This third video in the energetics module from my Transformational Leadership course (https://www.ubiquity.courses/p/transformational-leadership) goes into detail about how you can understand the different components of collective energy fields and engage with them. It draws particularly on the work of ECOintention (previously known as ECOtherapy).
Read MoreI just had this thought the other day that seems to make sense.
The image illustrates this process that I describe in the volution thesis - when we look to expand our consciousness we have to heal past trauma in parallel (as at https://www.volutiontheory.net/…/…/3/3/an-octave-perspective):
In this section I originally wrote:
"The light of the new information triggers an expansive drive for greater agency and freedom, while at the same time love and understanding are needed to embrace and integrate the past. These two fundamental dynamics that happen in parallel to each other reflect two of the main drives of a holon (see above) that Wilber (2005) describes, agency and communion."
I am going to add:
"This stretching for the light, reconnecting with love and being in the middle of that, could be seen as an expression of the three person perspectives of language. Reaching out to something outside of us, an “it”, is a third person expression, reconnecting with love to past trauma in us to put humpty-dumpty back together again is engaging in a relationship with a second person “you” to make a “we”, while the first person “I” sits at the centre of this dynamic. In this way the three person perspectives can be seen as part of the dynamic volution of life, not simply categories of perspective."
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I came across this beautiful calligraphy by Francois Cheng while visiting Reims Cathedral in France. It was part of an exhibition that included Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. For me, it captures beautifully the volutionary dynamic, with a torus and emanation at the centre. This was the text he had put below it (translated from French, see photo of original below).
"Life creates life / and it will never end"
This famous phrase comes from one of the Great Commentaries on the Book of Changes. Like Tai Chi Chuan, calligraphy allows those that practise it to reconnect with the Breath and to revitalise oneself in the universal current of life.
The practice is spiritual. The calligraphy triggers a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, the finite and the infinite. The line leads to the welling up of an interior world.
I wanted to depict this elan.
In the second character, identical to the first, the vertical line has what painters call a "blanc volant" (literally, "flying white"). It is a spontaneous form which comes from the running out of the ink during the composition.
For a calligrapher the "blanc volant" is an opportunity: it allows the circulation of the Breath in the line itself.
This is how life creates life: the promise is eternal.
(From Et le souffle devient signe by Francois Cheng)
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This video, from my Ubiquity Transformational Leadership course (https://www.ubiquity.courses/p/transformational-leadership), describes the various aspects of an energetic architecture in collective systems - what it is composed of and how can you assess its fitness to achieve its purpose. It is based on my work as an ECOintention Practitioner (formerly ECOtherapy) - see http://www.ecointention.com/index_e.htm. See also An Introduction to Energetic Architecture if you want more context.
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Here's a video of Jude talking about her latest work that deeply informed volution theory. Jude was my major advisor for the PhD dissertation. She has a great online course on this available at Ubiquity University - https://www.ubiquity.courses/p/the-cosmic-hologram.
This is a video of a talk I gave at the Integral Theory Conference in 2012 just as the initial ideas for volution were forming, before I started doing all the research for the PhD dissertation. It's a good introduction to the foundational concepts and my impulse for further developing the ideas.
Read MoreThis is a session from my Transformational Leadership course that introduces the concept of there being an energetic architecture to large scale systems - a subtle dimension of their existence where the information is expressing itself as energy as it crystallises into relational experiences and visible matter. For the full course, see https://www.ubiquity.courses/p/transformational-leadership.
This is a talk I gave for the WeSpace Summit, describing my understanding and experience of working with the information and energy of large-scale natural and human systems (e.g. large areas of land, organizations, groups).
A talk I gave for the WeSpace Summit, describing my understanding and experience of working with the information and energy of large-scale natural and human systems (e.g. large areas of land, organizations, groups). See https://www.thewespacesummit.com for more talks in this series.
In the conclusion, I share what I have learned, the further research that I see ahead, and other potential next steps.
Read MoreThe Introduction introduces definitions of language I use, frames the context, and describes the purpose and process of the research, as well as the core thesis.
Read MoreThere are practices, documented by the wisdom traditions and today's progressive scientists, as well as implemented by current communities, that can be used to work with all dimensions of this volution process (beyond only the part of the spectrum that most of us can see).
Read MoreThis section looks at both the implications at the individual as well as the collective level, starting with the individual level, within the context of the collective.
Read MoreThis fourth section goes into more detail on the phases of growth within a holographic torus-like entity as it moves from seed to fruit. I have chosen to explore this through the lens of eight phases, as an octave.
Read MoreThe previous section looked at the polarity that is set up when there is awareness from life of an unmet possibility and an impulse to fill that niche. The tension between the polarities forms the relational field of potential within which a response to that need can co-creatively emerge. This section focuses on the process that takes place between those poles in that field of potential. There are three main aspects that this section will focus on: the surface of the field that is created and held by the polarity, the geometry of the structure as a whole and the dynamics that go on inside of the entity bounded by the surface, between the poles. This is what I call the holographic breath.
Read MoreThis is an early draft of this second section that starts to develop the argument that a tension of potentiality (vacuum / niche) is what activates the co-creative process from the unified field which leads to fruition and the emergence of a next-level entity.
Read MoreHere is a second draft of key thoughts for the section that fleshes out the first point in the thesis, about the three core elements. Thoughts welcome - does this make sense? Do you have other examples that would fit with the three aspects? Do you disagree with the way I have categorised any of them in the Table? I am toying with this, so hold it lightly with me...
The thesis: Looking out at the world, we can see for every entity at every level:
i. a boundary field (“Unified Field”) created by the original impulse for the entity that transcends yet includes every part of the entity
ii. an aspect of an entity that we can perceive with our 5 senses (“Relative Manifestation”)
iii. and an aspect of reality that exists in between the two (“Ubiquitous Spirit”).
The Unified Field is different to the Absolute Oneness (or “God”) in that the Unifying Field is something we perceive with our understanding and as such is always a relative part of a bigger whole, whereas Absolute Oneness is our inner subjective experience of oneness.
Read MoreAn attempt to describe the spine of the thesis.
Read MoreMy formal dissertation proposal that outlines the basic concept and how I am going about the research and writing.
Read MoreEarth rising
Heaven descending
In the sacred dance
Of life
