[Springboard] NRM charts & Meditation

[Jack Gilles]

Jim,

The practice of what the world calls meditation is really what we were  
pointing to with Contemplation.  Of course you remember that all of  
these charts had nothing to do with an exercise or a practice in the  
first instance.  They are describing the experience of humanness  
brought to awareness.  Meditation is about our interior sociality.  I  
think today we would talk a lot more about the "oneness" of all things  
and our connection to all, to come at the category.  As I read  
recently, we are "hard wired" to be community (corporate) and our  
decision to relate to that self-consciously is Meditation.  We choose  
to embrace that which makes us more human, more related, thus I create  
my interior meditative council.

The NRM is just one area of our spirit research that needs fresh  
conversation.  Glad you're promoting it.  We need an in-depth look at  
all of these (NRM, OW, Profound Humanness, Faith, Hope Love, etc.) and  
that is one of the tasks we hope to tackle at the post OKCU event.   
Emails are great, but depth work will take a focused and collective  
effort.

Jack
On Jun 16, 2010, at 11:39 AM, James Wiegel wrote:

> Oh, and I have a question, it came up for me this morning while I  
> was cutting the front lawn.
>
> What in the NRM charts was called "Meditation" seems quite different  
> from how we began using the term in 1984 --   Wilber and Buddhists,  
> etc.  Seems more relevant to the first box on the BEING chart --  
> "Bottomless Center", or the upper right hand corner of the  
> Contemplation chart -- "Unexplainable Thereness", or the lower right  
> hand corner, "All Being in Myself"
>
> I would appreciate hearing from some of you who regularly practice  
> this sort of meditation as to the connection to the NRM charts.
>
> Jim
>
> You can observe a lot by watching. Yogi Berra
>
>
> Jim Wiegel
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> From: Marge Philbrook <msphilbrook at gmail.com>
> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe at wedgeblade.net>
> Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 6:30:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Salmon: The new Religious Mode Charts and  
> the 144s --
>
> Yes, we will probably find "something" in the archives.  We have been
> sorting in that area already and we are still in the process of
> organizing materials for digitizing so they can be available to
> everyone.  We are finding the process slow and it is difficult to
> answer specific questions like this one you pose.  My sense is that by
> the time that we did the NRM charts we had already worked through a
> lot of the concepts and they were not labeled NRM in the early
> thinking and early documents.
>
> David Dunn is preparing a Filemaker data file in which list the names
> of folders as we are arranging them archively in acid free folders. At
> some undesignated time we will put that list on line so youall can
> search for items you are interested in.  We then will gradually scan
> (digitize) to make them available, rather than wait until the whole
> sorting process is complete and all can be digitized at the same time.
>
> Sorry, I can't be more specific today but I will look through that
> file drawer on Thursday to see if my brain responds to your question.
> I've been vacationing for two weeks, found my family all doing great
> in California and Texas, and now am back in Chicago settled into
> thinking archives.  Grace and Peace, Marge Philbrook
>
>
> 2010/6/16 Richard & Maria Maguire <unfolding at smartchat.net.au>:
> > Hi
> >
> > Thank you for making the electronic images Bill.  We are pleased  
> to still
> > have a mint quality set in our files.  They were very beautifully  
> done.
> >
> > Is there a document anywhere accessible that describes the  
> contents of the
> > boxes in the charts, as well as the column and row titles.  The  
> lectures I
> > have from the NRM series tend to be contextual. They generally do  
> not appear
> > to be  to be built on them and nor do they go into them very  
> much.  I find
> > the words fascinating, and though I can guess at some, many are  
> not so
> > apparent, and I imagine even those I think I understand have more  
> in them
> > than I realize.  Each of the columns in a way appears to tell a  
> story, maybe
> > there are some documents that put some meat on the bones.
> >
> > Can anyone around give some information on this, or will we find  
> something
> > in the archives?
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Richard and Maria Maguire
> >
> >
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