A Co-creative and Connective Collective

As the planet warms and financial markets meltdown, as ethnic upheaval intensifies and globalization minimizes the distance between us, and as dire poverty continues in the shadows of burgeoning wealth, we are at a critical moment in history. This global economic crisis may indeed be an opportunity to ‘seize the day’ and offer us a ‘compass’ to determine a new ‘global village’ meaning and enable a way of being to emerge.

What hope do we have for the future of our planet – for our children and the next generations? What is our responsibility for leading in the world that we are creating and how can we sustain it?

Our challenging leadership task is to begin to learn how we can explore as yet perhaps hidden potential and work with that which is already indigenously known so that we can live and work more effectively, collectively and responsibly to find a different way – one that invites us to consider who we may become; what we can contribute and how we can become co-creators of our whole world.

Being part of this co-creative space may mean being a bridge to a tomorrow that is beginning to dawn. Together . . . we can seek and discover how our unique purpose and passion draws us to understand the world anew. We may wonder and pioneer into new territories and potentially determine a collaborative pathway towards a sustainable leadership model which cares about the stewardship of our collective future. The challenges involved maybe of learning to lead and live in a converging world?

A Collective Consciousness Conversation is a choice of love and freedom.

What if there is a critical mass of divergent voices who speak in a similar language about what is emerging? Our aim for a CCC is to provide a space whereby the commonalities may be found and a new language for our collective experience can begin to be discovered.

We offer a beginning for recognising and exploring our shared responsibility for how we co-create ourselves, each other, and the worlds in which we live.

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A Collective Conscious(ness) Conversation is a co-created space designed to give each of us the freedom to share and deepen the loving connection, individually and collectively, needed to access and embrace more fully this opportune moment.

An opportunity for us to take step away from a love that is about consummation and consumption towards another that is about connection and constructive action in the world. . .

A love where we can enable the light to shine in and through all of us: a ‘translucent revolution’ (Cosmos – A co-creators guide to the whole world by Ervin Laszlo and Jude Currivan)

The Calling to Action

What about this new space?

In this new space, what if we discovered something beyond – where we can touch, embrace, hold and make meaning of our senses and different forms of knowing. One where we can cradle each other as we grow in our capacity to give and receive? Dare we explore this dimension within ourselves and others?

We believe the Ancient Wisdoms are once more becoming accessible. As we grow in consciousness about this presence, our collective responsibility for reflective action is emerging.

The threat of this emergence increases the tensions between fear and love. As this process of movement takes pace, there exists an apparent rapid rise in polarization. We sit in the form of strong currents of resistance and powerful expressions of fundamentalism. We are being called and challenged to act now.

‘God calls on us to be his partners to work for a new kind of society where people count; where people matter more than things, more than possessions; where human life is not just respected but positively revered; where people will be secure and not suffer from the fear of hunger, from ignorance, from disease, where there will be more gentleness, more caring, more sharing, more compassion, more laughter; where there is peace and not war.’
(Archbishop Desmond Tutu – ‘God Has a Dream’)

CCC -The Inquiry Questions

What world can we create and what kind of leadership will enable that?

. . . we are operating from key questions about:

• Do we share a sense that we are in an evolutionary moment that is allowing us access to a different 'frequency' and experience of a different realm of consciousness?
• Are we becoming aware of the co-existence of multiple realities yet live with the seeming paradox that there is a coherent expression of the same 'one'?
• Do we see our thinking moving from an illusory view of ourselves and the elements of our worlds as fixed objects and more like waves of energy and potential that are in constant interaction?
• Are we facing a sense that what we experience in this new light extends beyond our capacity to cope with it and so we need to discover new ways of being with it?

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unfolding ...

how east and south and west and north are present in everything we do

how we are learning a whole new language

how we are witnessing the unfolding of what already is

how joy gives way to sorrow

how connections give way to collective

and that which we would call resistance is its own expression of essence

what is the invitation in the vortex?

Associations in the midst of co-creations

maybe seeking the purpose is the purpose, not finding it

expressing the boundlessness

the process is the experience

what does it mean to us, if this fails - what if this succeeds - and what if this cannot fail, it is what it needs to be right now

what does it mean to be really truely present to the experience as the outcome, and to allow the outcome to find its own location in time and space

water - crystals - the wisdom of water - power - healing - turbulence

the ego and the ego-less

is fever a sign of something wanting to be extruded, or something that requires attention, a tension

can trees and stones be our companions?

Words of Wisdom from Our Counsel

We asked Gouranga Chattopadhyay to be our counsel for the Collective Consciousness Conversation.  A veteran of decades of experience working with groups and an inveterate yoga practitioner, Gouranga helped us to remember in our preparation that there is much to be said for humility and patience as we approach an opportunity to be in touch with the nature of our collective being... connected as one with a boundless Cosmos.

He offered the following poem for our consideration:

The painfully thin singer, just a cut above a walking skeleton,

Bent forward by the weight of the harmonium slung from the neck

Sang in Santiniketan Express on that August afternoon

 

He sang in his thin melodious voice,

“Come home. all ye who dwell in foreign lands.”

I was touched to the core as I listened

Wondering where my home really was

And if ever I shall return there

To the welcome song of a stranger

Who was also me in some way.

                                                                   Dn. Santiniketan Express: August 1, 2000.