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">God’s Earth is Sacred: Essays on Eco-Justice</a>. We are truly honored to welcome Rev. Dr. Astudillo and her work to the AllCreation collection. </li></ul>Dr. Astudillo on “Eco-Theology" From her guest editor’s <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/spring-2023" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">overview</a>: “The environmental and climate crisis threatens to silence the voices of hundreds of species of animals and plants on a planetary level, but for more than 500 years, the voice of peoples and cultures has also been threatened by the same forces responsible for the environmental crisis: patriarchalism, anthropocentrism, dualism, racism and colonization.“To assist in the dialogue between the diverse materials of this issue we are guided by Eco-Theology, a critical discipline of reconstructing the relationship between God, human beings, eco-systems and the universe.“There are those who say that the Earth can survive without us, but if... everything God made was very good, in times of environmental crisis it is up to us to find out why; to save our faith..."   Thanks for listening! Learn more about this collection: <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/spring-2023" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.allcreation.org/home/spring-2023</a> More AllCreation podcasts here: <a href="https://allcreation.transistor.fm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://allcreation.transistor.fm/</a>

Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo, What is “Eco-Theology?"

This is ’’Pathways of Teshuvah, Part 3 - How Do We Move Forward, Together?’’ This recording is part 3 of a 3-part discussion with breakthrough academic, Dr. Pesach Chananiah, and youth mentor / gardener / veteran, Mr. Marcus Kar, on reconnecting to Nature for sacred communion and emotional wellbeing. In this segment, Dr. Chananiah and Mr. Kar share on how to apply their Nature-reconnection learnings to modern life. About Our Guests  Dr. Pesach Chananiah (author) is a Jewish ecopsychologist, educator, and community organizer working in interfaith and environmental spaces. He writes about the psychological impact of disconnection from land, through a Jewish lens, and explores modes of healing through embodied spiritual practice in the natural world. Read his paper, Pathways of Teshuvah, on AllCreation.org.  Marcus Kar (special guest) is a decorated veteran and a native of “North” Minneapolis, a predominantly African-descent (African-American) community struggling to overcome racism, economic poverty, and other forms of America’s institutional biases. Marcus is program director at Youth Farm, North Minneapolis, “a multi-faceted youth development organization growing food and young leaders, healthy bodies and minds, positive identity, neighborhood connections, community opportunities, and healthy relationships.” Program0:00 Dropping into the session: a final summary.                We are exploring 4 quotes and 4 keywords, re: Place, Possibility, Universal, Indigenous       0:30 Rav. Korngold quote (place)        0:50 Rav. Comin quote (possibility)         1:20 Dr. Channaniah quote (universal)        2:00 Dr. Channaniah quote (indigenous)2:25 Dr. Chananiah         2:55 Sharing “hitbodedut“ (Hebrew term for “alone time for spiritual purpose“) with kids        3:55 Were always moving so fast, right?… but, when I can get out into the wilderness…         5:05 Sharing &amp; exploring the things all humans share: Earth, lands, food, dreams …6:15 Do you have more of a sense indigeneity today? 6:49 Dr. Chananiah         &gt; Going Lech Lecha (Hebrew term for “Go! Leave! Go for you.“)        &gt; Eco-awakening: Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul        9:00 10 years of exploring Nature &amp; the human psyche        9:30 Nature immersion essential for middle-childhood health and development, and the psyche 10:30 Does Nature-Connection bring a stronger sense of identity, Life skills, kinship, process-awareness?11:30 Mr. Kar         “The impact of Nature on everyone is the same.“        “My kids are learning how to process their feelings in green spaces,“ but camping is not safe for Black people. I’m trying to get rid of that. (paraphrased)         13:30 Giving kids today the tools to process their feelings and Grow Everything (plants, foods, relationships, community, possibilities,,, everything)        14:05 Marcus’s wish for this audience14:30 Marcus &amp; Pesach sign-off with gratitude15:20 Official wrap-up         &gt; Pesach’s paper: http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways        &gt; Marcus’s interview: http://www.allcreation.org/home/marcus-kar        &gt; Envisioning Transformation: http://www.allcreation.org/home/winter-2022        &gt; AllCreation.org: http://www.allcreation.org        &gt; BioIntegrity https://www.biointegrity.net/

This is ’’Pathways of Teshuvah, Part 3 - How Do We Move Forward, Together?’’ This recording is part 3 of a 3-part discussion with breakthrough academic, Dr. Pesach Chananiah, and youth mentor / gardener / veteran, Mr. Marcus Kar, on reconnecting to Nature for sacred communion and emotional wellbeing. In this segment, Dr. Chananiah and Mr. Kar share on how to apply their Nature-reconnection learnings to modern life. About Our Guests<ul> <li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pesach-chananiah-community-psychologist/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Pesach Chananiah</a> (author) is a Jewish ecopsychologist, educator, and community organizer working in interfaith and environmental spaces. He writes about the psychological impact of disconnection from land, through a Jewish lens, and explores modes of healing through embodied spiritual practice in the natural world. Read his paper, <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pathways of Teshuvah</a>, on <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a>.</li> <li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-kar-1227bb71/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marcus Kar</a> (special guest) is a decorated veteran and a native of “North” Minneapolis, a predominantly African-descent (African-American) community struggling to overcome racism, economic poverty, and other forms of America’s institutional biases. Marcus is program director at <a href="http://youthfarmmn.org/our-team/staff/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youth Farm</a>, North Minneapolis, “a multi-faceted youth development organization growing food and young leaders, healthy bodies and minds, positive identity, neighborhood connections, community opportunities, and healthy relationships.”</li> </ul>Program 0:00 Dropping into the session: a final summary.                 We are exploring 4 quotes and 4 keywords, re: Place, Possibility, Universal, Indigenous        0:30 Rav. Korngold quote (place)        0:50 Rav. Comin quote (possibility)         1:20 Dr. Channaniah quote (universal)        2:00 Dr. Channaniah quote (indigenous) 2:25 Dr. Chananiah         2:55 Sharing “hitbodedut“ (Hebrew term for “alone time for spiritual purpose“) with kids        3:55 Were always moving so fast, right?… but, when I can get out into the wilderness…         5:05 Sharing &amp; exploring the things all humans share: Earth, lands, food, dreams … 6:15 Do you have more of a sense indigeneity today? 6:49 Dr. Chananiah         &gt; Going Lech Lecha (Hebrew term for “Go! Leave! Go for you.“)        &gt; Eco-awakening: Bill Plotkin, <a href="https://www.animas.org/books/nature-and-the-human-soul/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nature and the Human Soul</a>        9:00 10 years of exploring Nature &amp; the human psyche        9:30 Nature immersion essential for middle-childhood health and development, and the psyche  10:30 Does Nature-Connection bring a stronger sense of identity, Life skills, kinship, process-awareness?11:30 Mr. Kar         “The impact of Nature on everyone is the same.“        “My kids are learning how to process their feelings in green spaces,“ but camping is not safe for Black people. I’m trying to get rid of that. (paraphrased)         13:30 Giving kids today the tools to process their feelings and Grow Everything (plants, foods, relationships, community, possibilities,,, everything)        14:05 Marcus’s wish for this audience 14:30 Marcus &amp; Pesach sign-off with gratitude15:20 Official wrap-up         &gt; Pesach’s paper: <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways</a>        &gt; Marcus’s interview: <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/marcus-kar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.allcreation.org/home/marcus-kar</a>        &gt; Envisioning Transformation: <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/winter-2022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.allcreation.org/home/winter-2022</a>        &gt; <a href="http://AllCreation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a>: <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.allcreation.org</a>         &gt; BioIntegrity <a href="https://www.biointegrity.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.biointegrity.net/</a>

Pathways of Teshuvah, part 3: How Do We Move Forward Together?

This is ’’Pathways of Teshuvah, Part 2 - The Power of Reconnection (to Nature): Divinity, Healing, Reconciliation.’’ This recording is part 2 of 3-part discussion with breakthrough academic, Dr. Pesach Chananiah, and youth mentor / gardener / veteran, Mr. Marcus Kar, on reconnecting to Nature for sacred communion and emotional wellbeing. In this segment, host Chris Searles invites Dr. Chananiah and Mr. Kar to share about their own Nature-reconnection, Nature-immersion experiences. They relate powerful connections to Divinity, Healing, Self-identification, Community-membership, and more. “This isn’t just about growing food and saving the environment.“ About Our Guests  Dr. Pesach Chananiah (author) is a Jewish ecopsychologist, educator, and community organizer working in interfaith and environmental spaces. He writes about the psychological impact of disconnection from land, through a Jewish lens, and explores modes of healing through embodied spiritual practice in the natural world. Read his paper, Pathways of Teshuvah, on AllCreation.org.  Marcus Kar (special guest) is a decorated veteran and a native of “North” Minneapolis, a predominantly African-descent (African-American) community struggling to overcome racism, economic poverty, and other forms of America’s institutional biases. Marcus is program director at Youth Farm, North Minneapolis, “a multi-faceted youth development organization growing food and young leaders, healthy bodies and minds, positive identity, neighborhood connections, community opportunities, and healthy relationships.” Program0:00  Welcome &amp; Intro                  “Reconnecting to the Land Life is our best asset for a whole number of NON-environmental solutions… This reconnection to nature is healing traumas and helping people grow into greater relationship with the other people around them.“ (Searles)2:00 Session begins:      Accessing our positive potential thorough connection to Nature. 2:25 Dr. Chananiah      On Connecting to the Divine outdoors, in modern times4:30 Mr. Kar     On connecting to mentors and ecosystems for answers:       &gt; Avri Zen       &gt; People, plants &amp; sky        &gt; Dean, the veteran       &gt; West African culture       &gt; Mom       8:14 Doing better than ’’surviving’’       9:30 Honesty, Apologizing, Integrity, Direct communication        10:30 Building Trust with Youth       11:15 Taking away the Trauma        &gt; Farms &amp; gardens as safe spaces         where people are challenged, respected,         and connected to each other…        12:45 Living in rhythm and harmony, instead of ’’control’’15:00 What is ’’I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.’’ ?16:00  Dr. Chananiah        On visiting the West Bank        16:45 ’’Sin’’ vs. Missing the mark (Cheit)       18:15 Apologizing, repenting, making amends        19:20 Tending olive trees and *Ho O Pono Pono*        19:55   Just do it! (Expressing care for God’s creation = stress avoidance)21:30 Mr. Kar         On Reconciling and Returning       23:00 Systematic Oppression in America is Real for Black People.                 “This is how I got to Nature.“ (Kar)        24:00 What Black Americans Need.         24:30 Marcus’s experience of oppression: treated like a criminal not a decorated veteran           24:55 Going to Nature for healing25:30 How did you gain enough healing to be a leader? 26:10 Mr. Kar                  “I don’t want to pass the trauma on, I want to enjoy myself as I am and share it with everyone.“ (Kar)         27:45 Back to Reconciliation                ’What I need is the ability to spend the rest of my life enjoying and producing and creating my own healthy environment, and that will impact everyone around me.’’

This is ’’Pathways of Teshuvah, Part 2 - The Power of Reconnection (to Nature): Divinity, Healing, Reconciliation.’’ This recording is part 2 of 3-part discussion with breakthrough academic, Dr. Pesach Chananiah, and youth mentor / gardener / veteran, Mr. Marcus Kar, on reconnecting to Nature for sacred communion and emotional wellbeing. In this segment, host Chris Searles invites Dr. Chananiah and Mr. Kar to share about their own Nature-reconnection, Nature-immersion experiences. They relate powerful connections to Divinity, Healing, Self-identification, Community-membership, and more. “This isn’t just about growing food and saving the environment.“ About Our Guests<ul> <li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pesach-chananiah-community-psychologist/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Pesach Chananiah</a> (author) is a Jewish ecopsychologist, educator, and community organizer working in interfaith and environmental spaces. He writes about the psychological impact of disconnection from land, through a Jewish lens, and explores modes of healing through embodied spiritual practice in the natural world. Read his paper, <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pathways of Teshuvah</a>, on <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a>.</li> <li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-kar-1227bb71/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marcus Kar</a> (special guest) is a decorated veteran and a native of “North” Minneapolis, a predominantly African-descent (African-American) community struggling to overcome racism, economic poverty, and other forms of America’s institutional biases. Marcus is program director at <a href="http://youthfarmmn.org/our-team/staff/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youth Farm</a>, North Minneapolis, “a multi-faceted youth development organization growing food and young leaders, healthy bodies and minds, positive identity, neighborhood connections, community opportunities, and healthy relationships.”</li> </ul> Program 0:00  Welcome &amp; Intro                  “Reconnecting to the Land Life is our best asset for a whole number of NON-environmental solutions… This reconnection to nature is healing traumas and helping people grow into greater relationship with the other people around them.“ (Searles) 2:00 Session begins:      Accessing our positive potential thorough connection to Nature. 2:25 Dr. Chananiah      On Connecting to the Divine outdoors, in modern times4:30 Mr. Kar     On connecting to mentors and ecosystems for answers:       &gt; Avri Zen       &gt; People, plants &amp; sky        &gt; Dean, the veteran       &gt; West African culture       &gt; Mom       8:14 Doing better than ’’surviving’’       9:30 Honesty, Apologizing, Integrity, Direct communication        10:30 Building Trust with Youth       11:15 Taking away the Trauma        &gt; Farms &amp; gardens as safe spaces         where people are challenged, respected,         and connected to each other…        12:45 Living in rhythm and harmony, instead of ’’control’’ 15:00 What is ’’I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.’’ ?16:00  Dr. Chananiah        On visiting the West Bank        16:45 ’’Sin’’ vs. Missing the mark (<a href="https://peterlovenheim.com/writings/missing-the-mark/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cheit</a>)       18:15 Apologizing, repenting, making amends        19:20 Tending olive trees and *Ho O Pono Pono*        19:55   Just do it! (Expressing care for God’s creation = stress avoidance)21:30 Mr. Kar         On Reconciling and Returning       23:00 Systematic Oppression in America is Real for Black People.                  “This is how I got to Nature.“ (Kar)        24:00 What Black Americans Need.         24:30 Marcus’s experience of oppression: treated like a criminal not a decorated veteran           24:55 Going to Nature for healing25:30 How did you gain enough healing to be a leader? 26:10 Mr. Kar                  “I don’t want to pass the trauma on, I want to enjoy myself as I am and share it with everyone.“ (Kar)         27:45 Back to Reconciliation                ’What I need is the ability to spend the rest of my life enjoying and producing and creating my own healthy environment, and that will impact everyone around me.’’

Pathways of Teshuvah, part 2: The Power of Reconnection 

This is ’’Pathways of Teshuvah, Part 1 - Identifying the Separation: Judaism's land-return.’’  This recording is part 1 of 3-part discussion with breakthrough academic, Dr. Pesach Chananiah, and youth mentor / gardener / war veteran, Mr. Marcus Kar, on reconnecting to Nature for sacred communion and emotional wellbeing. In this segment, host Chris Searles shares a synopsis of Dr.  Chananiah’s primary points on the impacts of the Exiles on Judaism’s disconnection from Nature, and Mr. Kar relates his own experience, seeking to be a vessel for positive change. About Our Guests   Dr. Pesach Chananiah (author) is a Jewish ecopsychologist, educator, and community organizer working in interfaith and environmental spaces. He writes about the psychological impact of disconnection from land, through a Jewish lens, and explores modes of healing through embodied spiritual practice in the natural world. Read his paper, Pathways of Teshuvah, on AllCreation.org.  Marcus Kar (special guest) is a decorated veteran and a native of “North” Minneapolis, a predominantly African-descent (African-American) community struggling to overcome racism, economic poverty, and other forms of America’s institutional biases. Marcus is program director at Youth Farm, North Minneapolis, “a multi-faceted youth development organization growing food and young leaders, healthy bodies and minds, positive identity, neighborhood connections, community opportunities, and healthy relationships.”  PROGRAM 0:00  Welcome &amp; Intro   2:30 Part I: Identifying the Separation from Nature: Judaism’s land-return    2:50 Temples were metaphors for homelands     3:30 Exiles were environmentally-harsh (from the Fertile Crescent to the barren desert) 4:25 Dr. Chananiah     4:50 Professional disclaimers, backstory, search for identity, field work    7:15 Teshuvah: ’’to return’’ 8:45 Mr. Kar     9:35 Self-acceptance, identity, feelings     11:30 Being a vessel, not an expert, for positive change 12:10 The Separation from Nature    12:30 Benstein quote     13:00 Rev. Korngold quote   13:00 Dr. Chananiah: quick chronologies of the Exile    13:15 the Temple       15:00 from Rites to Teachings    16:15 Laws &gt; Connection (to the lands,  other life, and Earth)     17:30 Rabbi Nachman’s hitbodedut 19:00 The Divine IN Nature?  20:00 Dr. Chananiah: on “Diveykut“ and hugging, wrapping &amp; “cleaving“ to the Divine      21:00 Nomads’ literal connections:     e.g. Abraham goes to the teacher tree    e.g. Moses and the Burning Bush  23:00 Could I, a modern person, also experience Divinity in the wilderness?   #### #Teshuvah #hitbodedut #diveykut #lechlecha

