[Oe List ...] Maliwada HDP consult 50th anniversary

Thu Sep 11 07:06:57 PDT 2025

On site visit would be great, and also link lots of folks up online.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 8:48 AM Lynda C via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
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> What a grand idea!  We were a later group, but  it would be so wonderful
> to visit with colleagues in India and those we journeyed with in that
> pioneering venture.  John and I aren’t traveling as much these days, but
> would love to be part of some zoom conversations and reflections along the
> way with those who can be present on site and visually.   50 years ago!
> Glad that you were there!  Thankful for your parents’ vision and labors.
>   Lynda and John
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> *From: *OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> on behalf of Kevin Balm via
> OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Date: *Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
> *To: *'Order Ecumenical Community' <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Cc: *balmkevin at gmail.com <balmkevin at gmail.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [Oe List ...] Maliwada HDP consult 50th anniversary
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> Dear Colleagues the following is a msg I posted to a few colleagues on
> WhatsApp whose numbers I had. I was encouraged to post the message here.
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> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I’ve been thinking how to mark the 50th anniversary of the Maliwada HDP
> (which also marks my 50 years of association with OE/ICA). The most obvious
> way that came to mind was a visit to Maliwada in Jan 2026. Then I got to
> thinking how much more meaningful it would be to do so with colleagues who
> were there at that time.
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> Dharma replied: “What an opportunity it would be to reflect on the vision
> that brought us there and what our experience and the passage of time says
> about the future”.
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> The Parekh farm in Nasik could be an ideal place for such reflections. We
> could gather in Nasik at the Parekh farm and travel to Maliwada (a 2.5 hour
> journey each way) or start in Aurangabad, visiting Maliwada and then
> proceeding to the Parekh farm.
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> So, who is interested in travelling to Maliwada to mark the occasion?
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>
> Regards
>
> Kevin
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> *From:* OE <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net> *On Behalf Of *Nancy
> Lanphear via OE
> *Sent:* Thursday, 11 September 2025 11:16 AM
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> *Cc:* Nancy Lanphear <nancylanphear at gmail.com>; Order Ecumenical
> Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Oe List ...] Another offering
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> I love singing together. This is one of the legacies of the Order for us
> here at Songaia. ♥️♥️
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> On Sep 10, 2025, at 4:52 PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <*oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>*> wrote:
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> Sounds good (resonates) with me. MM
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> On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM Don Bushman via OE <*oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>*> wrote:
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> "so long as I was possessed by this spirit, it would be literally
> impossible for me deliberately to injure another human being.' The quote
> from Weigel from Auden.
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>
> One of my realizations from the Tillich game at the end of that RS1
> seminar (am I accepted Dr. Tillich?) has allowed me to see the relationship
> of my behavior to the "I am-ness" of my life. The radical (as in root)
> state of existence is our wholeness at every moment. When we choose between
> taking this action or that action, we manifest how we have taken
> responsibility for our behavior. We demonstrate what we pay obeisance to
> and how we alone are to answer for our choice.
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> When I am at peace, well emotionally regulated, as I imagine Auden was at
> the time of his experience, I have on occasion known my own wholeness-aware
> of my own comfort (safety) in the moment at the same time seeing that in
> the people around me.
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> I notice this feeling when my body, especially the emotional feeling state
> of my body, is calm, what others would call regulated. It is only when
> dysregulated that I choose behavior which is harmful to my neighbor. Ah,
> and dysregulation can come from being in a state of joy or intimate
> attraction, not just fear. (Although fear might be the
> deeply buried underlying emotion which drives our reproductive urges)
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> Because of our colleague David Dunn, I have encountered Jacob Collier. He
> has reminded me of the emotion altering power of music as well as
> demonstrating how singing together creates a shared safe space. It may be
> that singing together is the practice (as in spiritual practice) which most
> quickly regulates us and encourages this feeling of connection Auden Wiegel
> Laphear Hamilton and Hamilton speak of.
>
>
> Don Bushman
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> 828-292-9696
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> On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM Linda Hamilton via OE <*oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>*> wrote:
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> Yes the Haikus came first, then the music from an ai app. I asked for a
> tune that would fit the Haiku style and the mood of the six verses as a
> whole. I was also reminded me of the preschool song we used to sing “When
> I’m on my journey there is no one there but me .. etc.”
>
> Sent from my iPad
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> On Sep 10, 2025, at 4:52 AM, James Wiegel via OE <*oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>*> wrote:
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> In the land of the lonely — thanks for the song, Milan, are the verses
> really haiku?  Wow.
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> your song addressed my life.  All your songs do:  putting verse out there,
> not just “watching all the world go by” and this one reminded me of the
> final solitude I am dancing around.  (Judy and I are both updating our
> living trust and hosting 2 grandkids — so full of life and energy and
> clearly living in a different, if not other world.
