A Wee Bit of Alchemy with Rick Barrett #147: The Four Step of Meeting
Channel: Rick Barrett
Date: 04/05/2023

Meeting is authentic encounter with your whole being. We take a break from objectifying the contents of our world to engage someone or some thing as a partner in the Cosmic Dance. In those moments we do do not "think" in the usual sense of the word, we enter into a relationship that is beyond rationality. Thinking then returns as we try to mentally fit what just happened into the ongoing narrative or our life. 
"Context" is the meaning we assign to the events in our experience. The "default mode network" in the brain is tasked with updating our personal narrative moment-by-moment. 
The stages of Meeting follow a spiraling path. It begins in with Context and returns to a Context that includes the experience just concluded. Context-making is suspended briefly while relating, then resumes. The search for meaning is inherent in humans. 

00:00-  35:00  Overview: The Four Stages of Meeting
0.  Context
1.  Coherence
2.  Presence
3.  Engagement
0.  Context

11:05-  56:17  Meditation: Meeting the Earth. 
56:30-  1:05:53  Q & A

44:00- 55:32  Q & A

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