This is ’’Pathways of Teshuvah, Part 1 - Identifying the Separation: Judaism's land-return.’’  This recording is part 1 of 3-part discussion with breakthrough academic, Dr. Pesach Chananiah, and youth mentor / gardener / war veteran, Mr. Marcus Kar, on reconnecting to Nature for sacred communion and emotional wellbeing. In this segment, host Chris Searles shares a synopsis of Dr.  Chananiah’s primary points on the impacts of the Exiles on Judaism’s disconnection from Nature, and Mr. Kar relates his own experience, seeking to be a vessel for positive change. About Our Guests <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pesach-chananiah-community-psychologist/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Pesach Chananiah</a> (author) is a Jewish ecopsychologist, educator, and community organizer working in interfaith and environmental spaces. He writes about the psychological impact of disconnection from land, through a Jewish lens, and explores modes of healing through embodied spiritual practice in the natural world. Read his paper, <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pathways of Teshuvah</a>, on <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/pathways" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a>.</li> <li> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-kar-1227bb71/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marcus Kar</a> (special guest) is a decorated veteran and a native of “North” Minneapolis, a predominantly African-descent (African-American) community struggling to overcome racism, economic poverty, and other forms of America’s institutional biases. Marcus is program director at <a href="http://youthfarmmn.org/our-team/staff/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youth Farm</a>, North Minneapolis, “a multi-faceted youth development organization growing food and young leaders, healthy bodies and minds, positive identity, neighborhood connections, community opportunities, and healthy relationships.”</li> </ul> PROGRAM 0:00  Welcome &amp; Intro   2:30 Part I: Identifying the Separation from Nature: Judaism’s land-return    2:50 Temples were metaphors for homelands     3:30 Exiles were environmentally-harsh (from the Fertile Crescent to the barren desert) 4:25 Dr. Chananiah     4:50 Professional disclaimers, backstory, search for identity, field work    7:15 Teshuvah: ’’to return’’ 8:45 Mr. Kar     9:35 Self-acceptance, identity, feelings     11:30 Being a vessel, not an expert, for positive change 12:10 The Separation from Nature    12:30 Benstein quote     13:00 Rev. Korngold quote   13:00 Dr. Chananiah: quick chronologies of the Exile    13:15 the Temple       15:00 from Rites to Teachings    16:15 Laws &gt; Connection (to the lands,  other life, and Earth)     17:30 Rabbi Nachman’s hitbodedut 19:00 The Divine IN Nature?  20:00 Dr. Chananiah: on “Diveykut“ and hugging, wrapping &amp; “cleaving“ to the Divine      21:00 Nomads’ literal connections:     e.g. Abraham goes to the teacher tree    e.g. Moses and the Burning Bush 23:00 Could I, a modern person, also experience Divinity in the wilderness?   #### <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/teshuvah?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZUhXjsFPyAe2jzH4WDUbUQCwcpLEKY08vw7HCiL-cGampvD9DDTw1ySHFCgCQB1oPzNGKsFXDza87Eb0iPZs2o7ATvN-U12n9FLcadM7A-kZQKl4mnybdGTNUCj2HGFIGIHHn4jt-dzkLvn_SZKUao3wRgu80B_TB-_YKH8JnyNT2omzcVo3nczJoN6By6CWDk&amp;__tn__=*NK-R" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#Teshuvah</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/hitbodedut?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZUhXjsFPyAe2jzH4WDUbUQCwcpLEKY08vw7HCiL-cGampvD9DDTw1ySHFCgCQB1oPzNGKsFXDza87Eb0iPZs2o7ATvN-U12n9FLcadM7A-kZQKl4mnybdGTNUCj2HGFIGIHHn4jt-dzkLvn_SZKUao3wRgu80B_TB-_YKH8JnyNT2omzcVo3nczJoN6By6CWDk&amp;__tn__=*NK-R" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#hitbodedut</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/diveykut?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZUhXjsFPyAe2jzH4WDUbUQCwcpLEKY08vw7HCiL-cGampvD9DDTw1ySHFCgCQB1oPzNGKsFXDza87Eb0iPZs2o7ATvN-U12n9FLcadM7A-kZQKl4mnybdGTNUCj2HGFIGIHHn4jt-dzkLvn_SZKUao3wRgu80B_TB-_YKH8JnyNT2omzcVo3nczJoN6By6CWDk&amp;__tn__=*NK-R" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#diveykut</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/lechlecha?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZUhXjsFPyAe2jzH4WDUbUQCwcpLEKY08vw7HCiL-cGampvD9DDTw1ySHFCgCQB1oPzNGKsFXDza87Eb0iPZs2o7ATvN-U12n9FLcadM7A-kZQKl4mnybdGTNUCj2HGFIGIHHn4jt-dzkLvn_SZKUao3wRgu80B_TB-_YKH8JnyNT2omzcVo3nczJoN6By6CWDk&amp;__tn__=*NK-R" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#lechlecha</a>

Pathways of Teshuvah, part 1: Identifying the Separation

Teshuvah means to Return... Welcome to Pathways of Teshuvah: a discussion with Dr. Pesach Chananiah and Marcus Kar on Dr. Channaniah's breakthrough paper, "Pathways of Teshuvah: Repentance, Return, and Reconciliation Across Time and Place". This conversation is a continuation of a couple of features from AllCreations collection, Envisioning Transformation. In this event, AllCreation exec. editor Chris Searles interviews Chananiah and Kar about the revolutionary idea of finding truer identity, connection to the divine, deep-trauma healing, authentic community, and a more -- through deeper and more engaged relationships with Nature.  In part one we explore the ancient Jewish exile as separation from a number of "Nature-based" spiritual practices and how that led to the invention of indoor worship. In part two, Dr. Chananiah and Mr. Kar share personal insights and reflections on how living a more Nature-immersed life is both healing and energizing. And in part three, they talk about the necessity of getting one's own time to be safe, alone with, and connected to Nature.About   Dr. Pesach Channaniah (featured author) is a community psychologist, author, educator, and organizer in Nevada, currently working to bring unions together on issues and opportunities around cleaner energy, with the Blue Green Alliance.    Marcus Kar (special guest), Program Director, Youth Farm, North Minneapolis, is a youth mentor and food justice champion. He is also co-chair of the Homegrown Minneapolis Food Council.   Chris Searles (host) is director of BioIntegrity and executive editor of AllCreation.org. He is also chief editor of the AllCreation collection, Envisioning Transformation.      Program0:00 Welcome, Introduction, Overview 06:30 Conversation begins    - Chris Searles, host      - Dr. Pesach Chananiah, author    - Marcus Kar, special guest08:40 Part 1: Identifying the Separation32:00 Part 2: The Power of Reconnection 1:01:00 Part 3: How Do We Move Forward Together?References Dr. Channaniah's paper: https://allcreation.org/home/pathways  "Envisioning Transformation": https://allcreation.org/home/winter-2022  Marcus Kar interview: https://allcreation.org/home/marcus-kar  In this video introduction (see video: https://youtu.be/rOjVC1ThtVo) host, Chris Searles, shows a timeline of the most recent scientific assessments of the history of Life on Earth, from first microbes to modern humans. To read an overview of that science, check out, "The Value of Biosphere Earth, part one: Earth's Life Timeline," here: https://biointegrity.net/value    Thanks for listening. Visit AllCreation.org for more. PResented by AllCreation &amp; BioIntegrity.net 

Teshuvah means to Return... Welcome to Pathways of Teshuvah: a discussion with Dr. Pesach Chananiah and Marcus Kar on Dr. Channaniah's breakthrough paper, "Pathways of Teshuvah: Repentance, Return, and Reconciliation Across Time and Place". This conversation is a continuation of a couple of features from AllCreations collection, Envisioning Transformation. In this event, AllCreation exec. editor Chris Searles interviews Chananiah and Kar about the revolutionary idea of finding truer identity, connection to the divine, deep-trauma healing, authentic community, and a more -- through deeper and more engaged relationships with Nature. In part one we explore the ancient Jewish exile as separation from a number of "Nature-based" spiritual practices and how that led to the invention of indoor worship. In part two, Dr. Chananiah and Mr. Kar share personal insights and reflections on how living a more Nature-immersed life is both healing and energizing. And in part three, they talk about the necessity of getting one's own time to be safe, alone with, and connected to Nature.About <ul> <li> Dr. Pesach Channaniah (featured author) is a community psychologist, author, educator, and organizer in Nevada, currently working to bring unions together on issues and opportunities around cleaner energy, with the <a href="https://www.bluegreenalliance.org/about/team-staff/pesach-chananiah/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blue Green Alliance</a>.  </li> <li> Marcus Kar (special guest), Program Director, <a href="http://youthfarmmn.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youth Farm</a>, North Minneapolis, is a youth mentor and food justice champion. He is also co-chair of the <a href="https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/boards/HMFC" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Homegrown Minneapolis Food Council</a>. </li> <li> Chris Searles (host) is director of <a href="https://www.biointegrity.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BioIntegrity</a> and executive editor of <a href="http://www.allcreation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a>. He is also chief editor of the AllCreation collection, Envisioning Transformation.    </li> </ul> Program <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjVC1ThtVo&amp;t=0s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">0:00</a> Welcome, Introduction, Overview <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjVC1ThtVo&amp;t=390s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">06:30</a> Conversation begins     - Chris Searles, host      - Dr. Pesach Chananiah, author     - Marcus Kar, special guest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjVC1ThtVo&amp;t=520s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">08:40</a> Part 1: Identifying the Separation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjVC1ThtVo&amp;t=1920s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">32:00</a> Part 2: The Power of Reconnection <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjVC1ThtVo&amp;t=3660s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1:01:00</a> Part 3: How Do We Move Forward Together? References<ul> <li>Dr. Channaniah's paper: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWNpblJIR0NSemZxRmV6Wk9rV1FtUjg4ZWRHUXxBQ3Jtc0tsdi1nVWRJTlp0RVIzOXdmVnNjSXhlVEliU2tuN29vR19iV0RuS3R6OFRHOHoxUURFbDBYSHlTaDI1U0F1Y2g4WHJtdzIwdFhMeUJPNTNVd2twazhMN1NGM2x3TUFqNUZ2RVFXa1c5S25rNldCR25QMA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fallcreation.org%2Fhome%2Fpathways&amp;v=rOjVC1ThtVo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://allcreation.org/home/pathways</a> </li> <li>"Envisioning Transformation": <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbkUyWlN0ajdxYWFZdXNGZDBuaWhqU1hJbWJNZ3xBQ3Jtc0tra2FSclFtbkZMWXFRejJ0WnE2dU5DZkJFd21WSkNXNW9VRFVrV1dIVWdDdnQ2eHJZY21YTW96Z01jeFVQRmRNaTc5RE90eXJ1M1lkSjZsSXdJbFZtUWRuMEk0bFBsc1RPTEFIOEhQTkVNTk5mdUNEYw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fallcreation.org%2Fhome%2Fwinter-2022&amp;v=rOjVC1ThtVo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://allcreation.org/home/winter-2022</a> </li> <li>Marcus Kar interview: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbG9NRUYxTDZIUjNrbTgxSFJTZDVEX05yTUhPQXxBQ3Jtc0trWGlkVVctZnV1X3BRQUxfN0t0bWk3LVFWNlhVYXMxdmZBakdKYlEtc0RXeEVaOGNIUXhWTWROTHlURUQ4RHNTYnAxNWI5TlBjTUx4QjlBa1owU3R4elJrQUx5dzVBeXZ5NmpUamVUdFdfN3NJRVBUOA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fallcreation.org%2Fhome%2Fmarcus-kar&amp;v=rOjVC1ThtVo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://allcreation.org/home/marcus-kar</a> </li> <li>In this video introduction (see video: <a href="https://youtu.be/rOjVC1ThtVo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/rOjVC1ThtVo</a>) host, Chris Searles, shows a timeline of the most recent scientific assessments of the history of Life on Earth, from first microbes to modern humans. To read an overview of that science, check out, "The Value of Biosphere Earth, part one: Earth's Life Timeline," here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVVxc19OaDk3cmxwZDMwVHZSd2NwQTFWVi1iZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsSjhMT1RDTVhqb3BRb2NKTFpBdVpKRjl6RTVHNHVxd3NLX0loa3RYSTJhU0dDWFk0ZmZMY21KR2p2a3diYTVzMDlfUHdJbFVJQWFEN1lJRy1Sdmw1aThCSU80MEhRVEJMSjAyTmNneXhUZkg5ZFZNZw&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fbiointegrity.net%2Fvalue&amp;v=rOjVC1ThtVo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://biointegrity.net/value</a> </li> </ul>Thanks for listening. Visit <a href="http://AllCreation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a> for more.  PResented by AllCreation &amp; <a href="http://BioIntegrity.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BioIntegrity.net</a>

Pathways of Teshuvah (Full event) - w/ Dr. Pesach Chananiah & Marcus Kar

Achieving Transformation: Dina Kunin. “It shifted my perspective that my life did not have to stay that way.” Reiki healer, harmonious dog trainer (family &amp; child education, animal behavior improvement &amp; relationship building), empath, stenographer, and more, Dina Kunin came to the US as Ukrainian Jewish refugee in her teens. In this interview, Ms. Kunin shares some of her personal story on overcoming that transition, takes us through one of her personal healing miracles, and shares powerful wisdoms related to personal healing and social progress (see Quotes section, below). Coming from a childhood where her grandparents “knew every leaf, plant and berry in the forest,” Dina goes on to share personal food and folk medicine regimens, talk about her work as a healer and dog trainer (aka. dog whisperer/human trainer), and much more. In this expansive conversation Dina is interviewed by guest editor and friend, Rev. Louis Tillman,  and AllCreation exc. editor, Chris Searles, as part of our Envisioning Transformation collection.   Learn More Dina’s Harmonious dog trainer website  Rev. Louis Tillman   PROGRAM0:00 Intro1:30 Hello, what’s your story 2:30 On migrating to the USA from Russia 4:30 What is Reiki?   &gt; Definitions   &gt; 6:30 Her practitioner’s perspective   &gt; 6:50 Her Reiki-healing miracle 11:00 On achieving personal-healing / transformation 13:15 To “envision transformation” one has to believe it’s possible; experiencing transformation helps…     &gt; 14:30 Manifestation &amp; visualization is such a beautiful thing; We are so powerful and we don’t even know it   &gt; 15:45 Breath. Matters.16:15 How has Heath &amp; Wellness impacted you, what do you recommend?   &gt; 17:00 Dina’s regimens    &gt; 18:20 Fasting, Resting, Sleeping, Healing, Regenerating   &gt; 19:40 On natural, folk &amp; food medicines and healing    &gt;20:30 Dina’s kitchen/health staples 21:00 Louis asks about honey, food, community gardens, and … Crickets???   &gt; 24:30 What is keeping us from protecting our environment    &gt; 25:00 Our Actual connections to the environment  &gt; 27:00 Meat &amp; crickets    &gt; 29:00 Wild locusts &amp; honey    &gt; 30:15  Crickets for manifesting good   &gt; 31:00  Crickets for food…32:20 Ahem,,, :) What institutional changes do we need?   &gt; 33:00 Dina’s mantra in life    &gt; 33:30 Framing her opinions   &gt; 35:00 How do we bridge divides 35:45 Positive change is intergenerational 37:00 Are our Comforts creating despair? How do we move into being a convoy of hope as a Faith community?   &gt; 39:15 Connection, Community, &amp; Community-knowledge   &gt; 39:50 Valuing our Elders       &gt; 41:45 Give positivity42:55 Is “Kinship “ the right thing to go for?45:30 Louis inspired &amp; grateful,,,     &gt; 46:30 Yes: the essentials… We all have the same needs. &gt; 47:30 Reconnect to our breath, our similarities      &gt; 49:45 Connected care feels better      &gt; 51:50 Breath: How to breathe    &gt; 53:00 Creating peaceful feelings        &gt; calming the dog         &gt; breathing from your belly55:45 What is your message to the world?&gt; Choose: Connection. Choose: Positive Mindset. &lt;56:25 How can we help carry that out?&gt; Choose: Kindness. &lt;    &gt; 57:30 Choose to do something good.  &gt; 48:15 One action does make a difference. 58:45 What keeps you going?    &gt; 59:45 Re-connection; Coming back into focus    &gt; 1:00:25 Vision: That We Realize Our Power as a Human Community.1:00:45 Wrap up References  Reiki Diaphragmatic breathing Stenographer Product  Quotes Being compassionate is the key to all of this.I have not been sick in years.  We take breathing for granted and most of us don’t know how to breathe correctly...We all just want to be happy, and we want to be secure, and we want to be free. We all have the same needs, every single person in the world.For me to get to a peaceful state I picture myself sitting by the ocean, and listening to the water, and feeling the breeze and wind in my air, and smelling that salt air, and taking those deep breaths. . . I’m able to transition into that actual state. . . We are so powerful and we don’t even know it.  It is always a balance of Western &amp; Eastern Medicines coming together, but if I’m able to heal myself using natural foods that are available to me, that will always be my first go-to.  I do feel the younger people will prevail, but we have to help them.   Sometimes it’s just so overwhelming you don’t even want to think about, you don’t to even be there, so that’s why a lot people just numb themselves to this, because they feel if they can’t affect change then they just need to focus on themselves. I know it’s cliche but, (our) similarities are so simple. You know, just listening to someone without having the need to respond, and just hearing their story — because our reality is only based in our perception and our experience of how we envision the world.Even though it may not be your experience, and even though you may never be able to relate to exactly what they are going through…the humanity in all of us and just being compassionate — that is the key to all of this. Gratitude is the key to happiness, you know, being just mindful and grateful for things elicits peace for me. Choose connection. Choose happiness. Choose gratitude.  Choose positive mindset — because a positive mindset does not change your situation, but it does change the way you respond to things. That will help you transform your life. Choose kindness. Choose to take a deep breath before you react in a situation. Choose to do something good, whether it’s on a small level, on a one-on-one level, just do something that is good that you can handle. We just choose to not leave our comfort zones.I feel that we are all responsible for how things are going to turn out. And, because we are so interconnected, one action does make a difference. Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "Envisioning Transformation." It was produced &amp;edited by Chris Searles. 

