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collective emergence
July 2009 
Collective Emergence, here and now
Posted on Apr 5th, 2007
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Duri
Duri
Commenting on my blog entry, Yeshe wrote:
> We have talked about this many times - you could almost say it's the only thing we ever talk about. What it is, why it is, how to help it happen.
Yes, indeed! Because it wants to know itself and has only us, humans whose consciousness can be used for self-discovery tthrough our passionate inquiry into our higher potential.
> We're among the driven ones, held back more often than not by our own uneven
development in unexpected corners of the psyche.
And because of that, paying extra attention to those corners is not only a personal matter anymore. Particularly dangerous spots are our blindspots that we dont' recognize. The higher is the vantage point from which a mate or a Teacher can see me, the better is the chance that they can catch it.
> I sense a lot of potential in this conversation, so my question is: What else/more can it become?
Let's look into togerther what it wants to become and share what we see, here. Here's what I sense, in this moment. What if we used this conversation to sustain our inter-subjective field of consciousness, and do whatever individual practice we need to do in order to come here ready to play in the field? That would help bringing our shared-attention to the highest potential of this unique juncture in time and (virtual) space.
We can explore tele-communion matching tele-agency, asynchronously but only to some extent. A breakthrough to a new phase of collective emergence could more likely occur in real time, on the phone, in the next couple of weeks.
> We have talked about this many times - you could almost say it's the only thing we ever talk about. What it is, why it is, how to help it happen.
Yes, indeed! Because it wants to know itself and has only us, humans whose consciousness can be used for self-discovery tthrough our passionate inquiry into our higher potential.
> We're among the driven ones, held back more often than not by our own uneven
development in unexpected corners of the psyche.
And because of that, paying extra attention to those corners is not only a personal matter anymore. Particularly dangerous spots are our blindspots that we dont' recognize. The higher is the vantage point from which a mate or a Teacher can see me, the better is the chance that they can catch it.
> I sense a lot of potential in this conversation, so my question is: What else/more can it become?
Let's look into togerther what it wants to become and share what we see, here. Here's what I sense, in this moment. What if we used this conversation to sustain our inter-subjective field of consciousness, and do whatever individual practice we need to do in order to come here ready to play in the field? That would help bringing our shared-attention to the highest potential of this unique juncture in time and (virtual) space.
We can explore tele-communion matching tele-agency, asynchronously but only to some extent. A breakthrough to a new phase of collective emergence could more likely occur in real time, on the phone, in the next couple of weeks.
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>What if we used this conversation to sustain our inter-subjective field of consciousness, and do whatever individual practice we need to do in order to come here ready to play in the field?
This is what we have been doing, you and I, ever since we made the commitment to do so, way back whenever that was. In my experience, when we come together we meld our intent to hold the highest field we can - wide open, but always with the dominant intent of allowing our consciousness to be used as the vehicle for the highest evolutionary potential to emerge in the context of our immediate local focus. Like a funnel. I am struck by a quote from Presence, where Joseph Jaworski says “Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.” To which Peter Senge replies: “So we have a new systems axiom: What is most systemic is most local.”
What is it, I wonder that makes it possible for us to do this together? There are a few others with whom I feel a similar intimacy, but we don't share the piece about evolutionary pull in the same way as you and I.
>And because of that, paying extra attention to those corners is not only a personal matter anymore. Particularly dangerous spots are our blindspots that we dont' recognize. The higher is the vantage point from which a mate or a Teacher can see me, the better is the chance that they can catch it.<
Every time you have gently pointed to the plank in my eye, it has lead to an increased lightness of spirit and enhanced my wellbeing and effectiveness in the world. When I mention what I see in your blind corners, you clap your hands in delight. It is not as if we are two. We are two bodies in one field of consciousness, pointing at that which we see from our unique perspective.
I honour your vision and rejoice in the work we do together and feel unutterably privileged to be your mate. In some way we leverage each other's attention and action, so that things can happen beyond what either of us initially intend. It really is as if the field were working through us. And it feels unspeakably good to know that there are others in the world who also experience this. As Allan Combs said in a recent article in What is Enlightenment Magazine, “Collective Intelligence, as a new emergent reality appearing with significant power and in enough widely scattered communities of well-intended individuals, might actually provide Archimedes with a place to stand from which a heavy world can be moved.”
> In some way we leverage each other's attention and action, so that things can happen beyond what either of us initially intend. It really is as if the field were working through us.
It sure is. The greatest thing about it that two people don't even have to have a special relationship to one another, as a pre-requisite, for that magic to work. Our precious friendship feels more like a continuously unfolding consequence of our shared, no-kidding commitment to world service, self-development, and linking the two in the always most-local contexts.
When we add to that mix the practice of “presencing circles” of actively holding the other in his/her highest potential, then we are creating a co-evolutionary force capable to facilitate transformational changes in self, organizatioons, and society.
>he greatest thing about it that two people don't even have to have a special relationship to one another, as a pre-requisite, for that magic to work.<
Well, huh, Duri! Just cuz it ain't sexual don't mean it ain't special!!
:-)
OK, OK, you know what I meant… Of course you are special… Show me one woman who doesn't like to entertain that idea (maybe outseide Andrew's students), and I will eat my signature hat :-) Seriously, wouldn't you agree that the specialness of our friendship is not a pre-requesite but more like a result of the kind of deep work that we do together`?
Of course! And how typically male (;-)): first he comes up with 'special even without the sex', then he comes up with 'show me a womant who doesn't like to imagine she's special'. I was talking about the RELATIONSHIP, not ME!!
Sigh- therefore do I love thee!