#workingfromhome

In these times that are mainly dominated by the Corona-crisis, people are massively proposed to work as much as possible from their homes. It is no big secret that this strategy will lead to numerous new insights.

I came along a beautiful poem from Kitty O’Meara that shows me the essence of what I believe is currently happening on a higher level of abstraction. We are in the midst of a global spiritual crisis which fuels the transition towards a more meaningful society where giving more meaning to real essentials is becoming the new normal. And where we as a society will grow into better than ever before. (never waste a good crisis).

I used this poem to transform it into a text + image format, so that people who are visually oriented get some extra inspiration from the images. Feel free to share this. Pictures used are royaltee-free and come from pixabay.

#workingfromhome

And the people stayed home

And read books…

…and listened…

…and rested…

…and exercised…

…and made art…

…and played games…

…and learned new ways of being…

…and were still.

And listened more deeply.

Some meditated…

…some prayed…

…some danced.

Some met their shadows.

And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed.

And, in the absence of people living in ignorant…

…dangerous…

…thoughtless…

…heartless ways…

…the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed…

…and the people joined together again…

…they grieved their losses…

…and made new choices…

…and dreamed new images…

…and created new ways to live…

…and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.

PS: The time to take more time has arrived: #workingfromhome increases chances or possibilities to connect with people that you would otherwise not have connected with so easily. The attention for the crisis locally, close to where you live, will battle with the attention that you could also give to pure #workingfromhome.

Because it is now easier to connect with others, most probably already locally active which increases the trust level (local = more trusted), you will start to see that also more possibilities to organize will unveil themselves, especially those that help solving local problems. This in turn will cause more pressure on traditional, centralized models of cooperation that are more efficient (if you look at them as an ‘island’) but less effective and usually much more slower.

People that are not yet so accustomed to #workingfromhome will discover that spending your daily time will come into a whole new perspective. They will discover that taking regular rests #becauseitcan will create a whole bunch of new insights. And where we used to think that everything has to become always much faster, cheaper, more efficient etc. #justbecausethatiswhattheyhaveallwaystoldus, we will conclude that there are viable alternatives.

And we will discover that the ‘rat-race’ we so often talk about is nothing more than a manufactured social construct that can be unmanufactured easily. And we will discover that the never ending economic growth which fuels consumerism which seems to be a mandatory thing, due to the crisis we will learn that taking a step back is easily done and it can be fun too!

Last but not least, below figure. ‘A MODEST PROPOSAL’, clearly shows why the Corona crisis now can also be a catalyst for slowing down, taking a few steps back, creating more time while not adding to the economy, degrowing to get back to a more sustainable economy (Kate Raworth Doughnut model!) etc.

Summarized, we live in an era where (often age-old) dogma’s, convictions, philosophies and evevn religions will be layed under a microscope, and we as a global society will start to invent new better alternatives. A beautiful, healthy, safe, clean World is waiting for us. Do you want to help creating it?

When the Seeker finds the Silence…

When the urge to seek descends, the (silent) joy of awakening ascends ~ L’Eau-i

And so it is.

The best technology ever (and how to source it)

So you must be a nerd, right? Drawn to this article because it contains the ‘tech’ word. And as a nerd, ofcourse you love tech. I know because I am (or should I say: I was) also a nerd. Or you could be a procurement officer, looking for new sourcing strategies. Or an architect trying to find new knowledge about the sweet spot between tech and where to source it (and why tech and sourcing combined in the end IS your architecture, probably containing loads of compromises). Or a politician that needs to understand how to make the best decision for your voters based on couch-potato style free of charge and quick-and-dirty insights about tech in blogs like this one. Don’t fall for this trap!

The best technology ever is: LOVE! Who said that? Do yourself a favor and find it out yourself because part of the fun is the discovery process itself. You will find quite a few prominent people who have written about it and have very good propositions for it.

I give one starter here for free, just to get you up and running. Happy hunting!

“Humans are only divided by their consciousness. If it is removed, only love, freedom and truth remains.”  ~ Allatra

Spirihumor?

I have no goals, I prefer to Coddiwomple

 

Discernment: Just another 3D illusion?

If you are now reading this message, it was most probably meant for you. I am not looking for attention or approval, just want to share my own experiences when learning about this subject.

