{"id":523,"date":"2019-06-21T08:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T08:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2019-08-29T11:34:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T11:34:52","slug":"excerpts-from-activism-revisited-conscious-participation-and-collective-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/excerpts-from-activism-revisited-conscious-participation-and-collective-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts from Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What follows is an excerpt by EE Magazine from a longer article originally published as <\/em>Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence<\/a>, by Daniel Christian Wahl.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Reflections on Evolutionary Activism<\/em><\/a>, Tom Atlee highlights three evolutionary dynamics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i) integration of diversity,<\/em>ii) constant alignment with reality, and<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

iii) self-interest rooted in the wellbeing of the whole.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These\n are key characteristics of regenerative cultures aligned with the \nevolution of life. They are also guidelines to help us, as individuals, \nkeep on learning and contributing to the creation of regenerative \nbusinesses, communities and cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atlee\n begins his book by reminding us of the long evolutionary journey from \nthe beginnings of the universe to our times. Our bodies literally \ncontain atoms forged in the death of giant stars. As participants in \nthis ever-transforming and evolving whole, we are expressions of what \nAtlee calls the Creative Power of the Universe. He extends an invitation\n to all of us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As evolutionary \nactivists we can step out of [separation] and into the awareness that we\n are part of the ongoing creation of the universe, that our power is the\n Creative Power of the Universe working through us, and that we have a \ncreative job to do, a really important undertaking to be part of.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are the eyes \nand ears and hands and feet and heart and mind of the Creative Power of \nthe Universe at work in our world at this time forming the first \nsustainable self- evolving, wise civilization ever seen on this planet.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every decision we\n make \u2014 including how to spend this precious moment and where to put our\n precious energy and which precious people to work with and how we are \ngoing to be with them \u2014 all these decisions are the Big CPU feeling its \nway about what to do next here, what is possible now. [\u2026]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You and I are \nthat Power, in that Power, of that Power. Welcome home. We\u2019re all in \nthis job together, backed up by the greatest creative force on Earth \u2014 \nand beyond. Let\u2019s go to work, as consciously, in tune, and together as \nwe can manage.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Tom Atlee (2009:33\u201334)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom\n Atlee\u2019s work offers profound inspiration and practical support for \npeople willing to live the questions together in order to redesign the \nhuman presence on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He describes how a series of questions has guided his own journey as a life-long activist (pp.43\u201347):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can I help make a better world?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the meaning of self-organized collective intelligence?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can activist groups become more collaboratively effective?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can communities and countries be more collaboratively effective?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can humanity wisely and creatively work with the crises of our time?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we help our social systems and cultures consciously evolve?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we grow \ninto being evolution \u2014 and take responsibility for our own role as the \nincreasingly conscious co-intelligence of the universe?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do we activists humbly become the world consciously evolving in directions that deeply support all forms of aliveness?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Tom Atlee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last two questions invite us deep into a participatory and evolutionary perspective, which we are participants in <\/em>and expressions of<\/em>, aiming to become more fully conscious of how our being and doing <\/em>creates conditions conducive to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: <\/em> Tom Atlee, Reflections on Evolutionary Activism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What follows is an excerpt by EE Magazine from a longer article originally published as Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence, by Daniel Christian Wahl. In Reflections on Evolutionary Activism, Tom Atlee highlights three evolutionary dynamics: i) integration of diversity,ii) constant alignment with reality, and iii) self-interest rooted in the wellbeing of the whole. These are key characteristics… Continue reading Excerpts from Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krausandkraus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}