Yes indeed. Skye
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Julie Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > >
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