Dancing in the Now: February 2009

Saturday, 28 February 2009

Finally the beginning

I set up this blog several months ago, as a link from my main website.
Over these months I have struggled with writing a variety of "first posts" which would claim attention and somehow change the world. Non of these have been published. I am embarrassed at my own arrogance, especially as "being in the now" is a key theme of this blog. But it couldn't have been any other way. I set up this blog as much to "catch myself" as to effect any changes in you who might read this.

Working over these last weeks with my Shaman teacher (Dr Pio Vucetich) and dancing the 5 Rhythms, once again, I became aware of my own arrogance. I suppose that initiating any blog, the blogger must have a certain degree of arrogance: "someone will want to read and comment upon my thoughts and feelings".

So after many long edited drafts of a series of first posts ..... I launch this blog writing freely as I am NOW at this moment.

Dance the crisis

Art of now

Human crisis happens within a context. The contexts we live in are a complex balance of our personal beliefs, our emotions, our body and our relationships. But our personal context lives, grows and dies within a wider complex balance of thought, emotion, the economy, the earth & its ecology, our family history and other cultures on our planet.

Much human thought and action is based on the idea that we can know the 'mind of God'. We have believed that we can control the complex web of life in our favour. Crisis is, and always has been, an opportunity for change and learning. But in western cultures we try and isolate ourselves from pain and change with: anaesthetics, insurance policies, prisons, walls, security systems, drugs, border police, institutions, plastic surgery and so on.

These attempts to control or separate ourselves from the pains of life usually displace the crisis: some having the benefits of this control and others suffering the pains. And indeed every day, trying to control our pains, we eliminate elements of this complexity (plants, animals, species, earth resources, cultures, languages, …). Our global ecology, economy, demography and relationships are now being stretched to their limits.

We simple humans do not know how to solve this crisis. Our priests, politicians, economists, industrialists and other so called authorities are as lost as most of the rest of us. We cannot know the depth of complexity involved in this global dynamic balance. We need to ask for help from greater spiritual authorities.

This is Dancing in the Now. Only by moving beyond our comfort zone in the Now to fully feel the pains of our crisis we begin to wale up and feel again. In this way we receive guidance on how to move and act. It cannot be found through thinking and planning.

Dancing in the Now

Saturday, 28 February 2009

Finally the beginning

Dance the crisis

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