Welcome! Jon Ramer's Page

Thanks for the kind words of support for B Jibe.  I know Ideal Network as well through Ronnie Bell; we met through Social Innovation Fast Pitch.   It was good seeing you at the OM center a few weeks ago for Sherri Herndon's event.  I look to forward sharing more the next time our paths cross.  And if you ever want to grab coffee, please don't hesitate to ask.! 

Jon, (just sent you a message and lost it LOL)

I am a story teller so I will love to tell a story re compassion.  Compassion does not always show it's beautiful face on a large scale, sometimes it uses a small unnoticed act (or so it would seem) to pierce the heart, enabling it's flower to burst forth, totally uninhibited. I don't have internet, so next time I am here using a dear friends services, I will write

Hello, I have just really discovered this multiverse. So what now, why, and how? thanks

Hmm.  Did I do that right?  In case I didn't, here's a message I think I just sent to you...

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Dear Jon Ramer --

Just wanted to say good morning, and thank you for the steady sustained leadership you have maintained for many years.

I wanted to mention a modest little conversation that is beginning to emerge -- that might be connecting some elements you would find exciting.

I am responding particularly right now, this morning, because I just got a message from Compassionate Seattle, mentioning an interfaith leadership summit that is coming up.  Checking that out -- I'd say the basic themes are of wide interest -- and might become part of an emerging broadly connected "circle" process of some kind -- that puts critical elements on the table, and begins to build some robust connections that can "move this movement" in some exciting ways.

I've been posting some messages on Phil Lane's "Four Worlds" web system, and have been citing your draft document on "Deep Social Networks" for a couple of years.  I believe in that vision, and feel that it contains "seed power" for something that might become significant and inclusive.

"Starting from within, working in a circle, in a
sacred manner, we develop and heal ourselves, our
relationships, and the world."

http://networkofcircles.net/docs/DeepSocialNetworks.pdf

Maybe we are coming into a time where it might be possible to "call a circle" (as Christina Baldwin might say) that widely embraces critical issues -- connecting the primal indigenous vision ("The hoop of the nation is broken") with emerging contemporary interfaith -- and with the transformative politics of community that is pushing to be born all over the world...

Tom Atlee (do you know him?) has a new book -- "Empowering Public Wisdom" -- http://empoweringpublicwisdom.us/ -- and we've been exploring some issues on his blog, at http://tom-atlee.posterous.com/we-need-to-reformulate-political-power-now

And I posted a message about this on Occupy Cafe, in their "Friends of Lakota" conversation http://www.occupycafe.org/group/friends-of-lakota?xg_source=activity

The idea that is beginning to glimmer in my mind -- would be to follow this idea about "calling a circle" -- if the people I'd like to see in the circle might be interested -- exploring ways that these slightly separated elements (interfaith, politics, indigenous wisdom, circles, community, etc) can be called together into a conversation that is bigger than any of us, or any of these subjects.

There's a lot that can be done -- and maybe an emerging potential for a "deep social network" of real significance.  

Thanks again for your continuing vision and stability.

- Bruce Schuman, Santa Barbara

http://sharedpurpose.net

http://circle2012.net