Published by the Shift Network Teens Discover Context & Compassion Posted July 2, 2015 By Amy Edelstein I’m sitting at a café having miso-mushroom soup, processing my meeting with an inner city high school principal about expanding the Mindfulness and Cultural Developmentprogram next year. The pilot was so successful; she would like it to see it reach the entire freshman … Read More
Once Upon the Stars
Enjoy this interview with Joanna Harcourt-Smith from FuturePrimitive. She interviewed me about everything from working with teenagers to contemplating our relationship with the cosmos. Click here and let me know what you think! “Amy Edelstein speaks with Joanna about: a visionary, uplifting city; defining evolutionary spirituality; closeness to the stars; a new felt sense towards our environment; opening our consciousness … Read More
Refusing to Be Finished
Refusing to be Finished Deep down inside I gurgle with the primordial stew, with fragments of life, small strands floating in ether or essence, spirella that drift and twitch blindly, occasionally bumping into each other and fusing, merging, creating new forks and strands and tendrils. Deep down inside I foment with the churn of the worlds, of all … Read More
Cycles, Process & A Different Way to View Ourselves in the World
“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of ‘independent existence.’ There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe ~ Alfred North Whitehead An Ecology of Being Cycles, Process & A Different Way to View Ourselves … Read More
Direct Experience of Mystical Philosophers
As I have been preparing for my Spring Retreat I came across this quotation that I want to share, Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for … Read More
Spanning Contradictions * Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke, in Stephen Mitchell, ed., The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (New York: Vintage Books, 1984), p.261
A Brave & Startling Truth * Maya Angelou
In honor of the life, Spirit, and great work of one of our foremost seers and scribes, Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A … Read More