Achieving Transformation: Dina Kunin. “It shifted my perspective that my life did not have to stay that way.” Reiki healer, harmonious dog trainer (family &amp; child education, animal behavior improvement &amp; relationship building), empath, stenographer, and more, Dina Kunin came to the US as Ukrainian Jewish refugee in her teens. In this interview, Ms. Kunin shares some of her personal story on overcoming that transition, takes us through one of her personal healing miracles, and shares powerful wisdoms related to personal healing and social progress (see Quotes section, below). Coming from a childhood where her grandparents “knew every leaf, plant and berry in the forest,” Dina goes on to share personal food and folk medicine regimens, talk about her work as a healer and dog trainer (aka. dog whisperer/human trainer), and much more. In this expansive conversation Dina is interviewed by guest editor and friend, Rev. Louis Tillman,  and AllCreation exc. editor, Chris Searles, as part of our <a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc123022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Envisioning Transformation</a> collection. Learn More<ul> <li>Dina’s <a href="https://www.intunecanine.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harmonious dog trainer</a> website </li> <li><a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/apocalypse-with-louis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rev. Louis Tillman </a></li> </ul> PROGRAM0:00 Intro1:30 Hello, what’s your story 2:30 On migrating to the USA from Russia 4:30 What is Reiki?   &gt; Definitions   &gt; 6:30 Her practitioner’s perspective   &gt; 6:50 Her Reiki-healing miracle 11:00 On achieving personal-healing / transformation 13:15 To “envision transformation” one has to believe it’s possible; experiencing transformation helps…     &gt; 14:30 Manifestation &amp; visualization is such a beautiful thing; We are so powerful and we don’t even know it   &gt; 15:45 Breath. Matters.16:15 How has Heath &amp; Wellness impacted you, what do you recommend?   &gt; 17:00 Dina’s regimens    &gt; 18:20 Fasting, Resting, Sleeping, Healing, Regenerating   &gt; 19:40 On natural, folk &amp; food medicines and healing    &gt;20:30 Dina’s kitchen/health staples 21:00 Louis asks about honey, food, community gardens, and … Crickets???   &gt; 24:30 What is keeping us from protecting our environment    &gt; 25:00 Our Actual connections to the environment   &gt; 27:00 Meat &amp; crickets    &gt; 29:00 Wild locusts &amp; honey    &gt; 30:15  Crickets for manifesting good   &gt; 31:00  Crickets for food…32:20 Ahem,,, :) What institutional changes do we need?   &gt; 33:00 Dina’s mantra in life    &gt; 33:30 Framing her opinions   &gt; 35:00 How do we bridge divides 35:45 Positive change is intergenerational 37:00 Are our Comforts creating despair? How do we move into being a convoy of hope as a Faith community?   &gt; 39:15 Connection, Community, &amp; Community-knowledge   &gt; 39:50 Valuing our Elders       &gt; 41:45 Give positivity42:55 Is “Kinship “ the right thing to go for?45:30 Louis inspired &amp; grateful,,,     &gt; 46:30 Yes: the essentials… We all have the same needs. &gt; 47:30 Reconnect to our breath, our similarities      &gt; 49:45 Connected care feels better      &gt; 51:50 Breath: How to breathe    &gt; 53:00 Creating peaceful feelings        &gt; calming the dog         &gt; breathing from your belly55:45 What is your message to the world?&gt; Choose: Connection. Choose: Positive Mindset. &lt;56:25 How can we help carry that out?&gt; Choose: Kindness. &lt;    &gt; 57:30 Choose to do something good.  &gt; 48:15 One action does make a difference. 58:45 What keeps you going?    &gt; 59:45 Re-connection; Coming back into focus    &gt; 1:00:25 Vision: That We Realize Our Power as a Human Community.1:00:45 Wrap up References <ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reiki</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/diaphragmatic-breathing" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Diaphragmatic breathing</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.naegeliusa.com/blog/what-is-a-stenographer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stenographer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=product" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Product</a></li> </ul> Quotes Being compassionate is the key to all of this.I have not been sick in years.  We take breathing for granted and most of us don’t know how to breathe correctly...We all just want to be happy, and we want to be secure, and we want to be free. We all have the same needs, every single person in the world.For me to get to a peaceful state I picture myself sitting by the ocean, and listening to the water, and feeling the breeze and wind in my air, and smelling that salt air, and taking those deep breaths. . . I’m able to transition into that actual state. . . We are so powerful and we don’t even know it. It is always a balance of Western &amp; Eastern Medicines coming together, but if I’m able to heal myself using natural foods that are available to me, that will always be my first go-to.  I do feel the younger people will prevail, but we have to help them.    Sometimes it’s just so overwhelming you don’t even want to think about, you don’t to even be there, so that’s why a lot people just numb themselves to this, because they feel if they can’t affect change then they just need to focus on themselves. I know it’s cliche but, (our) similarities are so simple. You know, just listening to someone without having the need to respond, and just hearing their story — because our reality is only based in our perception and our experience of how we envision the world.Even though it may not be your experience, and even though you may never be able to relate to exactly what they are going through…the humanity in all of us and just being compassionate — that is the key to all of this. Gratitude is the key to happiness, you know, being just mindful and grateful for things elicits peace for me. Choose connection. Choose happiness. Choose gratitude.  Choose positive mindset — because a positive mindset does not change your situation, but it does change the way you respond to things. That will help you transform your life. Choose kindness. Choose to take a deep breath before you react in a situation. Choose to do something good, whether it’s on a small level, on a one-on-one level, just do something that is good that you can handle. We just choose to not leave our comfort zones.I feel that we are all responsible for how things are going to turn out. And, because we are so interconnected, one action does make a difference. Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "Envisioning<a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc062122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>Transformation." It was produced &amp; edited by Chris Searles.

Dina Kunin on Transformation (Health, Connection, Kindness) 

AllCreation.org: Faith • Spirit • Biodiversity • Connections

Achieving Transformation: Marcus Kar is a native of “North” Minneapolis, a predominantly African-descent (African-American) community struggling to overcome racism, poverty, and other forms of American-institutional abuse. Marcus is program director for Youth Farm, “a multi-faceted youth development organization growing food and young leaders, healthy bodies and minds, positive identity, neighborhood connections, community opportunities, and healthy relationships.” In this interview he shares garden-grown wisdoms on how and where to find healing and healthy-self. His insights are extensive (see Quotes, below). He is interviewed by friend, Rev. Louis Tillman and AllCreation exec. editor, Chris Searles, as part of our collection, Envisioning Transformation.Learn More Youth Farm Marcus’s LinkedIN  Marcus’s compelling music   PROGRAM0:00 Intro2:45 Who are you?   &gt; about Youth Farm    &gt; 4:00 about Marcus   &gt; 5:20 about working w kids    &gt; 6:00 about redirecting energy and cultural identity   &gt; 7:30 about his homegrown Minneapolis Food Council    &gt; 8:40 about his nature healing / nature wealth movement    &gt; 10:00 on success &amp; his vision11:30 Does is take a village to raise a child?   &gt; 15:00 On separation and learned-behaviors   &gt; 15:50 “Nature is medicine... No one knows how to put the pieces back together... That’s what nature does“   &gt; 18:40 “I’ve been guided by powerful women“    &gt; 19:40 America’s worldview = Duality (duality is a divider)   &gt; 22:20 We have to find social balance.   &gt; 24:00 Comments on Bio-intelligence     &gt; 28:35 “I want people to know…“ 32:00 What is your message to the world?   &gt; 38:45 Coming together nonverbally, redirecting trauma, angst , pain and alienation44:45 Wrap up References“North“ = North Minneapolis  QuotesI’m an indigenous person. I’m a product of so many people. What I try to tell people now is: I wish they would spend a little time with me when it comes to what they wanna see as far as change in their immediate environment, because I redirect energy...  No one is helping young people understand how to feel their feelings.        I’m trying to create a movement around growing and I want people to use it as medicine. I wanna share what I gained from nature with my entire environment.    One of the elders told me, “If you don’t move your physical, you lose your spiritual.” Nature is medicine. There’s a very thin line between a plant and a human being. Everything we want for ourselves and we want to know about bettering this world, bettering our environment, you can find in the bio-ecosystem. We need to be a part of it, not necessarily be in control of it. You can’t control her.   I tend to never be married to any one idea or approach. I’m not trying to sustain any of these (institutional) systems. I’m really trying to figure a way for us to be able to listen to each other and self-correct, in order to provide the kind of environment we need to thrive.This idea of “intergenerational processes”: it keeps the Old young, and the Young wise.It’s very hard for people who’ve never dealt with any kind of adversity or any issues with the police to understand, but a kid who got his arm broke by a cop will live his whole life feeling that phantom pain. We need to recognize how we can extract it: by holding him; telling him he’s ok; telling him how to avoid those things; and telling him where his power is or her power is…   Instead of listening to people, you wanna write policy... The new revolution has nothing to do with control or division. It has a lot to do with addition and it has a lot to do with balance.  Seeing this stuff is traumatizing. . . Man, if you could only redirect that. I don’t want us to react. I don’t want us to live in the poison of guilt, anger, and sadness.      Don’t ever keep this stuff to yourself. If you’re going through any depression or trauma, just do me a favor -- try to talk to someone. I want to try and eliminate the number of shootings we have and green spaces have that impact on communities. The more we are outside together, eating together, living together, the less the shooters are there.    I’m not special, I’m present. I know them, their grandmas, their aunties, their fathers, their mothers, and I get down to their level. They wanna call me in the middle of the night and talk to me about what’s happenin in the crib, I got you… I’m present.  How do you keep the balance? This is something we don’t teach. We teach everyone they’re special and they all get prizes. No. Listen: In order to keep balance you need to learn how to follow… The idea of reacting isn’t a positive thing.  If you’re not a kind man, you’re not my kind of man. (“Man” = human) Everything that’s happening has an impact on everything else here. Be aware of that. Know that you’re important in the grand scheme of everything.  We want to be one with [the seasons] so we can actually produce the thing that is our God-given right, what Nature provides us. Every time we get an opportunity to rest and take our time, it seems like Capitalism is taking that away... I love being exhausted for a reason, like, if I get done shoveling 10 cubic yards of soil in a wheel barrow and running up and down a hill — yea, I’m tired, but for a reason. If you just wake up in the morning tired, there’s something wrong with that.We should be in control of the technology… And I really hope we start using technology to Rest, first of all… If you rest your mind, you’re capable of processing things -- not based on a forced system or process, you’ll be able to see many different processes and as long as there are shared values you’ll be able to take any approach to that end result… But, in order to choose one you have to rest; you gotta be in sync; you gotta be on time. People think I’m growing all this, I’m not. This is a bio-ecosystem. I’m a part of it and I know every crevice and I tend to use it, and it consists not just of the weeds and the food and the flowers, but it also consist of the birds, the bees, some pests and things…   We have so many definitions about what we’re capable of being, so, spiritually, we’re not really tapping into a huge amount of our potential.    This thing that makes up our bio-ecosystem we need to start sharing… We all have our super powers and when were on the same frequency and rhythm and harmony there are endless possibilities. That’s what I love about Music. That’s what I love about Nature. That what I love about Food; try using different spices. You don’t have a choice but to live. Your body, this engine that God has created, is here to thrive and live as full circle and graduate to new lives. There’s nothing to fear. .      Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "Envisioning Transformation." It was produced &amp;edited by Chris Searles. 

Achieving Transformation: Marcus Kar is a native of “North” Minneapolis, a predominantly African-descent (African-American) community struggling to overcome racism, poverty, and other forms of American-institutional abuse. Marcus is program director for Youth Farm, “a multi-faceted youth development organization growing food and young leaders, healthy bodies and minds, positive identity, neighborhood connections, community opportunities, and healthy relationships.” In this interview he shares garden-grown wisdoms on how and where to find healing and healthy-self. His insights are extensive (see Quotes, below). He is interviewed by friend, Rev. Louis Tillman and AllCreation exec. editor, Chris Searles, as part of our collection, <a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc123022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Envisioning Transformation</a>. Learn More<ul> <li><a href="http://youthfarmmn.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Youth Farm</a></li> <li>Marcus’s <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-kar-1227bb71/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIN</a> </li> <li>Marcus’s compelling <a href="https://culturemn.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">music </a> </li> </ul> PROGRAM 0:00 Intro2:45 Who are you?   &gt; about Youth Farm    &gt; 4:00 about Marcus   &gt; 5:20 about working w kids    &gt; 6:00 about redirecting energy and cultural identity   &gt; 7:30 about his homegrown Minneapolis Food Council    &gt; 8:40 about his nature healing / nature wealth movement    &gt; 10:00 on success &amp; his vision11:30 Does is take a village to raise a child?    &gt; 15:00 On separation and learned-behaviors   &gt; 15:50 “Nature is medicine... No one knows how to put the pieces back together... That’s what nature does“   &gt; 18:40 “I’ve been guided by powerful women“    &gt; 19:40 America’s worldview = Duality (duality is a divider)   &gt; 22:20 We have to find social balance.   &gt; 24:00 Comments on Bio-intelligence     &gt; 28:35 “I want people to know…“ 32:00 What is your message to the world?   &gt; 38:45 Coming together nonverbally, redirecting trauma, angst , pain and alienation44:45 Wrap up References<ul><li>“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_North,_Minneapolis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">North</a>“ = <a href="https://www.minneapolis.org/neighborhoods/northwest/north-minneapolis-community/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">North Minneapolis</a> </li></ul> QuotesI’m an indigenous person. I’m a product of so many people. What I try to tell people now is: I wish they would spend a little time with me when it comes to what they wanna see as far as change in their immediate environment, because I redirect energy... No one is helping young people understand how to feel their feelings.        I’m trying to create a movement around growing and I want people to use it as medicine. I wanna share what I gained from nature with my entire environment.  One of the elders told me, “If you don’t move your physical, you lose your spiritual.” Nature is medicine. There’s a very thin line between a plant and a human being. Everything we want for ourselves and we want to know about bettering this world, bettering our environment, you can find in the bio-ecosystem. We need to be a part of it, not necessarily be in control of it. You can’t control her.   I tend to never be married to any one idea or approach. I’m not trying to sustain any of these (institutional) systems. I’m really trying to figure a way for us to be able to listen to each other and self-correct, in order to provide the kind of environment we need to thrive.This idea of “intergenerational processes”: it keeps the Old young, and the Young wise.It’s very hard for people who’ve never dealt with any kind of adversity or any issues with the police to understand, but a kid who got his arm broke by a cop will live his whole life feeling that phantom pain. We need to recognize how we can extract it: by holding him; telling him he’s ok; telling him how to avoid those things; and telling him where his power is or her power is…   Instead of listening to people, you wanna write policy... The new revolution has nothing to do with control or division. It has a lot to do with addition and it has a lot to do with balance.  Seeing this stuff is traumatizing. . . Man, if you could only redirect that. I don’t want us to react. I don’t want us to live in the poison of guilt, anger, and sadness.      Don’t ever keep this stuff to yourself. If you’re going through any depression or trauma, just do me a favor -- try to talk to someone. I want to try and eliminate the number of shootings we have and green spaces have that impact on communities. The more we are outside together, eating together, living together, the less the shooters are there.    I’m not special, I’m present. I know them, their grandmas, their aunties, their fathers, their mothers, and I get down to their level. They wanna call me in the middle of the night and talk to me about what’s happenin in the crib, I got you… I’m present. How do you keep the balance? This is something we don’t teach. We teach everyone they’re special and they all get prizes. No. Listen: In order to keep balance you need to learn how to follow… The idea of reacting isn’t a positive thing.  If you’re not a kind man, you’re not my kind of man. (“Man” = human) Everything that’s happening has an impact on everything else here. Be aware of that. Know that you’re important in the grand scheme of everything.  We want to be one with [the seasons] so we can actually produce the thing that is our God-given right, what Nature provides us. Every time we get an opportunity to rest and take our time, it seems like Capitalism is taking that away... I love being exhausted for a reason, like, if I get done shoveling 10 cubic yards of soil in a wheel barrow and running up and down a hill — yea, I’m tired, but for a reason. If you just wake up in the morning tired, there’s something wrong with that.We should be in control of the technology… And I really hope we start using technology to Rest, first of all… If you rest your mind, you’re capable of processing things -- not based on a forced system or process, you’ll be able to see many different processes and as long as there are shared values you’ll be able to take any approach to that end result… But, in order to choose one you have to rest; you gotta be in sync; you gotta be on time. People think I’m growing all this, I’m not. This is a bio-ecosystem. I’m a part of it and I know every crevice and I tend to use it, and it consists not just of the weeds and the food and the flowers, but it also consist of the birds, the bees, some pests and things…  We have so many definitions about what we’re capable of being, so, spiritually, we’re not really tapping into a huge amount of our potential.    This thing that makes up our bio-ecosystem we need to start sharing… We all have our super powers and when were on the same frequency and rhythm and harmony there are endless possibilities. That’s what I love about Music. That’s what I love about Nature. That what I love about Food; try using different spices. You don’t have a choice but to live. Your body, this engine that God has created, is here to thrive and live as full circle and graduate to new lives. There’s nothing to fear. .       Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "Envisioning<a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc062122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>Transformation." It was produced &amp; edited by Chris Searles.

