ES3 - Tuesday Evening Circle

ES3 - Tuesday Evening Circle
May 24, 2006

•    Collective intelligence is my life's work.
•    It doesn't have to be so hard.
•    Hold the tension between the positive vision and complexity of the evolutionary story.
•    Conscious evolution is self-awareness of one's increasing capacitance for complexity and the conversation that arises out of that.
•    I am the center of the universe but you are too.
•    Waking up is hard to do except when it's not.
•    Open heartedness is never naïve.
•    Lion was right.
•    This group is frustrated by a lack of shared specific compelling intent but it is united by a desire to belong and make a difference.
•    We are growing into the people we are waiting for.
•    As each of becomes what we want to see in the world, we'll have the world we want and know exactly what to do.
•    Organizing around virtues is essential so that every individual group who shows our principles will grow in congruence.  
•    Make perfect your will and to think you not of the harvesting but only of the proper soil.
•    Sometimes I love you.  Sometimes I love you.
•    There is nothing to change or do.  
•    Emergent wisdom needs many vessels of expression.
•    Convergent understandings embody emergent capabilities.
•    We still don't know who we are, but we are in love with who we are becoming.
•    Team building.
•    We got as far as the groan zone but didn't make it through the eye of the needle.
•    The world is unfolding perfectly for awakening the consciousness necessary for the next stage of evolution.
•    The invitation is to enter fully into an evolutionary story and to help others enter theirs.
•    I want to hear the song in the middle that brings forth all our voices, every one.
•    We can handle language better.
•    I want to see a matrix of info up over there.
•    Know your dream and live it.
•    Embracing dynamic tensions unfolds the way.
•    Once we as a collective have fully digested and expressed the evolutionary metanarrative in our own words we will then have a true great story.

Joy's offering  & contribution of non-ordinary reality - Tarot reading on behalf of the collective from the Osho Zen deck

Teacher - master
Challenge - go with the flow
Now - comparison
Outcome - friendship

We want to call into being that which can now be named:

Barry McWaters wrote the first book on conscious evolution.  I studied Teilhard and Sri Aurobindo back 30 years ago.  Have had the strong realization that the thinking, capacity for thinking, systems for facilitation, how groups can come together and produce the next level, have actually evolved in that time.  What we have learned in personal dynamics, enneagram, different parts of ourselves.  I want to acknowledge that evolution in our systems, in our ways of being with each other, in our capacity to discern, gives me hope that we can continue to evolve.

I want to speak to the issue of patience; having a perspective of what we are doing here.  We are at the pinnacle of a complex world and we are trying to figure out what to do.  It takes time, it's messy; it's difficult.  We can't just rush into action without thinking of the questions.  I want to expand our perspective on the degree of difficulty of what we are addressing.  If you are in charge of the world, how carefully do you want to think about what you are doing.  I'm reminded of a song by Charlie Murphy - "There are those who want to set fire to our world.  We are in danger.  There is only time to work slowly…

[As informal notetaker, I got too caught up in the circle and stopped typing…I have regrets seeing this end here so abruptly and wanting to continue reading and remembering; maybe someone else has the rest of this evening; J'espere.]