Category Archives: evolution

Mulling over Turquoise – what the ‘bible’ says. Part 2

Posted on May 3, 2011 by iyeshe

Here comes the second installment of my revisiting of the section of Beck and Cowan’s Spiral Dynamics dealing with the Turquoise vMEME, this time about what shows up when the system is fully developed. The sections in italics are quoted … Continue reading →

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Mulling over Turquoise – what the ‘bible’ says. Part 1

Posted on April 28, 2011 by iyeshe

After so much conversation about Turquoise at last week’s EuroConfab, I couldn’t resist returning to the truly excellent Spiral Dynamics bible by Beck and Cowan, to revisit what they had to say about it. So much of it is already … Continue reading →

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Mental models – they come, they go, and occasionally they revisit

Posted on April 16, 2011 by iyeshe

I haven’t been busy much with mental models lately – too immersed in witnessing the subtle shifts in my own energy metabolism and engaging dialogically with the world. But I’ve been reminded twice already this month (and it’s only mid-April … Continue reading →

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Women Moving the Edge – invisible beings and other dimensions

Posted on April 1, 2011 by iyeshe

This wasn’t the first time that the non-physical realms put in an appearance at our gatherings – they’ve been present in one form or another since the start. But this was the first time they were explicitly invoked and invited … Continue reading →

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Women Moving the Edge – 10th gathering, in Belgium

Posted on February 6, 2011 by iyeshe

Much to my delight and anticipation, we are gearing up for another gathering of Women Moving the Edge in Belgium, on March 11-14 2011. We will be holding it at Kasteel Nieuwenhoven, one of my favourite places at the moment. … Continue reading →

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The evolution of knowing – Part 3: Witnessing and the soul of humanity

Posted on December 15, 2010 by iyeshe

In Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin defines ‘soul’ as a thing’s ultimate place in the world. All this year I have been intuiting that there is a ‘Helen-shaped hole in the kosmos’ that I no longer fit – … Continue reading →

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The evolution of knowing – Part 2: When knowing becomes whole…

Posted on September 1, 2010 by iyeshe

The ideas that I wish to introduce here have been brought together in a manuscript – a work-in-progress – being stewarded into articulation on behalf of humanity by my sister-in-evolution Ria Baeck. For a good many years, Ria has taken … Continue reading →

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The evolution of knowing – Part 1: depths and dimensions

Posted on August 28, 2010 by iyeshe

Writing this entry has been an exercise in moving from the particular and personal to the very general and the sublime. Then it changed name a couple of times and finally morphed into a series. Depths and dimensions As so … Continue reading →

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Evolutionary potential in the 21st century – a mushrooming of collective Buddhas

Posted on August 12, 2010 by iyeshe

This time, my story starts with a poem. Unless – by Sarah Whiteley Unless we engage our authentic selves, we cannot live the future now Unless we engage our fullness, we cannot take the leap individually and call in collectively … Continue reading →

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God is evolving – from the Piscean to the Aquarian era

Posted on June 26, 2010 by iyeshe

A conversation with Mushin – 18 April 2010 Mushin: I have been reading a very interesting book, by Ibn Arabi, from the 12th century. He was a contemporary of Rumi, and they had quite some correspondence. The basic idea of … Continue reading →

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