The 4th movement on the Journey: Co-creation and return
Living Into the Possibilities
Love demands, in its very nature, to be expressed beyond the first person experience. Love’s boundless excess energy begins to move through the porousness of these days. Is this Presence - the Universe Story - the All in All, wanting to return to its source?
DiscernmentDiscernment is a process of letting go of what we are not. -Father Thomas Keating
On our journey we have learned that we are not all light. Nor are we all dark. Our journey has brought those parts of us together toward a fuller reconciliation. As we take steps back into the context of our life we bare gifts from the journey. Now we are prepared to sift through the insights and gifts with a clarity once clouded with the energy of simply maintaining too small a story. Trust your instincts on this one, be guided by your intuition. There are times when either there is not enough evidence to go on, or, there are so many facts that the walls of reason cannot contain them. When you face this kind of uncertainty, let your inner light be your guide. It has grown brighter on this Journey. It has been developed by your own deep reflection, the shared wisdom of your allies. Now is the time to pause, take a deep breath. Offer your hand to the Emerging Future and step out with courage and faith to do what you feel is right. |
Co-laborationWho do we need around us so that we can boldly bring our gifts and insights into the world without judgement and with deep respect?
The challenges we are facing in the world can seem quite dark today. The negative forces are very strong, and the progressive development of consciousness and love sometimes feels very weak. But there is also a great evolution of love and light. Sometimes referred to as "The Great Turning" an evolution is indeed happening, as people like you and I join hands with others on this journey of awakening. Though the story of separation is strong, the reality of connection is stronger. In so many places, there are signs of the Love working at all levels of society, almost in tandem with the emergence of unbelievable violence, fear and hatred all over the world. As C. G. Jung said, “Where we stumble and fall is where we find pure gold,” the gold of the Journey, the hidden gold of our own souls, and then the beautiful unfolding of the whole creation. |
Prototyping"Act in an instant. Explore the future by doing. Develop a prototype. A prototype explores the future by doing something small, speedy, and spontaneous; it quickly generates feedback from all the key stakeholders and allows you to evolve and iterate your idea."
–Otto Scharmer This is the fun part. It can also be more than a little scary. Don't wait too long to put your experience into action. Try something new and bold. Prototyping moves an idea or innovation into a concrete next step. Prototyping translates an idea or a concept into concrete action. Remember prototypes are an early draft of what the final result might look like which means that they often go through several iterations based on the feedback generated from others. The purpose of prototyping is to create an experiment that allows you to explore the future by doing. Prototypes work on the principle of “failing early to learn quickly.” |
Challenge: Discouragement (half heartedness)
Practice: Encouragement (speaking courage into each other's emergence)
Practice: Encouragement (speaking courage into each other's emergence)