When
Humberto [Maturana]
says that ‘Love is the only emotion that expands
intelligence,’ it reminds us that legitimacy and trust are
crucial for the free flow of information and for how
information gets transformed into value.
We will need to use the heart more, which means the
quality of our being and relationships with one another become
more and more central in allowing an organization to
flourish.
~~Greg Merten
in Presence
(STEPPING
TO THE EDGE ...) ENSURING THIS THING CAN FLY
This
work must be “legitimized” in some way that ultimately
resonates from within each person without
resorting to a top-down, goats-and-sheep perspective we’re so
accustomed to. This
is not about my personal ‘I’ but rather about every
‘I’; this is not about any given I as 'special', but rather each
and every one of us as unique and Experiential / potentially
Experiential Human Beings and tuned in to same-same, the Heart
that makes us ONE.
In
other words, for starters, this work must be seen on its own merits,
whether I have 0 or 100 professional degrees and licenses, whether I have accomplished
certain types of recognized things or nothing, on the basis of
Experiences-in-common with many others. In short, we
could say on the basis of the heart and authenticity and whatever
else plugs us all into the Self we all are. Being simple and
being real [authentic] helps us avoid the shadow side that manifests
the poison of that 'us vs. them' mentality -- from that
Oneness connectivity, we all SEE this. All in good fun:
it's a no-brainer! .. beyond the "brain bucket"* or pale, I mean, pail.
I believe this is crucial to our mutual enabling that allows us to
'cross the bridge' together [wHere[the]twoworldsTouch] as naturally
as the unfolding of a rose. Other than the
self/Self and the unitive relational web, each person needs to feel
assured and competent in their own journey just where they are and
as they are.
THE
SHADOW .. DOESN'T KNOW AT ALL!
(Do you remember that spooky line from radio days, "The shadow
knows!"?) Two things that get in the way of this universally
potential awakening are (1) glamour and (2) any false and unnecessary imposed "requirement"
for
other resources [e.g., money, the fallacious expectations and
desires of others].
(1)
Glamour
Life without glamour is basically life without projections. People do not always intend to be
glamour magnets. It must take a lot of glamour crows [you know
how much crows love shiny sparkly things!] to produce a glamour star.
I remember reading in Presence something about we need to give up
our dependency on charismatics as leaders, to see leadership and
decision making through achieving "a state of clarity about and
connection to what is emerging, to an 'inner knowing' where, 'in a
sense, there is no decision making. What to do just becomes
obvious ...'" based on, to the point, "where you are
coming from and who you are as a person," suggests Brian
Arthur. This is the epitome
of operating from inside the new worldview, post-consciousness
shift.
A common type of projection that comes into play [havoc] when people
glamorize someone is some twisted rendition of 'Wow, that person Up
There can do that [e.g. EHE or a vision for something], but
surely that means that I couldn't do or be that, or that I could be
Up There!' And that kind of thinking stops people short of realizing all they can be,
even more so if it is reinforced in any way by whoever they are
projecting that on.
Of course, the bigger and even more helpful challenge probably is to
get this message across to everyone 'out there' about the
disadvantages of all that glowy glitter!
I'm certainly no charismatic! But am I ever
big on mission, authenticity and 'it's all us chickadees'! My
objective is to reinforce the message in a way that inspires / frees
everyone to re-member the 'Leader' within every Human heart -- the
'Self we all are'. Even better, if we can all learn to do this
with the deeply inward Presencing discernment described by Brian
Arthur. When we naturally operate out of that profoundly clear
tuned-inness, exemplified also in the EHE aftereffects, WE ARE THERE,
ONE.
(2)
Imposed or False 'Requirements'
Examples of such impositions are: no one needs to look to a guru or to
fork over x amount of dollars in order to get a particular technique
or book or membership or certificate to "make" this very natural
process unfold from within. The EHEerly values potential comes with
being human and is maturing into experience just fine as long as we
don't interfere. That's not to say certain knowledge and
methods don't help, but at least people are not getting any false
message, such as, they have to get something outside their own inner Selfing
process for this to occur. ..Which is another way to say
everyone can trust their heart or inner knowing for guidance as to
what might benefit their journey, which might take them to a guru or
a book or to something internal instead, like, "Be still and
know ..."
