Partnership, Funding & Collaboration     What Makes for a Good Fit?               Okay, I'll 'fess up here at the get-go:  If my #1 dream opportunity came along, it would look something like this:   A highly accomplished, first-generation tech cherub [or a whole choir of cherubs!] had a visit with God /   Goddess / All That Is when heshe was 5 years old and was one of the original research subjects on whom the aftereffects were based.  Heshe probably got in very early on something like Microsoft stock, or hir own ingenious, Spirit-sourced ideas have been an international sensation for 20+ years, so money is never an issue.  When heshe sees this project, there's this internal jolt of delight and recognition that hir next vocational Adventure has arrived!  In fact intuitively, heshe has been anticipating it for sometime.  Heshe knows the tech, financial, and business worlds inside-out and upside-down; enjoys an elaborate friendship and business network around the world that presidents and ambassadors would envy; and totally connects with this vocational vision that owns me!             After we agree this is the most exciting, wonderful thing on the planet and we want to do this together, hir first official step in taking on this task with me is to turn me over to hir best money manager, and web-wizz team, including editors, programmers, PR folks, artists .. the whole 99 yards, and says, "Let's launch this rocket!"  Within virtually no time at all, a five-year budget of more than $1 billion is finalized and we now have a full-time staff of about 1000 people, divided into more than a dozen subspecialty teams, each responsible for an aspect of the web project.*  We are not just 'employers and employees,' but a living, passionately committed community gathering LIGHT as we go!  We together live out of that new consensus reality!  As the authors of Presence:  Human Purpose and the Field of the Future* might say, we are living, thriving in the *U*!  [Unfamiliar with the *U*?  See C. Otto Scharmer's Theory U, or/and read Presence.*]           And the rest, as they say, is .. ahhh, hirstory!             Now that I've gotten that out of my system, .. I mean, who knows!  I do believe in the integrity and value of this work as a world service, and in the cosmic forces that work with and through us, and that sooner or later, if I just hang in here, nothing less than the very best opportunities will become the primary mutual attractors and catalytic agents for this project.   And so I wait, not only with expectation but with anticipation, to meet my future collaborators and to move ahead in realizing all that wHeretwoworldsTouch can be.              However this may unfold, I am particularly looking for the following characteristics and co-creative support from would-be partners / angel backers:       A passionate interest, even a calling, for the relevant subject matter.  A kind of intuitive or precognitive 'recognition' would definitely be a plus!  This has really got to be a major personal interest.  It's a work of the Heart  -- Ya gotta love the Idea.     A clear sense of personal alignment with the overall views and direction of the project.     Professionalism, commitment, and avidity to see this succeed in all its possible glory.     A facile and open mind as a co-adventurer and collaborator.     A clearly positive outlook on life, unhampered by any sort of negative [e.g.] doomsday-type focus.     Highly relational ‘people’ person/s and excellent two-way communicator/s and who foresee themselves involved as active collaborators.       The financial means, business acumen, and networking capabilities to develop this fully into all it can possibly be.  My preference by far is that any/all partners are in it as a life commitment because they deeply believe in its mission and its success.       Technical expertise and/or the  means to bring into play the necessary technical,  administrative and other support to continue the project's development and long-term sustainment.  [By the way, I have every confidence this web complex will succeed outstandingly financially, if and as this global Consciousness Shift  thrives, as has long been foreseen by so many EHEers.  See Food4Thot:  Such As, as well as the Revenue Streams Table.]     I actively, openly seek partnering with ..     Those whose own lives have been ‘made new’ by spiritually transformative experience or experiences, although my final decision cannot rest on this per se, since the implicit understanding and regard of partners, etc. may instead be the result of a deep empathy or intuition along these lines, shy of actual remembered experience.  The point is to what extent one's lifeviews, goals, lifestyle, and values reflect the fairly universal aftereffects attributed to these events.         ---- *  Thanks for the perfect "$1 billion scenario" to the authors of a crucially important work for our times:  Presence:  Human Purpose and the Field of the Future -- Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers.