The Hoop & the Tree: A Compass for Finding Deeper Relationship with All Life

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Council Oak Books, 2000 - 229 pages
The “tree” is the vertical dimension of aspiration,individual growth,and intellectual and spiritual development. The “hoop” is the circular representation of our relationship with humanity and the earth.

Using examples from Native American and other ancient traditions, Chris Hoffman shows readers how to develop both parts of the whole to help people lead a more contented, complete existence.
 

Contents

The Shape of All Shapes
3
The Shape of the Model
7
Evidence from around the World and throughout History
12
The Hoop and the Tree in Our Own Lives
24
Can It Really Help?
28
Setting Off
29
All My Relations The Hoop
33
No Man Is an Island Entire of Itself
36
How Is Your Tree?
137
The Hoop and the Tree The Deep Structure of the Whole Self
141
The HoopandTree Process of Development
144
Growing to Wholeness in the Ecological Hoop
148
Two Forms of Intelligence
152
When the Hoop Is Undeveloped
154
When the Tree Is Undeveloped
157
Addiction and Codependence
160

The Social Atom
37
The Wider Hoop
40
The Ecological Atom
44
Building and Maintaining Relationships
51
A Hoop of Many Hoops
54
How Is Your Hoop?
78
The Holy Tree
81
An Ancient Widespread and Potent Image
84
This Tree Grows Within You
86
Comfort from a High Place
88
The TreeandHoop Process of Development
103
A Modern Tree Story
106
Support from a Low Place
108
The Tree Centers the Hoop
134
Working toward PsychoSpiritual Wholeness
163
The Fully Developed Self Is Ecological
169
Go in Beauty
177
Our Current Situation
180
The Deep Structure of the Healthy Society
182
Bringing the Hoop and Tree into the World
189
The Individuals Journey
197
Paths to Wholeness
199
Who Are You Really? Really?
202
Go in Beauty
206
Notes
211
Profound Thanks
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