What my mate Tom has to say

Amy Lenzo at the World Cafe blog tossed out a great link today, to the Global Oneness Project, a collection of videos about what we need to do on this earth. The bonus for me is an interview with my friend Tom Hurley, who I met last week in Belgium. I connected very deeply to Tom for a variety of reasons, but we shared a deep set of conversations on topics as diverse as stewardship, governance and the responsibility of love that helped me ground and understand my experience. The video with Tom is a nice summation of our need to integrate opposites, inner and outer, science and spirit. These are themes that lie deep in my practice of “practical decolonization.” Colonization as a project is about splitting polarities into opposites, decolonization is about making these whole again – healing.

I’m constantly amazed at how close we can come to people we have never met before. I’m wondering what it is we share that creates the invitation to depth so quickly. It’s beyond the fact that we share practices and approaches. What lies at the heart of such a phenomenon, and is this new or did it occur in the past?