Bob Johnston's Post

. . . for your kind words. Nice to hear from you again. Your observation about "acting in accordance with belief" reminded me of a former professor (Chris Argyris) who loved to emphasize the importance of harmony between "espoused values and values in use."
Hugs, Bob

Experience is not what happens to us, but what we make of it! A. Huxley

Namaste Roland

. . . thanks, Roland. Best, Bob

Here are the responses I promised you earlier. I've interspersed my answers between copies of your questions. Unfortunately, there aren't simple answers to any of your questions. All are fraught with many complexities.

RG: When will we learn that we are all one?

BJ: When at least the critical mass of humanity is aware that analogous to sea life we are interdependent intercommunicating constituents of our common nurturing 'oceanic' timeless Source of all consciousness, learning, identity, actions, and self-management.

RG: How can we bring this insight into action and transform the way we live together? Now!

BJ: I share your feelings of urgency for bringing this insight into action in a way that transforms the way we live together Realistically, however, it is a long slow process similar, if not identical to the five spiraling cycles of transformational learning I describe in my SIA blog of the same title at http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/9443.

RG: Any Suggestions?

BJ: Being an organization development guy specializing in starting organization change efforts from scratch for a few decades I have seen individual and organization consciousness change start at the grassroots level and work up and also at the policy-making level of organizations and working down through all levels of the organization. As to the latter I describe an example in my SIA blog " Seven Steps to Integral Organization Transformation" http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/1196

Both approaches have shown to be effective. Probably the ideal model would include both the bottom-up and top-down approaches.

However, my experience was with organizations whose managements were supportive of the concept of healthful consciousness expansion and communications change complete with not only their commitment of time and committed sufficient money to fund experiential workshops, teambuilding meetings, and related change projects, but also their personal involvement in the process. An example of what is required to design transformational experiential workshops (not to mention other transformational projects) is described in my SIA blog "Experiential Leader-Manager Transformational Learning" http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/7689

To bring about the transformation you are asking about would require getting similar support -- voluntary support -- from at very least all member countries in the U.N. That would be a very, very tall order just to get their support, not mention actually getting their in participation in designing and implementing transformational projects in their respective countries.

RG: In this case, what does it mean: The shift in action?

BJ: One example of what "the shift in action" means is becoming conscious of the five spiraling cycles of transformational learning referenced earlier as it occurs in one's individual and organization life. Progress can be measured by an instrument similar to one I have described in "My Shift in Action Checklist For Profiling My Progress" http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/6386. This instrument could be used not onbly by individuals for their own shift in action but also organization development consultants for survey-feedback purposes in organizational shifts.

Roland, I hope this at least helps you get at least a taste of some of the general issues involved in bringing about massive transformation. If not, let me know and I'll try again.

Best wishes,

Bob

Thanks Bob,

I will read all.

Namaste Roland

Morsel:

"You can't just sit down and talk about the truth. It doesn't work that way. You have to live it and be part of it and you might get to know it."
--Rolling Thunder, CHEROKEE

We all read books that have much information in them. Often we pick up on little sayings that we remember. Inside of us is the little owl, the owl of knowing. It talks to us - guiding us and nurturing us. Often when we get information, it's hard to live by, but it's easy to talk about. It's living the Red Road that counts - Walk the Talk. If we really want freedom in our lives, if we really want to be happy, if we really want to have peace of mind, it's the truth we must seek.

My Creator, help me in my search for the truth today.

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Thank you for you wonderful questions Roland. I want to answer them but must defer as I have another commitment to which I must go. I hope to get back to you later today or tomorrow morning. Thank you for your patience. Warmly, Bob

Hi Filip,

Useful question, Filip. I start with the fundamental hypothesis that the transtemporal (timeless) realm of conscious Mind is analogous to an ocean, within which are the ocean's constituents, i.e. sealife of all sorts, all of which are not only interdependent but also intercommunicating with their environment. Thus they affect the ocean within which they all live, their actions effect results. For example, if a certain species reproduces so many offspring that it upsets the balance of nature the 'infinite ocean Mind consciousness' steps in to curtail the species' production and return the imbalance to a healthy one.

So, my working hypothesis is that everything from the autopoeitic (self-management) action of a subatomic quark through human beings through universes is part and parcel of the "grand scheme of the cosmos." nothing is too small or large to be left out of 'infinity' (if there is such a thing).

Based on the principle that every action elicits a response for good or for ill of the ocean, every constituent of the ocean not only elicits certain responses but conversely the ocean responds. I recognize that analogies are rarely if ever perfect pictures of reality as we experience it, but I feel-think this analogy depicting us individuals as constituents permeated by and connected by an omnipresent life energy of a conscious omniversal (beyond multiversal) anima-animus Mind with which we are not only interdependent but also constantly more or less consciously and unconsciously intercommunicating, is reasonably accurate.

A personal example: I experience virtually constant communications with an integrally knowledgeable 'representative' of conscious Omniversal Mind which I experience as omnipresent both within and around me. OM offers me creative options to consider for staying on my selected path of integral health: personally, socially, and ecosystemically. My communications with OM are usually cocreative two-way discussions, both of us appraising the pros and cons of particular events and the healthiest response thereto in light of the desired mutually empathetic affect and effect , , , OM from Its-Her-His perspective, me from mine.

Additional blogs illustrating my experiences with our conscious OM are:

Ode to Our Source http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/4269

Ode to My Conscious Oneness With Our Source* http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/2563

My Guide is Our Timeless Infinite Source Expressing Thru Nature
(an alternative to ancient books) http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/2717

Mystic Experience 101 http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/4065

A Tale of Synchronicity I ~~ A Guiding Arrow at LAX http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/3340

Filip, I hope I have answered your question to your satisfaction. If not, let me know and I'll try again.

Warm wishes,

Bob

"Do something" about it, Filip and your individual contribution will start to make sense to you. I'm sure you already are.

George
2010 BC

George. It all comes down to each of us taking responsibility for starting and continuing our own shift.

Thank you for your contribution.

Warmly,

Bob