Emerging Futures

There are many people in the world who are devoting their lives to helping human beings find their way to more expansive and authentic expression of ‘the divine’ in their lives.  My personal favourites include people like Lynn Andrews, Bruce Lipton, Candace Pert, Joseph Chilton Pearce and many, many others.  Each of them, in his/her own way, is offering an invitation for us to discover more about ourselves than we have been limited to, given our cultural conditioning and its attending structures/limitations of beliefs, values and attitudes.  After all, this invisible network is what holds our world together when far too often it needs to come apart. 

Last night, I spent time watching the new Gregg Braden  DVD called ‘The Science of Miracles’.  Clearly, as I watched, I was aware that this is an honourable man, with honourable intentions and a great contribution to be made.  He’s been around for a long time and has created many different kind of offerings to invite, cajole, prod and startle his readers/listeners into new versions of themselves!  I can relate to that…

I liked this DVD and encourage others to invest in watching it.  His presentation offers background information that makes the leap seem more palatable… more manageable… in one step.  Like a trip to Hawaii from anywhere - it’s not a tw0-step journey!  You either go or you don’t.

There are moments in my life when I read/watch such things from Gregg or many of the others who are spending their lives on this trip, and I feel frustrated and discouraged that the pull to look at what was - to explore history, to discover the ancients, etc. - leaves me yearning to move on.  Move on with what we’ve discovered about what we are and engage that differently  Move on from looking outside ourselves for our answers and turn inward and gaze upon our own genius.  Move on from thinking that what we need to discover/understand will come from our past when (my truth is that) I know it is to be found by standing in the ‘now’ and moving forward.

We take such great comfort in our history.  All us - every single one of us! - is trained to look out and look back, believing that doing so will make it possible for us to move forward.  Maybe - but maybe not. 

I’m very grateful for what Gregg and Bruce and Lynn and others are bringing to our world.  I know that as people watch and read and listen, they will take comfort in the re-assurance that the unimaginable is indeed, possible.  And yes, I do acknowledge that we seem to need that.  Perhaps my question really is:  just how much do we need????  Will we ever have enough?  What will it take for us to stand in the now and move forward, trusting that as we do so all that is meaningful or essential from the past will make its way into our awareness and present for us to engage?

I realized quite recently that there is a very clear division of information in the books that I’ve written.  Because none of these books is about the content of the history but is about the process of how history is made, I am mindful that there is a progression in this discovery of process that seems to allow us to move forward.

‘Fully Alive’ is about a new way to consider ourselves, our lives and our experiences of that life.  The invitation is to step back from the content of our lives and discover the underlying and formidable processes that are the framework that holds our approach to self and other, intact.  The invitation in ‘Fully Alive’ is to revisit our lives directly in the body, metabolize or digest its intelligence and allow ourselves to move on.  In this approach, the content of the story holds no power.  In that moment, we are free to engage differently.

“Phoenix Rising: The Freeing of Human Potential” is the invitation to stand in the now - in the present - and redefine WHAT we are as human beings.   Today’s science goes far beyond describing who we are and completely redefines WHAT we are.  We are Quantum Biological Beings - beings of flesh and blood and bone that allow the flow of energy of ’self’ to present and move through a physical, tactile world.  We are brilliant, amazing and magical living organic devices - and the body is nonetheless a device. WE… I… on the other hand, am the I AM of past, present and future; the I AM of the ancients and of the as-yet unborn.  I AM the signal… and in that, I AM everlasting, always present and all-that-is.

The next book - the one that will speak to Emerging Futures - will be about how life can manifest when we let go of what was, stand in the now and claim WHAT we are, and allow the connection that WE ARE to the ‘divine’ evidence itself in our capacity to trust the flow of that genius, that signal, through the device and manifest our lives.  The magic of WHAT we are makes it possible for the genius of ‘WHO’ we are to show up in our physical universe. 

I remember the day I noticed, for the first time, that the posters on the wall of the Program Room had been speaking to me for months - and I had not heard.  In that moment, I noticed that the key model was that of The Quantum Biological Human and that little dotted line down the middle.  As I stood at the back of the room and drank it all in, I realized that the posters had ‘naturally’ aligned themselves so that all the models which represented the journey of freedom from the past were lined up to the left of the QBH poster; and all that was essential to living and manifesting a more meaningful life was lined up to the right of the QBH poster.  In that moment, it became clear that it’s a choice.  Plain and simple: it’s a choice.

