Editor’s Note: Steady readers of Dark Matter will likely recall my friend and neighbor Lynne McFarland who often does me the great kindness of permitting the reprinting of her online posts here.
Beautiful written, felt, and shared, David and Lynne. You are both, we all are so embodied. Speaking of Rev. James Lawson, I participated in a discussion the other day about all things sacred and spiritual. I forget what prompted this, but someone reacted and responded to a piece of the discussion in this way: "I am SO TIRED of the Spiritual Industrial Complex!" I laughed, never having heard that one, and remembering how Dr. Lawson taught us all about plantation capitalism - and about the prison and military industrial complexes. What brings life, peace and joy can also be reorganized, or over-organized, or distorted, and corporatized into yet another opposite-seemingly objectifying, destructive system. Ye gads!
Beautiful written, felt, and shared, David and Lynne. You are both, we all are so embodied. Speaking of Rev. James Lawson, I participated in a discussion the other day about all things sacred and spiritual. I forget what prompted this, but someone reacted and responded to a piece of the discussion in this way: "I am SO TIRED of the Spiritual Industrial Complex!" I laughed, never having heard that one, and remembering how Dr. Lawson taught us all about plantation capitalism - and about the prison and military industrial complexes. What brings life, peace and joy can also be reorganized, or over-organized, or distorted, and corporatized into yet another opposite-seemingly objectifying, destructive system. Ye gads!
Thank you! The thought of you and Lynne and so many of our common people gives me strength and energy and determination.
Lovely writing about embodiment. Thank you David