Category Archives: Current 03 – Interpersonal Awareness and Skills

India Journal 2010 Part III: All Rise Together

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Patricia M. Bombard

I left Bija Vidyapeeth on Saturday, December 5th, but mentally and emotionally still am processing my experiences there. It was difficult transitioning from life on the campus and Navdanya’s conservation farm to the Delhi hotel room where I spent two nights surrounded by things I had not seen or thought about in 12 days Continue reading →

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Becoming More Aware In Our Conversations

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Patricia M. Bombard

As human beings we spend most of our lives trying to communicate with other human beings. Given that, you would think we would be much better at it than we are. What is it that makes conversation so difficult? Continue reading →

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Making Waves

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Patricia M. Bombard

One of the findings of the new science that I have had a little fun with is the theory in modern quantum physics that everything, all light and matter, has both wave and particle properties. The theory was described by Albert Einstein in the early 1900’s and is known as the wave-particle duality Continue reading →

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As Death Approaches

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Patricia M. Bombard

These days there is someone in my life who is making her final journey into the great Mystery, as her body is transformed by the death grip of cancer. Her journey brings all of us who know and love her face-to-face with the prospect of our own mortality, the potential ending of what we know, and the weight of what we do not know. Continue reading →

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A Call to Reverence

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Patricia M. Bombard

Awakening to a new understanding of our spiritual identity as human beings means knowing we live in communion with the Divine and all that exists in our Universe. It means going back, in a sense, to something our ancient ancestors seemed to know instinctively or intuitively to be true about ourselves: that “relatedness” is a condition of our existence. Continue reading →

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