I can choose to experience myself as what I’ve been taught to believe I am for decades; or I can choose to make the leap (and it is a leap - not a tw0-step process) and discover how to live as the amazing creature that I am.  But either way, I get to choose.

That little dotted line down the middle is the point of the gateway.  On the left of that line, the Newtonian world and its allopathic frameworks and its implications for what I am as a human being.  If I choose that, the default is all to the left - and it is impossible for me to live from all that awaits on the other side!  I have to get to the other side before I can live from it.

On the right, the Quantum world with is frameworks of energy, instantaneous and all -present and its invitation for the WHAT I am as a human being - and all that goes with it.  When I choose to stand on that side, my world explodes with potential!  And all I did was make a choice.

Evolution by Intention is a choice.  Living as a Quantum Biological Human is a choice.  Standing in now and breathing forward is a choice.  And once that choice is made, nothing can pull you back.  The paradigm has been shifted and the old world has disappeared into the new.

Paradigm shift.  You can’t get to a new paradigm by standing in the old one and planning the trip.  You go or you don’t.  You leap.  As Yoda would say : “There is no try.”  You get there or you don’t.  I now know that the journey of the models in the WEL-Systems body of knowledge are the stepping stones along a path that will bring you to the gateway…. to the little dotted line… and leave you there to choose.  It will take you to the doorway from which to leap to the new paradigm.  When you do, if you do…. all of this is up to you.

My clarity of mind is expanding and accelerating.  My time at Oceanstone last week, steeped in four continuous days of conversation in an Emerging Futures context, caused a ‘click’ of some kind.  I am grateful and ready for more!

My deepest gratitude to Gregg Braden, Bruce Lipton, Lynn Andrews, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and all the others who continue to share their journeys and their discoveries that we might find the courage to take our own.

Breathing is good….

What you see depends on where you stand and what direction you choose to look in.   Hardly rocket science and yet, it appears that we so rarely think about any of it. 

What we see also depends on whether our eyes are open or closed.  Try as they might, no one can explain to you how to open your eyes.  You have to just do it, trusting your body to guide the process and produce the desired result.

I’ve been away for the week, spending time at Oceanstone as the guide through the Emerging Futures: Entrepreneurial Women four-day retreat conversation.  I’ve been engaging in this work for almost two decades and I can say that these last conversations were the most compelling I’ve ever been in!  As experienced as I am in a WEL-Systems approach as the gateway to a new paradigm, the impact from this Emerging Futures approach for exploration of the future was felt in both the amount of ground covered and the speed at which the journey was made.  

An Emerging Futures consideration of the future is one that defies logic, demands strength of connection directly to the body and relies completely on our capacity to trust the Quantum Biological Human that we are.  Logic, analysis and reason slow down the process and become both hurdles and barriers to potential outcomes.  Quantum leaps become the norm, leaving behind the dependence on incremental change and step-by-step progression toward an outcome that can only be limited given that it has been designed from history.  An Emerging Future moves at speeds that invite profound and generative change in seconds, with the body responding instantly for expanded capacity for implementation (meaning, the wave  moves and its undulations transform the tissue of the body itself instantly so that it becomes the platform for the requisite beliefs/values/attitudes that will make the outcome possible). 

In the company of a small group of truly amazing women gathering to press their own edges, it became evident that an Emerging Futures approach does require background with the WEL-Systems body of knowledge as the gateway to the paradigm shift that is its natural destination (not just because the knowledge is essential but because the experiences have attuned the body and made it possible to tolerate the impact of speed of flow of information in the new paradigm).  From there, an Emerging Futures exploration becomes possible.  It became very clear to me last week:  standing in an old paradigm and seeking a new truth makes the old saying ‘You can’t get there from here” an expression of an undeniable fact.