Marcus Kar on Transformation (Reconciliation, Healing, Growth) 

Jimi Calhoun

A Life of Transformation: Rev. Jimi Calhoun. The son of a pastor, Rev. Jimi Calhoun was a teen and early adopter of Hippie culture in the San Francisco Bay area during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. As a prodigious young musician he worked with breakthrough stars like Wilson Pickett and Lou Rawls before he could drive. By the early 1980s he had played on 100s of credited and uncredited recordings, including Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones. He is best known today for classic recordings with Dr. John (including the album, Gumbo), Parliament Funkadelic, Sly Stone, and his own band, Creation. In 1983 he entered pastoral training and has been ministering ever since. He is currently Lead Pastor at Bridging Austin. Rev. Calhouns’ books explore how Rock &amp; Roll and Religion can help each other create long-lasting reconciliations. He is interviewed here by AllCreation exec. editor, Chris Searles, as part of our Winter Solstice collection: Envisioning Transformation.Learn More JimiCalhoun.com Jimi Calhoun author page  Jimi Calhoun bass player page   A favorite early recording with Gene Redding  BridgingAustin.org  Rev. Calhoun is also a guest panelist at: Called to Care.  References Genesis 1:26 Genesis 2 Teshuvah Restorative Justice  Punitive Justice    PROGRAM0:00     Welcome &amp; Intro4:00     How have you experienced transformation?  8:15     How does society come together around a common identity?10:30     Were people less afraid of conflict and discomfort in the 60s? 17:40     How did the Hippie movement and Civil Rights movements feel?  25:00     How do you relate creation care to human care?29:00     What do you mean by biblical ecology?32:00     How do you view the long journey of healing, reparations, etc.? 36:00     Restorative justice through kinship 41:00     Why do we fight against and destroy Other-life?   45:00     Doing service feels good, right?48:30     Jimi’s comments on predictions &amp; sticking together  QUOTES  “Who are we? Why are we here? Why are we doing this?“ We’ve lost our sense of mystery and wonder. We’re not looking beyond the everyday, mundane-accumulation of goods and materials-stuff. We’re not living in two places at once; we’re not living in the now and looking to the future.There's no starting point for the common good.  Our political system is adversarial by definition, but disagreements should only be on the issues, not the essentials. We’ve crossed a line from disagreeing with people to being disagreeable with people... You loved ’em before you found out who they voted for. So that same person you loved five minutes ago, you can still love.  I’m not Utopian... I am altruistic and I do believe better is possible, but I believe it is hard to achieve.  And I thought, Wow, what an illustration for how challenging it is in the broader culture to have people be patient with the other, while they’re pursuing what it is they’re trying to contribute to the overall...  We’re not a very patient society.   My job is to be of benefit to everyone, to protect and serve.In a covenantal relationship you have to keep going no matter what the other person does, you have to push ahead, you do your part regardless of the outcome, you do what you’re supposed to do... That is creation care.  Where are my ’kind’? We really need to be careful when we assume we know who our KIND are.    You can see diversity is already built into the universe. It should not take a degree from Harvard to figure out that diversity is a good thing.They think they’re doing the right thing by assuming everyone has their worldview. I could give you some answers from my reading or my religious training, but they wouldn’t be very satisfying because they would only cover a small segment of the population.I would say the biggest adversary is laziness… Being aware and appreciative of the diversity that exists is hard work and I think we’re basically lazy. We want everything to come to us. I don't think anybody is afraid, I think they’re lazy.As Western people, we’re result-oriented rather than process-oriented. To have transformation that’s going to be lasting or meaningful, sometimes it requires us to be process-oriented. I’m doing this because. I’m doing this because. I’m doing this because.  ###Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "EnvisioningTransformation." It was edited by Chris Searles. Visit our podcasts page for more.

A Life of Transformation: Rev. Jimi Calhoun. The son of a pastor, Rev. Jimi Calhoun was a teen and early adopter of Hippie culture in the San Francisco Bay area during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. As a prodigious young musician he worked with breakthrough stars like Wilson Pickett and Lou Rawls before he could drive. By the early 1980s he had played on 100s of credited and uncredited recordings, including Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones. He is best known today for classic recordings with Dr. John (including the album, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRenPt9yFjw&amp;list=PLTOrvx7SLrnkZP-JkmbBEi_nQE2d5OEHV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gumbo</a>), Parliament Funkadelic, Sly Stone, and his own band, Creation. In 1983 he entered pastoral training and has been ministering ever since. He is currently Lead Pastor at Bridging Austin. Rev. Calhouns’ books explore how Rock &amp; Roll and Religion can help each other create long-lasting reconciliations. He is interviewed here by AllCreation exec. editor, Chris Searles, as part of our Winter Solstice collection: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc123022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Envisioning Transformation</a>.Learn More<ul> <li><a href="https://www.jimicalhoun.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JimiCalhoun.com</a></li> <li>Jimi Calhoun <a href="https://www.jimicalhoun.com/books" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">author page</a> </li> <li>Jimi Calhoun <a href="https://www.jimicalhoun.com/music" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bass player page</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://youtu.be/zzRQ0bWt4ms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A favorite early recording</a> with Gene Redding</li> <li> <a href="https://www.bridgingaustin.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BridgingAustin.org</a> </li> <li>Rev. Calhoun is also a guest panelist at: <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/home/called" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Called to Care</a>. </li> </ul>References<ul> <li><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201%3A26&amp;version=KJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Genesis 1:26</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2&amp;version=KJV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Genesis 2</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/361890/jewish/Teshuvah.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teshuvah</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Restorative Justice</a></li> <li> <a href="https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-punitive-justice-definition-examples.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Punitive Justice</a> </li> </ul>PROGRAM 0:00     Welcome &amp; Intro4:00     How have you experienced transformation?  8:15     How does society come together around a common identity?10:30     Were people less afraid of conflict and discomfort in the 60s? 17:40     How did the Hippie movement and Civil Rights movements feel?  25:00     How do you relate creation care to human care?29:00     What do you mean by biblical ecology?32:00     How do you view the long journey of healing, reparations, etc.? 36:00     Restorative justice through kinship 41:00     Why do we fight against and destroy Other-life?   45:00     Doing service feels good, right?48:30     Jimi’s comments on predictions &amp; sticking together  QUOTES “Who are we? Why are we here? Why are we doing this?“ We’ve lost our sense of mystery and wonder. We’re not looking beyond the everyday, mundane-accumulation of goods and materials-stuff. We’re not living in two places at once; we’re not living in the now and looking to the future.There's no starting point for the common good.  Our political system is adversarial by definition, but disagreements should only be on the issues, not the essentials. We’ve crossed a line from disagreeing with people to being disagreeable with people... You loved ’em before you found out who they voted for. So that same person you loved five minutes ago, you can still love.  I’m not Utopian... I am altruistic and I do believe better is possible, but I believe it is hard to achieve.  And I thought, Wow, what an illustration for how challenging it is in the broader culture to have people be patient with the other, while they’re pursuing what it is they’re trying to contribute to the overall...  We’re not a very patient society.  My job is to be of benefit to everyone, to protect and serve.In a covenantal relationship you have to keep going no matter what the other person does, you have to push ahead, you do your part regardless of the outcome, you do what you’re supposed to do... That is creation care. Where are my ’kind’? We really need to be careful when we assume we know who our KIND are.    You can see diversity is already built into the universe. It should not take a degree from Harvard to figure out that diversity is a good thing.They think they’re doing the right thing by assuming everyone has their worldview. I could give you some answers from my reading or my religious training, but they wouldn’t be very satisfying because they would only cover a small segment of the population.I would say the biggest adversary is laziness… Being aware and appreciative of the diversity that exists is hard work and I think we’re basically lazy. We want everything to come to us. I don't think anybody is afraid, I think they’re lazy.As Western people, we’re result-oriented rather than process-oriented. To have transformation that’s going to be lasting or meaningful, sometimes it requires us to be process-oriented. I’m doing this because. I’m doing this because. I’m doing this because. ### Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "EnvisioningTransformation." It was edited by Chris Searles. Visit our <a href="https://allcreation.transistor.fm/episodes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcasts page</a> for more.

Rev. Jimi Calhoun on Transformation (Protect & Serve)

A Life of Transformation: Marj Barlow, PhD., is a historically-significant therapist, global-business-change leader, and self-care advocate from Texas. Most famous for her pioneering leadership at Interface Carpets, the world’s largest commercial carpet manufacturer, and first global manufacturer to try to reach net zero and net regenerative environmental impacts, Dr. Barlow built her success off of an identity rooted in honesty, family, Faith, science, and her own experiences. In this podcast, AllCreation exec. editor Chris Searles asks Dr. Barlow to share about being a feminist co-leader, caring more for Other-life, and achieving right transformation. This interview is part of AllCreation’s Winter Solstice collection, Envisioning Transformation. Learn More MarjBarlow.com The Pocket Grandmother The Possible Woman  Interface eco-sustainability legacy  Listen to part 1 of this interview.  Transformational Virtues Discussed Seeking love Awe Gratitude Healing Play Curiosity about positive potential    PROGRAM0:00    Feminism: How are we doing? 10:00    The 4 levels of love:   Eros - attraction  Agape - true friendship  Philia - true familial love  Caritas - sacrificial love, giving your life for the good of others (“a calling, a joy, a happiness“)  15:00    How do you relate to the living creation?19:00    How should religious institutions transform to achieve a better future?  QUOTESStudying Happiness has helped me have a sense of the value of our choice-making. Everyday I get up and I say, “What is today?” And I have a sense of awe. And every person that comes into my life, I have a sense of awe. That makes it new and real and exciting, and nothing every dull or boring, so perhaps curiosity and awe are valuable attributes at institutional-identity scale. I kind of have an inner path I follow: I prefer to be curious, rather than certain. I think that has led me to a lot of diversity... There’s not just one way, as many of the Fundamentalist sermons I heard suggested.  Most of the people who initiated (therapy in the early days) were female. It would be the mother bringing in the son, or the mother bringing in the whole family. The mother would be the one always organizing that.   (In the 1960s, White America) was very paternalistic and I had to prove that I had done right by his money and his children. The male does tend in our species to focus; he makes a good TV-watcher! The female is more the Gatherer; she’s born to shop! That is the problem right there: Can the shoppers and the focusers get together to declare the universe needs one song?! :)We’re not done yet. We’re still evolving. We have the joy of being present, listening, and seeking something new.  Love that stretches and a mind that is eternally curious, that’s how I see our evolutionary drift.  The biggest change that’s on the horizon is the fact that we are hooked-up and we can communicate -- and, therefore, we can’t keep pockets of secrecy, and I think more and more are enlightened as to our environmental emergency. I have a sense of gratitude and awe about how it all works. It’s the most fascinating thing in the world to think of Life as it exists here on this little blue, tiny planet. . . I am so in awe of the people who are learning how to be good stewards of our physical environment..... “Whatsoever thing thy neighbor doeth that pulleth thy chain, puncheth thy button or ringeth thy bell — that thing hath more to do with thee than thy neighbor!” :)###Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "Envisioning Transformation." It was pro-duced and edited by Chris Searles. Visit our podcasts page for more.

A Life of Transformation: Marj Barlow, PhD., is a historically-significant therapist, global-business-change leader, and self-care advocate from Texas. Most famous for her pioneering leadership at <a href="https://www.interface.com/US/en-US.html?r=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interface Carpets</a>, the world’s largest commercial carpet manufacturer, and first global manufacturer to try to reach net zero and net regenerative environmental impacts, Dr. Barlow built her success off of an identity rooted in honesty, family, Faith, science, and her own experiences. In this podcast, AllCreation exec. editor Chris Searles asks Dr. Barlow to share about being a feminist co-leader, caring more for Other-life, and achieving right transformation. This interview is part of AllCreation’s Winter Solstice collection, <a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc123022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Envisioning Transformation</a>. Learn More<ul> <li><a href="https://marjbarlow.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MarjBarlow.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://marjbarlow.com/defining-pocket-grandmother/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Pocket Grandmother</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Possible-Woman-Marjorie-R-Barlow/dp/0967782309" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Possible Woman</a></li> <li> <a href="https://interfaceinc.scene7.com/is/content/InterfaceInc/Interface/Americas/WebsiteContentAssets/Documents/Sustainability%2025yr%20Report/25yr%20Report%20Booklet%20Interface_MissionZeroCel.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interface eco-sustainability legacy</a> </li> </ul>Listen to <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/a1fd69d4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">part 1 of this interview</a>.  Transformational Virtues Discussed<ul> <li>Seeking love</li> <li>Awe</li> <li>Gratitude</li> <li>Healing</li> <li>Play</li> <li>Curiosity about positive potential   </li> </ul>PROGRAM 0:00    Feminism: How are we doing?  10:00    The 4 levels of love: <ul> <li> Eros - attraction</li> <li> Agape - true friendship</li> <li> Philia - true familial love</li> <li> Caritas - sacrificial love, giving your life for the good of others (“a calling, a joy, a happiness“) </li> </ul>15:00    How do you relate to the living creation?19:00    How should religious institutions transform to achieve a better future?   QUOTESStudying Happiness has helped me have a sense of the value of our choice-making. Everyday I get up and I say, “What is today?” And I have a sense of awe. And every person that comes into my life, I have a sense of awe. That makes it new and real and exciting, and nothing every dull or boring, so perhaps curiosity and awe are valuable attributes at institutional-identity scale. I kind of have an inner path I follow: I prefer to be curious, rather than certain. I think that has led me to a lot of diversity... There’s not just one way, as many of the Fundamentalist sermons I heard suggested.  Most of the people who initiated (therapy in the early days) were female. It would be the mother bringing in the son, or the mother bringing in the whole family. The mother would be the one always organizing that.   (In the 1960s, White America) was very paternalistic and I had to prove that I had done right by his money and his children. The male does tend in our species to focus; he makes a good TV-watcher! The female is more the Gatherer; she’s born to shop! That is the problem right there: Can the shoppers and the focusers get together to declare the universe needs one song?! :) We’re not done yet. We’re still evolving. We have the joy of being present, listening, and seeking something new. Love that stretches and a mind that is eternally curious, that’s how I see our evolutionary drift.  The biggest change that’s on the horizon is the fact that we are hooked-up and we can communicate -- and, therefore, we can’t keep pockets of secrecy, and I think more and more are enlightened as to our environmental emergency. I have a sense of gratitude and awe about how it all works. It’s the most fascinating thing in the world to think of Life as it exists here on this little blue, tiny planet. . . I am so in awe of the people who are learning how to be good stewards of our physical environment..... “Whatsoever thing thy neighbor doeth that pulleth thy chain, puncheth thy button or ringeth thy bell — that thing hath more to do with thee than thy neighbor!” :)###Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "Envisioning<a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc062122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>Transformation." It was pro- duced and edited by Chris Searles. Visit <a href="https://allcreation.transistor.fm/episodes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our podcasts page</a> for more.

Dr. Marj Barlow on Transformation (part 2: Feminism, Biosphere, Joy)

A Life of Transformation: Marj Barlow, PhD., is a historically-significant therapist, global-business-change leader, and self-care advocate from Texas. Most famous for her pioneering leadership at Interface Carpets, the world’s largest commercial carpet manufacturer, and first global manufacturer to try to reach net zero and net regenerative environmental impacts, Dr. Barlow built her success off of an identity rooted in honesty, family, Faith, science, and her own experiences. In this podcast, editor Chris Searles wanted to ’envision transformation’ from an American/Christian historical perspective, so he asked Marj to share about her early life. Born and raised in rural West Texas in the 1930s, mother to five, and more, Marj knows transformation. This interview is part of AllCreation’s collection, Envisioning Transformation. Learn More MarjBarlow.com The Pocket Grandmother The Possible Woman  Interface eco-sustainability legacy Listen to part 2 of this interview.   References  Owens, TX   The Great Depression, 1930s Fundamental Baptist (West TX), Texas Baptist history   Cream separator (1935), driving a tractor (1939) Canyon, TX; Kingsville, TX; The King Ranch; Austin, TX; Corpus Christi, TX (1940s-2010s) World War II, 1940-1945   Plastics engineering, 1945  BBA, professional opportunities for White US women, 1945  Quantum physics, 1950s   Rev. Carlye Marney, Gov. Alan Shivers, 1950s  Clifton Strength Finder, Don Clifton, 1960s Positive psychology, 1960s    Cleburne County community therapy, 1960s  Jean Houston   Mystery of what love is  Program0:00    Welcome &amp; intro 3:00    Marj shares about her childhood 10:00    Adult life at 1515:15    A Baptist, quantum-physicist, first husband  21:00    Single mom with four children at 3424:30    Becoming a counselor &amp; second husband   32:30    Massive American culture shift 38:00    New life as a therapist42:00    How her beliefs have evolved  respect for more pious people exploring other Faiths, different pathways  social life sampling other Christian denominations  Jean Houston, Life Force    Life after death science  QuotesEach little child is to be unfolded, not molded. I think that’s all we have, is our story -- and everybody’s story is very important to me. So I try to help people join what I call ’’The Triple A’’ and become the Author, Actor, and Audience of your life story. You’re the only one who will watch your story from birth to death… I help people get their story into a form they can live with.Each human being is unique and very significant. We are God in action and it is our sacred privilege to travel a lifetime and learn how to love. Who are you really? What could you be? Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "Envisioning Transformation." It was edited by Chris Searles. 

