[Springboard] David's 25 ¢ worth

[Bill Salmon]

Oh, Boy! The good stuff floating along the river of these pages of 
correspondence is mind blowing-in-the-wind. Thanks to all for giving me hope 
and the assurance that I'm not alone on this Journey To The East.
    Bill Salmon
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From: "David Dunn" <david at mirrorcommunication.com>
To: "Springboard Dialogue" <springboard at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:22 AM
Subject: [Springboard] David's 25 ¢ worth


> 1. I have found it much more instructive to stand our old formulation on 
> its
> head: -from- "being is the intensification of knowing and doing" -to-
> "knowing and doing are how I embody who I choose to be." Remember SK: the
> self is a relationship that relates itself to itself and in deciding to be
> itself grounds itself transparently in the power that posited it." My
> experience is that my being was given to me as a gift to discover. The 
> power
> that posited me is the Mysterious Power to which I may choose a
> relationship. My true self is a partnership with that Mysterious Power: 
> when
> I discover that and choose it in freedom, THEN I am given eyes to see
> clearly and the spirit to embody energetically the knowing and doing that 
> is
> the mission I share with Being Itself. My vocation is discerned in the 
> call
> that occurs deep within me because it is both me and the Mysterious Power
> that gives me life and energy and intent.
>
> 2. I'm thinking that a group also needs to discover and name what gift of
> being has been given to it. Who are we, anyway? I think that we're a
> religious order that has been given the unique charism of being secular
> religious capable of embracing the immense diversity of human spirituality
> and the tools for fostering the evolution of human spirituality and
> transformational community. It's the eyes of that particular charism that
> tell me what to look for in the world and what to bring to the reality I
> see.
>
> 3. With this set of eyes, what I see are innumerable secular religious all
> around me who don't have a way to discover and name the fullness of what
> they have been given to be, let alone explore corporate relationships that
> foster the evolution of the gift of their selfhood. I am surrounded by
> lonely individuals who have been given deep awareness of something new for
> which they have no name or form.
>
> 4. I believe that we have been uniquely gifted with the ability to come at
> the questions of final reality, salvation, ethical living and vocation 
> "from
> underneath" religion just at a time when the established religions find
> themselves in a world that is beyond the capacity of their inheritance to
> serve and in which the religiously disestablished find themselves in the
> world without the eyes to see and name the depth of the capacity to which
> they are invited by Being Itself.
>
> 5. I'm thinking that it's discovering and claiming authentic forms and
> teachings and practices for these emerging secular religious that is given
> to us to figure out in our association with each other. I believe that it 
> is
> especially urgent to name who we are, so that we can see and appreciate
> ourselves and to help others develop eyes to see more deeply and clearly 
> who
> they have been given to be.
>
> 6. We need to decide if we have a charism that is needed for the future of
> the world. Is what we've been given to be relevant to the world of the
> contradictions that we see? If so, we need to formulate a new way of
> institutionalizing a multi-generation association. I'm not sure whether 
> it's
> an association that exists for doing projects, for carrying memory into 
> the
> future, or calling people to a new way of being in the world. Maybe all of
> these. Maybe some purpose that none of these holds adequately.
>
> 7. I have no basis for presuming that a multi-generational association is
> dependent on our children. This association is either a gift to the world
> that the Mysterious Power is calling forth or it is not. If it is, we'll 
> see
> this gift in the lives of people all around us, some of whom will be our
> children. If not, nothing that we can do will convince our children that
> they have this gift if they really don't. We need to be careful not to
> burden then with our needs or belittle them by presuming that our calling
> will be their calling.
>
> 8. Finally, I think that it's high time for action research in 
> relationship
> to all of the above: time to get visible, time to identify the arena of
> discourse and action as having fundamentally to do with the inseparability
> of secular spirituality and transformative action, and time to invite 
> others
> so that we can see who notices that we've just helped them discover who 
> they
> really are.
>
> David Dunn
>
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