{"id":637,"date":"2013-01-11T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=637"},"modified":"2013-01-14T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:59:13","slug":"gestalt-of-the-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/gestalt-of-the-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Gestalt of the Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by David Sparenberg, author of <a title=\"Life in the Age of Extinctions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ovimagazine.com\/art\/9405\" target=\"_blank\">Life in the Age of Extinctions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We cannot talk about greening<br \/>\nwithout talking about peace<br \/>\nWe cannot talk about peace<br \/>\nwithout talking about justice<br \/>\nWe cannot talk about justice<br \/>\nwithout addressing injustice<br \/>\nWe cannot speak of injustice with integrity<br \/>\nwithout talking about the problems of injustice<br \/>\nsuch as race and poverty, exploitation<br \/>\nand so on.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot talk about the problems<br \/>\nwithout talking about indifference to suffering<br \/>\nWe cannot talk about indifference to suffering<br \/>\nwithout examining the labyrinth of violence<br \/>\nWe cannot speak of violence<br \/>\nwithout talking about hatred<br \/>\nWe cannot talk about hatred<br \/>\nwithout talking about fear<br \/>\nWe cannot talk about fear<br \/>\nwithout addressing the mutuality of vulnerability<br \/>\nand the given condition of relatedness.<br \/>\n<!--more-->We cannot talk about greening of the planet<br \/>\nwithout talking about egocentricity and greed<br \/>\nWe cannot speak honestly of this awareness<br \/>\nwithout acknowledging the bitter fruit of arrogance<br \/>\nwithout recognizing the healing significance of humility<br \/>\nand compassion.<\/p>\n<p>No talking of self<br \/>\nwithout talking with otherness<br \/>\nNo speaking of where we should be<br \/>\nwithout embracing where we are<br \/>\nNo words about the play upon the world stage<br \/>\nwithout coming to terms<br \/>\nwith the global village players<br \/>\nNo emotional exchange with our players<br \/>\nwithout an emotional attachment<br \/>\nto the playing field<br \/>\nNo meeting here with our masks on<br \/>\nno falling into the fatality of silence<br \/>\nFor it is paramount that we speak of greening<br \/>\nand short of extinction<br \/>\nthat we talk of peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Sparenberg, author of Life in the Age of Extinctions We cannot talk about greening without talking &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/gestalt-of-the-dialogue\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[88,253,252],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-and-prose","tag-david-sparenberg","tag-dialogue","tag-ovi-magazine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4azYr-ah","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}