THE SHIFT - WHAT WE DO...
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From: Wolfgang F.
Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 6:57 AM
Subject: The Shift - what we do...
Reply to: 266255
ID: 266264

please do excuse my hurry ..

trying to catch up with everything after physically returning from Malaysia, waiting to arrive mentally too..

regarding dialogue, dear Bruce, you once sent a voluminous pdf document on this subject, cannot find it right now, but you'll know...

and there is more among others: World Peace University

TRANSCEND INTERNATIONAL: A NETWORK FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT

and there is the psychologist Olek Netzer from Israel (Olek.netzer@gmail.com) who is ready to contribute his skills

.. and there are many more brothers and sisters around

.. surrender does not at all mean doing nothing, it just means doing the will of God if you wish. This is common sense since long, but too small numbers of people did really understand - those numbers are catching up, don't you feel it too? It is to BE (in love ;-)) ) and to do what this BEING requires the second you are living it. The more advanced in empathic mindfulness we are - the better the respective results

I do wish all of us most inspiring days to come -

Wolfgang

---- On Fri, Dec 19, 2008, Bruce Schuman wrote ---

Good morning.

Thanks to everybody who has ventured into our "Survey" space.  It's encouraging to see some response, and the idea that perhaps these emerging new approaches might actually prove valuable and effective.

I've done a little bit to the "report", where you can view the responses of the group -- and I will probably add another small tweak, that makes it possible to view each individual response.  Maybe we need some other alternatives -- like maybe sometimes these responses should be private or anonymous.  But for now, I just want to take the liberty of quoting a comment from Wolfgang...

For me this mind-shift mainly concerns our self-understanding of being one humanity embedded into Nature's networks. From this understanding results a different way of living, a different behaviour, a different conduct of life. Violence will be left behind and will be replaced by dialogue. Egoistic shortsightedness will be replaced by empathic mindfulness. Love will rule our relations. Any child by a genuine and from now on undisturbed learning process will pass over its ego and reach into the realm of WE, our human family. see also Yes WE CAN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSe3jfJx-Ic

Thanks for this, Wolfgang.  I've taken some time with this thought, and been looking at this video, put together by Michael Ellis.  It's a good meditation for me, very nicely done.  And maybe I'm at that point where I need to find the balance between what a human being can do, and what nature and "the process" itself can or must do.

In response to another question, Wolfgang says

My feeling is that rather than doing something we should just surrender to the currently ongoing processes which all contribute to the global mind-shift. Be there. Be it. Here we all meet.

This is a very attractive statement.  Surrender to the ongoing process...

As I have been pushing hard to develop some new approach to "many-to-many"communications, and no doubt out in front of the curve a bit, I do naturally wonder whether this effort is really necessary or worth doing.  Is it really possible -- that 10,000 simultaneous factors can be individually correlated and brought into focus by some highly informed mystically-graced network process -- or, do we simply walk into the process of spiritual change, let it work on and through us -- and, as Wolfgang suggests, "Be there, be it, here we all meet..."

I've been feeling my way into this all morning.  And what I think I am going to do -- is go back and watch this video a few more times, and consider the role of individual human responsibility in this process.  Is there "something we need to do?"  Or does this change somehow happen "by itself"?  How could mere human agency -- actually do anything to affect a process so huge?

What I am feeling is -- I want to mediate on this a bit.  It's my sense -- that there is a lot we can and must do.  We have to change our ways on this planet, if we are going to stop global warming and species-extinction.  And making that change -- is going to be highly resisted, by the forces that are still pursuing the old ways.  Isn't there a huge educational task involved?  If we are going to propose that "violence will be left behind and be replaced by dialogue" -- an ideal I absolutely share -- don't we (somebody) need to teach the world what dialogue is?

Thanks for being here on this network, and for being patient with this co-creative process.  Maybe what I will do -- is add one or two more questions to this survey on The Shift -- regarding the role of personal responsibility -- and see what happens when I put that question in an email format and send it out to this group.

And do -- take a look at that video.  Michael Ellis has been busy -- his New Paradigm Journal web site is currently featuring his Oct 2008 issue, and is rich with links and graphics and ideas.

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