Revealing Life’s Potential Through Synergistic Interaction

It has been said that everything happening around us calls up life’s potential within us, and when we align with our Infinite Pure Conscious Mind, which is eternal, universal and outside our finite conscious awareness, we align with its pure potentiality and are able to create truly unique and appropriate responses to the impermanence of our lives. Throughout history, disruptions in our taken-for-granted ways of thinking and acting have caused seismic shifts in our ideas about truth and reality. Thomas Kuhn (1962) called these disruptions “paradigm shifts” and their uniqueness lies in the fact that once they happen nothing remains the same. More importantly, as Einstein said, they cannot be solved by the same thinking that caused them. When we attempt to do so, we make things worse and allow them to gather energy so insidiously that it’s hard to locate their original cause and impossible to reverse their effect. So if we can’t solve problems with the same thinking we used to create them, how do we solve them? Before answering this question, it may be worth exploring exactly what we mean by disruptive change.

The insidious nature of disruptive change is best explained using the lens offered by George Land who, in 1973, proposed a unifying theory of transformation in his book Grow or Die. According to Land, all things grow and develop in a four-phase pattern: gather, repeat, share and transform. For example, babies move through the gather phase by taking in nourishment and growing in size. This stage is marked by growth of sameness, simply getting larger without changing form. Once the first stage is complete the second stage can begin. In the repeat phase, teenagers grow by influencing their peers to be like them. Growth is achieved by replicating one’s likeness in a given subculture. Children do this when they join with their peers to dress or talk in like manner. According to Land, groups that form around self-similarity are replicating themselves and are in the second phase of growth. The third phase, share is the most mature stage. This is when adults mutually grow through reciprocal interaction and form a larger whole, whether in a corporation, community or family. In the repeat phase, the important message from Land is that we grow by maximizing sameness, but in the share phase, we grow by maximizing differences, so that a higher social order or social system might thrive, giving way to transformation in phase 4, which, by its very nature, succeeds and encompasses the former system.

All phases leading to the transformation share one thing in common, they are transitions, not transformations. This is an important distinction because transitions usually do respond to thinking and acting within the rules of the predominant paradigm. They don’t necessarily spell disaster, but if disaster is to be averted and a threat transformed into an opportunity, it is necessary to challenge the belief that we have life figured out and become adept at questioning and changing the patterns of the predominant paradigm. At no time in our history has this been more possible than in our present paradigm the age of information and knowledge. Through powerful computing and networking technology, we are able to exchange information in the shape of thoughts and ideas faster than any generation that has gone before.

So in answering the question of how to solve complex problems with higher quality of thinking, we can see that this internet enabled technology allows us to communicate information in ways that shape consciousness by bringing forth new worlds. These worlds establish pervasive and distinctive ways in which things, people and selves appear and make sense. Like the ‘Fibonacci sequence’ the power of these reciprocal interactions is a kind of explosion of emergent creativity driven by people with a passion to pursue those challenges they care most about and which, when solved, make life worth living for themselves and society at large. They also share a willingness to gain power by giving it away.

The driving force of the age of consciousness is Infinite Pure Consciousness naturally seeking awakened opportunity. Indeed, it may well be an evolving expression of a universe in the process of awakening to itself. According to the Buddha, this impulse to awaken is inherent in all manifestations – it’s all “Buddha nature.” The universe’s potential for awakening can be understood by consciousness – the most highly evolved expression of our universe’s energy 

Often Not Seen But Never Not So

Social networking is force of unprecedented power, mirroring natural laws of integrative interactive emergence. With the help of technology, we can achieve levels of creativity unimaginable only a few years ago and for those concerned with manifesting the emergent outcomes from these integrative interactions, the challenge is less about coordinating action and more about creating synergistic results through building and sustaining high quality relationships.

In this new world, empirical theories of classical science are being challenged by a “quantum reality” more akin to spirituality, where notions of time and space no longer apply. This is especially relevant in the internet age where, through a recursive process, technology is being shaped by our emergent desire for wholeness, preciousness and freshness and we are being shaped by the power of new technology to help us become whole, precious and fresh. Heidegger called us “world disclosers,” using tools and technology to discover more and more about the world and our place in it. We simply cannot resist the desire to connect with one another and to grow our individual identities as we strive for wholeness, preciousness and freshness.

Previously, I described how new theories of consciousness are explaining how complex synergistic interactions among like minded people arise from quantum activities embedded in the fine scale structure of the universe which is an undifferentiated, non-dual field of pure conscious awareness. Being embedded in the fine scale structure of the universe such synergistic creativity is an evolving expression of a universe in the process of awakening.

Each one of us is a natural expression of universal potential seeking wholeness, preciousness and freshness. We achieve this through the conscious and continuous pursuit of our life’s mission, which is always and in all ways welcomed by the unbounded possibilities existing in The Divine Universe of Pure Consciousness. This impulse to awaken is inherent in all manifestations and can be understood by consciousness – the most highly evolved expression of our universe’s energy.

More importantly, the connections we make are not simply linear transactions but highly synergistic and transcendent interactions with emergent outcomes far greater than the sum of the individual parts. Moreover, the information arising contributes to our evolving consciousness. Why else would information and communications technology be embraced with such energy and inventiveness? It is in our nature, especially our natural propensity to interact if left to our own devices. We are pure potential naturally seeking awakened opportunity.

Through successive, integrative interactions, phenomena and entities at each level of scale self-organize into emergent phenomena and, in so doing, alter their participation with it, and because our participation contributes to the emerging reality, evolving consciousness alters
evolving reality. This is the essence of our work at the MindIndigo Centre where we teach new ways to creatively develop your capacity to reach your true potential. Our programmes are designed to be dynamic, on-going and aligned with your life challenges and we aim to develop creativity and innovation in thinking and learning. They are practical in nature with emphasis on action and improvement.  We meet the needs of those who seek to increase their capacity to continually expand their awareness and increase self - motivation and self - empowerment.

The four capstones of our New Horizons of Consciousness Process are:

1) Expanding your awareness and paying attention to your intuition challenging you to change your “status quo”.

2) Accessing the information in the Divine Universe of Pure Consciousness through meditation, yoga and other mindfulness practices and becoming clear on the opportunities awaiting you beyond your new horizon.

 3) Becoming intentional and focusing your energy, will and spirit on manifesting your deepest desires. Being aware of new information and opportunities as they appear in “quantum coincidences” sent from “beyond” to serve your new purpose.

4) Structuring your body, mind and spirit to serve you in your single minded pursuit of your higher state of being.

If you are still not sure about joining our next New Horizons of Consciousness Retreat, I will leave you with one question. Have you anything better to do? Think carefully before you answer, because your life may depend on it.