A lap of the pool, a lap to receive and transmit from.
This idea of spiritual philosopher David Spangler gives form to what I have intuited and longed for.
"The "lap" represents any container–physical, psychological, subtle, spiritual–that creates a space for something to happen…I open a door to the Light and a "unit" of Light comes through…an avalanche of Light that starts with the movement of a single pebble but ends up becoming the side of a mountain." 1.
My friend Karen McDiarmid forwarded environmental activist Rex Wyler’s recent essay, Warm Data, from his newsletter. How necessary it is to free our minds, allowing new ways of knowing, understanding and acting to manifest.
“When artists overturn convention, that feels like ecology, life seeking life. Perhaps we need a more artistic ecology…I don't want to be a partisan anymore…“Aphanipoiesis," [coined by Nora Bateson] —the power in the unseen, the submerged process, the potential that we cannot yet envision or articulate.When I look for hope, I find it in nature itself, in the wild places and wild creatures.There is hope in the unseen, in the unspeakable, in the wildness within us.” 2.
I’m reading Corvus, a wonderful dystopian novel by celebrated Cree author Harold R. Johnson. He passed away in February 2022. Reading his books feels like a memorial.
Isadore to George, “If you pay attention long enough, you get a little understanding and from that you can develop until things like the connection between this world and other worlds make sense and logic doesn’t.” 3.
Excerpt from, Holding the Unholdable, David Spangler,
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Excerpt from, Why Warm Data, Rex Wyler, newsletter https://www.rexweyler.ca/ecologue/2023/12/5/why-warm-data
Excerpt From Corvus, Harold Johnson
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The newsletters and novel these excerpts are drawn from are also laps. They gather experiences and wisdom of their creators, aided by unseen forces both technological and energetic, and beam them into the world.
Much of my time these days is spent creating programs for Writers Radio.ca with my co-producers Ingrid Rose and Gary Sill. This too is a lap for there is a great deal of serendipity involved and when we broadcast a program, and post its accompanying podcast, it wings its way into the world reaching many people we don’t know as well as friends and family.
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