Today, as my body settles from the impact of those four days, I am mindful that the physical environment at Oceanstone mirrored what we were experiencing (individually and as a collective) during those conversations.  As the tides came and went, so did our explorations and discoveries, each ensuring the existence of the next wave of explorations and discoveries.  Each exploration allowed for the unfolding discoveries, with each of these creating new perspectives… new places to stand and from which to continue to explore.  Wave after wave of information cascading through the tissue of the body, opening who we were, redesigning who we might become and, in that process, redefining what it is for us to be ‘human’.  

 Of all that became available to me last week, what continues to stand out the most for me is that the wave of transformation that we seek in the culture begins in each of us with the wave of ‘goosebumps’ that ripples through the tissue of our being.  In that nano-second, we are transformed, able to open to and see through new eyes.  Not the eyes clouded by history and habit, but eyes wide open, without the buffers of logic and reason becoming the screen through which our vision is hampered.

There will be more.  Each experience calls to itself the next one, recognizing that as we take one more step up the climb, the view changes and so does our desire to change the view, necessitating the next step.  As we climb, we rely on the body to calibrate for what is needed, allowing ourselves to hold the intention of the destination and letting the body take us there.  And further, we may even come to trust the body to determine the destination.  

Breathing is good… 

When I am in this state (which I never really quite know how to describe to anyone else that may make sense to them!), new ideas come in burps.  Like blips on the screen of life, they just show up, make their presence felt and then disappear.  However, something lingers and gravitates to yet another something that has been hanging there… waiting… sometimes for months! 

 They connect, each disappears and in its place is something new.  Not like pieces of a puzzle coming together and forming something larger of which the pieces are an essential part, more like two flavours of ice cream melting into each other and creating a uniquely different flavour.  Still ice cream, but not recognizable for what it once was.

Two such notions have come together for me.  The first is one that has been on the periphery of my awareness for months, and that is the notion of the power of contagion of an awakened organic collective.  The other is that of parenting as the most essential expression of leadership.  For me, these have become essential to explore.

Parenting shapes reality.  Try as we might to pretend that we’re over it, most of what exits in the world comes from what existed before.  Parenting is a far more potent expression of leadership, with deep and lasting outcomes that far too many of us try all our lives to outrun!   Although there are many versions of this notion, the bottom line is the same:  give me a child until the age of 7, and I’ll give you the man (woman/adult).  In other words, those first 7 years are critical to the ‘mind share’ to which the child will subscribe for life.  Pretty scarey, yet true.

We invest so much time, attention, money, words, training, development, etc in ‘leadership’ development.  And yet, the most fundamental and far-too-often primitive expression of leadership lives in a domain that is most ignored : parenting.  For good reason, too, given that the ‘hands off’ boundaries around parenting reflect the unspoken yet profoundly lived, underlying, seemingly impenetrable   presupposition of ownership.  My child - my world view. 

World transformation then becomes a numbers game of who can breed the most ’soldiers’ for the mind-share. 

Parenting is the most powerful form of contagion in a collective.  Awakened parenting would be equally powerful in an awakened, organic (living) collective.  However, my guess is that the outcomes would be life-alteringly different.

After the next book on EmergingFutures is finished, my thoughts will turn to the relationship between leadership, parenting and an awakened organic collective as an unstoppable force for profound change.  That should be a doozie!

Breathing is good….

 Sometimes, silence says it all.  I think of those times as moments in the void; as small movements and ripplings in the womb of potential; as my world shapeing itself without striving or effort, without intention or design; gaining strength by being quiet, being still and letting go. I seem to be in my greatest time of l’lessons learned’.  As strange as it may seem, there is great joy in  this process for me as so much has stayed the same for so long.  It is as if the surface had become impenetrable and is now yielding to something that will allow new things to grow.  Sometimes, rest is the good that preceeds change.  

I am discovering that I have to reclaim the territory of my own wise counsel.  As much as I have invited and welcomed the truth of others to weave through my own, it leaves me feeling like a pastoral scene spotted with pieces of carnival gear!  Nothing wrong with a carnival - it is out of place, incomplete and fractured, and simply is not who I am.  No doubt, I am not alone in this experience. 

And so, the coming weeks will reflect my movements and discoveries.  Soon, there will be a new two-day experience for me to engage with larger numbers of women; a process that will be filled with guided inductions and ‘do-me-button’ moments!  I find myself looking forward to the process for its incredible outcomes - and what else it may reveal to me about my own journey. 

