IS: from Emerge to converge
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Last week I was pointing at the surprising convergence in the depths of the "three-dimensional topology of this wisdom onion", where my experience of convergence is, "Yes, they're pointing at the same thing I'm seeing!"
Today I felt it again while reading Daniel Thorson's latest post. Let me quote some snippets, emphasis mine:
...developing a secure relationship with reality requires immersion in relationships that themselves have a coherent relationship with what is. These relationships serve as containers that can hold both practical development and deeper transformation, providing the relational context necessary for lasting change.
These spaces would serve as "microcultures of coherence" - living arenas where individuals can develop more stable and meaningful relationships with both self and reality.
We need new experiments in creating spaces that can nurture coherent worlds through living relationships and shared practice. ... They need to create shared fields of meaning and practice where coherence can be transmitted not just through ideas, but through the embodied experience of being in relationship with others on the same journey.
With these words, and it's happened with other people as well, I can say "you may have no idea what Intentional Society is but you've just described it perfectly." Sometimes in words I wouldn't choose, sometimes in words more elegant than I can muster, but clearly, obviously (to me), there is a convergent shape of... of what we are called to be, in alignment with goodness, truth, and beauty. "Becoming the people we want to be..." (IS mission statement) leads to a fractal-scale convergence of a thing both greater than all of us and also inside every one of us, aiming toward the heart of wisdom and love.
Yes, we're pointing in the same direction.
Daniel recently ended his Emerge podcast after a decade, saying
"I think we've crossed some kind of threshold ... we are no longer gathering the network, we're no longer gathering ideas, I think now is the time to come into deeper intimacy and to act, in all kinds of ways."
My "Yes, and" to this is that I solidly believe that we have gathered and emerged and converged such that we can wisely act, AND we will continue to gather the network and explore the ideas while we unfold into greater fullness and completeness of simultaneous waking/growing/cleaning/showing up within-and-across our own superorganism of awareness, acceptance, & integrity.
Dozens of hours of Emerge episodes have helped me along my quest. I thank you Daniel, deeply and truly. I have changed my life, and am still changing it. We help each other see, and we create the conditions for seeing to turn into being and then into flowing.
"I pray that we find our way together." Amen to that.
Sincerely,
James