Transformation MADness
There was a time in my youth when someone would give me a copy of MAD magazine and I would get really excited about the irreverence I was about to dive into. Now, many years later, I get that same excitement when I receive the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) quarterly publication Shift! Far from irreverent, it continues to catalogue and document the global shift in consciousness. From the messages we receive in the mass media and in the upheaval of our world, most would consider the notion of positive personal, societal and global transformation as impossible and another version of MADness. I don’t!
To add to my joy IONS recently published an 80 page report entitled: The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming. The introductory message says it all much better than I can and posits a “whole-scale change from an unsustainable way of life—mired in the contradictions of dogmatic religion and secular political power and fueled by rampart profiteering and the coercion of science—to one in which science and spirituality reconfigure our most basic understandings of human consciousness and how to live harmoniously in a healthy and sustainable ecosphere…it is our destiny not only to survive but to thrive…the evidence for such a phase shift is mounting. We may very well be moving from the brink of catastrophe to a great era of transformation. And if that is truly the case, then each of us will experience this transformation in the center of our own being.”
Transformation in the center of our own being is very familiar to me and, my daily vocation. As synchronicity would have it, as soon as I completed reading IONS I received an email from Otto Scharmer, a pioneer whose work is in consciously expanding such transformation in groups, organizations and societies. He shared that his long-awaited new book Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges will be available May 15th. Click on the title to read more about Otto, the book and to download the Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 21. This is highly recommended reading and I strongly encourage you: Buy this book!
I sense in my bones and in the energetic fields that I work in that our choices are instrumental in the evolution of our culture/s, but (as the report above says) “we now see that those choices also play a role in the wiring of our own brains and in the expression of our genes, not just in the current generation but for generations to come.” It makes me envision my nieces and nephews, and their children and the world they will inhabit; or as the Native Americans write, for the 7th generation beyond us.
Next week I’ll be in Rockville, MD and in the presence of another mentor, Bert Hellinger, further learning how our ancestries and how Loves Hidden Symmetry is underneath everything. Stay tuned!
To add to my joy IONS recently published an 80 page report entitled: The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming. The introductory message says it all much better than I can and posits a “whole-scale change from an unsustainable way of life—mired in the contradictions of dogmatic religion and secular political power and fueled by rampart profiteering and the coercion of science—to one in which science and spirituality reconfigure our most basic understandings of human consciousness and how to live harmoniously in a healthy and sustainable ecosphere…it is our destiny not only to survive but to thrive…the evidence for such a phase shift is mounting. We may very well be moving from the brink of catastrophe to a great era of transformation. And if that is truly the case, then each of us will experience this transformation in the center of our own being.”
Transformation in the center of our own being is very familiar to me and, my daily vocation. As synchronicity would have it, as soon as I completed reading IONS I received an email from Otto Scharmer, a pioneer whose work is in consciously expanding such transformation in groups, organizations and societies. He shared that his long-awaited new book Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges will be available May 15th. Click on the title to read more about Otto, the book and to download the Introduction, Chapter 1 and Chapter 21. This is highly recommended reading and I strongly encourage you: Buy this book!
I sense in my bones and in the energetic fields that I work in that our choices are instrumental in the evolution of our culture/s, but (as the report above says) “we now see that those choices also play a role in the wiring of our own brains and in the expression of our genes, not just in the current generation but for generations to come.” It makes me envision my nieces and nephews, and their children and the world they will inhabit; or as the Native Americans write, for the 7th generation beyond us.
Next week I’ll be in Rockville, MD and in the presence of another mentor, Bert Hellinger, further learning how our ancestries and how Loves Hidden Symmetry is underneath everything. Stay tuned!
posted by Dr. Michael Picucci at Saturday, April 21, 2007
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