Gelinas James

05/26/2026

Field Awareness: A Key to Human Evolution?

I caught myself saying something a week or so ago that sounded…big:

“Expanding awareness of our inner space—along with the social and cosmic fields we’re embedded in—is key to human evolution.”

Grand? Maybe.

True? I think so.

And I’m still discovering what I mean.

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05/13/2026

And yet, this so-called Now is elusive—one moment dissolving into the next, like waves washing onto a shore. You might catch a wave while surfing, or capture one in a photograph. But can you catch a Now…right now?

04/29/2026

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What Difference Do You Want to Make?

Among Jane Goodall’s final words was a simple, radical truth: your life matters—and every day, you make a difference. The only question is: what kind?

Two instructions live inside her message.

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04/28/2026

What Difference Do You Want to Make?

Among Jane Goodall’s final words was a simple, radical truth: your life matters—and every day, you make a difference. The only question is: what kind?

Two instructions live inside her message.

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04/12/2026

What’s More Life-Giving? A Lantern, a Spotlight, or Both?

Envision light from a lantern. What do you see? Perhaps a soft yellow light that feels warm and radiates into the nooks and crannies of the space you are in? Now envision the light from a spotlight. An intense, white light that feels hot and focuses on only a portion of the space.

Which might be more life-giving?

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04/12/2026

The Hermit Carries the Lantern

In The Tarot Handbook: Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols, cross-cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien describes The Hermit as “the lantern bearer, the way-shower, and the wise leader who draws upon internal wisdom and life’s experience as invaluable resources for assisting others through life’s processes.”

In yesterday’s post, Mary Gelinas illuminates how “lantern consciousness,” as described by UC Berkeley psychologist Alison Gopnic, can help us be wiser, more life-giving leaders. See “What’s More Life-Giving? A Lantern, a Spotlight, or Both?” https://www.spaceisnotempty.net/blog for more thoughts on creating life-giving fields as well as in Space Is Not Empty: How Hidden Fields are Shaping Your Life and Our World.

04/07/2026

What’s More Life-Giving? A Lantern, a Spotlight, or Both?

Envision light from a lantern. What do you see? Perhaps a soft yellow light that feels warm and radiates into the nooks and crannies of the space you are in? Now envision the light from a spotlight. An intense, white light that feels hot and focuses on only a portion of the space.

Which might be more life-giving?

READ MORE HERE...https://www.spaceisnotempty.net/blog

Envision light from a lantern. What do you see? Perhaps a soft yellow light that feels warm and radiates into the nooks and crannies of the space you are in? Now envision the light from a spotlight. An intense, white light that feels hot and focuses on only a portion of the space.

04/01/2026

“We are, all at once, composer and composed.” —Maya Angelou
By Mary V. Gelinas

M.C. Escher’s famous drawing of hands illustrates perfectly the message in my March 31 post “What If It’s Not Either This or That?” https://www.spaceisnotempty.net/blog

Our western minds habitually think in opposites, polarities, and separation. I like this, I don’t like that. You are wrong and I am right. I am separate from you as you are separate from me.

But what if this way of thinking is an illusion?

Slowly, and I hope very soon, we are coming to the same realization as Maya Angelou. We are interconnected, part of a seamless whole, simultaneously being the composer and the composed. As Alan Briskin and I point to in 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝐼𝑠 𝑁𝑜𝑡 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑦, we can experience this whole and this multi-directional influencing through field awareness. Just as Escher’s hands are drawing one another, so too the fields are affecting us as we affect the fields around us.

How do you want to compose the field inside and around you as a leader, coach, consultant, organizational, community or family member?