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Thanks Om!:):)
After looong struggles in Germany we will start-viy inviation- a German speaking NIng group about SDi in the future. I will co-moderate it.
In contrast to Anglo American language sphere its a daily challenge for us Germans to communicate and translate nealry simultaneously in two directions. Even those of us who have lived and worked in English speaking countries confess something -roundabout 30 percent of lingual distinctions are lost in this process.
However I decided in 2006 to start here at Gaia. I am not blogging at this moment in German. And I decided to do it within a community dedicated to change the world.
Nearly no continuous participation from more than 5 people of Germany. can be detected here. Europeans in toto are a fraction with small numbers only.
The understanding of integrated f2f comunication and online collaboration is here, in Germany in its infancy.
On the other side the world of CEO`s. consultants, cultural leaders and media leaders. They have not grasped the growing power of community and we-forms of communication. There is still a certain form of arrogance regarding these nexus. These guys will have to learn and upgrade their knowledge of the world(s) considerably next years.
Integral poltics and large scale systems change will be my focus next years. However connected with personal growth and highly individual ways of unleashing ones potential. AS CHE UK is intending too. We had this summer excellent discussions at London Integral Circle about emerging developments.
This virtual (and for Londoners real) yahoo group with roundabout 450 members from Europe, USA, Australia New zealand, is a very relevant platform for me. As it is really concerned for spreading deep and broad change globall. While making fully use of regional and local specifics.
The time has come to go into leadership in most various roles. Not only as pundits, gurus and thinkers. But as entreprenurs, individuals with courage and boldness, as women at the edge in dynamic polarity with men at the edge. As people who can act within the mainstream and within the subcultures. As grassroots, individualists and on the stages as much as behind the scenes…
And it can be dangerous too. Brutally demanding. Want to remember what a former teacher (for a short time) of me said. It was Kalrfried Graf Dürkheim. Its true for me for men as much as for women:
The Way of Transformation:
The man who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend who offers him refuge and comfort and encourages his old self to survive.
Rather, he will seek out someone who will faithfully and inexorably help him to risk himself, so that he may endure the suffering and pass courageously through it, thus making of it a “raft that leads to the far shore.”
Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him. In this lies the dignity of daring. Thus, the aim of (spiritual) practice is not to develop an attitude which allows a man to acquire a state of harmony and peace wherein nothing can ever trouble him. On the contrary, practice should teach him to let himself be assaulted, perturbed, moved, insulted, broken and battered - that is to say, it should enable him to dare to let go his futile hankering after harmony, surcease from pain, and a comfortable life in order that he may discover, in doing battle with the forces that oppose him, that which awaits him beyond the world of opposites.
The first necessity is that we should have the courage to face life, and to encounter all that is most perilous in the world. When this is possible, meditation itself becomes the means by which we accept and welcome the demons which arise from the unconscious, a process very different from the practice of concentration on some object as a protection against such forces.
Only if we venture repeatedly through zones of annihilation can our contact with Divine Being, which is beyond annihilation, become firm and stable. The more a man learns whole-heartedly to confront the world that threatens him with isolation, the more are the depths of the Ground of Being revealed and the possibilities of New Life and Becoming opened.”
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