Even exceptional experience is
not a, I want to say, prerequisite. That will come. Even
understanding is not a pre-requirement, but we all believe it helps!
Taking these aeonic cosmic tricksters out of the picture from the
get-go -- glamour and the false idea of other requirements -- greatly diminishes the possibilities for people feeling
any angst or fear of
not having what it takes, such as being required to meet someone
else's expectations for something that they may not have or be able
to produce.
Only in this way
can the natural bridge be built that becomes imagin-able and accessible to
everyone. Because only in this way, through the close-to-home
examples and stories of each other and through the practices
of presencing and dialoguing that seem so native to the perspective
of the Heart, can we as
individual, evolving beings [read that also as 'local'] see the way for our
moving forward through this Shift.
This is how, I believe, this Movement wakening to its own
existence and Voice must happen. That legitimacy must come
from within each person as heshe's Experiencing eventually opens the
door to the more unitive knowing. Through Experience [and
beyond concept], eventually all our internal compasses are
recalibrated to find without fail, the true north that brings us to
that oneness. The Archimedean point is the exceptional
human experience at the bottom of the U that "changes
everything." The superb simplicity of Dr. Jaworski said
it best in Presence: ".. period. End of
paragraph."
This
conception or growing awareness must be acknowledged, accepted, received on the terms of what
we most have in common, the unitive connection of
our Experiences / potential Experiences and not on the basis
of what sets us apart. Concurrence
spontaneously comes from Experience, which results in the
essentially universal aftereffects; that is its own legitimacy in
every person. This
is where we can all meet as 'I am you in another body' – across the great
divide of haves/have-nots of every possible description –
becoming the MORE that we potentially all are.
This is where we together discover our in-common essence of
the Human distinction, our very real Oneness.
We
need to know what brings us together, not what sets us apart
-- our Oneness-Recognition IQ or something.
And there is a tenderness to this that needs to be
acknowledged and protected – this green-growing edge of our blossoming
Humanhood in this relatively new turn on the spiral. This is
what takes us all to the same page where we can work and be
"the new world" together.
No one is better or less than, because we one-and-all
come from the very same Source.
We one-and-all are playing our parts here, whatever
they may be, as Human Beings.
The most simple person potentially can provide “the
answers” to any given challenge that we face together on equal ground with someone
considered by old standards to be a seasoned
leader. There's a
wonderful story by Juanita Brown entitled,
"The
Least Qualified Among Us: Listening for the Wisdom in the
Group,"
about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers movement from the 1960s.
A community of workers and families had been chewing on their
immediate problem for hours without getting anywhere. Cesar
Chavez had asked for any and everyone to share whatever came to mind
that might help, and even so, they didn't seem to be getting any
closer to a plan. As the talking was lapsing into longer
disheartened silences, finally, an old woman in the back of
the crowd, wrapped in the native garb of her homeland and speaking softly in Spanish, suggested
humbly, hesitantly, a truly inspired option that became the modus
operandi that led to their success.
I
am that reticent woman in another body; Rhea A. White is she, as
well, no longer in a bodysuit, but in heart and in the heart of this
work. Each of you and others who have come forward to feed
this FLAME of our Becoming are she, taking courage to step forward
when the heart is compelled to do so.
We are each human but we are all potentially capable of
becoming the unitive consciousness / force of the MORE that is Human.
That levels the playing field so no one gets left
behind for the wrong reasons [not that there are any right
reasons for anyone to be left behind].
All
said and done, we each choose or not to see that
AtL / wHe is simply another enabling conduit that allows all
of us to find each other on the same page and to consciously network
for this purpose as a
whole. Any of us at any moment may be a signpost of and
within this new consensus reality we are
discovering and co-creating together.
The
Organ of Authenticity
Your expression of the simple eloquence of Humberto Maturano and
Greg Merton in Presence provides perhaps the most inspired
guidance:
'Love is the only emotion that expands
intelligence.' ... We will need to use the heart more, which means the
quality of our being and relationships with one another become
more and more central in allowing an organization to
flourish.
*"Brain
bucket" -- an expression used by Jill Bolte
Taylor in My Stroke of Insight.
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This
should be maybe a third this length, for which I apologize!
Time is of the essence, yet this begs to be included here, because
it has for sometime been a concern, and it seems useful to bring
this to your attention.
