What are the traps we encountered? We were aware and trying to avoid falling into several traps Moving too fast to intellectualization, ,this showed up in the class whenever we found ourselves or the student talking spiritualism rather than allowing and creating ‘about’ space for spirit to show up ` when we were listening from a "knowing" place, downloading what we already know and trying to be right and persuasive. . We found ourselves sometimes expressing views about the spiritual world that practically meant that we mentally closed the "hole" . So sometimes we talked about the spirit knowingly, and by that lost the spirit of the moment, the spirit of inquiry. We found it very challenging to keep opening the holding space for spirit to show up, instead of defining, explaining and preaching… Moving too fast to dimension. One of the tempting domain of new age emotional ecstatic spirituality is looking for what we call narcissistic an instrumental use of the “a ‘wow’”, spiritual dialogue and experimentation to bust the adrenalin and ego. Sometimes it can turn to be a gateway to genuine search, many times it keeps commonly resulting in self grandeur and discourse. This sometimes happened with very charismatic guest ‘we/them’ lecturers who were very impressive and inspirational. Moving too fast to metaphysical explanation. Resulting in helplessness or in manipulative subordination. What is our main conclusion and offerings to people trying to spirit? Let the spirit of experimentation guide you while you create and maintain an environment in of inquiry and not knowing , is a good space for teaching and learning processes to take place and flourish… Use conductive” processes: space in which every voice is invited to “Spirit speak, to be heard., In doing so a collective container for for self organization in the whole learning experience is created and enabled.
What are the traps we encountered? We were aware and trying to avoid falling into several traps Moving too fast to intellectualization, ,this showed up in the class whenever we found ourselves or the student talking ‘about’ spiritualism rather than allowing and creating space for spirit to show up ` when we were listening from a "knowing" place, downloading what we already know and trying to be right and persuasive. . We found ourselves sometimes expressing views about the spiritual world that practically meant that we mentally closed the "hole" . So sometimes we talked about the spirit knowingly, and by that lost the spirit of the moment, the spirit of inquiry. We found it very challenging to keep opening the holding space for spirit to show up, instead of defining, explaining and preaching… Moving too fast to emotional ecstatic dimension. One of the tempting domain of new age spirituality is looking for what we call “a narcissistic ‘wow’”, an instrumental use of the spiritual dialogue and experimentation to bust the adrenalin and ego. Sometimes it can turn to be a gateway to genuine search, many times it keeps commonly resulting in self grandeur and ‘we/them’ discourse. This sometimes happened with very charismatic guest lecturers who were very impressive and inspirational. Moving too fast to metaphysical explanation. Resulting in helplessness or in manipulative subordination. What is our main conclusion and offerings to people trying to spirit? Let the spirit of experimentation guide you while you create and maintain an environment in of inquiry and not knowing , is a good space for teaching and learning processes to take place and flourish… Use “Spirit conductive” processes: space in which every voice is invited to speak, to be heard., In doing so a collective container for for self organization in the whole learning experience is created and enabled.
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