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Herman, Your question of expanding the Social Process Triangles to include  
the natural world sent me to my own archives, my notes from the New   
Cosmology course  I took at UCS in 1998, taught by Bryan Swimme, Jo Anna  Macy 
and Stuart Cowen. In the folder, I found a printout of an ica-dialogue  e-mail 
Witness, dated March 27, 2000, "From the computer of Jan (Sanders)  and 
Richard. I assume Richard Sims wrote it because of the pedagogue story.  I hope 
they don't mind me resending it. I obviously loved it.
 
Hey out there all you frogs.
 
You know how to program the flipper to get the weather  channel;
 
Can you read the times in which we live?
 
Well, fellow frogs, we have a new creation story for our time. I never  
really got into that earth on the back of a turtle thing anyway. We now have :  
'In the beginning originating power burst forth.....' This story has Oscar  
quality appeal: special effects with incredibly creative and destructive  
capabilities, a trans-human focus, violence, pre-sex, interspecies 
consumption,  objects coming in and out of being without explanation, and enough plot 
twists  and turns to keep you completely baffled up to the present moment.
 
So, you have probably asked yourself, Where is the church in this  primal 
flaring forth?
 
The hint is found in the 'sacrifice appendix'. The sacrifice dynamic in  
the flaring forth is not integrated into this telling of the story. It had to 
be  glued on like a fifth frog leg. But it shows up in the process well 
before the  human species gets written into the script.
 
Since we have expanded the social process triangles beyond human  sociality 
to include all of existence, the church/sacrificial dynamic includes  not 
only 'innocent human suffering' (one of my favorite theological phrases) but  
the suffering of the earth and of plants animals water air and nebula 307.  
Nothing however, for me, replaces the intensity of the pain, 
disillusionment,  and alienation caused by the experience of social injustice, personally 
or group  to group. It wasn't fair that classical religions were called out 
of being in  the midst of my career as an order-grounded, movemental church 
renewer, leaving  me spiritually and vocationally stranded. I take 
responsibility for not having  the initiative to develop a successful career upon 
reentry into the mainstream,  but I had nothing to do with taking ''every 
single human being needs RS-1' out  of existence and I deeply resent whoever did 
it. I was destined to be a great  pedagogue. Put that on my cremation box: 
'he was almost the fifth ranked  pedagogue in the whole world'.
 
Some people experience life as a desert. Some people experience life as  a 
lush banquet. Some experience every encounter in life as providing material 
to  further the crusade for a deeply committed, perhaps cosmic, cause.
 
So what instruction is the look of the sky giving us about our times?  PBS 
in our area recent broadcast the US women's suffrage documentary. SB Anthony 
 was the political will of that movement but Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the 
 spiritual force. She was never satisfied, was always articulating new, 
expanded  goals..And she was only attempting to bring the social injustices 
(slavery,  women's rights) of her times into balance. Truth is radical. It 
wakes you up in  the night. It gets in your face and demands a decision. What is 
the truth in the  year 2000? What is our unfolding cosmos demanding of the 
human species? What is  the form and role of the Church? Is it the seven 
streams of the Millennium  Conference? Is there a movement in our future? Is 
the movement the mosaic formed  by those engaged in a multitude of causes? Is 
there a single  structure?
 
Someone called us the people of the question. I would settle for  some 
answers.
 
Metaphor of the frog without permission.
 
 
Herman, I'll send you a  hard copy of my paper for that course, which  was 
called "Granny as Ecozoic Visionary", based on the theory of Imaginal  
Education.
 
Thanks for the inquiry that took me to this folder. When I was  diagnosed 
with lymphoma the following year, this vision was put aside to pursue  
wellness.
 
I hope people who reply to your Project will also talk a little about how  
their knowing/doing/being in the post-Order years, and how the gifts of the  
Order informed that.
 
Blessings,
Jann McGuire
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/21/2009 11:26:49 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
hfgreene at mindspring.com writes:

That's a  good statement and worth archiving!

Occasionally I muse on how to place  the social process into the Earth
process. I haven't had a brilliant idea  about this yet. One approach is to
have an Earth process set of triangles  (like the carbon cycle, the
hydrological cycle, etc.) parallel to the  social process. Another approach
is to have the Earth process in the middle  triangle of the social process
triangles. Another is to redo the social  process triangles to include
interactions with nature. 

I haven't  really done much except muse about this. (One approach I saw that
I  question is to apply the social process to nature--it's not  entirely
unfruitful but it seems like an artificial imposition on the  natural
processes rather than beginning with the natural process  itself.)

I wonder if anyone else has thought about  this.




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