Every evening, when time for reflection and contemplation comes, desperation sets in. And it’s getting worse every day, ever since I’m in the loop of ecology and world change activists’ free-style mail groups. I think it started for real after reading some of the posts on “preparing for civilization’s collapse” – that friend Dave Pollard … Read more
Ecstasy at the Gates of Ecological Hell
September 5th, 2009 | Posted by in between-us | circle | collective consciousness | collective intelligence | evolution - (7 Comments)The Chaordic Path and Stepping Stones
April 17th, 2008 | Posted by in change | chaordic path | collaboration | collective intelligence | cooperation | emergence | Helen Titchen-Beeth | human evolution | integral culture | intersubjectivity | knowledge gardening | leadership | Monica Nissén | mutual apprenticeship | mutuality | open society | politix | relating | relationship | values | video | we-culture | we-full living - (0 Comments)Toke Mřller and Monica Nissén weave stories around the chaordic path and stepping stones. Video & video cutting by Helen Titchen-Beeth
The Most Effective Way to Change the World
July 20th, 2007 | Posted by in acceptance | between-us | change | development | enquiry | evolution | self-realisation | smile | spiritual practice | we-culture - (0 Comments)Wow… that’s really a headline, isn’t it? And that is really what we’re going for here, isn’t it? Well, one extremely effective way to not only change the world but your self as well is: Changing the World one smile at a time. If today we all make at least three strangers smile – maybe … Read more
Integral We-Fullness – A Trialogue (The We of Us – Part 2)
June 8th, 2007 | Posted by in acceptance | between-us | change | circle being | collective intelligence | consciousness | David Suzuki | development | Douglas Cohen | ego | emergence | enlightenment | Helen Titchen-Beeth | Indra's net | Michel Bauwens | mutuality | relational spirituality | Robert Kegan | soul family | Susanne Cook-Greuter | we-culture | we-full living | we-fullness | we-space | Wu Wei - (0 Comments)The last trialogue The We of Us [alas, link no longer functioning] was published here on May 21st. Since then there has been two posts by Michel Bauwens of the P2P-Foundation on his blog; one in which he talks about my post “We are the Next Buddha” and one where he looks at Helen’s post … Read more
Defuse me
May 28th, 2007 | Posted by in acceptance | between-us | cooperative spirituality | pluralistic spirituality | relational spirituality - (0 Comments)If I were a bomb ready to explode, if I have become dangerous to your life, then you must take care of me. You think you can get away from me, but how? I am here, right in your midst. (You cannot remove me from your life.) And I may explode at any time. I … Read more
We are the next Buddha
May 15th, 2007 | Posted by in acceptance | Alan Rayner | between-us | big mind | circle being | collective intelligence | community | consciousness | cooperative spirituality | dynamic presencing | emergence | emerging archetype | evolution | evolutionary enlightenment | facilitation | fractals | Genpo Roshi | human evolution | Inclusionality | John Heron | Jorge Ferrer | Jupiter | knowledge gardening | living field | Martin Buber | mutuality | my life | pluralistic spirituality | psychology | relational spirituality | relationship | Samuel Bonder | satori | Saturn | senex | soul family | space | spirituality | transpersonal psychology | What is real? - (7 Comments)Helen wrote in her blog “Why the next Buddha will be a collective.” I hope to show with this article where I am coming from in this regard so that in the time to come we can have beautiful dialogues, trialogues or any other -logues to help this meme propagate. I guess, for me it … Read more
Is the Force real?