A Life of Transformation: Marj Barlow, PhD., is a historically-significant therapist, global-business-change leader, and self-care advocate from Texas. Most famous for her pioneering leadership at <a href="https://www.interface.com/US/en-US.html?r=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interface Carpets</a>, the world’s largest commercial carpet manufacturer, and first global manufacturer to try to reach net zero and net regenerative environmental impacts, Dr. Barlow built her success off of an identity rooted in honesty, family, Faith, science, and her own experiences. In this podcast, editor Chris Searles wanted to ’envision transformation’ from an American/Christian historical perspective, so he asked Marj to share about her early life. Born and raised in rural West Texas in the 1930s, mother to five, and more, Marj knows transformation. This interview is part of AllCreation’s collection, <a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc123022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Envisioning Transformation</a>. Learn More<ul> <li><a href="https://marjbarlow.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MarjBarlow.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://marjbarlow.com/defining-pocket-grandmother/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Pocket Grandmother</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Possible-Woman-Marjorie-R-Barlow/dp/0967782309" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Possible Woman</a></li> <li> <a href="https://interfaceinc.scene7.com/is/content/InterfaceInc/Interface/Americas/WebsiteContentAssets/Documents/Sustainability%2025yr%20Report/25yr%20Report%20Booklet%20Interface_MissionZeroCel.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interface eco-sustainability legacy</a></li> <li>Listen to <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/9150120b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">part 2 of this interview</a>.  </li> </ul>References <ul> <li>Owens, TX </li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Great Depression</a>, 1930s</li> <li>Fundamental Baptist (West TX),<a href="https://www.texasbaptists.org/about/history" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Texas Baptist history</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=cream+separator&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjz5vWzkp79AhXvmWoFHWR_BgMQ0pQJegQIDRAB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=640&amp;dpr=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cream separator</a> (1935), driving a <a href="http://onetuberadio.com/2019/08/31/1939-homemade-tractor/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tractor</a> (1939)</li> <li>Canyon, TX; Kingsville, TX; The King Ranch; Austin, TX; Corpus Christi, TX (1940s-2010s)</li> <li>World War II, 1940-1945 </li> <li> <a href="https://youtu.be/GirvOmjPZrc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Plastics</a> engineering, 1945</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Business_Administration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BBA</a>, professional opportunities for White US women, 1945</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quantum physics</a>, 1950s </li> <li> <a href="https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/marney" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rev. Carlye Marney</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Shivers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gov. Alan Shivers</a>, 1950s</li> <li> <a href="https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/252137/home.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clifton Strength Finder</a>, <a href="https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253754/history-cliftonstrengths.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Don Clifton</a>, 1960s</li> <li>Positive psychology, 1960s   </li> <li>Cleburne County community therapy, 1960s </li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Houston" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jean Houston  </a></li> <li>Mystery of what love is </li> </ul>Program 0:00    Welcome &amp; intro 3:00    Marj shares about her childhood 10:00    Adult life at 1515:15    A Baptist, quantum-physicist, first husband  21:00    Single mom with four children at 3424:30    Becoming a counselor &amp; second husband   32:30    Massive American culture shift 38:00    New life as a therapist42:00    How her beliefs have evolved <ul> <li>respect for more pious people</li> <li>exploring other Faiths, different pathways </li> <li>social life</li> <li>sampling other Christian denominations</li> <li> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/471443.Life_Force" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jean Houston, Life Force </a> </li> <li>Life after death science </li> </ul>QuotesEach little child is to be unfolded, not molded. I think that’s all we have, is our story -- and everybody’s story is very important to me. So I try to help people join what I call ’’The Triple A’’ and become the Author, Actor, and Audience of your life story. You’re the only one who will watch your story from birth to death… I help people get their story into a form they can live with.Each human being is unique and very significant. We are God in action and it is our sacred privilege to travel a lifetime and learn how to love. Who are you really? What could you be? Thanks for listening. This podcast is one of seven interviews from our Winter Solstice 2022 collection, "Envisioning<a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc062122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a>Transformation."  It was edited by Chris Searles.

Dr. Marj Barlow on Transformation (part 1: Integrity, Curiosity, Care)

Inspired by recent editions of the AllCreation magazine, we produced this public conversation "exploring Care as Identity," with the help of a distinguished panel and enthusiastic audience. What you're hearing here is live audio from the event. On the panel: Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon, The Venerable Jue Ji, Rev. Jimi Calhoun, Rev. Kiya Heartwood, Imam Islam Mossaad, Rev. Brad Highum, and Rev. Erin Walter. Our panel host is Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney, and our event begins with a welcome from Rev. Billy Tweedie and an introduction by event creator, Chris Searles. “What does Care mean from your Faith perspective and what does it mean to care for your community? How might caring more about individual relationships and cultivating nurturing communities help us all today? Can we default to care, as a society, rather than judgement? Why is that so hard? How do we create just relationships for every living creature? What does CARE for other life, each other, and self mean from your faith perspective?”  This is the spirit from which this conversation springs. In Genesis 1:26 God calls Christians to care for all other-life on Earth. And in the New Testamant Jesus says, "Love neighbor as self." Why aren't ethically-Christian societies doing that and what do other traditions say? With this event, we tried to assemble a diverse community of clergy and secular and self-defined people to discuss the Biblical idea that humans are "called to care" for each other, self, and Earth's other life. ####Full video available: on YouTube. Full video has a longer introduction from Chris Searles. This event was part of G.I.F.T. FEST 2022, "Grow. Inspire. Feed. Teach."Thanks so much to our hosts The GIFT and Episcopal Church of the Resurrection. Thanks so much to Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney, Rev. Billy Tweedie, and all of our GIFT FEST supporters. ####OUR PROGRAMI. WELCOME0:00    Music0:20    Rev. Billy Tweedie (event host) welcomes everyone, reads invocation prayer1:00    Invocation prayer, “For joy in God’s Creation“1:50    Why We’re Here, Chris Searles (event creator) explains AllCreation.org and sets the stage for the conversation, i.e.: Genesis 1:26, Kinship &amp; Care for other life, each other, and ourselves — “whether you’re secular, sacred, or self-defined.”7:30    Introductions (by Chris Searles)       Panelists:         7:45    Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon … Friends UCC         8:10    Ven. Jue Ji … Fo Guan Shan Xiang Yun Temple         8:50    Rev. Jimi Calhoun … Bridging Austin; author; musician         9:10    Rev. Kiya  Heartwood … UU Church of the Brazos         9:40    Imam Islam Mossaad … North Austin Muslim Community Center         10:40    Rev. Brad Highum … Abiding Love Lutheran Church         11:15    Rev. Erin Walter … TX UU Justice Ministry; First UU Church         12:10    “Celebrate our differences. Diversity is reality.” (Chris Searles)       Panel Host:         12:50    Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney … retired pastor, All Saints Episcopal Church; exec director, The Front Porch Project; board president, Interfaith Action of Central TexasII. PANEL DISCUSSION 14:10 Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney -- Convo introduction — “How do we restore right relationship? What does CARE for other life, each other, and self mean from your faith perspective?”         Panelist responses:          17:25    Imam Islam Mossad (QURAN singing 20:30)         22:50    The Venerable Jue Ji         29:25    Rev. Erin Walter         33:10    Rev. Brad Highum         39:20    Rev. Jimi Calhoun         44:30    Rev. Kiya Heartwood         47:50    Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon III. TOWN HALL 55:20 Audience question, Brad Jacobson — “How do we bring counter-cultural values?”         56:25    Rev. Walter          57:55    Rev. Kinney 59:40 Audience comment, a neighbor — “It is about being a neighbor.”         1:02:55    Rev. Highum         1:05:00    Imam Mossaad1:07:15 Audience comment, Rev. Meg Barnhouse — “Whoever wants to be first must minister to everybody.”1:08:50 Rev. Kinney asks Chris S. — “What does “We must all learn to be Indigenous again“ mean?”         1:09:25    Chris Searles         1:11:40    Rev. Kinney on Food1:13:15 Audience question — Rev. Mike Adams, “How do you guard against becoming dominating?”         1:14:15    Rev. Calhoun         1:20:25    Ven. Ji          1:28:10    Rev. Highum         1:31:25    Rev. Heartwood         1:32:00    Imam Mossaad1:36:15 Audience comment, Mike Aaron — “Ask, “What is it that you need?”“1:38:25 Audience question, a neighbor — “How do I cultivate courage?”         1:40:40    Rev. WalterIV. WRAP UP 1:42:45 Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon  1:46:00 Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney  1:46:30 Benediction, The Venerable Jue Ji sings/chants a sutra on "sharing our kindness, compassion, and joy with all beings."  ####Thanks for listening. This podcast is the keynote from our collection, Envisioning Transformation, coming Weds 12/21/22!Thank you Kenshi Westover, for capturing this audio and adding the music. Editing by Chris Searles.  More AllCreation podcasts here.

Inspired by recent editions of the AllCreation magazine, we produced this public conversation "exploring Care as Identity," with the help of a distinguished panel and enthusiastic audience. What you're hearing here is live audio from the event. On the panel: Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon, The Venerable Jue Ji, Rev. Jimi Calhoun, Rev. Kiya Heartwood, Imam Islam Mossaad, Rev. Brad Highum, and Rev. Erin Walter. Our panel host is Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney, and our event begins with a welcome from Rev. Billy Tweedie and an introduction by event creator, Chris Searles. “What does Care mean from your Faith perspective and what does it mean to care for your community? How might caring more about individual relationships and cultivating nurturing communities help us all today? Can we default to care, as a society, rather than judgement? Why is that so hard? How do we create just relationships for every living creature? What does CARE for other life, each other, and self mean from your faith perspective?”  This is the spirit from which this conversation springs. In Genesis 1:26 God calls Christians to care for all other-life on Earth. And in the New Testamant Jesus says, "Love neighbor as self." Why aren't ethically-Christian societies doing that and what do other traditions say? With this event, we tried to assemble a diverse community of clergy and secular and self-defined people to discuss the Biblical idea that humans are "called to care" for each other, self, and Earth's other life. ####Full video available: <a href="https://youtu.be/nTC5_YNx7TY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on YouTube</a>. Full video has a longer introduction from Chris Searles. This event was part of <a href="https://www.giftfest.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">G.I.F.T. FEST 2022</a>, "Grow. Inspire. Feed. Teach."Thanks so much to our hosts The GIFT and Episcopal Church of the Resurrection. Thanks so much to Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney, Rev. Billy Tweedie, and all of our GIFT FEST supporters. ####OUR PROGRAM I. WELCOME 0:00    Music 0:20    Rev. Billy Tweedie (event host) welcomes everyone, reads invocation prayer 1:00    Invocation prayer, “For joy in God’s Creation“ 1:50    Why We’re Here, Chris Searles (event creator) explains <a href="http://AllCreation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a> and sets the stage for the conversation, i.e.: Genesis 1:26, Kinship &amp; Care for other life, each other, and ourselves — “whether you’re secular, sacred, or self-defined.” 7:30    Introductions (by Chris Searles)        Panelists:          7:45    Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon … Friends UCC          8:10    Ven. Jue Ji … Fo Guan Shan Xiang Yun Temple          8:50    Rev. Jimi Calhoun … Bridging Austin; author; musician          9:10    Rev. Kiya  Heartwood … UU Church of the Brazos          9:40    Imam Islam Mossaad … North Austin Muslim Community Center          10:40    Rev. Brad Highum … Abiding Love Lutheran Church          11:15    Rev. Erin Walter … TX UU Justice Ministry; First UU Church          12:10    “Celebrate our differences. Diversity is reality.” (Chris Searles)        Panel Host:          12:50    Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney … retired pastor, All Saints Episcopal Church; exec director, The Front Porch Project; board president, Interfaith Action of Central TexasII. PANEL DISCUSSION 14:10 Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney -- Convo introduction — “How do we restore right relationship? What does CARE for other life, each other, and self mean from your faith perspective?”          Panelist responses:           17:25    Imam Islam Mossad (QURAN singing 20:30)          22:50    The Venerable Jue Ji          29:25    Rev. Erin Walter          33:10    Rev. Brad Highum          39:20    Rev. Jimi Calhoun          44:30    Rev. Kiya Heartwood          47:50    Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon III. TOWN HALL 55:20 Audience question, Brad Jacobson — “How do we bring counter-cultural values?”         56:25    Rev. Walter          57:55    Rev. Kinney 59:40 Audience comment, a neighbor — “It is about being a neighbor.”         1:02:55    Rev. Highum         1:05:00    Imam Mossaad1:07:15 Audience comment, Rev. Meg Barnhouse — “Whoever wants to be first must minister to everybody.”1:08:50 Rev. Kinney asks Chris S. — “What does “We must all learn to be Indigenous again“ mean?”         1:09:25    Chris Searles         1:11:40    Rev. Kinney on Food1:13:15 Audience question — Rev. Mike Adams, “How do you guard against becoming dominating?”         1:14:15    Rev. Calhoun          1:20:25    Ven. Ji           1:28:10    Rev. Highum          1:31:25    Rev. Heartwood          1:32:00    Imam Mossaad 1:36:15 Audience comment, Mike Aaron — “Ask, “What is it that you need?”“1:38:25 Audience question, a neighbor — “How do I cultivate courage?”         1:40:40    Rev. WalterIV. WRAP UP 1:42:45 Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon  1:46:00 Rev. Dr. Stephen Kinney  1:46:30 Benediction, The Venerable Jue Ji sings/chants a sutra on "sharing our kindness, compassion, and joy with all beings." ####Thanks for listening. This podcast is the keynote from our collection, Envisioning Transformation, coming Weds 12/21/22! Thank you Kenshi Westover, for capturing this audio and adding the music. Editing by Chris Searles.  <a href="https://allcreation.transistor.fm/episodes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More AllCreation podcasts here</a>.

Called to Care: Oct 29, 2022 | Austin, TX 

At age 17, Nick Loffree was diagnosed with schizophrenia and after years of searching for solutions he ended-up discovering QiGong ("Chi Gong"). Today Nick is a leading QiGong instructor and historian, helping people help themselves by reconnecting to their bodies and Nature around the world. In this conversation, Nick and Tom VandeStadt, co-founder of AllCreation.org, discuss QiGong, the history of Asian energy practices, Nick’s journey from illness to mastery, and more. About NickLearn more at NickLoffree.com.References (links coming soon) Lee Holden  Qigong (“Chee-gong”) - Vital energy cultivation; the skill of cultivating vital energy  Qi, Chi ("Chee") (Chinese)  Ki (Iapanese)  Prana (Yoga)  Ruak (Hebrew) (also this)  The Taoist Five Elements: Metal, Earth, Water, Wood, Fire Program0:00 Intro &amp; WelcomeBASICS4:00 What is Qigong? (Chi-Gong)6:20 What is Chi? (Ki, Prana, Ruach, etc.)NICK’S STORY7:20 How has Qigong helped your personal healing?NICK’S VIEWS15:30 You say, “Most of Taoist practice, including Qigong, is a disciplined return to Nature.” What does that mean and why do we need a discipline to return to Nature?21:00 Does getting back into our bodies help us experience ourselves as natural beings? 23:00 What are the shamanic roots of Qigong? 27:00 Can Qigong help us experience our animal selves? (Aren’t we animals, after all?)30:20 Contrast the Taoist medicine understanding of the body with the Western medicine understanding.33:20 How is Qigong an antidote to modern-day stress?38:45 Can Taoism and Qigong serve as a spiritual practice that moves us to restore as much of this damaged connective tissue as possible, not just in our bodies but in the world around us?WRAP UP 42:50 Thank you, Nick, for inspiring this issue of AllCreation!QuotesFrom the Taoist perspective, Nature has an energy to it and different natural environments have different energies. So, a lot of Taoist monasteries would be built at the top of mountains… If you needed more of a physical healing you might want to go somewhere more Yin, to the valley of the mountain where the waters collect and you can more nourish your body with that sort of energy.I think most people who’ve spent a lot of time in a city and then go camping or something like that, you notice a difference in the way you feel in your body, just being in Nature. And, the Taoist perspective is that that’s because there are energy fields. The trees, the mountains, the Earth, and everything are emanating an energy field our bodies are evolved to attune to with.At the psychological layer, there’s no real, pure return to a natural state, but theTaoists try to push in that direction. So Taoism is often seen not as a movement forward and upward towards heaven or enlightenment, but a movement backwards, towards sort of an innocent, child-like wonder, a return towards a simpler, more natural state.If you really wanna look at the Taoist path authentically, it’s a disciplined return. You don’t just fall back into Nature, you have to train yourself to fall.In Chi-Gong we mirror nature in our movements, and you can never quite draw distinctions between where one movement ends and another movement begins.Our bodies have a lot of information they give us that I think we’ve kinda been culture out-of being able to listen to. The body’s full of intelligence.  I think the body has a lot of wisdom that we tend to try and think our way out of.You’re actually trying to become the Tiger and look through its eyes as you’re practicing. And so researchers think that because this is the oldest known form of Qigong it probably came from Shamanism.A lot of the postures are still named after Nature, things like “mountain” or “moving like a river” or “standing like a tree.” But it really is those older forms where you were really being the animal, and looking and moving like these animals.Speaking of people creating the future who don’t want to be animals, if you look at Silicon Valley where I lived for seven years, it’s full of people who are just up in their heads. And they think they can turn their consciousness into binary code and just stick it in a robot and become immortal that way. . . I think a lot of them really are out of their body. They often have a very hard time with the dating world. They can have a hard time figuring our how to navigate women, because women are looking for an animal. They’re looking for an animal that can think and do smart things… they’re looking for a physical being. Qigong I think really puts you in touch with that animal side of yourself. I think one of the under talked-about benefits of Qigong is it actually really helps your sex life…There’s a weak interface between body and mind for most people, especially well-educated, smart upper-class people. I think people who work in those kind-of mental fields need something like this.Stress narrows our perception.All the great spiritual teachers have tried to tell us to go past the nation, to go past the tribe, to go past the religion.On tithing: "There’s a very weird relationship between the energy you’re putting out, generosity, and the universe.”Thanks for listening. This podcast is 1 of 4 keynotes from our Summer Solstice 2022 collection, "Restoring Connective Tissue." It was produced and edited by Chris Searles. 

