Dear all ~
I've been doing some research related to self-organizing and have been inspired
by the posts and links offered here. I also continue to find inspiration in
the self-organizing principles and practices of Open Space Technology. I would
like to offer some passages related to self-organizing from Not-Two Is Peace by
World-Friend Adi Da Samraj. Many of these passages refer to the Global
Cooperative Forum. This is the mechanism Adi Da Samraj calls humanity to
manifest as a necessary aspect of a global self-organizing system. I've pulled
sentences and paragraphs that specifically point to self-organization. The
book in its entirety is available online at da-peace.org or can be purchased
from Amazon or elsewhere.
"The purpose of the Global Cooperative Forum is to ensure that the totality of
humankind, or everybody-all-at-once, is participating in a global political
reality, and demonstrating the self-organizing means for making it right and
keeping it right."
"....The only power that can deal with these powers that are on the verge of
destroying the Earth-world is everybody-all-at-once--meaning not merely mob
power, but a new cooperative system for dealing with issues."
"The role of the Global Cooperative Forum is to replace the absence of
systematic responsibility with the presence of systematic order and
integrity--a system that is self-governing, self-organizing, self-correcting,
and self-rightening."
"There must be an entirely new structuring of the human domain, and also a
process wherein that entirely new structure can actually be given birth."
"The old order will insist on its own persistence. And, so, it is a matter of
the old order getting up one morning and finding out that there is a Global
Cooperative Forum instead."
"Fundamental (or all-rightening) change cannot be caused. However,
fundamental change can happen--as a spontaneous (and all-transforming, or
all-reforming) self-conversion. Also, the necessary self-conversion that is
required for fundamental change to occur can, itself, be enabled to happen--not
by causing it as effect (as if it were already not-existing, and, therefore,
needs to be "created out of nothing"), but, most simply and directly, by
re-empowering the self-organizing integrity and prior unity of the inherently
egoless everybody-all-at-once that already exists.
It will not be the role-playing of "virtuous speaking" that brings about
the necessary fundamental change. Calling everybody to change does not cause
them to change. Those who are already moved to do right do not need to be told
to do so--and, no matter how much advice and admonition they are given, those
who are not inclined to do right are not going to "change their act".
If there is going to be fundamental all-rightening change, something has to
require change. Therefore, the world as a whole must be enabled to require
change. It is an acausal matter--not a causal matter.
The billions of humankind must become self-organized. The Global
Cooperative Forum is the means for self-organizing the total population of
humankind into an effective single voice that can simply say how things are
going to be."
"The inherent collective and prior union that is the "everybody-all-at-once" is
inherently egoless, self-organizing, indivisible, and cooperative. The human
world is currently populated (and self-fragmented) by billions of egos--all
deluded by various kinds of influences, and all dreaming of the idea of being
able (and even of having the necessity) to fulfill their accumulated desires.
However, in actuality, the world-all-at-once is an inherently egoless
happening."
"Unless they are specifically prevented from doing so, all systems will
spontaneously righten themselves. The universe is a self-organizing,
self-correcting, and self-rightening process. All systems are self-organizing,
self-correcting, and self-rightening--unless something interferes with the
self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening process. The current
power-structures in the human world are actually preventing the
self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening process of humankind from
happening."
"Humankind must organize itself. No "one" can organize it. Humankind must, as
a whole, animate the self-organizing force that is inherent in all integrated
systems. The self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening force
inherent in humankind as an indivisible whole--and not any particular
individual or group of individuals--is what must emerge as the Global
Cooperative Forum I am proposing to all."
Love,
Julie
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