| Centered On the Edge | 2002-06-16 19:43 3 comments |
 by Flemming Funch"How do we come together in order to touch, or be touched by, the intelligence we need?" —Jacob Needleman
Tom Atlee mentioned this fabulous resource: Centered on the Edge: Mapping a Field of Collective Intelligence and Spiritual Wisdom. Be sure to click on the Continue button in the intro to get to the actual material. A team of spiritually oriented dialogue experts interviewed a lot of people and analyzed the results and came up with a number of patterns and principles that appear to be keys to the phenomenon of how resonant intelligence emerges in groups. For example, one of the patterns is, in brief, what they call "Quickening", described like this: "People speak of a moment when the "magic" happens, a moment of awakening, deepening, quickening, when they seem to transcend their egos or their personalities. They sense a world unseen, unheard, yet truly more than anything they've experienced before." They cover many other things, like: Synchronicity, Surprise, Mystery, Alchemy, Storytelling, Movement of the Whole, Love, Facing the Darkness, Silence, Connectedness, Re-membering, Synergy, Serving Wholeness, Witnessing, and more. |