May 11th, 2007 | Posted by in between-us | Obi One Kenobi | science | the force | video - (0 Comments)Find out with Psi Wars, an animated movie starring Oh Be One Kenobi, a scientific Jedi who shares intriguing new research on psychic abilities with aspiring Paduwans. Is it true that events such as 9-11 or the O. J. Simpson trial result in detectable changes in global consciousness? Can we communicate at a distance? Are … Read more
5 Keys to Mastery
May 8th, 2007 | Posted by in consciousness | enlightenment | evolution | integral culture | video - (0 Comments)George Leonhard has been an inspiration to me for a long time. The morning exercises (German version) I do almost ever day (6 out of 7) come out of the book The Life We Are Given that he wrote together with Michael Murphy; it’s actually a program making it easier to find Mastery, which is … Read more
Towards an Integral & Pluralistic Spirituality
April 17th, 2007 | Posted by in archetype | between-us | consciousness | constellations | cooperative spirituality | emergence | enlightenment | evolution | integral culture | living field | pluralistic spirituality | relational spirituality | spirituality - (0 Comments)An archetype is emerging – the archetype of a participatory, integral and pluralistic spiritual culture. People all over the world — caring about the life on and of this planet, and experiencing themselves as embedded in continually expanding networks and environments — are seeking genuine, open and constructive dialogue and mutual support in their work … Read more
Why I left my spiritual teacher – vlog
November 16th, 2006 | Posted by in between-us | enlightenment | practise | relationship | video - (9 Comments)Here I’m telling why I left my spiritual teacher, and a little bit about vertical and cooperative spirituality – and why we need much more of the second variety (ca 9:30 min)
A man’s world?
October 15th, 2006 | Posted by in cooperative spirituality | integral culture | relationship - (0 Comments)In answer to a great post by Helen and her question about what men are about, I wrote an answer and I think it’s worthwhile to also post it in my blog. So here it is: Dear Helen, “I’ve just been informed by one of the beloved people I live with that she thinks it … Read more
What facilitating comes down to
October 13th, 2006 | Posted by in change | facilitation - (0 Comments)I found this today, and I feel that it really applies to all facilitators… Parking Lot » Blog Archive » What is really evolving [...] If you are a facilitator looking to deepen your practice, heed this lesson: it is not the tools that need changing and constant improvement; it is you. Let your use … Read more
The Lure of Cognition
September 8th, 2006 | Posted by in between-us | consciousness | enlightenment | integral culture - (0 Comments)As I was watching one of the I-I videos I downloaded a week ago I was again struck by the enormous cognitive slant in the presentation of the “self” – what the self is, who we really, really are… Not that there is no talk about feelings. Not that there is no mention of the … Read more
Moving beyond the Patriarchal Temptation
July 27th, 2006 | Posted by in between-us | community | cooperative spirituality | integral culture | my life | Visionary - (1 Comments)This article is to be published on a German magazine soon – please do not publish or copy to other sites or places. Once it is published, I’ll put it up here regularly… and take this note away. So until then, feel free to link or comment. Vertical Spirituality and the Suffering it Causes Let’s … Read more
The Dalai Lama about interdependency
July 19th, 2006 | Posted by in between-us | cooperative spirituality - (0 Comments)“In today’s highly interdependent world, individuals and nations can no longer resolve many of their problems by themselves. We need one another. We must therefore develop a sense of universal responsibility… It is our collective and individual responsibility to protect and nurture the global family, to support its weaker members, and to preserve and tend … Read more
The Divine in us…
July 13th, 2006 | Posted by in cooperative spirituality | enlightenment - (0 Comments)In my dream I sit across an enlightened teacher teaching ‘vertical spirituality’. He says that many great things have happened because of this teaching and education. In the course of history, he says, there have been many enlightened beings and this way has managed to carry the essence of spirituality to this very day. I … Read more
Cooperative Spirituality… a beginning
July 11th, 2006 | Posted by in between-us | community | cooperative spirituality | integral culture | living field - (3 Comments)Picture by lorretine The summer group from July 1st untill 9th is behind us now. It was the first group after I definetly distanced myself from the ‘vertical spirituality’ which is how I now call the way that I myself have been taking for more than two decades; and it was the first group in … Read more
Now the re-search can begin. I now remember many things that happened along the way which are much more congruent with my present way of inquisitive and cooperative spirituality than with the authoritarian spirituality that I was participating in these last 22 years. Having dropped the feudalistic-patriarchal maps of spiritual experience and the universe I … Read more