For now, back to that stillness inside.  As I go about my busy-ness on the outside, I know that the stillness inside continues.  There, it is dark and soothing, waiting for the arrival of the new.

Breathing is good….

I’ve been living with chaos in my life, off and on, for a lot of years (and I know it is often no easy task). 

As powerful as a WEL-Systems® approach is, and as deeply meaningful as it is to me in the living of my own life, I had become restless about it and who I was becoming.   I care deeply for the people I engage with; and as much as I delight in their accelerated evolution and its impact on my own (it is, after all, a holographic universe), I felt unsettled in it all. 

Yesterday was one of the worst days of my life!  My body was in chaos, physically - with aches and pains in places I did not even know existed.  A vibration was moving through my body that left me feeling like I was perpetually about to leap off a precipice… just on the edge of falling over.  Yikes!  That’s not a good way for me to go through my day!

Tears.  Lots and lots of tears - and no idea why.

A huge sense of disconnect from all that I hold dear; as if watching it all from high above my ‘real world’, in some ways recognizing the power of it all and yet, in some way, having no desire to connect with any of it.  It was potent and deeply meaningful and yet, in some way, it had lost its meaning for me, personally.

Today, I was reminded of a very simple - and, for me, ESSENTIAL - part of who I am.  Not of what I do or what I know, but of who I AM.  

I re-discovered what brought the greatest joy into my life… to gather with people in conversation.  To explore and experience and discover; to LIVE those discoveries… and find out what else they lead to;  and lovingly, openly and easily share all of it with others who have an interest.

Engage with others in conversations to discover more of who I am and who I can become.  In so doing. those who gather with me discover more of who they are… and then leave and share that with the people they care about. 

Gather and engage!  Learn it - Live it - Love it - Share it!  (LLLS) It’s really that simple. 

Somewhere along the way, I got lost in the models of how others were doing/had done it.  I got carried away by the current of programs, exams and certifications.  I became numb to my own model of the world and found myself drifting along in the model of ‘how business should develop’ or ‘how a business should behave’.  This morning,  I remembered:  I am not a business, I AM… and so is everyone else.

I am excited about gathering with women in groups, talking… and discovering and becoming… and when we leave that group, sharing who we’ve become with others.  In that moment, we already have become the greatest invitation to our own evolution by decloaking and allowing ourselves to be seen.  When we do that, we learn how to see others more clearly and without the filters of expectations and outcomes. 

Wow!  I feel GREAT!  I feel so free and so much more like ME!  Truth be told, I’m not sure that much will look different on the outside - and it feels so much more alive on the inside!

I now understand so much more why Emerging Futures and Women Gathering is so important to me : they are about LLLS.  They are about coming together, knowing that our presence in the conversation is what is most potent; about recognizing that if we don’t learn, we don’t grow; and if we don’t grow, we can’t become more than we already are - and there is just so much more to us than what we’ve already found!

We are most enlivened by what we connect with… what we inhale and make part of who we are, in tissue, in our physical world.  We are most enlivened by what we love.

I LOVE this way of being!  For me, WEL-Systems is not about models or programs or certifications - it’s a way of being.  It’s my life, from one breath to the next; from one day to the next; and from one intention to the next.  I know that when others have been touched by this perspective, their lives have changed - rapidly, profoundly and generatively.   So profound and intense have the changes been that for many, they no longer even remember who they were before they began that journey of discovery.  And yet, it is in the cells of their very being: they can no longer be otherwise and who they now are touches and influences all who engage with them.

I now know my journey more clearly and powerfully.  I can see the road ahead of me and am eager to move down its path of sun, fog and storm clouds.  I AM all of it and I am willing to share it all with anyone who has the desire to discover.

Evolution by Intention is how I remind myself that it is about LLLS.  It is my way of heading in a direction that I believe can and will change my life and the lives of all who travel with me.  I also know that as those others move on and off the path that I’m on, they can not do other than to share with those in their life all that they have become.  It is not about knowledge - it is about essence of being.

I am so grateful for my life.  I am also so grateful to be so loved.