To discern is the ability to obtain sharp perceptions or to judge well. When you are practicing spiritual development it might be very well possible that you encounter spiritual lessons helping you to discern 3rd from 5th dimension.

In 3rd dimension, it is said that we live in a world of duality. Allmost all conceivable concepts are divided so we can experience them, which could be the higher spiritual purpose for our being here on this planet.

We tend to discern between concepts like true |false, good | evil, love | hate and even organize our society intot divide-and-conquer style concepts like government | civilians just to name a few.

In our 3D world, we even have invented concepts like 3D and 5D so that we can discern between them. Is this then a 5D perception or it it just a 3D perception? And is discerning as technique itself not just a plain old divide-and-conquer thing? So we can come to know what’s true and what’s not?

Or is there in ‘real 5D’ no difference anymore between what’s true and what’s not, because if we can discern between true and not true, our ego is just playing tricks with us telling us to create a duality.

When the aliens arrive, let’s not disappoint them…

Depending on where you put your focus, you could say humanity’s progress has been enormous and that is actually true. But you can also look at progress we still didn’t make.  That’s what this blog is about. So while we honour the progress made sofar, we tend to put focus on what’s still needed. So let’s face it, humanity is in a dire situation. You can read the disturbing facts all over: economical crises, ecological crises, climate crises, social collapses etc. Not really things to be proud of. So that’s why I made a sjort resume of humanity. To be used when the aliens arrive from their intergalactic inspiration tour and asking us what our capabilities are. The resume gives the answers of the state-of-the-art of humanity’s progress. Now let’s all work towards a resume that has improved the state-of-the-art at least hunderd-fould, because that is what we really need to be emarking on. And if we achieve that, we can be proud to show off our progress to the aliens, which ofcourse must be very jealous on our progress.

 

Resume version 1 shown below. Let’s all build version 2 asap! Good progress hunting!

The Sweet Spot Song

First of all, let me start by showing deep respect for Greta Thunberg (Instagram, Twitter) who has recently during COP24 stood up against the (political) leaders of the World telling them they have failed with respect to prevent Climate breakdown. I deeply sympathize with her cause because she shows all of us that the current socio-economic systems with their endless growth paradigm don’t work any longer as they were supposed to.

Greta shows great inspirational leadership not only for her generation but she challenges the World to take action. This blog is just a very small action I can now take myself to help Greta’s generation (and the ones coming after that) survive as good as possible, given the enormous challenges humanity now faces.

So with this blog I take a first step in co-responsibility not only for Greta’s generation and the generations after that, but also feel co-responsible for my own generation. I think generations should now not be polarized but start to help each other whereever they can.

I am also very inspired by Kate Raworth with her Doughnut concept which should inspire the World to rethink economics. In one of her blogs she shows an graphic 4-quadrant idea for humanity to try to find a new Sweet Spot and in fact shows allmost all countries of the World that they are still far failing to reach the Sweet Spot. This quadrant model inspired me to develop an idea about a Sweet Spot Song and I now think this Sweet Spot Song idea can also be linked also to Greta’s callout for action.

This ‘generation’ perspective Greta is showing us, reminded me of the time in my youth where there was also kind of rebellion. Only then it was not rebellion against extinction but rebellion against the older generation dominating the younger. At that time, a famous Rock Band called “The Who” created a hit called “My Generation”. This inspired me to transform the lyrics and link them to the current hot topic: 6th Mass Extinction. So the title changes from ‘My Generation’ to ‘Our Extinction’ and the lyrics, well you understand. So here go the new lyrics (first idea, any suggestions or improvements welcome). Tip: play the current song while you read the new lyrics and try to get a feeling about how the new lyrics fit to the old melody:

Title: Our Extinction

• Climate tries to put us d-down (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Just because we get around (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Things it causes look awful b-bad (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• It really really makes us sad (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)

This is our extinction
This is our extinction, baby

• Growth proponents have to go away (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• They just don’t dig what we all say (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• We’re not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• We’re just talkin’ ’bout our mass extinction (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)

This is our extinction
This is our extinction, baby

• We have to find a new, s-s-sweet spot (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Or otherwise we all will rot (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Life there can be great if we all agree (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Not only for humans but also the bird and the bee (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)

This is our extinction
This is our extinction, baby

• Some idealism’s need to be rejected (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Because they have not brought what we expected (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Cowardly leaders please also leave (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• We no longer support your belief (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)

