adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
For me, somatic work has been about relearning and reconnecting to the wisdom and life in natural forces. That what is most alive leads to opening, creating, change. That in the destruction of something lies a whole new world of possibility—a place where patterns can finally become unhinged and there’s space for something new to take its place.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Imagination, we might say, is the invisible circuitry that connects the world out there to our inner worlds. So, we cannot just be critical of oppressive systems without also examining how our own private thoughts and desires reflect and reproduce a dominant imagination that values some lives over others. We must, in a sense, continuously deprogram
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I want us to be writing more of these utopian sci-fi stories, because that's my dream, living in that post-capitalist Star Trek world. We can start in the world that we live in now, creating little bubbles of that new future, really living it, and inviting more and more people to live in that different reality with us, in a in a deeply real, moving... See more
Divya Siddarth • Building Capacity for Exit to Community
I want to throw out the crippling assumptions that keep many from being a voice in the world. I want to start over, with an imagination adequate to the possibilities and the strangeness and the dangers on this earth in this moment.