By now many of you will have hopefully seen the movie, Lincoln. I would like to open a conversation that uses this work of art as a source for learning about living processes and ways of creative organisms, namely humans in this case. 
  I was struck with how much of life is driven by thoughts and decisions made in uncertainty, how each person’s life contributes to what is “becoming.” Also we witness the emergence of coherence, that is a coming to the “sense of the meeting” and the messiness of such a process. How does it work? How do we ever come to agreements and evolve as human beings? Big questions, but Norm was one to tackle such questions. Perhaps in some way I’d like to continue that tradition of process here.

Read more: Lincoln, the Movie – A Life Lesson on Valuing Processes, Uncertainty, Necessary Diversity and...

The human living process is truly one of the greatest amazements still largely outside our grasp. Even with all our technology and studies to know it, how we each exist moment by moment, create, and love is a constant source of discovery.

For the past few years my husband and I have been meeting challenges of health matters, financial and human heartbreaks not too different from others alive today. However, in this daily process, the self-knowing, reflection and awareness processes keep revealing ever wider possibilities within us as living beings to create a-new.

Read more: Aligning To Life’s Rhythms and The True Nature Life Has Created In Us ...

  The current paradigm change is making a transition from a rigid, mechanistic, and materialistic worldview to one that is built on a foundation of interconnectedness, cooperation, and the intersection of science and spirituality. What used to work no longer will. We can find evidence everywhere.

Read more: A New Cosmology: Living Organisms’ work is unlike anything ever imagined. (3)

The human living process is truly one of the greatest amazements still largely outside our grasp. Even with all our technology and studies to know it, how we each exist moment by moment, create, and love is a constant source of discovery.

For the past few years my husband and I have been meeting challenges of health matters, financial and human heartbreaks not too different from others alive today. However, in this daily process, the self-knowing, reflection and awareness processes keep revealing ever wider possibilities within us as living beings to create a-new.

Read more: The Amazing Human Being You, Me, We – Life

We live. How well we live depends on our appreciation (sensitive understanding) of our home in the world. There seems to be deep changes in our world. It is as if while I am soundly sleeping I am moved to a new location. If the new location is very different I cannot proceed on the basis of memories. I must learn again. I face the unknown.

Facing the unknown can be a terrifying experience. It is not surprising that we invent all sorts of reasons to avoid it. We create frightening myths. Such myths may be based on current truths, but to serve our avoidance needs, they become myths. 

Read more: In the Beginning is Life

Are we there yet? It depends on what is “we” and “there”. I think of we as applying to life; all life. I think of there as being ready to go on a journey. For our time it will be an unprecedented journey. From our human perspective living conditions that used to work no longer do. For example, recent college graduates can no longer find work. What may have been seen, as career paths no longer exist. What may have been seen as financial security no longer works.

Read more: The End May Not Be Near, So There!