Summary of Philip Shepherd's Radical Wholeness

By IRB Media

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#1 The most obvious impediment to my taking the path less traveled was money. I didn’t have any to speak of, but I was equipped with the reasoning ability of an 18-year-old, which suggested that if I could get to London and buy a bicycle, I would eventually arrive in Japan.

#2 The instructions of the Story aren’t reasonable. They aren’t accountable. They are largely hidden. And they often have nothing to do with the truth of the world. Yet, they still feel right to us.

#3 I cycled across Europe, and when I returned home, I felt like everything was different. I had the greatest gift of all: the ability to see the strands of the web that had bound me. I began to question them.

#4 I had a difficult time adjusting to the life I had in America after my bike trip. I wanted to understand the nature of the Story of my culture, and acquire freedom of choice in the matter. I began questioning gravity without ever experiencing anything else.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822502673

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Insights on Philip Shepherd's Radical Wholeness

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was eighteen when I had to make a decision about which path to take in life. I wanted to study physics at the University of Toronto, but I was also drawn to theater. I loved the way theater placed life under a magnifying glass.

#2

The most obvious impediment to my taking the path less traveled was money. I didn’t have any to speak of, but I was equipped with the reasoning ability of an 18-year-old, which suggested that if I could get to London and buy a bicycle, I would eventually arrive in Japan.

#3

The instructions of the Story are not reasonable. They are largely hidden, and they often have nothing to do with the truth of the world. Yet, they still feel right to us.

#4

I cycled across the United States, and when I returned home, I felt like I had completely changed. The normal culture I was raised in was suddenly untenable. I had returned home with the greatest gift of all: the ability to see the strands of the web that had bound me.

#5

I had a harder time stepping outside of my culture. But because my bike trip took me so radically outside of it, and left me so open to the worlds through which I moved, I was able to appreciate how radically the Story lived within me.

#6

Our culture teaches us that matter is made of atoms, which are like little solar systems. It teaches us that our thinking happens in our heads and that our brains are personal computers that process information. It helps us distinguish between a thing and a process.

#7

The Anlo-Ewe culture of West Africa has a different understanding and experience of the senses than ours. They consider balance a primary sense and they devote themselves to its cultivation and appreciation.

#8

The sense of balance is not a sense in the Anlo-Ewe culture. It is a felt relationship between your center of gravity and that of the earth, which is what makes you stable.

#9

The distinction between speech and delivery is important in the Anlo-Ewe culture. Speech is a sense that delivers information, while delivery is a sense that delivers speech.

#10

The presentation mode is the default option in our culture. It is used when we imagine that speaking is about delivery, and it can take over even as you meet a friend on the street. To avoid this mode, try to receive the listener and sense your way forward as you speak.

#11

The Anlo-Ewe culture understands well-being to be dependent on dynamic relationship between the self and others. We, on the other hand, prefer to keep the self in its private container, while the Chosen Five intermittently keep us