The Unfolding — Origami, the Quaker Clearness Committee, and the Wisdom You Already Have (9/27/2026)

<p>&quot;You have access to the deepest wisdom you need within you.&quot;</p><p>This episode explores the life journey through the metaphor of origami. An artist starts with a single square. They fold and fold — never cutting, never tearing — until a flat sheet becomes something complex and organic. And then, if they wish, they can unfold it all the way back to a square. The shape is gone, but its story is still in the paper: an origami master can read the crisscrossing creases and tell you what was made there.</p><p>Every choice you make after a moment of real discernment is another fold. Most of the time we cannot see the shape we&#39;re making, and our own unfolded sheet looks like nothing but crossing lines.</p><p>Along the way: the Quaker Clearness Committee, which is not an advice circle — the others in the room may only ask open, honest questions, because the wisdom you need is already in you and what you need is community to hold the space while you find it. Eckhart Tolle on looking for truth elsewhere. And the four ashramas from <em>Age-ing to Sage-ing</em>, along with my quarrel with them: we have learned what the monastic life has to teach. What we need now are deeply spiritual householders.</p><p>I also say a word about what &quot;worship&quot; means, and why our inherited version of it may not have been healthy.</p><p>Our Great World House holds the ICE shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in North Austin, and the vigil at the site. Woody Hibbard reads the Voice of Wisdom, from Joseph Chilton Pearce. Recorded live at San Gabriel Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Georgetown, Texas.</p><p></p>