IS: For such a time as this
Upcoming events:
- Friday Oct 17: IS Connection Call
- Sunday Oct 19: Community Hub call 20.3
- Tuesday Oct 21: 2ndRen: The Oasis (w/ Intentional Ventures)
Last week's newsletter was "A thing called love" and the Community Hub session title was "IFS for truth and love".
Tomorrow (or today when many of you will read this) I'll hold space for a Connection Call at IS Time, 1pm Pacific. Not many registrations for this one, so it may be a chance to connect more deeply if you wish.
Complexity accelerates. Everything happens so much. Singularities and asymptotes loom ahead. We want to build a more beautiful world... and we might lose the one we already have. If the base of a pyramid crumbles, but the pyramid is a complex system, how much will it reorganize itself and how much will it collapse?
What are you and I called to in this moment? What about in this moment "in history"? Were we born for such a time as this? If our presence is 缘分 (yuánfèn, fateful coincidence), what then is our response? Which tipping points are we near to in time or likelihood? Which are sensitive to our wings flapping?
The strength of the relational connections between us humans is tested by the strength of the stresses that pull us apart into separation. The strength of our connectedness comes from our embodied perspectival knowing — our direct experience — of extending our circle of self alongside our circle of care. War or peace, fractally across the whole dimension of scale.
It starts inside your self and my self. It ripples out through family and friends. It powers groups and institutions, all the way out to society. We need integrity at every scale because they all depend on each other. Where shall/should you, or I, or them, focus at this time? The quality of our answers depends upon the quality of our contact with the universe at the relevant scales.
There's no better place to start than inside our selves — and, we were made for such a time as this. I believe we were made to handle as much as we can handle, lead what we can lead, be as big as we can be, at all the scales we can manage.
Will I meet the moment? (Each day?) Will you?
Frankly,
James