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Daniel Dancer's avatar

"We are in what the Sufi philosopher René Guénon called “the darkness between worlds.” We should accept it; even, if we have the strength, embrace it. We should use it as an opportunity to sharpen the blade of our souls on the stone of the world." In other words, wax and tune your favorite board and surf the apocalypse. Is there any other choice? Might we even find joy there? I for one will try!

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Allison Gustavson's avatar

I remember you saying something about how, as a child, you always thought something was “off” about the world constructed around you. Me too, and I’m sure many others feel the same. The hardest thing is feeling into how to be a bridge between those worlds without collapsing into fear. How to use the tools of this one - the tools at our disposal - to build the next. I recently came across the parable of the banker and the fisherman (not sure where - here’s a link to a version The Parable of the Mexican Fisherman and the Bankerhttps://joneytalks.medium.com/the-parable-of-the-mexican-fisherman-and-the-banker-f1c064f323f5) and it feels, of course, intuitively true (of course, oversimplified, as parables must be). But I lack fishing skills, don’t live near a river, and can’t garden to save my life. So that story gives me a feeling that is hard to implement.

For me, a big part of the return to fishing is a return to stories. A departure from Ted Talk thinking, a re-expansion away from direct and egoic problem solving and back into a richer sense of humanity. I think I was swept towards systems thinking in a very deadening way.

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