This is our extinction
This is our extinction, baby

• Politicians have not learned ’bout Climate (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Deciding complex things is what they hate (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Their igorance is misused by big industries (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Leaving us with undesirable legacies… (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)

This is our extinction
This is our extinction, baby

• Many of us still belief in reassuring lies (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• And in positively brought, popularized t-t-tries (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• But popular messages don’t really help in improving (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• We have to develop new ways of removing (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)

This is our extinction
This is our extinction, baby

• It’s not only about the young, g-g-generation (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Oldies also want no climate s-s-sensation (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• We’re all in the same 6th mass extinction (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)
• Let’s face it together, and use our mass instinction (Talkin’ ’bout 6th mass extinction)

So goodby with extinction
We’ll use our instinction, baby

Let’s take NO for an answer when shifting paradigms

When entering unchartered territory, odd language constructs can help create tipping points

When living on the edge of chaos, new learning and unlearning usually takes place at ever (often exponentially) increasing rates. An era when lots of potentials exist for building a new, better cradle for society. With the discovery of these potentials, this new unlearning and relearning, also new language constructs can be helpful. This post tries to add a glimpse to that.

A word of caution: paradigm shift is not a goal in itself, but we see it happen all around us. So there are already driving forces that intend to create a better, more beautiful World and use paradigm shift concepts to support their messages. It’s this positively intended shifts that I try to emphasize here.

The principles documented below were inspired by my previous (enterprise architecture) visioning work within Enexis and predecessors. Recently i got some reinspiration from the excellent post of Nature 2.0[1]. In that post a preferred future vision has been emphasized with a/o these 4 principles: no ownership, no identity, no scarcity, no money. These principles which sound great to me, inspired me to extend with other principles that can amplify the intent when used together of when selectively combined.

This is very fundamental. Since humans need language constructs to create mutual understanding, we have become used to put ever more constraints in our language. Much of these constraints were developed to defend the self, the ego and have during the course of eons become ‘culture’. Memes that have gone viral. A word like mining is a good example of an ego-driven word. Mining comes from communicating to another that something is ‘mine’. We ‘mined’ a lot (and still do), think of fossil fuels we mine from the earth. And even now, using modern digital technologies like Bitcoin we still developed the architectures in such a way that ‘mining’ can be possible.

Could we develop an ‘Our-ing’ digital technology, that is capable of preventing ‘greedy’ mining strategies? Tragedy of the Commons certainly plays a major role in this but only as long as something is naturally or deliberately scarce. As soon as we can create an abundant context for an ecosystem, ownership has no intrinsic value anymore. So the transformation from scarcity to abundance can deliver many benefits to society.

I promote proper use of the word “NO” in such a way that it could be made beneficial in paradigm shift contexts. This post can thus also be used to support, inspire or initiate paradigm shift discussions/dialogs/meetups etc.

These new paradigm themes have deliberately been constructed beginning with ‘NO’ or ‘NOT’ words. The reason for this is that the Powers that Be, the incumbents, the conservatives or those supporting or promoting the old paradigm tend to use these words a lot. If we frame new paradigm messages with these words, the Powers that Be will most probably easier accept them because it’s their native language. They might even become sponsors of some shifts!

This assumption is in line with this quote of Philip K. Dick: “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” and then combined with the below mentioned strategy for paradigm change by Donella Meadows:

[NEW] No competition, we can improve society without competing, just by collaborating in (like minded) communities and coalitions of the willing.

[OLD]Competition is the (only) preferred way in order to improve or progress the world and in order to protect our countries and in order to protect our companies. Artificial borders come in very handy to create the illusion of separation

[NEW]No discrimination. We all benefit.

[OLD] Benefits go to select elites. Pareto is a good strategy, if we get 80% or long tail benefits we don’t need to look at the rest.

[NEW] No societal uncompensated externalities. No excuses anymore for not embedding the cost of externalities into the economy. Support and embed Kate Raworth’s Donut economy paradigm.

[OLD] Externalities are for society, profits are for companies. Immoral running of companies is supported and enabled by law. Drive for ever greater efficiency is a catalyst to not price externalities. Capitalism is a catalyst for ever greater efficiency (productivity) at cost of society.

[NEW]No global power concentration (like e.g. New World Order) but locally optimized ecosystems. Think global, act local.

