The Pattern of Living Systems

Significant changes often are underpinned by a significantly different way of viewing the world and how it works.  Michelle Holliday is doing a great job of articulating some of the emerging perspectives that are slowly becoming the new understanding (complexity and interconnectedness) that we must be able to sense and respond to in order to shape the future and well being we want.  Michelle comes from a business perspective, lives in Canada and is an informal thinking partner with Changing the Game and the Change Design Lab.

 

Author Charles Eisenstein Says Occupy Wall St. Is A Different Type Of Revolution

The system isn’t working for the 1% either. You know, if you were a CEO, you would be making the same choices they do. Institutions have their own logic. Life is pretty bleak at the top too; and all the baubles of the rich – they’re kind of this phony compensation for the loss of what is really important: the loss of community, the loss of connection, the loss of intimacy, the loss of meaning.”

That statement was made by Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics, in the below video, which was made as part of a documentary film project in the works titled Occupy Love. The film asks the question: “how are the economic and ecological crises we are facing today a great love story?”

Watch Occupy Wall St – The Revolution Is Love [5 min.]:

Highlighted quotes from the video:

As More People Wake Up, The Easier It Is To Change

I think now, as more and more people wake up to the truth, that we’re here to give, and wake up to that desire, and wake up to the fact that the other way isn’t working anyway; the more reinforcement we have from people around us that this isn’t crazy, this makes sense, this is how to live.

And as we get that reinforcement, our minds and our logic no longer have to fight against the logic of the heart which wants us to be of service. This shift of consciousness which inspires such things is universal in everybody – the 99% and the 1%. And it’s awakening in different people in different ways.”

The Felt Experience Of Connection

An economist says that the more for you is essentially less for me, but the lover knows that the more for you is more for me, too. If you love somebody then their happiness is your happiness; their pain is your pain.

Your sense of self expands to include other beings. That’s love. Love is expansion of the self to include the other. And that’s a different kind of revolution: there’s no one to fight, there’s no ‘other’ in this revolution.

Everyone has a unique calling and it’s really time to listen to that. That’s what the future is going to be. It’s time to get ready for it, help contribute to it and make it happen.”

Click here for more information about the film Occupy Love

Contagion

We are born with an innate need to unite, which is the plan of Nature – a single force controling the entire universe, all of us, all creation. Our world is a modern Babylon and its turning into one whole, completely interconnected, regardless of borders, countries, continents, nations, races, and religions. Our interdependence is growing so strong that it will soon eliminate all these barriers.

On the other hand, our egoism remains and continues to develop. Because of this, we hate each other even more. We repel each other; we think only of ourselves, subconsciously and instinctively. We don’t consider others and  use them maximally for our own profit. This is our nature.

During the present and last stage of our evolution, when this huge egoistic society has become global, we have depleted all the natural resources and sources of: energy, oil, coal, gas, water, minerals, and metals. Everything is coming to an end. Even if we wish to keep cultivating our egoistic potential, it won’t be possible.

The consumer society that developed during the 20th century has exhausted itself, stripping the Earth of all resources, and as a result, we cannot continue to live as we have. We have reached such confrontation with each other and the environment that it forces us to do something.

Humanity has become a rampant virus and is not beginning to realize it. Revolutions are taking place in different countries; we see how communication and connection between people urges them to demand change. However, we still do not understand how or why this is happening in such synchronicity.

In this state of confusion, not being able to understand our next stage, we must start studying the laws mutual responsibility that underlie the laws of nature and become an integrated humanity in the new, integrated world.