As I'm sure you have experience with your local community building - getting folks on board with a way of thinking is a great challenge. How have you approached sharing these ideas, and what has been the response?
I've been wondering how important this "unified vision" piece is - after all, we all have different ways of contributing to the greater good - whether it be a religious/god or spiritual path/guru, a scientific lens with system thinking, a political passion for finding the workable next steps, an artistic expression of loving kindness, a servant-leadership model of helping and mentoring others, a calling to build a family and raise kids with compassion - it all belongs and is all a part of the great awakening. I may be completely wrong, but I think the "thing" that unites us is unspeakable, un-namable, not leveragable to push agendas.. and yet, it does unite us, and it does help us make a collective impact.
Thanks, Jason, for speaking my world view. Each of us is like a cell in a bigger 'body' system of community. Each of us is following our hearts and doing our parts, ideally. Perhaps @Suzanne Taylor is answering a call to be a guiding visionary who can hold the Big Vision of unity. To inspire and motivate the kind of changes we're longing for. The Bigness of the vision and the tasks can feel overwhelming to those who do not hold that role...
I like your way of expressing the beauty and power of each path. My work is to shine a light on healing the inner oppression that keeps us from showing up and fulfilling our role, as part of the whole. More to come.
For you and @JASONSEARS78, we all get out parts and I've always headed up things. I have my guidance to lead a parade now. Without the urgency of getting ourselves on a better collective path evolution would have us becoming a more united and enlightened species all the time, but, because we are so vulnerable to catastrophic failure, best we look for what can turn us collectively from being hurtful to one another to being healing for each other and for Earth.
My emphasis is on teaching awakening. The more us that awaken to who and what we really are underneath what comes-and-goes between our ears, the more the outer reality will sort itself out naturally.
Absolutely. That comes first. And you do it well - which I know firsthand from way back in my living room. We each get our roles to play, and mine is to get the people you tune in organized so they would naturally affect the outer reality.
Google it. You know the danger here, where any progressive third party would take enough votes away from the lame Democratic party to let the even more lame Republican party win.
I celebrate the task you have taken for yourself. One aspect is acknowledging the many positive practices available to us. Another is to put pressure on governments to stimulate people power. The other aspect is a wisdom council. Is this correct? To encourage people to do all three? Do you have a wisdom council?
Making up practices rather than acknowledging any existing ones is how I’d say it. And the pressure a large coalition would put on government would be for more humane legislation, not for people power although the legislations would be about serving the people. The Wisdom Council idea is made up out of whole cloth for a democratic way to get leadership rather than having it be top down. It requires one powerful, beloved person to step forward to start it. My whole game plan is for a new way to do things where none of it is in play now. Thanks for taking the time to check it out and I welcome any ideas you have to add to the ones I have to get us going in the right direction.
I have a different game plan. There are others, lots of people working in the right direction. The trick is collaboration, I guess. What's the minimum thing we do to get social validation?
I'm coming to end of writing a book. Ideas, practices for whole system change. We are already connected, we just need to do so in stronger ways that generate iterative social validation. I'd like to help others find you. You have a good synthesis. You are valuable. We can meet online, record it, see what results?
All game changing ideas and if not now when??
As I'm sure you have experience with your local community building - getting folks on board with a way of thinking is a great challenge. How have you approached sharing these ideas, and what has been the response?
I've been wondering how important this "unified vision" piece is - after all, we all have different ways of contributing to the greater good - whether it be a religious/god or spiritual path/guru, a scientific lens with system thinking, a political passion for finding the workable next steps, an artistic expression of loving kindness, a servant-leadership model of helping and mentoring others, a calling to build a family and raise kids with compassion - it all belongs and is all a part of the great awakening. I may be completely wrong, but I think the "thing" that unites us is unspeakable, un-namable, not leveragable to push agendas.. and yet, it does unite us, and it does help us make a collective impact.
Thanks, Jason, for speaking my world view. Each of us is like a cell in a bigger 'body' system of community. Each of us is following our hearts and doing our parts, ideally. Perhaps @Suzanne Taylor is answering a call to be a guiding visionary who can hold the Big Vision of unity. To inspire and motivate the kind of changes we're longing for. The Bigness of the vision and the tasks can feel overwhelming to those who do not hold that role...
I like your way of expressing the beauty and power of each path. My work is to shine a light on healing the inner oppression that keeps us from showing up and fulfilling our role, as part of the whole. More to come.
For you and @JASONSEARS78, we all get out parts and I've always headed up things. I have my guidance to lead a parade now. Without the urgency of getting ourselves on a better collective path evolution would have us becoming a more united and enlightened species all the time, but, because we are so vulnerable to catastrophic failure, best we look for what can turn us collectively from being hurtful to one another to being healing for each other and for Earth.
My emphasis is on teaching awakening. The more us that awaken to who and what we really are underneath what comes-and-goes between our ears, the more the outer reality will sort itself out naturally.
Absolutely. That comes first. And you do it well - which I know firsthand from way back in my living room. We each get our roles to play, and mine is to get the people you tune in organized so they would naturally affect the outer reality.
Suzanne, how successful has anyone in the consciousness movement been at starting a new political party (anywhere in the world)?
Google it. You know the danger here, where any progressive third party would take enough votes away from the lame Democratic party to let the even more lame Republican party win.
I celebrate the task you have taken for yourself. One aspect is acknowledging the many positive practices available to us. Another is to put pressure on governments to stimulate people power. The other aspect is a wisdom council. Is this correct? To encourage people to do all three? Do you have a wisdom council?
Making up practices rather than acknowledging any existing ones is how I’d say it. And the pressure a large coalition would put on government would be for more humane legislation, not for people power although the legislations would be about serving the people. The Wisdom Council idea is made up out of whole cloth for a democratic way to get leadership rather than having it be top down. It requires one powerful, beloved person to step forward to start it. My whole game plan is for a new way to do things where none of it is in play now. Thanks for taking the time to check it out and I welcome any ideas you have to add to the ones I have to get us going in the right direction.
I have a different game plan. There are others, lots of people working in the right direction. The trick is collaboration, I guess. What's the minimum thing we do to get social validation?
First things first is to find those others. I can't find them. Point me to them if you can.
Others? Beyond you or me? Or do we not qualify? Shouldn't we verify ourselves in some way first?
Love to hear from you or anyone with your ideas or whatever would connect us up.
I'm coming to end of writing a book. Ideas, practices for whole system change. We are already connected, we just need to do so in stronger ways that generate iterative social validation. I'd like to help others find you. You have a good synthesis. You are valuable. We can meet online, record it, see what results?