To Reinhabit Our Place in the World
David Braden David Braden

To Reinhabit Our Place in the World

Life* is ready to teach you how to reinhabit the place where you live.

As individuals we are alone and vulnerable in a dangerous world.

When we embed ourselves in the pattern of interactions among the living things around us we belong to a community that provides for all of its participants.

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An Organization to Carry Us into the Future
David Braden David Braden

An Organization to Carry Us into the Future

We all need food, shelter, learning, healthy belonging, and purpose. Reinhabit is a cooperative structure for us to create these things for ourselves. There are three ideas that we are taking from brilliant thinkers to achieve this lofty goal.

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Deep Mulch Garden Details
David Braden David Braden

Deep Mulch Garden Details

We treat no plant as a weed because we value every plant’s contribution to quorum sensing and the liquid carbon pathway. We treat no insect as a pest because we value every insect’s role in supplying food for the predator insects and birds that are protecting our plants. We cannot have lady beetles unless we grow aphids to feed them.

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Living in Place
David Braden David Braden

Living in Place

When I read descriptions of enlightenment – realizing oneness and releasing desire – I sometimes think it must be like living in place - to fit fully and completely within the forces playing out around and through us. But those descriptions seem to make the enlightened solely observers – living in the moment. Compared to living in place, it is a abdication of responsibility to interact – to create place as you are created by it.

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David Braden David Braden

The Dance of Creation: Four Aspects of the Foundation of Existence

We humans have forgotten the steps for the role we used to play in this dance. When we began to learn new things we forgot how we need the other dancers. Now we step on toes and drive other dancers out of the dance. Every time we drive a dancer out we make the dance more shallow and more tiresome.

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David Braden David Braden

A Garden for Our Great Grandchildren

Here is the question. Do you want you great grandchildren to be living in a biological desert? That is the direction we are heading. Or, do you want you great grandchildren to be living in a beautiful garden? That may be easier than you think.

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Practical Holism
David Braden David Braden

Practical Holism

In Practical Holism we learn to recognize the flows through the system and how they are affected by human choices. We all build bridges to direct the flows, the best we can, for our own purposes, but alone we are separate and vulnerable in a dangerous world.

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David Braden David Braden

Bridges

An exchange of value between two humans creates a bridge - the volume and duration of the exchange widens and strengthens the bridge.

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David Braden David Braden

Three Dimensional Understanding

The first dimension is what everyone does - seeking out bridges to meet our individual needs. When we understand the world from the point of view of our individual needs we consider it to be a 1st dimensional understanding of system function.

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