The Hoop & the Tree: A Compass for Finding Deeper Relationship with All LifeCouncil 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
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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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Page 6 - And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
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