[OLD]

We like power. We like to concentrate power. So we win at the expense of all those other suckers…

[NEW] No identity, there is no need for actors to identify themselves in order to add value to each other. Anonymous by design.

[OLD] Privacy by design. We need to identify actors so we can sue them or make them accountable. This way we gave certain (groups) of people more rights than others.

[NEW] No IP (Intellectual Property Right). It hinders collaborative and collective efforts to create a real better world.

[OLD] Let’s compete with each other. If I have IP, then you don’t. Then I win and You loose. And that’s OK with me, because I am greedy by nature.

[NEW] No Licensing. UnLicense model prevails.

[OLD] Lets license the stuff. So we can make lots of money from it. Let those suckers pay for it so only we can enjoy the benefits.

[NEW] No opaque markets.

[OLD] We don’t like transparency/open data because it is hindering markets that ‘live’ from intransparency. Therefore we rather keep things opaque, hidden in the dirty dark.

[NEW] Not for profit, not for sale, no patents, no IP. We like new organization forms that are not for profit and at the same time are not for sale and have no urge for patents or IP.

[OLD] We like profitable companies, and if large enough, we will sell them on the stock market. We use patents and IP as secret weapons to hinder (global) innovation, hinder collaboration and encourage competition.

[NEW] Not for sale. The (virtual) company that helps us creating hyper efficient, shared, democratized, demonetized, digitized ecosystem(s), is not for sale, so that (greedy) speculation is discouraged, anti-fragility and sustainability is by design enabled. From idea to nursery to startup to scaleup to scaleout to blitzscale: growth is the only driver to create companies. Greed is the primary driver to create bigger companies that are ‘for sale’.

[OLD] My company is for sale, so I can put the money in my pocket.

[NEW] No scarcity, there can be abundance in almost anything. Build a scarcity museum. Promote and embed Elinor Ostrom’s non-tragedy of the commons. Scarcity is either created artificially by ‘Powers that be’ or value is extracted from a common resource pool without taking into account effect on externalities. Current capitalism is an example of ‘overfishing’ but also any form of ‘mining’ usually is geared toward greedy behavior at the expense of others and/or the ecology.

[OLD] Scarcity is the only sustainable mechanism to progress the World.

[1] Nature 2.0, The Cradle of Civilization Gets an Upgrade, https://medium.com/@trentmc0/nature-2-0-27bdf8238071 by Jan-Peter Doomernik, Dimitri de Jonghe and inspiration from Carsten Stoecker.

Let’s hurry, we have no time to lose, but please take the time to read this

This blog is inspired by ‘how did we do that? the possibility of rapid transition’.

It’s undeniable that the World is ‘in’ transition, with lately lots of focus on energy transition, by some called ‘the mother of all transitions’. Being in transition can range from feeling uncomfortable, scary, unwanted for some while others might see only positive outcomes and will want to enforce it to happen. As always, the truth may lie somewhere in the middle.

More and more we here that we need to accelerate the energy transition. Because we get more and more scared of the negative outcomes from inaction or inertia, we tend to look for solutions where technooptimism and market mechanisms whisper to us that something external to us will solve the problem. But there is much more to it ofcourse. In fact we need from time to time a slowdown, look carefully at lessons learned from previous transitions, and embed that within our ethics, morals, politics, laws and regulations and governance. This calls for courage on all levels. A combination of many paths, a combination of top-down and bottom-up learning. Maybe even the greatest learning experiment in history, but there is hope!

Given the fact that transitions are not a direct goal in itself, but a consequence of retrospect (e.g. climate change impact), it seems ‘we’ can benefit if we can in some way enforce a ‘rapid’ transition. Fortunately, there is already a good collective knowledge of previous transitions and their succes factors. By accident I stumbled upon this very good overview ‘how did we do that? the possibility of rapid transition’ which I would like to recommend and share here, so it can reach even more readers.

For those who want to have a quick overview of factors that matter in rapid transitions, please go read page 44 in the excellent booklet which gives many good examples. I truly hope this blog reaches at least those that are active in transitions and that are in positions to make a difference. Good luck with your personal transition in discovering this exciting helpful research, with a great thanks to the contributors!

I also found out that Kate Raworth who’s Doughnut economy idea I greatly support, also seems to have stumbled upon the rapid transition research, she mentioned it in a tweet: ‘This is goeing high up upon my reading list’.  Thanks Kate for your excellent ideas!