You are everything you belong to
At the online Integral European Conference in May 2021, I presented the Wider Embraces, together with Hanna Hündorf and Matthew Painton. The video is a summary of ten years of exploration and also includes a guided session. If you want to know what WE is about, this is the perfect place to start. This is … Read more
On the evening of May 31:th, 2011, I went out the door free. A year later, on a beach in Cape Town, the question “Who is Embracing?” came to me. It’s been a ten-year-long deep dive into understanding the relationship between Humanity and the Biosphere, between Us and the Universe, between all my close circles … Read more
Some time ago, Joel Lazarus and I met for a conversation around his two questions; 1) How did we break? and 2) How do we heal? We talked about how this relates to the Wider Embraces, what universal forces are moving through us, what new perspectives are emerging, how we can move towards a multi-individual … Read more
We dived deep into the Embrace of the Human Culture during our three-hour gathering last Saturday. This Cultural Embrace has always been the most troubling one in so many ways. The first problem is how to define it; is there a global human culture? Does it include our fields of wheat, and what about computers? … Read more
We were asked to feel into how we humans treat the planet and our emotions around this. I went with our burning of coal and oil, and to my surprise, I ended up in the opposite direction from the expected shame corner. And I came back with deep forgiveness in my heart. Who put ALL … Read more
One of the roots of Wider Embraces is the integral theory by Ken Wilber. Before I went on my journey and found the Embraces, I was very active in the integral movement in Sweden. This year, I have applied to present the Wider Embraces method at the huge European Integral Conference, which will be online … Read more
On Saturday, February 12th, we gathered online to spend three hours together in our wider Embraces, coming from California, Massachusetts, Ireland, England, Germany and Sweden. During the first two hours, we explored the personal potential in the middle of the Wheel of WE, and after the break, we went outside and found a round planet! … Read more
Today I used the WE method for my morning meditation, in a session of about 45 minutes. So this is another benefit of training to be a guide, I can do it for myself. And in so doing, train to be able to guide others. Learning the phrases by heart, linking their meaning with the … Read more
When we lean out into our wider Embraces, our perspective changes in many different ways. From living in the past and the future, to the timeless now. From being a part, to be the whole. From conditionally, to unconditionally. As this single human being, I see how we, humans, are destroying life on Earth. We … Read more
On what side of the divide between nature and culture do you live? Or are you one of the few who are living wholeheartedly in the Biosphere? The Biosphere embracing everything alive, including humans. I used to be a nature-person, but then something unexpected happened. This text from my diary April 2011 tells it well: … Read more
