Seeds for a happy planet

Being present, as the core of being conscious in the here and now, is ultimately an alignment of body, mind and spirit. Being aware of our body, expanding our movements – very literally – refine our capacities for being present and to go beyond our normal limits. All spiritual practices have a connection with some physical practices, let alone to become aware of your breathing. Becoming more conscious of your body brings you – no matter what – into the here and now.

Being present connects us with silence, the quiet spot inside of us. Do we dare to engage ourselves in color, in movement from this still point, with no attachment to outcome, without controlling it? To let inspiration being present ‘in the moment’ with no translation by the mind?
Dancing, singing, drawing, … are all, besides talking, expressions of our wholeness. In our Western culture so many of these expressions have been cut of. Our ‘new culture’ will need to find ways to integrate these ways of expressing and gathering information. We can integrate the masculine and feminine ways of knowing, because if we need to handle ever more complexity, more of the whole, this is the way to go.

Expand mental knowing
Finn Voldtofte wrote for the gathering Moving the Edge, that the individual and the group itself can be an entry point of consciousness. My dance, my walk at the beach, my drawing can also be entry points of consciousness, not only my talking. So much inner knowing in our bodies and in the subtle layers of reality is not directly accessible with our minds, even if we ‘lean into the unknown’ in our conversation. Words needs a certain kind of being aware that we don’t need for expressing ourselves in sound, colour or movement. Exploring this direct knowing more often and intentional can show us a way to access it with words more easily.
Most of the time we don’t go into an inquiry and reflection of our inner knowing, if we notice it at all! But the world is in need of this inner knowing. It can reveal deep, hidden wisdom. This kind of knowing has to come into the world, to balance the importance of the mental, analytical knowing. When we release the mental knowing that we are so used to, we create an opening, a space where we can be open for other kinds of knowing, sensible in the body. If we take time to inquire and reflect the hidden wisdom becomes accessible and then we can share it – also with words – with others.
We all know that an image, a poem, a performance can carry much more meaning than words in a conversation. Let’s use these intelligences more intentional, individually and collectively.

What if we could/would always listen and think with our bodies and our minds?

Creating more community
In the experience of my women’s circle, over the years we have come to value all these different expressions as honoring and living authenticity. Not only the authenticity of the individual but also on the level of community. Isn’t dancing, singing and eating together a core part of every community worldwide? I am longing for creating this kind of shared culture, as much as Check-in rounds and the bells ringing for silence have become a part of the culture that we all create together as we go.

Mark Jones wrote: “I am exploring living into the construct that there are “sensing mechanisms and practices” at the Turquoise meme that are distinct from our apprehension of reality from the perspective of the Yellow, Green, and other memes.”
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“The “psychic synchronicity | sensitivity” — sensing what is happening among and within those that we feel highly connected to — may be a Turquoise meme siddhi when invoked by intentional mindfulness.”

As far as I understand the Turquoise meme, it means that we experience reality as a whole; separation and fragmentation is gone; is left behind or better: is transcended. We still have our identity but our center of gravity is in the Whole.

George asked the following questions in a forum:

How do you deal with information overload and other forms of overwhelm?

What are some of the practices that help you come to cimplicity on the ‘other side of complexity’, without closing down and staying on this side of it?

What collective practices do you think can alleviate individual overwhelm?

My guiding principle or question is “What wants Evolution me to do?”. I’m holding that question since 2-3 years and I use it for small and big decisions. It is a translation of “Not my will, but thy will.” I’m pretty sure Evolution/Life/Love does not want us to feel overwhelmed, neither confused or guilty. All these feelings are part of our ego, and are in one way or another related to fear.

The biggest challenge for me was to become very clear and precise in choosing what events, meetings, gatherings are really the ones that I should go to; because there is so much interesting going on and so much problems to be solved. First of all I don’t focus on the problems. So I never gather with people ‘because there is some problem that needs to be solved’; I only gather when there is some opportunity for co-creating something really new. Second, in doing so, I developed an ever more finer sense of where I need to be, what I need to do. This ever evolving precision of what is my real authenticity, what is truelly my gift to the world is so important! It cannot be underestimated. And in these moments that I’m kind of overwhelmed – which is mostly being anxious that I won’t be ‘ready’ on time – I’m going to sit in silence until the inner relaxation and centering is back, even if this means that there is even less time left. I cannot function anymore when being in this ego/fear/uncertain state.
Regarding the collective practices I don’t have a clear one. I can only trust that other people do the same as I do. I mean, I hope that they do what Evolution wants them do and then I can be sure that in the end all problems, all information, all … will be covered. I don’t see another way in our highly complex world and really think that this is the way out.

The next step is to ask ourselves this same question when we are together, in whatever group we are. Even if the other people are not aware of this question I hold it in my mind and try to sense the answer. But I find myself more and more in the presence of others who are not surprised by this question and who also like to lean into the not-knowing and sometimes the answer comes pretty quickly. My experience is that if it takes too long to find the answer I better stop meeting these people.

That’s my bit of the puzzle….

Here we are, three women friends and myself, driving 2,5 hour to gather with other, unknown women to meet around the question: “What is the role of women in an evolutionary context?”