February 9, 2023 webinar:
Weaving a Web of Meaning: How Recognizing Our Deep Interrelatedness Lays a Path to Sustainable Flourishing
Presentation Overview:
Our dominant worldview tells us we’re split between mind and body, separate from each other, and at odds with the natural world. This worldview has passed its expiration date: it’s based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings. In this talk, based on themes from his recent book, The Web of Meaning, author Jeremy Lent will discuss how another worldview is possible—recognizing our deep interrelatedness with all of life.
Showing how modern scientific knowledge echoes the ancient wisdom of earlier cultures, the talk weaves together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous wisdom.
About the February 9th presenter:
Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning books, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, and The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, trace the historical underpinnings and flaws of the dominant worldview, and offer a foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a flourishing future. He has written extensively about the vision of, and pathways toward, an ecological civilization and is founder of the Deep Transformation Network.
Respondent: Rev. “Twinkle” Marie Manning is the senior minister for The Church of Kineo in Rockwood and the contract minister for the Universalist Church of Waterville, Maine. She is an interfaith minister, poet, author, artist and an award-winning television producer. She is the creator and executive producer of TV for Your Soul and leads the Empowering Women TV Project. She curates the Women of Spirit and Reflection & Blessing Books series by Matrika Press. Her first poetry book, Accompanied, was published in 2021. Twinkle leads retreats and workshops, and is in demand as a speaker for groups, organizations and churches. Her personal theology, motto and mantra is Living Life as a Prayer. Twinkle resides with her family on majestic Moosehead Lake in Maine.
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