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The Unfolding
I'm a deeply curious human, a contemplative guide and existential/attentional practitioner writing about spirituality, philosophy, Focusing, theology, and embodied self-inquiry.
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Summer Focusing courses!
A practice course and a philosophy reading group
Birth and Death in the Garden of Eden
My symposium presentation: a phenomenological and existential look at this creation story
Focusing and theopoetics
Implicit, intricate, embodied creativity
Theopoetics: on language, body, and the unsayable
A brief explanation
We do not see what we think we see
On perception, relation, and the shape of reality
Becoming large enough for truth: moral size and the practice of nonviolence
Paths of presence: on freedom, attention, and courage. Part 4: Mohandas Gandhi, with support from Simone Weil and Bernard Loomer
Relational presence: public life as a field of encounter
Paths of presence: on freedom, attention, and courage. Part 3: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Buber
The practice of attention and the existentialism of voluntary poverty
Paths of presence: on freedom, attention, and courage. Part 2: Dorothy Day
Existential freedom and social liberation
Paths of presence: on freedom, attention, and courage. Part 1: Kierkegaard and MLK.