21st Century Ecology of Life - Tag Archive

The Living Field & the Art of Living

Wikipedia: Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature. In my most recent post I have been revisiting what I’ve called the Living Field, how I … Read more →

art, beauty, between-us, collective intelligence, consciousness, constellations, dynamic presencing, emergence, famil, happiness, relationship, spirituality, we-fullness

Challenges of Community and Collaboration

Being an aficionado for collaboration, so much so that I’ve created a job for me being a Collaboration Ecologist, recently more often than not I’ve come to inquire into the question, “If, as seems to be the case, many if not most people and organisations in the world seek collaboration and want to become communities … Read more →

challenge, collaboration, community, Community & Collaboration, emergence, leadership

Enlightening the Passions – Day 26 (Presence of the Past)

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination. — John Schaar There is a healing quality to bitter tears. When we’re moved into the depths of our … Read more →

acceptance, beauty, constellations, emergence, emotions, feeling field, gratitude, learning, we-fullness

Future Ecology

A fantastic video showing what we will have done for the environment (at least if you are a citizen of the US) in the the year 2055… and it worked. It really inspired me, and I hope it inspires you as well… Climate: A Crisis Averted

archetype, emergence, evolution, future, video, vision

Me to the Power of Us

A beautiful video illustration a visionary statement by Michel Bauwens which expresses most beautifully the Path I find myself to be on. “Anyway, this is what the changes are about, augmenting the individual through relationality, with the object of creating common value �collectively�, through self-aggregation. The whole push of the p2p revolution is to create … Read more →

alignment, altruism, between-us, collaboration, collective intelligence, emergence, emerging archetype, evolution, Inclusionality, integral culture, Michel Bouwens, mutual apprenticeship, mutuality, open society, P2P, pluralistic spirituality, relating, relational, relational spirituality, relationship, self-organization, spirituality, values, video, vision, we-culture

Community Development Professional�s Principles

What is possible cannot be determined by opinions, but only by attempt. And we were determined to make the attempt. � Dee Hock 1. Everybody is a leader � Leading by being Community Development professionals (CDPs) are the change they wish to see. CDPs provide relational and situational information and knowledge to members, who are … Read more →

alignment, autopoiesis, collaboration, collective intelligence, emergence, experiment, fair share, leadership, mutual apprenticeship, principles, purpose, self-organization, synergy, win-win

Evolution, technology & your assignment in life

I’m just reading Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly and found a video that indicates what he’s explaining in his book quite beautifully… so here it is: Kevin Kelly traces the remarkable similarities between the evolution of biology and technology, ultimately declaring technology the … Read more →

complexity, development, emergence, evolution, technology

Did you know?

I think this viedo speak entirely for itself…

collective intelligence, development, emergence, evolution, human evolution, no separation, science, video, we-culture, What is real?

Integral We-Fullness – A Trialogue (The We of Us – Part 2)

The last trialogue The We of Us [alas, link no longer functioning] was published here on May 21st. Since then there has been two posts by Michel Bauwens of the P2P-Foundation on his blog; one in which he talks about my post “We are the Next Buddha” and one where he looks at Helen’s post … Read more →

acceptance, between-us, change, circle being, consciousness, David Suzuki, development, Douglas Cohen, ego, emergence, enlightenment, Helen Titchen-Beeth, Indra's net, Masaru Emoto, Masuro Emoto, Michel Bauwens, mutuality, relational spirituality, Robert Kegan, soul family, spiritual practice, story telling, storytelling, sub-personality, subpersonality, Susanne Cook-Greuter, We, we-culture, we-full living, we-fullness, we-space, Wu Wei

An amazing question?

There is something that continues to amaze me every time I see a big spiritual festival announced in which the superstars and celebrities of the mystic heavens, the gurus and the pundits, the successful therapists and masters of living a beautiful life take the stage. If I understand most of the teachings that they are … Read more →

between-us, celebrities, collective, collective intelligence, community, emergence, integral culture, no separation, pluralistic spirituality

We are the next Buddha

Helen wrote in her blog “Why the next Buddha will be a collective.” I hope to show with this article where I am coming from in this regard so that in the time to come we can have beautiful dialogues, trialogues or any other -logues to help this meme propagate. I guess, for me it … Read more →

acceptance, Alan Rayner, between-us, big mind, circle being, collective intelligence, consciousness, cooperative spirituality, dynamic presencing, emergence, emerging archetype, evolution, evolutionary enlightenment, facilitation, fractals, Genpo Roshi, human evolution, Inclusionality, John Heron, Jorge Ferrer, Jupiter, knowledge gardening, living field, Martin Buber, mutuality, my life, pluralistic spirituality, relational spirituality, relationship, Samuel Bonder, satori, Saturn, senex, soul family, space, spiritual practice, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, What is real?

Towards an Integral & Pluralistic Spirituality

An archetype is emerging – the archetype of a participatory, integral and pluralistic spiritual culture. People all over the world — caring about the life on and of this planet, and experiencing themselves as embedded in continually expanding networks and environments — are seeking genuine, open and constructive dialogue and mutual support in their work … Read more →

archetype, between-us, consciousness, constellations, cooperative spirituality, emergence, enlightenment, evolution, integral culture, living field, pluralistic spirituality, relational spirituality, spiritual practice, spirituality

A Collective Emergence – a deep view into Andrew Cohens teaching

As part of his Evolutionary Enlightenment Teachings the spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen in an article “A Collective Emergence” speaks about what others have called “Circle Being” (Otto Scharmer), “Community Building (Scott Peck), “Circle of the Heart” etc. Andrew Cohen is talking, of course, about what happens within the framework of a certain context — that … Read more →

Andrew Cohen, between-us, circle being, community, consciousness, emergence, enquiry, relational spirituality, spiritual teacher