I'd like to begin our gathering, what i want to do this evening is just to share
a personal experience of crossing over the body bridge.
And I want to share something that's happened in me and it's helped me to begin my own personal and
serious exploration of what Ed has been calling "THE HABIT OF FELT SENSING".
And if I were to give you a capsule description of what I'm going to talk about this evening.
I believe that the habit of felt sensing and our exploration of it
is really an exploration of the realm of human experiencing that we call FAITH.
And the precise question that I've have been working with inside myself is this
WHAT IS FAITH
when I cross over the body bridge into my body's knowing.
Into what's going on inside me. What is faith from my body's perspective.Because
we all know a lot, and we've learned a lot, and we can talk a lot about what faith is from the mind
thinking. But what is it and how is it from within the body and our body's perspective?
Because I really believe that when Gene Gendlin recognized that
"meaning is not only thought in the mind it is also felt in the body".
When he realized that, all manner of alternatives for human living become possible
All manner of alternatives for religion, for psychotherapy, and for parenting. Crossing
the body bridge into our felt senses has the potential to utterly transform our human future.
And so that's that's what we are all about really. And Ed and I were pretentious
over which we are continually at war with one another. In our own understanding of what Gene
Gendlin has really provided us with through his discovery of felt sensing and its interaction
with symbols. There's is a movement, there's an evolving body consciousness
that's taking place in more and more people. And it unveils a whole new world. It's a new world in
education, it's a new world in the creation and maintenance and nurturing of community,
it's a new world really for our own Institute and for its goals and outreach as a group. It's
something that can transform spirituality as we know it and especially in religion. And I think
both the two of us are really concerned in the area of religion because the tumultuous history
of religions has been such. If it reveals anything, it reveals that we desperately need
another entire basis for religion, Something that is different and that can carry us beyond
the divisive interpretations over which we are continually at war with one another.
That particular issue alone, if we can just find a way beyond the divisiveness
of the interpretations the who's right and who's wrong, who's in and who's out, we must
find something that will take us beyond that. And Ed and I have found that that alternative
lies hidden within our embodied capacity for FELT SENSING.
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you