Riffing, Surfing, Simmering, Striving
Hey crew, how's your complexity-surfing going lately? 🏄🌊
Are you letting yourself be cooked in the juices of your truths? 🥘♨️
Is the brightening of Springtime helping vitalize you? ☀️☘️
Tonight's WEWS embraces a new style—snatching time splashes weekly in the holy mode of invocation.
Paradigm Shifts for Your Liberation
Sometimes the obvious truth cannot actually be perceived, until an interior apeture opens, allowing encounter with new information. 😮
The other day I was chatting with my new fellow co-executive director of Living Systems Institute after the board meeting. And in chatting I realized: all three of the very different organizations I servant-lead today share one thing in common:
They are all interested in paradigm shifts—for minds, people, and society.
Paradigm shifts are inherently tricky.
Because—words alone don’t get you there.
(Yet words can catalyze a change that's already alive and precipitated in the system
— and that is the art.)
You can’t know what you can’t know.
To cross into a new mentality, an entire new way of organizing information and seeing things—
it unlocks literal NEW WORLDS
...and this is the most important thing we could be working towards, individually and collectively right now.
(Here's a great talk I watched by John Vervaeke that, although part of a series, specifically goes into the impossible conundrum about making a decision to change when you functionally cannot know from the future vantage point.)
Our maps for the old world may not help us navigate in the new world. However, the most enduring truths stick around.
And the most generalized knowledge lends survival advantage in general.
One must EARN one's understanding of the patterns pervading all things—including self. My shining hope is that—in theory, there is nothing that cannot be learned. The people must awaken to their true natures. It is only a matter of time. I am only striving to be one teller and accelerant of vital change arising from aliveness.
You must arrive at your own knowledge of this. You must unify and diversify this universe. It is simply not acceptable to just "adopt" ideas—they must be filtered and tested for viability/validity via YOUR existence. To be fully human, you must validate and meaning-make your own experience.
Here's the rub: Fractal Praxis is a paradigm shift. And so: I can’t give it to you. 😦It’s the one thing I’m really trying to give you all, before I pass away. And yet, I can’t! I hate this conundrum. My words both can and can't get you there.
The knowledge must be validated within. The words heard. The knowing liberated.
The Fractal Praxis Manifesto—the first book I will publish and that is calling for my focus at this time—is meant as a catalyst, a mind-alterting substance, a CALL TO ACTION that sets in motion new possible Beings.
With it, I aim to do everything I can to convey with words what you MUST do, according to the holistic paradigm of fractal praxis.
It will also communicate the basics of a philosophy that I believe renders each aspect of this world profoundly meaningful, and lets us live from the principles of Life itself.
But there’s little time. And to influence positive change, memetic penetration is paramount. So, barring ('til later) the formal presentation of a grand unified theory, I will supply you with the call to action text. For how to get right with Life... before it becomes too late to leave a meaningful legacy.
Book Generation
I started writing a book, an earlier ancestor to what I’m doing now, almost 8 (!) years ago. I had no idea what I was doing.
And reading its old passages this past week in my spare time, I am astonished…
At how peculiar, and nearly totally inscrutable, my first narrative efforts were.
I was trying to translate something that was big for me, but that I hadn't attempted to share with others before. My communication contained great self-reference AND self-consciousness.
I didn’t consider my audience at all. And I lacked almost all references to others' work. The result is both dense and vast, with seemingly miniscule reward-per-word ratio.
I’m trying this differently now. Really carefully applying the fullness of what I know. Going slow enough to refer rightly, and thread the needle. To ensure meaning is getting across. And including the context—that is, YOU, dear reader—in the text.
I will try. And I will ask for help. Until this work is complete and is its own creature, interacting with the world. This I vow.
I really want to expand on / start a new culture. And I already have, within myself.
The first book is a call-to-action because I must push out these memes so as to intersect with, and galvanize, new forms of organization, amidst a synched-up, linked-up, Living (meta) movement.
<– I identify this as objectively quasi-religious BECAUSE it requires transcending one’s ordinary worldview to fully understand.
And because it is a calling—like, a prophetic intuitive compulsion, as experienced inside of me. This devotional love for the brink of us sharing in new liberating insights...
And isn’t seeing from new eyes the nature of a transcendental religious experience?
📰 I’ll be starting to publish excerpts from the Fractal Praxis Manifesto (FPM) here in these weekly newsletters and in these weekly talks. Because, as far as I know for now 😉... This is what feels most meaningful for me to be doing at this time. (The zeitgeist feels ripe for call-to-action type invocations, don't you agree?)
I want these talks and newsletters to be higher yield. So, I'll starting calling out the truth you keep tamed in your shadows. And it'll stir things up, as it should. So then I'll get more feedback, and more audience. And the potion will be set in motion. 🧪
Thanks for floating along this myriad ocean with me. 🏄🌊 I am blessed to co-exist (and co-evolve) with you.
Love,
C.