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Seed thoughts on dialogue.

By Parry, Glenn R.
Publication: ReVision
Date: Thursday, January 1 2004

Over the past two decades. I have been blessed to be part of a group involved in an ongoing conversation around the relationship of language, meaning, world views, Native America. consciousness, and science--especially quantum physics. In the last five years. the organization in which I am director. Source for Educational Empowerment and Community Development (SEED), has been sponsoring formal dialogues moderated by Blackfoot elder Leroy Little Bear, on these same topics. (1) In this piece, I Trace the history of how these dialogues came about, discuss some of the nuances of dialo

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