At age 17, Nick Loffree was diagnosed with schizophrenia and after years of searching for solutions he ended-up discovering QiGong ("Chi Gong"). Today Nick is a leading QiGong instructor and historian, helping people help themselves by reconnecting to their bodies and Nature around the world. In this conversation, Nick and Tom VandeStadt, co-founder of <a href="http://AllCreation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a>, discuss QiGong, the history of Asian energy practices, Nick’s journey from illness to mastery, and more. About Nick Learn more at <a href="https://www.nickloffree.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NickLoffree.com</a>. References (links coming soon)<ul> <li><a href="https://www.holdenqigong.com/how-lee-learned-qi-gong/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lee Holden</a></li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qigong" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Qigong</a> (“Chee-gong”) - Vital energy cultivation; the skill of cultivating vital energy</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Qi</a>, Chi ("Chee") (Chinese)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.kyotojournal.org/society/ki-the-vital-force/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ki</a> (Iapanese)</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prana</a> (Yoga)</li> <li> <a href="https://firmisrael.org/learn/the-hebrew-word-ruach-and-gods-breath-in-our-lungs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ruak</a> (Hebrew) (also <a href="http://fourquestionsofjudaism.com/5722467590995968" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this</a>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nickloffree.com/post/2017/01/25/taoist-five-elements-explained" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Taoist Five Elements</a>: Metal, Earth, Water, Wood, Fire</li> </ul> Program0:00 Intro &amp; WelcomeBASICS 4:00 What is Qigong? (Chi-Gong)6:20 What is Chi? (Ki, Prana, Ruach, etc.)NICK’S STORY7:20 How has Qigong helped your personal healing?NICK’S VIEWS15:30 You say, “Most of Taoist practice, including Qigong, is a disciplined return to Nature.” What does that mean and why do we need a discipline to return to Nature? 21:00 Does getting back into our bodies help us experience ourselves as natural beings? 23:00 What are the shamanic roots of Qigong? 27:00 Can Qigong help us experience our animal selves? (Aren’t we animals, after all?)30:20 Contrast the Taoist medicine understanding of the body with the Western medicine understanding.33:20 How is Qigong an antidote to modern-day stress?38:45 Can Taoism and Qigong serve as a spiritual practice that moves us to restore as much of this damaged connective tissue as possible, not just in our bodies but in the world around us?WRAP UP  42:50 Thank you, Nick, for inspiring this issue of AllCreation! QuotesFrom the Taoist perspective, Nature has an energy to it and different natural environments have different energies. So, a lot of Taoist monasteries would be built at the top of mountains… If you needed more of a physical healing you might want to go somewhere more Yin, to the valley of the mountain where the waters collect and you can more nourish your body with that sort of energy.I think most people who’ve spent a lot of time in a city and then go camping or something like that, you notice a difference in the way you feel in your body, just being in Nature. And, the Taoist perspective is that that’s because there are energy fields. The trees, the mountains, the Earth, and everything are emanating an energy field our bodies are evolved to attune to with.At the psychological layer, there’s no real, pure return to a natural state, but theTaoists try to push in that direction. So Taoism is often seen not as a movement forward and upward towards heaven or enlightenment, but a movement backwards, towards sort of an innocent, child-like wonder, a return towards a simpler, more natural state.If you really wanna look at the Taoist path authentically, it’s a disciplined return. You don’t just fall back into Nature, you have to train yourself to fall.In Chi-Gong we mirror nature in our movements, and you can never quite draw distinctions between where one movement ends and another movement begins.Our bodies have a lot of information they give us that I think we’ve kinda been culture out-of being able to listen to. The body’s full of intelligence.  I think the body has a lot of wisdom that we tend to try and think our way out of.You’re actually trying to become the Tiger and look through its eyes as you’re practicing. And so researchers think that because this is the oldest known form of Qigong it probably came from Shamanism.A lot of the postures are still named after Nature, things like “mountain” or “moving like a river” or “standing like a tree.” But it really is those older forms where you were really being the animal, and looking and moving like these animals.Speaking of people creating the future who don’t want to be animals, if you look at Silicon Valley where I lived for seven years, it’s full of people who are just up in their heads. And they think they can turn their consciousness into binary code and just stick it in a robot and become immortal that way. . . I think a lot of them really are out of their body. They often have a very hard time with the dating world. They can have a hard time figuring our how to navigate women, because women are looking for an animal. They’re looking for an animal that can think and do smart things… they’re looking for a physical being. Qigong I think really puts you in touch with that animal side of yourself. I think one of the under talked-about benefits of Qigong is it actually really helps your sex life…There’s a weak interface between body and mind for most people, especially well-educated, smart upper-class people. I think people who work in those kind-of mental fields need something like this.Stress narrows our perception.All the great spiritual teachers have tried to tell us to go past the nation, to go past the tribe, to go past the religion.On tithing: "There’s a very weird relationship between the energy you’re putting out, generosity, and the universe.” Thanks for listening. This podcast is 1 of 4 keynotes from our Summer Solstice 2022 collection, "<a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc062122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Restoring Connective Tissue.</a>" It was produced  and edited by Chris Searles.

Nick Loffree on Restoring Connective Tissue

Christina Conklin

About ChristinaChristina Conklin is an artist, researcher and writer. As a former religious studies major, she spends a lot of time exploring the intersections of belief systems and natural systems. She shares deep insights, stunning artworks, and terrifying research from her latest book, The Atlas of Disappearing Places. Show Notes At the very end of this podcast, AllCreation producer Chris Searles jumps in with a final question for Christina.   Click here to see the video of Christina's presentation, including the slides she shares from 12:00-38:00. References Deep Time Stephen Jay Gould The Life Timeline Deep Ecology Arne Naess Deep Adaptation  The Atlas of Disappearing Places (book) Jeremy Lent  The Deep Transformation Network   Deep Adaptation Network  Global Colab Transition Towns Breakthrough Communities Program0:00 Welcome &amp; IntroTERMS1:40 What do “Deep Ecology, Deep Adaptation, and Deep Time” mean?THE OCEAN5:10 What important roles does the ocean play and how is everyone on Earth connected to it?8:30 What are some parallels between the Oceans, bodies of water, and our own bodies — also bodies of waterCHRISTINA’S SLIDE PRESENTATION 12:00 “THE ATLAS OF DISAPPEARING PLACES: OUR COAST AND OCEANS IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS"To see the video or this presentation go here (link coming later today).FOLLOW UP 36:00 If the ocean were a body, how sick would it be?38:45 How optimistic are you we can make the changes we need to?CHRISTINA’S ARTWORK44:00 It’s stunningly beautiful, tell us more DEEP TRANSFORMATION46:00 What are your hopes from participating in the Deep Transformation Network?48:30 (An interruption from producer Chris) How does the metaphor of “restoring connective tissue” relate to your ecological work and understanding?52:00 Wrap UpQuotesWe’re used to thinking in terms of decades and centuries, but really we’re on this much bigger timeline of Life, and I like locating myself on that timeline, it’s more grounding to me. Seeing the continuity between humans and other species, AlLL the way back into the algae, right? Let’s go ALL the way back and see the continuity.We’re pretty sick and headed toward the hospital.So much of what needs to happen is a paradigm shift where we re-member, Re-Member, like “belong again to the world,” and stop the idea of extraction, mastery of resources… All of these ideas came from a specific place and time in history. They have not always existed. It is not necessarily capital T, truth, in any sense.Every religion in the world has pointed to humanity’s role as stewards of nature, as parts OF the natural order.In much of the Developing World this is real right now.The planetary systems are remarkably resilient. if you just leave them alone for a little while, they will find their homeostatic place again. We saw that with Covid. So, we really do have the opportunity to write new stories.I think it’s about everybody waking up and doing everything they can. It’s now. Now is the time.Thanks for listening. This podcast is 1 of 4 keynotes from our Summer Solstice 2022 collection, "Restoring Connective Tissue." It was produced and edited by Chris Searles. 

About Christina<a href="https://www.christinaconklin.com/Artist.asp?Akey=YX679CJP&amp;ArtistID=28333&amp;ajx=1#!asset66329" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christina Conklin</a> is an artist, researcher and writer. As a former religious studies major, she spends a lot of time exploring the intersections of belief systems and natural systems. She shares deep insights, stunning artworks, and terrifying research from her latest book, The Atlas of Disappearing Places. Show Notes<ol> <li>At the very end of this podcast, AllCreation producer Chris Searles jumps in with a final question for Christina. </li> <li> <a href="https://youtu.be/YDXQsYfqmUg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Click here to see the video of Christina's presentation</a>, including the slides she shares from 12:00-38:00.</li> </ol> References<ul> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_time" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deep Time</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stephen Jay Gould</a></li> <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/178abEiDlv6y2XLhSHFgarbjYw3gnnQJ-/view" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Life Timeline</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/deep-ecology" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deep Ecology</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_N%C3%A6ss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arne Naess</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deep Adaptation</a></li> <li> <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/atlas-of-disappearing-places" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Atlas of Disappearing Places</a> (book)</li> <li><a href="https://www.jeremylent.com/about.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeremy Lent</a></li> <li> <a href="https://deeptransformation.network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Deep Transformation Network</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://deepadaptation.ning.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deep Adaptation Network</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.globalcolab.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Global Colab</a></li> <li><a href="https://transitionnetwork.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Transition Towns</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.breakthroughcommunities.info" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Breakthrough Communities</a></li> </ul> Program0:00 Welcome &amp; Intro TERMS1:40 What do “Deep Ecology, Deep Adaptation, and Deep Time” mean? THE OCEAN5:10 What important roles does the ocean play and how is everyone on Earth connected to it?8:30 What are some parallels between the Oceans, bodies of water, and our own bodies — also bodies of water CHRISTINA’S SLIDE PRESENTATION 12:00 “THE ATLAS OF DISAPPEARING PLACES: OUR COAST AND OCEANS IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS" To see the video or this presentation go here (link coming later today). FOLLOW UP 36:00 If the ocean were a body, how sick would it be?38:45 How optimistic are you we can make the changes we need to? CHRISTINA’S ARTWORK44:00 It’s stunningly beautiful, tell us more  DEEP TRANSFORMATION46:00 What are your hopes from participating in the Deep Transformation Network?48:30 (An interruption from producer Chris) How does the metaphor of “restoring connective tissue” relate to your ecological work and understanding? 52:00 Wrap Up QuotesWe’re used to thinking in terms of decades and centuries, but really we’re on this much bigger timeline of Life, and I like locating myself on that timeline, it’s more grounding to me. Seeing the continuity between humans and other species, AlLL the way back into the algae, right? Let’s go ALL the way back and see the continuity.We’re pretty sick and headed toward the hospital.So much of what needs to happen is a paradigm shift where we re-member, Re-Member, like “belong again to the world,” and stop the idea of extraction, mastery of resources… All of these ideas came from a specific place and time in history. They have not always existed. It is not necessarily capital T, truth, in any sense.Every religion in the world has pointed to humanity’s role as stewards of nature, as parts OF the natural order. In much of the Developing World this is real right now.The planetary systems are remarkably resilient. if you just leave them alone for a little while, they will find their homeostatic place again. We saw that with Covid. So, we really do have the opportunity to write new stories.I think it’s about everybody waking up and doing everything they can. It’s now. Now is the time. Thanks for listening. This podcast is 1 of 4 keynotes from our Summer Solstice 2022 collection, "<a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc062122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Restoring Connective Tissue.</a>" It was produced  and edited by Chris Searles.

Christina Conklin on Restoring Connective Tissue

Jeremy Lent

In this interview, Jeremy Lent, "one of the greatest thinkers of our age" according to renown journalist George Monbiot, discusses ecological reality, how we understand it, and what we should do next as a society. Jeremy contrasts our modern ways of thinking about existence with the ancient ways from China and the world's Indigenous communities. He shares how connectedness, "which is to say love," is the essence of these ancient worldviews and today's burgeoning complexity science. Jeremy describes the necessity of "deep transformation" into an "ecological civilization," the reality that "the health of the whole system requires the health of each part of the system", and he shares what keeps him going. About JeremyJeremy Lent is author of two breakthrough books on consciousness and Western Civilization. The Patterning Instinct is a cultural history of humanity’s search for meaning, and The Web of Meaning explores and weaves together wisdom from ancient China, traditional Indigenous communities, Western philosophy, and today's Sciences. Jeremy also recently launched a global network for ecological civilization called The Deep Transformation Network. References   The Patterning Instinct (Jeremy's first book)  The Web of Meaning (Jeremy's second book) The Deep Transformation Network  Confucianism - a philosophy / ethics  Taoism - a philosophy / religion  Buddhism - a philosophy / practice  Neo-Confucianism - rationality-based fusion of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism  Complexity science  Gewu: to study nature in order to learn how to trive  António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations Coral reefs will collapse UN predicts billions of people will be facing severe water stress  Jevons paradox Slavlov Zizek  Dualism The Selfish Gene is not true Re: the belief, "Humans and nature are selfish"  Systems orientation to the world, how things connect  Mutually-beneficial symbiosis Consensus trance Ecological Civilization Program0:00 Welcome &amp; IntroA REALITY CHECK4:00 How series is the ecological crisis? 7:40 How much disruption &amp; suffering do you envision? 10:30 What’s driving this?16:15 How have we made “meaning” here in the West?20:30 Why do we believe Nature is a machine?A NEW VIEW OF REALITY24:00 What ancient Asian, Indigenous, and complexity science wisdom are you drawing from now?28:00 Chi &amp; Li explanation 29:00 The contrast between neo-Confucian Gei Wu, Materialism’s desire to conquer Nature 34:15 Separation from Nature, our way of life, is madness, isn’t it?38:00 And the opposite, re-connecting, brings out love?CONNECTING to an ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION39:50 So, is the first step to reconnect to our own bodies?42: 50 What are the moral implications of our modern way of life? What is an Ecological Civilization? 47:15 Please identify some “ecological principles”51:10 What is The Deep Transformation Network?53:50 What keeps you going as a “possibilitarian”? What is your spiritual source, what is helping you do this?WRAP UP58:00 “How are your connections?”Quotes Even though in the West we’re just beginning to uncover the importance of making these connections, Traditional ways of making sense of things always focused on these connections. So in early China, for example, about 1,000 years ago, they integrated three of the great Chinese traditions from the past: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism…You don’t have the universe without all the stuff and all the relationships…Every one of (the big shifts) happened because of symbiosis with other species, where they take their specialist skills … and that is what we get from today, where if we walk in a forest we get … and transfer their seeds … and the fungal network underground… the whole thing is a symbiotic ecosystems. And if we can start to look at our human relationship, not at how can we conquer it, then we have a chance at shifting our trajectory.We can really understand “love” as being really, like, the realization and embrace of (our) connectedness. When we open our eyes, to that connectedness, embrace it with our being, that is love. . . It’s all about this recognition of connectedness.“I think therefore I am” … is saying that thinking capacity is the only thing that actually is fundamentally my identity… but again, this is where modern science shows how fundamentally wrong that is… It’s actually not the only part of our intelligence… What we really are as human beings is a combined, conceptual consciousness that allows us to think in those symbolic ways, and, what we can think of as our animate consciousness, our embodied wisdom, which actually is that vast bulk of what we are as human organisms and is also a gateway to connect us with the rest of life, because some of the deepest elements of what we have within our bodies are what we share with all life. And again, modern science validates that. Half of the genes we see in a banana are shared with us.… And that’s not just a gee whiz fact, what that basically points to is that the way in which our bodies organize themselves, the way in which they actually are coherent and allow us to have awareness and consciousness are deeply similar. . . In Biology this is called “homology,” the deep history of our evolution is shared with all these other creatures around us…Once we realize that other animals, far from being machines, are actually sentient, feeling beings. and, in fact that any animal with a nervous system and a brain capable of cognizing, the chicken, cows, and pigs that we put in those factory farms, those are animals that suffer. And they may not think in the same way we do, but they are suffering in every bit just as terrible a way from torture and a diminishment of their own life possibilities, just as humans would. . . There is a deep, a profound, moral implication to that. It’s quite possible that what we’ve done with factory farming, where 80 Billion animals every year are tortured and slaughtered for our benefit, is perhaps the greatest amount of suffering that has ever been caused on Planet Earth since life began billions of years ago. We have to face up to that. An “Ecological Civilization” looks at Life itself as the basis for how we actually construct our society.Ecosystems are based on principles of Life hat gave allowed them to be flouring in many cases through millions years, through changes in climate, through all kinds of disruptions, these ecosystems can accommodate that and stay healthy and resilient.An Ecological Civilization asks, “What are the principles that we can learn from Nature that we can apply to human Civilization that can allow for flourishing into the indefinite future?"The ancient Chinese had a concept called, “Ren.” To them Rev meant this profound sense of deep interconnectedness of all life. This recognition that we have … the opposite is “no Rev”, which translates to anesthesia. Perhaps the most important principle is "mutually-beneficial symbiosis."When we look at the way nature evolved, it evolved fractally. Basically “fractals” are patterns that repeat themselves at different scales. So you see that in things like lighting, the branching of the bronchia in our lungs, or neurons in the brain, or coastlines, you see it everywhere in Nature because they show self-organized activity. Ad ecosystems work fractally…Similarly, what that means if we apply that to human society is that the health of each part requires the health of the whole system. . . Our society can only truly flourish and make sure that they’re flourishing.There’s millions upon millions of people around the world who recognize there’s something is profoundly wrong, and they often times feel very isolated because they’re part of that consensus trance… We can only get to the transformation we need when we realize we’re part of this deeper systemic shift.The Deep Transformation Network is “a global community to share these ideas and to actually work together to realize how deeply interconnected all these transformations are within our society.We need to look very clearly that we are headed into something even worse, unless we do this transformation, and I think we need to recognize that to have those feelings is actually part of what it means to be alive, to have that Ren, to realize that dee[ connection to other life.  . . the sense of expanded identity that “I am life”.That recognition that I actually am Life, that really drives me… I look to Life itself, as a source of, "What does Life want from me?" And the answer i get is that Life wants me to feel into that pain enough to be energized, enough to care, enough to change what I’m doing in my life, to really struggle for Life’s own future. But Life doesn’t also want me to fall into some sort of pit of despair and get stuck there. It wants me to be engaged, to engage with others… so that together, as a group, we have the potential to turn things around. It’s about how I can amplify and resonate with the work of others, and how as a system of transformation we can make our civilization redirect — that’s what gives me a sense of what’s possible.Thanks for listening. This podcast is 1 of 4 keynotes from our Summer Solstice 2022 collection, "Restoring Connective Tissue." It was produced and edited by Chris Searles. 

