Evolution, Process, and Conversation: A Foundation for Conscious Evolutionary Agentry

[Christy Lee-Engel]

Dear Peggy,

Thank you very much for sending us your excellent article!

These lines of yours --

On 1/5/07, Peggy Holman <peggy at opencirclecompany.com> wrote:
>
> ...
> Since conversation is a primary means for human interaction, it is central
> to how process happens in human systems. As such, conversation is as an
> evolutionary force of extraordinary potential.
>

...
>
Could it be that consciousness is the latest evolutionary innovation that,
> when applied to conversation, catalyzes a new form of social system, the
> conscious co-creative collective, the radiant network of deep community? I
> believe that conscious conversation is the path to what Thich Nhat Hanh
> imagined when he said: "It is possible that the next Buddha will not take
> the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a
> community,
> a community practicing understanding and lovingkindness, a community
> practicing mindful living. And the practice can be carried out as a group,
> as a city, as a nation."[2]
>
>
>
-- remind me of a resonant idea from another wisdom branch:

"Messiah" in the original Hebrew is understood by the Kabbalists, quite
> astoundingly, to mean "conversation." Master Nachum of Chernobyl, mystic and
> philosopher, points out that the Hebrew word for messiah, Mashiach, can be
> understood as the Hebrew word Ma-siach – Messiah, meaning "from dialogue" or
> "of conversation."  His assertion radically implies that the Messiah is
> potentially present in every human conversation — every mutual act of
> voice-giving."
>

(see here for the original article:
http://www.ujc.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=32962#gafni )

be well,
Christy

-- 
Christy Lee-Engel, ND, LAc
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