Philip Shepherd

Bringing clarity to a chaotic world

 

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Raheen Wood Steiner Secondary School, Alfa Room

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Raheen Rd
Scarriff, Co. Clare 90429 Ireland
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  • Being in Liverpool, sharing Radical Wholeness, has been such a treat - thanks @davidbarnicle and Natasha for welcoming us so warmly!
  • "The machine model of understanding assures us that our perspectives are privileged, our view is conclusive, and our solutions are right. If life were a machine, we’d be the ones to figure it out, for sure. But it’s not a machine, nor is it a puzzle that can be solved. Our very attachment to solving life, in fact, diminishes our experience of it and our sensitivity to it. The gifts of abstract reasoning are wondrous, but if the whole disappears from your sight, you become blind to its harmony, numb to its mystery and detached from its reality. And then your own life will feel as random as you imagine the independent bits of the world to be." Philip Shepherd, from Radical Wholeness Photo by Gardenly on Unsplash
  • I write and speak about ‘being’ with considerable frequency. Sometimes I refer to "my being", or to "your being" or just to "being" itself. In all my writing, though, I’ve never directly answered the question, "What is Being?" Martin Heidegger wrote a book that is 610 pages long to address the question: Being and Time. It is almost the definition of a tome. I prefer Merleau-Ponty’s book, Phenomenology of Perception, which I’m reading now, and which is four pages shorter. I’m going to address the same question with something less ambitious: two paragraphs. It may not stand as a classic in the field, but it might prove helpful to those with an interest in my work. To read my take, please click the link in the bio (even though it’s only two paragraphs, it was too long for Instagram), and let me know what you think!
  • Heading off this morning to Traverse City for a weekend workshop hosted by @cat.stocker at @leafandlakestudio. I’ve heard so much about how beautiful it is and I’m really looking forward to sharing the work there. Still a few spots available if you’re in the neighbourhood! 🌳🌏😍
  • “Everything depends on everything else.” This is in a room with ancient totem poles where life nestles within life, and every connected form supports every other.
  • "So consider for a moment what it might mean not merely to see with your eyes, but to feel the sights of the world in your body. Or not merely to hear with your ears, but to feel the sounds of the world in the core of your being, subtly attuning you to the Present. When the body ‘knows the world’ in this way, it is not relying on the abstractions of language: its knowing is nonverbal, unmediated and direct. Its thinking is sensational. The flesh is experienced as a medium that resonates not only to the world around it, but at the same time to every current of your thinking—conscious and preconscious. As you increasingly honor the body’s sensations, you increasingly understand them to constitute a language of thought that is distinct from how the head knows. What the body knows is based on a patient clarity that enables you to act from the whole of your being. But that knowing is inaccessible—and may as well not exist—when it’s been eclipsed by the driven, anxiety-laced, contracted intelligence of the head." - from Radical Wholeness, by Philip Shepherd Get the first chapter free at https://philipshepherd.com/radical-wholeness-the-book/ or check out the audiobook (or physical book) at Amazon http://amzn.to/2sHSeRx or your favourite bookseller! Photo by Jimmy Chang on Unsplash

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