In this interview, Jeremy Lent, "one of the greatest thinkers of our age" according to renown journalist George Monbiot, discusses ecological reality, how we understand it, and what we should do next as a society. Jeremy contrasts our modern ways of thinking about existence with the ancient ways from China and the world's Indigenous communities. He shares how connectedness, "which is to say love," is the essence of these ancient worldviews and today's burgeoning complexity science. Jeremy describes the necessity of "deep transformation" into an "ecological civilization," the reality that "the health of the whole system requires the health of each part of the system", and he shares what keeps him going. About Jeremy<a href="https://www.jeremylent.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeremy Lent</a> is author of two breakthrough books on consciousness and Western Civilization. The Patterning Instinct is a cultural history of humanity’s search for meaning, and The Web of Meaning explores and weaves together wisdom from ancient China, traditional Indigenous communities, Western philosophy, and today's Sciences. Jeremy also recently launched a global network for ecological civilization called The Deep Transformation Network. References <ul> <li> <a href="https://www.jeremylent.com/the-patterning-instinct.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Patterning Instinct</a> (Jeremy's first book)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.jeremylent.com/the-web-of-meaning.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Web of Meaning</a> (Jeremy's second book)</li> <li><a href="https://deeptransformation.network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Deep Transformation Network</a></li> <li> <a href="https://asiasociety.org/education/confucianism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Confucianism</a> - a philosophy / ethics</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Taoism</a> - a philosophy / religion</li> <li> <a href="https://thebuddhistcentre.com/buddhism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Buddhism</a> - a philosophy / practice</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Confucianism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neo-Confucianism</a> - rationality-based fusion of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism </li> <li><a href="https://www.uvic.ca/research/groups/cphfri/assets/docs/Complexity_Science_in_Brief.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Complexity science</a></li> <li> <a href="https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=gewu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gewu</a>: to study nature in order to learn how to trive</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Guterres" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">António Guterres</a>, Secretary General of the United Nations</li> <li><a href="https://sdg.iisd.org/news/current-decade-is-last-chance-to-prevent-total-collapse-of-coral-reefs-status-report/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coral reefs will collapse</a></li> <li>UN predicts billions of people will be facing <a href="https://www.unwater.org/water-facts/scarcity/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">severe water stress</a> </li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jevons paradox</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/zizek/comments/lhoar8/looking_for_a_link_to_zizek_saying_that_it_is/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Slavlov Zizek </a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dualism</a></li> <li><a href="https://necsi.edu/selfish-gene-theory-of-evolution-called-fatally-flawed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Selfish Gene is not true</a></li> <li>Re: the belief, "<a href="https://theconversation.com/humans-arent-inherently-selfish-were-actually-hardwired-to-work-together-144145" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Humans and nature are selfish</a>"</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems-oriented_design" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Systems orientation</a> to the world, how things connect </li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mutually-beneficial symbiosis</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/consensus+trance" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Consensus trance</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/what-does-ecological-civilization-look-like" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ecological Civilization</a></li> </ul> Program0:00 Welcome &amp; IntroA REALITY CHECK4:00 How series is the ecological crisis? 7:40 How much disruption &amp; suffering do you envision? 10:30 What’s driving this?16:15 How have we made “meaning” here in the West?20:30 Why do we believe Nature is a machine?A NEW VIEW OF REALITY24:00 What ancient Asian, Indigenous, and complexity science wisdom are you drawing from now?28:00 Chi &amp; Li explanation 29:00 The contrast between neo-Confucian Gei Wu, Materialism’s desire to conquer Nature 34:15 Separation from Nature, our way of life, is madness, isn’t it?38:00 And the opposite, re-connecting, brings out love?CONNECTING to an ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION39:50 So, is the first step to reconnect to our own bodies?42: 50 What are the moral implications of our modern way of life? What is an Ecological Civilization? 47:15 Please identify some “ecological principles”51:10 What is The Deep Transformation Network?53:50 What keeps you going as a “possibilitarian”? What is your spiritual source, what is helping you do this?WRAP UP58:00 “How are your connections?” Quotes Even though in the West we’re just beginning to uncover the importance of making these connections, Traditional ways of making sense of things always focused on these connections. So in early China, for example, about 1,000 years ago, they integrated three of the great Chinese traditions from the past: Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism…You don’t have the universe without all the stuff and all the relationships…Every one of (the big shifts) happened because of symbiosis with other species, where they take their specialist skills … and that is what we get from today, where if we walk in a forest we get … and transfer their seeds … and the fungal network underground… the whole thing is a symbiotic ecosystems. And if we can start to look at our human relationship, not at how can we conquer it, then we have a chance at shifting our trajectory.We can really understand “love” as being really, like, the realization and embrace of (our) connectedness. When we open our eyes, to that connectedness, embrace it with our being, that is love. . . It’s all about this recognition of connectedness.“I think therefore I am” … is saying that thinking capacity is the only thing that actually is fundamentally my identity… but again, this is where modern science shows how fundamentally wrong that is… It’s actually not the only part of our intelligence… What we really are as human beings is a combined, conceptual consciousness that allows us to think in those symbolic ways, and, what we can think of as our animate consciousness, our embodied wisdom, which actually is that vast bulk of what we are as human organisms and is also a gateway to connect us with the rest of life, because some of the deepest elements of what we have within our bodies are what we share with all life. And again, modern science validates that. Half of the genes we see in a banana are shared with us.… And that’s not just a gee whiz fact, what that basically points to is that the way in which our bodies organize themselves, the way in which they actually are coherent and allow us to have awareness and consciousness are deeply similar. . . In Biology this is called “homology,” the deep history of our evolution is shared with all these other creatures around us…Once we realize that other animals, far from being machines, are actually sentient, feeling beings. and, in fact that any animal with a nervous system and a brain capable of cognizing, the chicken, cows, and pigs that we put in those factory farms, those are animals that suffer. And they may not think in the same way we do, but they are suffering in every bit just as terrible a way from torture and a diminishment of their own life possibilities, just as humans would. . . There is a deep, a profound, moral implication to that. It’s quite possible that what we’ve done with factory farming, where 80 Billion animals every year are tortured and slaughtered for our benefit, is perhaps the greatest amount of suffering that has ever been caused on Planet Earth since life began billions of years ago. We have to face up to that. An “Ecological Civilization” looks at Life itself as the basis for how we actually construct our society.Ecosystems are based on principles of Life hat gave allowed them to be flouring in many cases through millions years, through changes in climate, through all kinds of disruptions, these ecosystems can accommodate that and stay healthy and resilient.An Ecological Civilization asks, “What are the principles that we can learn from Nature that we can apply to human Civilization that can allow for flourishing into the indefinite future?"The ancient Chinese had a concept called, “Ren.” To them Rev meant this profound sense of deep interconnectedness of all life. This recognition that we have … the opposite is “no Rev”, which translates to anesthesia. Perhaps the most important principle is "mutually-beneficial symbiosis."When we look at the way nature evolved, it evolved fractally. Basically “fractals” are patterns that repeat themselves at different scales. So you see that in things like lighting, the branching of the bronchia in our lungs, or neurons in the brain, or coastlines, you see it everywhere in Nature because they show self-organized activity. Ad ecosystems work fractally…Similarly, what that means if we apply that to human society is that the health of each part requires the health of the whole system. . . Our society can only truly flourish and make sure that they’re flourishing.There’s millions upon millions of people around the world who recognize there’s something is profoundly wrong, and they often times feel very isolated because they’re part of that consensus trance… We can only get to the transformation we need when we realize we’re part of this deeper systemic shift.The Deep Transformation Network is “a global community to share these ideas and to actually work together to realize how deeply interconnected all these transformations are within our society.We need to look very clearly that we are headed into something even worse, unless we do this transformation, and I think we need to recognize that to have those feelings is actually part of what it means to be alive, to have that Ren, to realize that dee[ connection to other life.  . . the sense of expanded identity that “I am life”.That recognition that I actually am Life, that really drives me… I look to Life itself, as a source of, "What does Life want from me?" And the answer i get is that Life wants me to feel into that pain enough to be energized, enough to care, enough to change what I’m doing in my life, to really struggle for Life’s own future. But Life doesn’t also want me to fall into some sort of pit of despair and get stuck there. It wants me to be engaged, to engage with others… so that together, as a group, we have the potential to turn things around. It’s about how I can amplify and resonate with the work of others, and how as a system of transformation we can make our civilization redirect — that’s what gives me a sense of what’s possible. Thanks for listening. This podcast is 1 of 4 keynotes from our Summer Solstice 2022 collection, "<a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc062122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Restoring Connective Tissue.</a>" It was produced  and edited by Chris Searles.

Jeremy Lent on Restoring Connective Tissue

Darcia Narvaez

Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame and a research pioneer integrating work on child flourishing, human moral development, healthy psyche, and Indigenous Peoples' worldview. Professor Narvaez talks here about her breakthrough works, the meaning of "The Evolved Nest," and her new book, "Restoring the Kinship Worldview." She also shares principles and strategies for restoring feelings of connectedness, calm and security to your own life and to couples, families, and communities. About DarciaIn addition to being Professor Emerita of Psychology Emerita at Notre Dame, Darcia is a fellow at the American Psychological Association, and at the American Educational Research Association. She has written, co-authored and edited more than 20 books. Her book, Neurobiology and The Development of Human Morality won the William James Book Award. Her newest book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview, is co-authored with Indigenous worldview scholar, Four Arrows.References The Evolved Nest Neurobiology and The Development of Human Morality Restoring the Kinship Worldview  Four Arrows (co-author / co-editor, “The Kinship Worldview”) 9 components of the Evolved Nest  Alloparents   Iain McGilchrist, The Master and his Emissary   Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Honorable Harvest (from Braiding Sweetgrass)  Linda Hogan (Chickasaw Nation)  Genevieve Vaughan,  Maternal Gift Economy Nature’s Gift Economy  David Abram, Spell of the Sensuous   Human microbiome  Symbiosis Melvin Konnor James Prescott   Allan Schore, neurobiological attachment  Jon Young, Coyote games  Tamarack Song, games to develop intuition  David Bohm, physicist, “The real intelligence is insight intelligence and it comes in from the outside.” Program0.00 Welcome &amp; IntroI. THE KINSHIP WORLDVIEW 2:50 What is a “worldview”? 4:30 What is a “Kinship” worldview?6:58 Contrast the Indigenous worldview of connection with the Western worldview of disconnectedness II. THE EVOLVED NEST9:35 What are the characteristics of an “evolved nest”? 11:35 Components of the Evolved Nest:&gt;&gt;  11:45 Soothing perinatal experiences&gt;&gt;   13:00 Breast feeding&gt;&gt;   14:25 Lots of affectionate touch, no negative touch&gt;&gt;   15:20 A welcoming social climate&gt;&gt;   16:25 Alloparents who are responsive &gt;&gt;   16:55 Self-directed play with multiple-age playmates&gt;&gt;   17:55 Nature connection &gt;&gt;   19:14 Routine healing experiences 22:20 On being an animal III. RESTORING THE KINSHIP WORLDVIEW24:55 Talking about the book -- What are you trying to convey with the precepts? 30:18 Darcia: To understand our Nature as a Human species is to understand what Thriving looks like&gt;&gt;   happy, calm, quiet minds, gleeful, childlike&gt;&gt;   sense of humor that’s not hostile&gt;&gt;   holding hands, sitting together, enjoying being together… &gt;&gt;   try to make the other person laugh and feel safe&gt;&gt;   there’s no big ego, it’s “us”.32:00 The Honorable Harvest, Darcia shares favorite quotes, including: “Sustain the ones who sustain you and the Earth will live forever.”34:50 What healing medicine feels like; Tom shares a quote37:05 Darcia: We have a lot of unhealed grief and trauma we pass on, instead of taking time to heal37:30 What is the relationship between the Sacred Feminine and The Maternal Gift Economy? 40:25 Communion, holy union, co-creation, and our interconnectedness 41:10 Darcia on Nature connection and her “Ecological Attachment”, experiment42:30 Rooted and connected: “Our roots extend out from our skin and our other body cavities.” 43:20 The microbiome; "We are communities"44:00 Where does your passion for restoring kinship come from? How are you teaching this? IV. RESTORING OUR WORLD48:10 What should we be doing to restore The Nest?&gt;&gt;   Make sure you yourself are centered; Nature connection is one of the best ways to heal. &gt;&gt;   Learn to get back to social joy. &gt;&gt;   Learn to guide the conscious mind into connection; build the communal imagination. 52:12 What is sustaining your spirit right now?&gt;&gt;   I sing to the 6 directions&gt;&gt;   I sing on my land&gt;&gt;   Lying on the Earth, leaning against a tree, huggling with spouse&gt;&gt;   Try to make my husband laugh, sing and dance together.&gt;&gt;   Keep aware: "I am and always will be part of the Earth."V. CONCLUSION54:30 Final thoughts&gt;&gt;   The first precept: the recognition of spiritual energy in Nature; find that guardian spirit... 57:00 Tom reads a final quote, on Community Welfare (Dona Enriqueta Contreras)57:56 End QuotesEverything the baby experiences engraves the brain for life. So you want to make sure you don’t distress the baby because then you’re shifting the trajectory away from wellness towards illness or ill-being or adversity.(In a) welcoming social climate, the mother feels supported, the baby is wanted, the community is delighted with having the baby around, and the baby feels like they belong, that they can make a difference, make other people smile and laugh as they are made to smile and laugh…The mother is there to be affectively attuned to the baby’s emotional systems to keep maintaining them in the best bio-chemistry for growth.You want to let children have that (self-directed play) experience when they’re young so they can build self-confidence. . . When you don’t provide the nest, in general, you’re deflating that individual…We can get caught up in ruminations, because of this left brain, especially if we weren’t raised in a nurturing way, we’ll have OCD, worry, depression… all this stuff that goes on when you’re un-nested… So we need healing practices to get back into centeredness, into relational connection with others and the natural world, back into gratitude and into our bodies…Our sociology relies on good biology.If we’re raised in these nested communities, virtue is a byproduct, is the result. You would not survive in a community, dependent on others, if you were vicious. So, virtue is part of our heritage as well.In the primal wisdom, the kinship worldview, life is relationships with everything, with All other relations, animals, plants, spirits, etc.We’re trying to get back to connection, to understand that we are all connected, and that part of being connected properly is to be present, to honor the spider, the tree, the Earth, the computer, these are all things that people are relating to…We are embodied creatures, we’re bio-social.Another piece is holism. The way to be human isn’t just to be in this thinking mind, that left brain eco-consciousness. It’s actually quite distressing to be there.The left brain thinks it knows everything.If your survival systems are overdeveloped and you’re easily triggered, the authoritarian is going to be easy to pull you in. . . We forgot that we need to nurture, nurture the heart. And, you have to be immersed in relationships to build the empathy, the sensitivity, and the understanding, and the willingness to forgive, and be generous… All that is part of the Indigenous way, you’re immersed in that kind of  social, loving community. And this then allows you to grow your human potential. Which is another thing we’re not doing…Generosity is part of who you are a human being. But what Capitalism (to the Gift Economy) has done is stop that flow and allowed people to hoard resources, and force others to not have any resources…Writing “Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality” brought me to the realization that Indigenous wisdom, the kinship worldview, is our heritage. It is what comes about when we honor our physicality, our embodiedness, our species wisdom, and it’s what will save us…The Western wisdoms tell us, "Clear your heart, clear your fear, clear your ego, and then be open to divine energies.”Thanks for listening. This podcast is 1 of 4 keynotes from our Summer Solstice 2022 collection, "Restoring Connective Tissue." It was produced and edited by Chris Searles. 

