The following talk is given by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

The last week I went to Minnesota and participated in a collaborative law conference.

You might hear the words collaborative law and think oxymoron or something, right?

Because we think of law as adversaries that are fighting it out and there's a right and

a wrong and a good and a bad.

And this is in contrast to that, a sense of belonging to a whole.

And in some way you're collaborating to address the needs of parts of the whole to find a kind

of viable common ground.

And it was a very powerful experience just to sense how much this and the basic grounds

of this is how do you awaken mindfulness and forgiveness in the process of dealing with

dispute.

This is another example of this paradigm shift that's going on in consciousness.

It's a shift from kind of the egoic mentality of warring entities.

It's kind of dominated by the limbic system to a very integrative consciousness that

it's got that where there's a kind of perception of interdependence and a capacity to call

on that awareness that recognizes what's going on without so much reactivity and can forgive.

Very powerful.

And we're seeing it in all the different domains now, in education and in medicine and business

leadership and so on.

Of course it's gradual because we have 10,000 plus years of wiring to react from a more

egoic consciousness, but it's happening.

It's happening.

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