Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
The qualities of ‘paying close attention’ and ‘gentleness’ are preconditions for the process of re-sensitizing the body’s intelligence.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
The hero’s choice is ultimately about coming back into relationship with the female principle of ‘being’. You cannot enjoy a freedom of being without submitting to being. Choosing that path is not just doable—it is necessary if we are to recover our balance in this world, learn to live intelligently in it and prove ourselves an asset to its harmony
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The funny thing about the nucleus basalis is that it is ‘switched on’ all day every day until the age of ten or eleven, at which point it pretty much turns off. And then you are no longer a sponge for new information or experience. Past that age the nucleus basalis will switch on only “when one of three conditions occur: a novel situation, a shock,
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Objective knowledge values known relationships; self-knowledge values felt relationships.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
This book has laid out three core principles: 1. Wholeness is the inescapable truth of our reality. 2. Our ability to sense wholeness is our primary sense. 3. Our culture systematically disables that sense in us, leaving us out of touch with the reality of the self and the world to which it belongs.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
Self-knowledge is imparted when ‘who you are’ is illuminated; but you cannot illuminate yourself for yourself, any more than you could see your face by shining a light on it. ‘Who you are’ is illuminated by your felt relationships with the world around you. The more deeply you come into felt relationship, the more clearly ‘who you are’ is illuminat
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By contrast, the attention of the hero is world-focused.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
Objective knowledge is disembodied knowledge. It stands apart from the Present.
Philip Shepherd • Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
Objective knowledge is a self-centered understanding of the world; self-knowledge is world-centered understanding of the self. • Objective knowledge is fact based; self-knowledge is experiential. • We acquire objective knowledge; we surrender to self-knowledge. • Objective knowledge grows by accumulation; self-knowledge grows by shedding.