<a href="https://darcianarvaez.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Darcia Narvaez, Ph.D.</a> is Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame and a research pioneer integrating work on child flourishing, human moral development, healthy psyche, and Indigenous Peoples' worldview. Professor Narvaez talks here about her breakthrough works, the meaning of "The Evolved Nest," and her new book, "Restoring the Kinship Worldview." She also shares principles and strategies for restoring feelings of connectedness, calm and security to your own life and to couples, families, and communities. About DarciaIn addition to being Professor Emerita of Psychology Emerita at Notre Dame, Darcia is a fellow at the American Psychological Association, and at the American Educational Research Association. She has written, co-authored and edited more than 20 books. Her book, Neurobiology and The Development of Human Morality won the William James Book Award. Her newest book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview, is co-authored with Indigenous worldview scholar, Four Arrows. References<ul> <li><a href="https://evolvednest.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Evolved Nest</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Neurobiology-Development-Human-Morality-Interpersonal/dp/0393706559" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Neurobiology and The Development of Human Morality</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690771/restoring-the-kinship-worldview-by-wahinkpe-topa-four-arrows/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Restoring the Kinship Worldview</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.fourarrowsbooks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Four Arrows</a> (co-author / co-editor, “The Kinship Worldview”)</li> <li><a href="https://evolvednest.org/nine-components-overview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">9 components of the Evolved Nest</a></li> <li> <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_alloparents_can_help_you_raise_a_family" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alloparents</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_McGilchrist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Iain McGilchrist</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Master-His-Emissary-Divided-Western/dp/0300245920" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Master and his Emissary</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robin Wall Kimmerer</a>, The Honorable Harvest (from Braiding Sweetgrass)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.chickasaw.tv/profiles/linda-hogan-profile" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linda Hogan</a> (Chickasaw Nation)</li> <li> <a href="http://www.genevievevaughan.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Genevieve Vaughan</a>,  Maternal Gift Economy</li> <li>Nature’s Gift Economy</li> <li> <a href="https://humansandnature.org/david-abram/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Abram</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Spell-Sensuous-Perception-Language-More-Than-Human/dp/0679776397" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spell of the Sensuous </a> </li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microbiome" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Human microbiome </a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Symbiosis</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.melvinkonner.com/biography/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Melvin Konnor</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.pacesconnection.com/resource/james-prescott-human-nature-and-early-experience" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Prescott </a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.allanschore.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allan Schore</a>, neurobiological attachment</li> <li> <a href="http://coyotesguide.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jon Young</a>, Coyote games</li> <li> <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Becoming-Nature/Tamarack-Song/9781591432111" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tamarack Song</a>, games to develop intuition</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Bohm</a>, physicist, “The real intelligence is insight intelligence and it comes in from the outside.”</li> </ul> Program0.00 Welcome &amp; IntroI. THE KINSHIP WORLDVIEW 2:50 What is a “worldview”?  4:30 What is a “Kinship” worldview? 6:58 Contrast the Indigenous worldview of connection with the Western worldview of disconnectedness II. THE EVOLVED NEST9:35 What are the characteristics of an “evolved nest”? 11:35 Components of the Evolved Nest:&gt;&gt;  11:45 Soothing perinatal experiences&gt;&gt;   13:00 Breast feeding&gt;&gt;   14:25 Lots of affectionate touch, no negative touch&gt;&gt;   15:20 A welcoming social climate&gt;&gt;   16:25 <a href="https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_alloparents_can_help_you_raise_a_family" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alloparents</a> who are responsive &gt;&gt;   16:55 Self-directed play with multiple-age playmates&gt;&gt;   17:55 Nature connection &gt;&gt;   19:14 Routine healing experiences 22:20 On being an animal III. RESTORING THE KINSHIP WORLDVIEW24:55 Talking about the book -- What are you trying to convey with the precepts? 30:18 Darcia: To understand our Nature as a Human species is to understand what Thriving looks like&gt;&gt;   happy, calm, quiet minds, gleeful, childlike&gt;&gt;   sense of humor that’s not hostile&gt;&gt;   holding hands, sitting together, enjoying being together… &gt;&gt;   try to make the other person laugh and feel safe&gt;&gt;   there’s no big ego, it’s “us”. 32:00 The Honorable Harvest, Darcia shares favorite quotes, including: “Sustain the ones who sustain you and the Earth will live forever.”34:50 What healing medicine feels like; Tom shares a quote37:05 Darcia: We have a lot of unhealed grief and trauma we pass on, instead of taking time to heal37:30 What is the relationship between the Sacred Feminine and The Maternal Gift Economy? 40:25 Communion, holy union, co-creation, and our interconnectedness 41:10 Darcia on Nature connection and her “Ecological Attachment”, experiment42:30 Rooted and connected: “Our roots extend out from our skin and our other body cavities.” 43:20 The microbiome; "We are communities"44:00 Where does your passion for restoring kinship come from? How are you teaching this? IV. RESTORING OUR WORLD 48:10 What should we be doing to restore The Nest?&gt;&gt;   Make sure you yourself are centered; Nature connection is one of the best ways to heal. &gt;&gt;   Learn to get back to social joy. &gt;&gt;   Learn to guide the conscious mind into connection; build the communal imagination. 52:12 What is sustaining your spirit right now?&gt;&gt;   I sing to the 6 directions&gt;&gt;   I sing on my land&gt;&gt;   Lying on the Earth, leaning against a tree, <a href="https://www.yourdictionary.com/huggle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">huggling</a> with spouse&gt;&gt;   Try to make my husband laugh, sing and dance together.&gt;&gt;   Keep aware: "I am and always will be part of the Earth."V. CONCLUSION54:30 Final thoughts&gt;&gt;   The first precept: the recognition of spiritual energy in Nature; find that guardian spirit... 57:00 Tom reads a final quote, on Community Welfare (Dona Enriqueta Contreras)57:56 End QuotesEverything the baby experiences engraves the brain for life. So you want to make sure you don’t distress the baby because then you’re shifting the trajectory away from wellness towards illness or ill-being or adversity.(In a) welcoming social climate, the mother feels supported, the baby is wanted, the community is delighted with having the baby around, and the baby feels like they belong, that they can make a difference, make other people smile and laugh as they are made to smile and laugh…The mother is there to be affectively attuned to the baby’s emotional systems to keep maintaining them in the best bio-chemistry for growth.You want to let children have that (self-directed play) experience when they’re young so they can build self-confidence. . . When you don’t provide the nest, in general, you’re deflating that individual…We can get caught up in ruminations, because of this left brain, especially if we weren’t raised in a nurturing way, we’ll have OCD, worry, depression… all this stuff that goes on when you’re un-nested… So we need healing practices to get back into centeredness, into relational connection with others and the natural world, back into gratitude and into our bodies…Our sociology relies on good biology. If we’re raised in these nested communities, virtue is a byproduct, is the result. You would not survive in a community, dependent on others, if you were vicious. So, virtue is part of our heritage as well.In the primal wisdom, the kinship worldview, life is relationships with everything, with All other relations, animals, plants, spirits, etc.We’re trying to get back to connection, to understand that we are all connected, and that part of being connected properly is to be present, to honor the spider, the tree, the Earth, the computer, these are all things that people are relating to…We are embodied creatures, we’re bio-social.Another piece is holism. The way to be human isn’t just to be in this thinking mind, that left brain eco-consciousness. It’s actually quite distressing to be there.The left brain thinks it knows everything. If your survival systems are overdeveloped and you’re easily triggered, the authoritarian is going to be easy to pull you in. . . We forgot that we need to nurture, nurture the heart. And, you have to be immersed in relationships to build the empathy, the sensitivity, and the understanding, and the willingness to forgive, and be generous… All that is part of the Indigenous way, you’re immersed in that kind of  social, loving community. And this then allows you to grow your human potential. Which is another thing we’re not doing…Generosity is part of who you are a human being. But what Capitalism (to the Gift Economy) has done is stop that flow and allowed people to hoard resources, and force others to not have any resources…Writing “Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality” brought me to the realization that Indigenous wisdom, the kinship worldview, is our heritage. It is what comes about when we honor our physicality, our embodiedness, our species wisdom, and it’s what will save us…The Western wisdoms tell us, "Clear your heart, clear your fear, clear your ego, and then be open to divine energies.” Thanks for listening. This podcast is 1 of 4 keynotes from our Summer Solstice 2022 collection, "<a href="https://mailchi.mp/biointegrity/allc062122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Restoring Connective Tissue.</a>"  It was produced and edited by Chris Searles.

Dr. Darcia Narvaez on Restoring Connective Tissue

Erin Walter

From AllCreation's Spring 2022 edition, "Dominionism: Exploring religious relationships with other life." Guest editor, Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon, interviews Rev. Erin Walter on the Unitarian Universalist understanding of the Genesis 1:26 concepts of "dominion" and "dominionism." "And God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.'" (Genesis 1:26)About ErinRev. Erin J. Walter (she/her/hers) is Minister and Executive Director for the Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry (TXUUJM), coach for Beloved Conversations, and a community minister at Wildflower Church in Austin, TX. Erin is a winner of the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation Sermon Award, a former journalist, and singer/songwriter/bassist for the band Parker Woodland. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist (UU), an adviser to the SIMS Foundation, currently serving on the board of Texas Impact. Program 00:00 Intro 01:39 About Erin’s band, Parker Woodland 02:30 About Erin’s UU ministry and the Texas UU Justice Ministry 03:15 Why is environmental stewardship a priority for you and the TX UU 05:10 Do UUs believe they have “dominion” over the Web of LIfe? 06:20 Dominionism comes from Genesis I. Many people believe that’s an open and shut case for taking without replenishing and having domination. But that changes with the “web of life” connotation, it changes the relationship with the word. What is the identity of humankind in the web of life for a UU?  11:20 The here and now… Seeing the Earth as divine increases our sense of urgency to take care of the here and now… Tell us more about a UU take on the present in contrast with a Christian. 14:00 “When Jesus instructs us how to pray, he gives us two prayers: the Lord’s prayer and in Revelation, which ends with saying that "God comes to live with them" — us! God comes to be with us. Why wouldn’t we want to take really good care of the Creation in order to make way for the Creator?” 19:00 The Christian Climate lament: "Do I work for companies that are going to perpetuate doing with Creation whatever they want? Or, do I help the Earth and go broke? ...That’s the world we’re living in?!" This is difficult to counsel on.  23:00 What are you working on politically right now?  26:30 Is the Creation Coalition limited to UUs only?  27:30 Metanoia. Some of what I’m learning from editing this issue is there’s a common thread, “Nothing’s going to change unless we change our perspective. How we look at the environment has to change. Nothing can be more encouraging than the recognition that I’m not alone. If we can unite across our differences, that will foster more of that change of perspective. 30:53 Where do you get your hope from?  References Rev. Darrick Jackson Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary  Rev. Fred Small   The Creation Coalition  UU Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) Build Back Fossil Free Beloved Conversations Woyaya QuotesWe’re a non-creedal faith, so the folks in the pew sitting next to you might not believe the same thing about the Divine. Our faith connections are around principles and values, not so much around creed or dogma. So for us, one of those principles is the interconnectedness of the web of life that we consider us all to be a part of. Many of us fall into that category where our spirits are concerned about how we care for each other and how we steward our relationships, our lives, and our actions in the here and now.I was raised UU, and “dominionism” is really not a word I heard at church.We meet in a place of community, sustenance, and sustainability for this home.If all of this is God’s Kingdom, can we treat it as holy? And, what do we have to lose? Yes, I often just feel incredible awe and gratitude to just be in this world, it’s, it’s amazing.I hadn’t thought about humankind as being at the top of any living creature hierarchy.There’s a lot of economic and justice layers to how we make our work choices to reflect our values. We have this balance to strike, of facing the hard work that we have to do and making sure we have support to do the work. If not us, who?Spiritual tools are really important. One of the things I’m constantly talking about is that we do not fall into despair. We need our joy practices, our spiritual practices, our sustenance practices, to keep us uplifted enough to be doing the work.If there’s one thing that I would hope people across all kinds of political and religious differences could unite around, it would be stewardship of the Earth.I always want to encourage people to find one thing that they can do WITH the interconnected web of our lives; we're not going to each be doing it alone.I mean, the coalition work feels like "The Way" to me, you know. Again, it's this inherent worth and dignity of every person, like, yes, I want to be affirmed for who I am as an individual, but the liberation for the Earth and for Each other is going to be achieved Together.We need to be willing to meticulously make small steps, build relationships one conversation at a time, one meeting at a time, one experience at a time, while also holding this radical, amazing vision of the beloved community we can be building together. We need to see the big, glorious picture while also being willing to do what you and I are doing right now, just have one on one conversations.What’s your theme song?###############Thanks for listening. This podcast is part of our Spring 2022 series, Dominionism.Visit the AllCreation podcast site or AllCreation.org for more. Produced and edited by Chris Searles.See the whole "Dominionism" collection here.

From AllCreation's Spring 2022 edition, "Dominionism: Exploring religious relationships with other life." Guest editor, Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon, interviews Rev. Erin Walter on the Unitarian Universalist understanding of the Genesis 1:26 concepts of "dominion" and "dominionism." "And God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.'" (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201%3A26&amp;version=NRSV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Genesis 1:26</a>)About ErinRev. Erin J. Walter (she/her/hers) is Minister and Executive Director for the <a href="http://txuujm.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry</a> (TXUUJM), coach for <a href="https://www.meadville.edu/fahs-collaborative/beloved-conversations/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beloved Conversations</a>, and a community minister at <a href="https://wildflowerchurch.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wildflower Church</a> in Austin, TX. Erin is a winner of the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation Sermon Award, a former journalist, and singer/songwriter/bassist for the band <a href="https://www.parkerwoodland.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Parker Woodland</a>. She is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist (UU), an adviser to the <a href="https://simsfoundation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SIMS Foundation</a>, currently serving on the board of <a href="https://texasimpact.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Texas Impact</a>. Program<ul> <li>00:00 Intro</li> <li>01:39 About Erin’s band, Parker Woodland</li> <li>02:30 About Erin’s UU ministry and the Texas UU Justice Ministry</li> <li>03:15 Why is environmental stewardship a priority for you and the TX UU</li> <li>05:10 Do UUs believe they have “dominion” over the Web of LIfe?</li> <li>06:20 Dominionism comes from Genesis I. Many people believe that’s an open and shut case for taking without replenishing and having domination. But that changes with the “web of life” connotation, it changes the relationship with the word. What is the identity of humankind in the web of life for a UU? </li> <li>11:20 The here and now… Seeing the Earth as divine increases our sense of urgency to take care of the here and now… Tell us more about a UU take on the present in contrast with a Christian.</li> <li>14:00 “When Jesus instructs us how to pray, he gives us two prayers: the Lord’s prayer and in Revelation, which ends with saying that "God comes to live with them" — us! God comes to be with us. Why wouldn’t we want to take really good care of the Creation in order to make way for the Creator?”</li> <li>19:00 The Christian Climate lament: "Do I work for companies that are going to perpetuate doing with Creation whatever they want? Or, do I help the Earth and go broke? ...That’s the world we’re living in?!" This is difficult to counsel on. </li> <li>23:00 What are you working on politically right now? </li> <li>26:30 Is the Creation Coalition limited to UUs only? </li> <li>27:30 Metanoia. Some of what I’m learning from editing this issue is there’s a common thread, “Nothing’s going to change unless we change our perspective. How we look at the environment has to change. Nothing can be more encouraging than the recognition that I’m not alone. If we can unite across our differences, that will foster more of that change of perspective.</li> <li>30:53 Where do you get your hope from? </li> </ul>References<ul> <li><a href="https://www.uua.org/offices/people/darrick-jackson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rev. Darrick Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.meadville.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.revfredsmall.com/about" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rev. Fred Small </a> </li> <li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rev-fred-smalls-creation-coalition-be-political-force/id972173244?i=1000355321321" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Creation Coalition</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.uumfe.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UU Ministry for Earth</a> (UUMFE)</li> <li><a href="https://buildbackfossilfree.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Build Back Fossil Free</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.meadville.edu/fahs-collaborative/beloved-conversations/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beloved Conversations</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/children/journeys/session1/132150.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Woyaya</a></li> </ul>QuotesWe’re a non-creedal faith, so the folks in the pew sitting next to you might not believe the same thing about the Divine. Our faith connections are around principles and values, not so much around creed or dogma. So for us, one of those principles is the interconnectedness of the web of life that we consider us all to be a part of. Many of us fall into that category where our spirits are concerned about how we care for each other and how we steward our relationships, our lives, and our actions in the here and now.I was raised UU, and “dominionism” is really not a word I heard at church.We meet in a place of community, sustenance, and sustainability for this home. If all of this is God’s Kingdom, can we treat it as holy? And, what do we have to lose? Yes, I often just feel incredible awe and gratitude to just be in this world, it’s, it’s amazing. I hadn’t thought about humankind as being at the top of any living creature hierarchy. There’s a lot of economic and justice layers to how we make our work choices to reflect our values. We have this balance to strike, of facing the hard work that we have to do and making sure we have support to do the work. If not us, who?Spiritual tools are really important. One of the things I’m constantly talking about is that we do not fall into despair. We need our joy practices, our spiritual practices, our sustenance practices, to keep us uplifted enough to be doing the work.If there’s one thing that I would hope people across all kinds of political and religious differences could unite around, it would be stewardship of the Earth.I always want to encourage people to find one thing that they can do WITH the interconnected web of our lives; we're not going to each be doing it alone.I mean, the coalition work feels like "The Way" to me, you know. Again, it's this inherent worth and dignity of every person, like, yes, I want to be affirmed for who I am as an individual, but the liberation for the Earth and for Each other is going to be achieved Together.We need to be willing to meticulously make small steps, build relationships one conversation at a time, one meeting at a time, one experience at a time, while also holding this radical, amazing vision of the beloved community we can be building together. We need to see the big, glorious picture while also being willing to do what you and I are doing right now, just have one on one conversations.What’s your theme song? ############### Thanks for listening. This podcast is part of our Spring 2022 series, Dominionism. Visit the <a href="https://allcreation.transistor.fm/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation podcast site</a> or <a href="http://www.allcreation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AllCreation.org</a> for more. Produced and edited by Chris Searles. 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