Santa Barbara Global Village From: Bruce Schuman
Date: Monday, October 13, 2008
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THE FIELD...


All of these converging forces, it seems, have something deeply in common -- something hard to name, hard to fit into a category.

This morning, raking up the leaves around here, I came across a brochure sent to me recently, by a dialogue group near Stanford, working on Israeli-Palestinian relationships. We might say -- that the first step in transforming the spirit of culture is something like "dialogue" -- sharing, listening in a respectful way, co-creating...

This group -- uses the word "trialogue" -- something higher than dialogue. Maybe this "something" is what happens in the resonant field -- that nameless bonded connection we seem to be seeking....

I scanned in a lot of their brochure. Here's one image among a few that might be of interest to us...

There are so many ways to describe this process. "Following the Co-creator's Agreements" might be one. Another might be "practicing the art of sacred listening".

And -- maybe "trialogue" is "triangulated dialogue" -- dialogue that converges...

It just seems -- that there is "something we can do" -- that invokes a powerful central spirit, that heals the confusion and accusation and misunderstanding. I am guessing -- that it is this spirit -- that can lead to the holistic/integral vision that our souls are calling for -- the template for the holistic/integral world that is being born through us.

My instinct is -- this birthing process -- gives form and coherence to a network -- of relationships -- creative relationships in a kind of "trialogue" -- embracing everything, cohering everything to a common center, creating Oneness in ways no human could ever do....