About the Jump Time Players blog

Writing this blog is one of my roles as a jump time player. My commitment is to write at least one entry per month. I wouldn't be surprised if it became more frequent but can't promise it because playing in jump time is even more fun than writing about it. (See you on a playground near to you!)

Reading Jean Houston's books has always been a pleasure and a source of inspiration. Her "Jump Time" serves the quest for shared meaning, by painting broad-brush pictures of what human society can also be. Not too vague, not too detailed. For example: "The new millennium is a time in which what we have scarcely dared to dream is beginning to reveal its shape."

It is a time of jump into unprecedented opportunities and challenges at global scale. Learning to leave behind what became dysfunctional in our ways to organize our thoughts, institutions and societies, and jump into creating "me 2.0" and "society 2.0," calls for our full engagement. It is demanding but also fun and the ultimate adventure of jump time players. If you're one of them or just curious, read on.

"We may well be a 15-billion-year-long project that has now come to term and is ready to become conscious of ourselves as Jump Time players." -- Jean Houston

Playing the infinite game called "evolution," what do we need to learn and be, so that we can play it ever more beautifully? Jumping off the edge of what is known and holding that questions I am maneuvering my body into position where my hands can firmly clasp with yours, while we wait for the parachutes to open.

Welcome to Jump Time Players!

This blog is a running record of observations and contemplations of the remarkable ways, in which the evolutionary imperative manifests in our lives as individuals and societies.

It is an invitation to live into the question: What is our intelligent and wise response to the crisis of civilization, and its unprecedented dangers and opportunities? Don't think that you are too small to hold such a big question. Who will do that if not you and me, and the millions on this planet, who care about it?

Clearly, the question of our response-ability belongs to the realm of the kind of "generative complexity" introduced by MIT professor Otto Scharmer in an interview, here. It cannot be answered directly, it will be an emergent property of the self-organizing collective consciousness of the evolutionary movement.

It is a movement without headquarters, spokespersons, and membership fees. It resides in the generative dialogue in and between the hundred thousands of local and global initiatives for a better world. Evolutionary Nexus is one of the spaces to inspire and nourish those dialogues.

It is also my intent to use writing for letting a new kind of book emerge if it wants to, a living book that will co-evolve with its community of readers/commenters/contributors. Once a month I will post a new section of the book's first draft, complete with some tags and hyperlinked references.

Your comments will always be welcome, and your powerful questions even more so. A powerful question comes from a concern that you truly care for and has the qualities outlined in the World Café community's reference guide for putting conversations to work. It:

♦ Is simple and clear

♦ Is thought provoking

♦ Generates energy

♦ Focuses inquiry

♦ Surfaces unconscious assumptions

♦ Opens new possibilities

Of course, you don't need to polish your comment till it matches all criteria. However, if it does, you will be acknowledged in the blog, and if it gets into the print edition, there too.

One more thing. As we explore the different facets of being a jump time player, and what is our work together, I will invite also "eagle" contributors, people who are not necessarily regular readers of the blog but their lifework is flying to those heights, from which more can be seen.

The "Co-Evolving Our Futures" image is by Nancy Margulies and illustrates how generative conversations by small groups of concerned citizens can lead to big changes through the development of communities of practice and systems of influence. Let us know how Evolutionary Nexus and this blog can serve better those processes.