Tag Archives: Suzanne Taylor

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX

July 12, 2010 admin

When somebody sent a ping back on what’s been quietly parked on my blog onto his website (the headline isn’t what’s posted), I got inspired to rev up my energy to figure out what to do with it. A little while ago, I pointed Arianna Huffington at it — although we have a faint connection, she graciously answers my emails.

She told me to blog about it on Huffington Post.

Actually, I did blog there, briefly. I struggled for approval of my pieces during a probation period, and finally was told my topic was a bit off-putting.

I can relate. Scientists won’t sign my petition, A Call For an Investigation of What is Known About Crop Circles, that I wanted to get in the face of the establishment, cause it could threaten their funding.

Any thoughts out there about a Huffington Post blog for THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX? Any contributions? We could do a contest.

Oh god, another project.

Crop Circles

Do Listen!

July 5, 2010 admin

I’ve done a lot of radio shows, and if you haven’t heard me do one I’d love you to listen to this, with Ilene Dillon, who’s on my wave length.

I enjoy dishing about the circles, and for anybody who can recommend me to shows in your area, here’s a sampling of more: http://www.whatonearththemovie.com/flash/#/press — click RADIO.

Someone working with Ilene, who was listening as she and I talked, sent me something afterward that I was so touched by that I am sharing the sweetness.

Hi Suzanne ~

You know, usually Ilene has to prod me to speak up, but I guess you bring out the chatty part of me!

I am looking forward to seeing your movie, and I am so glad to know about your engagement of this phenomenon and the lovely relationship you have to all-things-curious. I am currently contemplating “mystery” from a new angle and imagining re-inventing myself to become a “Mystery Coach.” I’m thinkin’ it’d be a good use of my formal training in Social Work and Coaching, not to mention 30+ years of swimming in mystery myself! I’d like to assist folks in moving past what is known, traversing the fear of the unknown, and teaching the skills of how to be and do what has never been done before.

I mention all this for the purpose of wanting to give substance to my words in saying to you, You inspire a creativity that I feel at a very deep level of my being. Listening to you talk with Ilene today has enlivened my long-time love of crop circles and the mystery of the “Circle-Makers” – as I like to call ‘them’. I am excited as I wonder about the way I might incorporate the Circle-Makers into my teaching/coaching plan – it’d be such a fun platform for demonstrating a practical engagement with mystery.

So I am just wondering out loud here as a tribute to you and how contagious your generous enthusiasm is to those of us who hear what you have to say. Thanks very much for being in the world and doing whatever you do – today, it’s your crop circles work, but with you I imagine your enthusiasm is all-pervasive!

Cheers!

Deki Fox
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

It was lively in the chat room during the show, and here’s something I loved from someone there: “Crop circles are something we can SEE, TOUCH and let the mind puzzle over while the heart opens to the mystery they are.”

And here’s a bit of chat room transcript. Ilene and I were talking about the natives in South America, with no concept of ships, not recognizing them in their harbors when the white man came to the New World:

DD: The shamans/holy men of the tribe caught the vision/meaning of the ships on the horizon and told stories that made sense to the natives until they could then understand what they were seeing.

DD: Suzanne is our current-day shaman with regards to the crop circles!

Ilene: don’t understand what you’re saying with that one, DD

DD: The shamans did ‘work’ until the ‘people’ could make sense of what they saw.

Crop Circles, World Press

New World Ahead

July 4, 2010 admin 1 Comment

To follow up on the last post, these are excerpts from another piece Daniel Pinchbeck wrote, about a subject vital to me: how, given the internet environment, to get works of art to the public — which also is a jumping off point for Daniel to talk about related aspects of our internet world. The excerpts are along the lines of my thinking about reorganizing ourselves.

The War for Control of the Story

Excerpts:

“We have a viable opportunity to make a nonviolent transition from a hierarchic to a ‘holarchic’ form of social organization, from a social order that is vertically controlled by a manipulative elite to a horizontally distributed orchestration of power and resources for a new planetary culture. This shift will require not only a new set of cultural and societal practices, but the telling, retelling, and eventual imprinting of a new story. In this process, our fundamental concepts of ‘the good’ and ‘the beautiful,’ our basic understanding of the nature of human freedom and the value of life, will be deconstructed and remade.”

“Part of the new myth that our culture needs to tell about itself, as many thinkers have proposed, is the story of how we became deluded into believing we were separate from the earth, rather than a part of her, and how this led to imbalance and discontent. Another, more controversial element of our new emergent myth, I believe, is the realization that the psychic and physical aspects of our being are not cut off from each other, but inseparable and inextricably meshed.”

PS: Daniel has a new movie of his own: 2012: Time For Change. Click here for info on upcoming screenings in New York City and Portland.