What you see depends on where you stand and what direction you choose to look in. Hardly rocket science and yet, it appears that we so rarely think about any of it.
What we see also depends on whether our eyes are open or closed. Try as they might, no one can explain to you how to open your eyes. You have to just do it, trusting your body to guide the process and produce the desired result.
I’ve been away for the week, spending time at Oceanstone as the guide through the Emerging Futures: Entrepreneurial Women four-day retreat conversation. I’ve been engaging in this work for almost two decades and I can say that these last conversations were the most compelling I’ve ever been in! As experienced as I am in a WEL-Systems approach as the gateway to a new paradigm, the impact from this Emerging Futures approach for exploration of the future was felt in both the amount of ground covered and the speed at which the journey was made.
An Emerging Futures consideration of the future is one that defies logic, demands strength of connection directly to the body and relies completely on our capacity to trust the Quantum Biological Human that we are. Logic, analysis and reason slow down the process and become both hurdles and barriers to potential outcomes. Quantum leaps become the norm, leaving behind the dependence on incremental change and step-by-step progression toward an outcome that can only be limited given that it has been designed from history. An Emerging Future moves at speeds that invite profound and generative change in seconds, with the body responding instantly for expanded capacity for implementation (meaning, the wave moves and its undulations transform the tissue of the body itself instantly so that it becomes the platform for the requisite beliefs/values/attitudes that will make the outcome possible).
In the company of a small group of truly amazing women gathering to press their own edges, it became evident that an Emerging Futures approach does require background with the WEL-Systems body of knowledge as the gateway to the paradigm shift that is its natural destination (not just because the knowledge is essential but because the experiences have attuned the body and made it possible to tolerate the impact of speed of flow of information in the new paradigm). From there, an Emerging Futures exploration becomes possible. It became very clear to me last week: standing in an old paradigm and seeking a new truth makes the old saying ‘You can’t get there from here” an expression of an undeniable fact.
Today, as my body settles from the impact of those four days, I am mindful that the physical environment at Oceanstone mirrored what we were experiencing (individually and as a collective) during those conversations. As the tides came and went, so did our explorations and discoveries, each ensuring the existence of the next wave of explorations and discoveries. Each exploration allowed for the unfolding discoveries, with each of these creating new perspectives… new places to stand and from which to continue to explore. Wave after wave of information cascading through the tissue of the body, opening who we were, redesigning who we might become and, in that process, redefining what it is for us to be ‘human’.
Of all that became available to me last week, what continues to stand out the most for me is that the wave of transformation that we seek in the culture begins in each of us with the wave of ‘goosebumps’ that ripples through the tissue of our being. In that nano-second, we are transformed, able to open to and see through new eyes. Not the eyes clouded by history and habit, but eyes wide open, without the buffers of logic and reason becoming the screen through which our vision is hampered.
There will be more. Each experience calls to itself the next one, recognizing that as we take one more step up the climb, the view changes and so does our desire to change the view, necessitating the next step. As we climb, we rely on the body to calibrate for what is needed, allowing ourselves to hold the intention of the destination and letting the body take us there. And further, we may even come to trust the body to determine the destination.
Breathing is good…
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