“Respect, Kinship, and Love: The Workshop” with Glenn Aparicio Parry

Respect, Kinship, and Love: The Workshop

July 23rd, 2023. 1-3:30pm

Cost: $25 – No one turned away

When the East Indian sage Ramana Maharshi was asked, “How should we treat others?” he replied, “There are no others.”

A similar view exists in Indigenous cultures, where there is an understanding that we are radically interconnected (related) with all there is; hence, the expression “All my relations” is commonly used in Native prayers.

In Western cultures, on the other hand, we commonly speak of—and some-times fear—“the other.” Even romantic partners are spoken of as “significant others.” Such a worldview restricts the concept of kinship to blood relations and inhibits mystical union between lovers. It also inhibits the deepest friendships from developing among diverse peoples of the world.

This workshop seeks to recover what we lost when we deadened our relationship with the earth, with our fellow beings, and with the divine.

After opening remarks and Q and A, Glenn will then facilitate a deep group dialogue session in which we will come away with not only an experience of love, but a heartfelt and deeper understanding of the way respect, kinship, and love build upon each other. In today’s complicated and troubled times, this is the kind of understanding and support we all need.

Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD, of Basque, Aragon Spanish, and Jewish descent, is an ed-ucator, ecopsychologist, and two-time Nautilus award winning author of Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again (SelectBooks, 2020) and Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Press, 2015) and is currently writing Original Love, the third book in the trilogy. The founder and past president of the SEED Institute, Parry is currently an adjunct faculty member of the California Institute of Integral Studies, the president of the think tank: Circle for Original Thinking www.originalthinking.us and the host of the Circle for Original Thinking podcast.

Parry organized and participated in the groundbreaking Language of Spirit Confer-ences from 1999 – 2011 that brought together Native and Western scientists in dia-logue, moderated by Leroy Little Bear. Parry now regularly moderates dialogues for various organizations and has appeared in several documentaries, including SEED-ing Change: A Retrospective of the Language of Spirit Dialogues and Journeying to Turtle Island, a biographic film exploring David Peat’s participation in dialogue cir-cles. He is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys hiking and fly fishing. He writes from a fairly remote location in northern New Mexico, where he lives amid wild horses, coyote and mountain lion with his wife Tomoko, dog Momo, and cat Cappuccino.