The Creative Process Blog

Every aspect of existence is being coerced into a system of mechanistic mentality; unless significant change occurs, the ‘human environment’ will be destroyed by disease and dysfunction.

Humanity is learning that the planet is fragile (i.e. limited resources, interdependent, living rather than mechanistic, etc.). An integral community must be created that realizes that diversity of the One is essential for health.

Synergy, which is all-important for integral community to even exist, depends on facilitating “an enabling, unified understanding.” Self-transcending and self-creative people, scattered throughout the planetary community, are using advanced communication technology to initiate and sustain this ethical dialogue.

Disintegration and exploitation have become immediate concerns: why do they exist and why do they persist? All life systems are threatened by fragmentation and alienation, with every aspect of human existence challenged, even though human capacity has been tremendously increased by technology. Since these changes are occurring so rapidly, it is extremely difficult to see if they offer ‘peril’ or ‘promise’ (i.e. Is the Earth dying, or is a new Earth being born?).

Without an increase in our evaluative ability, reflective and inventive abilities will continue to menace the quality of life. The efforts to contain humanity within a ‘constructed mental system’ are failing to factor in relevant elements, allowing: ethnic, religious, racial and national conflicts; depletion of resources through fierce competition, resulting in extreme disparities and severe destruction of the biosphere; all fueled by a tremendous increase in population.

The necessary changes, needless to say, will be to “another kind and form of life.” Mental answers are partial, seemingly making the situation worse; a more dynamic and comprehensive understanding of human community is imperative. In order to put the ‘surprising’ into life, so the rich diversity will flourish, rather than be restricted by rigid and coercive structures, Margaret Wheatley said, “We need to be able to trust that something as simple as a clear core of values and vision, kept in motion through continuing dialogue, can lead to order.”

The greatest crime by teachers and leaders, in most cultures, has been to force joyful experience into joyless, uncreative channels. When people are denied freedom and responsibility, they ‘get an attitude’, since apathy and violence are the result of powerlessness and hopelessness. Instead of subordination within a ‘dominator culture’, self-organizing cultures are emerging, awakening the joy of friendship and meaningful work.

If humanity is to become viable “for the evolution of another kind and form of life,” !he affinity steam of life must be allowed to flow, as well as, the structural steam!

Every aspect of existence is being coerced into a system of mechanistic mentality; unless significant change occurs, the ‘human environment’ will be destroyed by disease and dysfunction.

Humanity is learning that the planet is fragile (i.e. limited resources, interdependent, living rather than mechanistic, etc.). An integral community must be created that realizes that diversity of the One is essential for health.

Synergy, which is all-important for integral community to even exist, depends on facilitating “an enabling, unified understanding.” Self-transcending and self-creative people, scattered throughout the planetary community, are using advanced communication technology to initiate and sustain this ethical dialogue.

Disintegration and exploitation have become immediate concerns: why do they exist and why do they persist? All life systems are threatened by fragmentation and alienation, with every aspect of human existence challenged, even though human capacity has been tremendously increased by technology. Since these changes are occurring so rapidly, it is extremely difficult to see if they offer ‘peril’ or ‘promise’ (i.e. Is the Earth dying, or is a new Earth being born?).

Without an increase in our evaluative ability, reflective and inventive abilities will continue to menace the quality of life. The efforts to contain humanity within a ‘constructed mental system’ are failing to factor in relevant elements, allowing: ethnic, religious, racial and national conflicts; depletion of resources through fierce competition, resulting in extreme disparities and severe destruction of the biosphere; all fueled by a tremendous increase in population.

The necessary changes, needless to say, will be to “another kind and form of life.” Mental answers are partial, seemingly making the situation worse; a more dynamic and comprehensive understanding of human community is imperative. In order to put the ‘surprising’ into life, so the rich diversity will flourish, rather than be restricted by rigid and coercive structures, Margaret Wheatley said, “We need to be able to trust that something as simple as a clear core of values and vision, kept in motion through continuing dialogue, can lead to order.”

The greatest crime by teachers and leaders, in most cultures, has been to force joyful experience into joyless, uncreative channels. When people are denied freedom and responsibility, they ‘get an attitude’, since apathy and violence are the result of powerlessness and hopelessness. Instead of subordination within a ‘dominator culture’, self-organizing cultures are emerging, awakening the joy of friendship and meaningful work.

If humanity is to become viable “for the evolution of another kind and form of life,” !he affinity steam of life must be allowed to flow, as well as, the structural steam!