Bursting Through

Whereas in April I focused on totally new phenomena I was graced to witness, May’s learning curve affirmed my own learning and passions in remarkable synchronicity.  I discovered colleagues I have yet to meet who affirm and strengthen my skill-building and conscious awareness in the social field, the natural world, and the spiritual world.  

Since I embarked on my path of inner development in my late twenties, I have never expected results to manifest on a timetable.  My spiritual advisors prepared me to leave assessment of achievement aside.  I trust my own capacity to maintain homeostasis while undergoing constant subtle change.  That said, I am awe-struck by encountering so many people, organizations, and even governing bodies like the European Union working on major keynotes of own life-direction: evolution of consciousness,  social field phenomena, and spiritual vision.  The month of May brought weekly expansion, connection, much like the plant world's exuberance every spring!

 

 

Bursting Through  Watercolor 2015

The Deep Meaning of Deep Evolution

20 April 2022 John Vervaeke conversed with John Stewart, an Australian biologist associated with the Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity group of the Free University of Brussels.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NUb2HaElhA

Stewart started his remarks introducing himself as an “evolutionary activist” whose work concentrates on identifying causal microfoundations of large scale patterns.  One can’t extrapolate or predict “the big pull from the future” without looking at this.  Studying causally driven increased complexity won’t help.  Cooperation is a meta-adaptive trait.  

Increasingly complex structures based on past evolution are automatic for a while but then intention has to arise.  An emerging “planetary super-organism” has to develop the capacity to adapt to the interaction with environment.  Humanity needs to take up the task of organizing ourselves on a global level to drive the identification process, and find agency, goals, strategies.

“Entification”  = becoming a self-made entity; the  autopoetic process.

John Vervaeke asked: what do individuals need to do, and how would we be protected from totalitarianism?  Free riders are a big problem.  

John Stewart:  Individuals need to learn more details of evolution.   New governance  supporting eco-cooperation would put constraints on destructive competition.  “Pro-Social Pro-Evolution” projects would make sure cooperation pays and selfishness doesn’t.  

Vervaeke asked what it looks like for an individual working on self-cognition [personal evolution] to find the capacities of meta-systemic wisdom for global evolution.

Stewart suggested freeing oneself from habits of relying on technology. Objectify the devices; strip them of their hocus pocus; apply them in untypical situations; maximize adaptability of components; promote diversity, variety.  These are ways to sidestep Social Darwinism, Communism, and Nazism.

Stewart sees “participatory knowledge” stemming from awareness of individuals and groups arising as a stream for engineering our salient landscapes aligned with future evolution.   He calls for cultivating “evolveablility” by creating meta-systemic cognition.  

An aspect of the “Holy Spirit” will be activating collective presence in ordinary life. Indeed this theme is strong in my other two reports as well.   “Hizzle” is a word Stewart coined to encompass social collaboration to Hear, See, and Love more deeply than ever before. Conjoining “Thy Will” -- the Absolute – the Right Hand, with social agency “our will” the Left Hand -- creates “freedoms from and freedoms to”. 

 

Coherent Heterogeneity and  Meta-Ideological Politics

 

Meridian University online Integral Practitioner Convergence

6 May 2022  "Developing new Paradigms" from Bettina Geihen and Elke Fein reported on LIFT – Leadership for Transition Policies – a project of the European Union by four countries: Germany, Austria, Norway, and Sweden.  They have been working since 2019 on fostering and observing dialogic capacities and emerging ecosystems in politics.  Developing new paradigms and social dialogue fosters subtle inner work, they found.  Their findings will be published in August. The theme of inner work complementing positive social change was ubiquitous for me this May.

The following day 7 May 2022 a new paradigm of Coherent Heterogeneity was showcased: the “Wisdom of the Crowd” on a pioneering level.  Catch phrases: Walk our talk, shadow work, reflexivity, wholeness, self-organization, harmonious relationships and conversations, Sociocracy, Holocracy.  “We spaces” generate emergence of generative fields such as described by physics, physiology, psychology, and contemplative practices.  Coherence nudges the whole system toward a paradigm shift.

On 8 May 2022   vocabulary words on dialogue were shared: 
Zulu inkundla “the space for engagement”; Greenland samtal “together talk”; Jamaica cumeen invitation to trust “come in;”  Swedish lagom “in the team” derives from passing around a common drinking cup and taking just the right amount.

The Meta-Ideological Politics model demonstrated how to build language and social skills – the best possible tool box per group situation – to unearth hidden assumptions and change thinking. The more one becomes construct-aware, the more confidence one builds to enter new territory.

Ryan Nakada demonstrated his five heuristics: 

Depth – how much do we really know;
Distance -- meta-reflective capacity, detachment;
Diversity -- how many views can I hold?  
Discernment; how do circumstances frame reality;
Diaphanaeity: lens transparency.  

The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower  Watercolor 2010

 

How to Human Well

22 May 2022  New Paradigms of Sentience and Consciousness hosted by the Laszlo Institute for New Paradigm Research  

Hopeful experts offered their current views on How to Human Well or, in the words of Vaclav Havel in 1993: the “global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness”.  Some themes: 

“love as an ontological power” [Gandhi’s words]; 

visionary experience rendered in art, architecture, literature, philosophy [Anne Baring]; 

materialist perception dismantled by cutting edge science; 

group vessels of collective coherence; relationality as a prayer, worship [Jude Currivan]; 

collective coherence changing social world like many resonant guitars [Thomas Hübl]. 

Anne Baring suggested creating a pamphlet to be distributed everywhere, not talking down but talking with: short paragraphs designed to close the gap between survival mode and human awakening with questions: What is the human being?  What might we become?

 

Field of Peace; Ascension and Whitsun 

Both the Integral Practitioners' Convergence and the Laszlo Institute Summit had expert panels taking up "How We End War."  In March I wrote how Charles Eisenstein also approached the war in Eastern Europe through a social evolutionary lens.  With thousands  -- probably millions by now -- of online communities and academies of every stripe bringing people together in generative conversation, humanity is using the Internet as a field of peace as never possible before.  John Stewart's word "hizzle' -- hear, see, love on a new continuum -- is a reality. 

I mentioned in April that I have been experiencing new openings and capacities.  The weeks between Easter and Whitsun -- coming up this Sunday June 5th -- have matched the ecospiritual systemic qualities of the two paintings I included here.  Just as I found colleagues in on line dialogues and round tables who share my social zeal and my hopes for positive earth evolution, and create generative social fields through the Internet, I have spiritual sisters and brothers with whom I do the same in spiritual planes.  Refined Breathing and Pastoral Medicine study groups nurture and encourage for enhanced capacities.  The millions of souls participating in this year's Ascension and Pentecost live and ring in the ether, with spiritual medicine and harmony. 

I will leave you with a translation from a verse by Novalis used last Ascension Thursday:

In heavy clouds let Him ascend

And so also let Him downward tread.

In cooling streams let Him be sent;

In flames of fire blaze His descent

In air and essence, sound and dew

To permeate our whole Earth through.