>
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> Also, and only indirectly related, I had come across that statement from
> Auden and wanted somehow to pass it on.  The two got conflated, vs. dealing
> with the impact of each on its own.
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> Thanks, again, and kudos to your writing group.
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> “…the long work
> of turning their lives
> into a celebration
> is not easy. Come and let us talk“.
>
> The Sunflowers. Mary Oliver
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> On Sep 8, 2025, at 9:34 AM, Milan Hamilton via OE <*oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>*> wrote:
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> Yes Nancy, I wasn’t sure of my response would be to what Jim responded
> with, but I have even found in these past few years that occurring in a
> “strange bedfellowhood group,” my writing group has a black former teacher
> and a Mexican American, a Brit, a woman who grew up in a village in Germany
> whose mother was killed in her house she was building by American bombers
> on the last days of the war, all of the former who are sympathetic if not
> enthusiastic with my political persuasions. Several Christians
> evangelicals, a couple of Seventh Day Adventists, and at least two MAGA
> Republicans, one who thinks Trump is the Messiah (my interpretation). The
> point of my lengthy context is that when the members of this group are
> writing their stories and talking about their lives instead of their
> beliefs, on a number of our two hour sharing sessions, what Jim and you are
> referring to seems to be present in the room. Milan
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Sep 8, 2025, at 12:03 AM, Nancy Lanphear via OE <*oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>*> wrote:
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> Thanks Jim, for sharing this piece by W H Auden. I’ve  had a similar
> experience again and again with various configurations here in my
> community. Living in community and constantly meeting in groups or
> individuals “on the path” ….. it reminds me how fortunate I am to have a
> home in which to practice the experience of  “fellow hood” over and over
> again.
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> Sent with love. ❤️
>
> Nancy
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> On Sep 7, 2025, at 9:27 PM, James Wiegel via OE <*oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>*> wrote:
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> Thanks, Milan.  An abrupt ending.
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> I ran across this from W. H. Auden last week.  I think it is somehow
> related . . .
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> What we used to mean by fellowhood
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> "One fine summer night in June 1933 l was sitting on a lawn after dinner
> with three colleagues, two women and one man. We liked each other well
> enough but we were certainly not intimate friends, nor had any one of us a
> sexual interest in another. Incidentally, we had not drunk any alcohol. We
> were talking casually about everyday matters when, quite suddenly and
> unexpectedly, something happened. I felt myself invaded by a power which,
> though I consented to it, was irresistible and certainly not mine. For the
> first time in my life I knew exactly — because, thanks to the power, I was
> doing it - what it means to love one's neighbor as oneself. I was also
> certain, though the conversation continued to be perfectly ordinary, that
> my three colleagues were having the same experience. (In the case of one of
> them, I was later able to confirm this.) My personal feelings towards them
> were unchanged - they were still colleagues, not intimate friends — but I
> felt their existence as themselves to be of infinite value and rejoiced in
> it.
>
> I recalled with shame the many occasions on which I had been spiteful,
> snobbish, selfish, but the immediate joy was greater than the shame, for 1
> knew that, so long as I was possessed by this spirit, it would be literally
> impossible for me deliberately to injure another human being. I also knew
> that the power would, of course, be withdrawn sooner or later and that,
> when it did, my greed and self-regard would return. The experience lasted
> at its full intensity for about two hours when we said good-night to each
> other and went to bed. When I awoke the next morning, it was still present,
> though weaker, and it did not vanish completely for two days or so. The
> memory of the experience has not prevented me from making use of others,
> grossly and often, but it has made it much more difficult for me to deceive
> myself about what I am up to when I do. And among the various factors which
> several years later brought me back to the Christian faith in which I had
> been brought up, the memory of this experience and asking myself what it
> could mean was one of the most crucial, though, at the time it occurred, I
> thought I had done with Christianity for good."
>
> ~ W. H. Auden, from his Introduction to
>
> 'The Protestant Mystics',
>
> ", edited by
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> Anne Freemantle
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> “We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make
> that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking
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> On Sep 6, 2025, at 5:37 PM, Milan Hamilton via OE <*oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
> <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>*> wrote:
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> My writing group, the Joslyn Joy Writers ( a bunch of seniors who meet
> weekly to share what they are writing. They thought this one was worthy so
> I am putting it out there. The assignment for the week was to write about
> the "Land of the Lonesome" but I took a liberty and wrote six "Haikus in
> the Land of the Lonely" and then put it to a simple tune and added my
> voice. We have to continue in poetry and song what we can't say any other
> way these days.
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> *https://youtu.be/Mq_uTYpDr28 <https://youtu.be/Mq_uTYpDr28>*
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