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- Tee hee, I've become an "elder" and I'm driving a hybrid! Got it two years ago; love it. (Not the Prius, but the Honda Civic Hybrid which I found better for my needs.)
A look at my posted photos and blog will tell you more.
- What do you do to make a living?
- Officially retired . . . but, of course will never really retire. One doesn't retire from life & growth unless one is essentially so unaware that one is already nearly non-living. And even then, even if consciousness descends or reduces severely, there is always some degree of action and awareness no matter how diminished.
But . . .
For nineteen years I created and produced custom, slowed-down, in-depth, transformational journeys based on major astronomical events such as equinoxes, solstices, eclipses, meteor showers. These were primarily to Egypt and Scotland, where we did things such as renting the temples or stone circles for private meditative, candlelight ceremonies enhanced by the music of staff musicians who used harps, temple bells, flutes, to engage the sophisticated acoustical qualities inherent in ancient temple architecture.
We also completed an acoustical-architectural research project which determined that ancient Egyptian temple chambers, whether built a thousand years apart in time or separated by hundreds of miles in space, were designed with varying specific dimensions which precisely resonate with brain wave frequencies of altered states--alpha, theta etc. Plus, the symbolism and colors carved or painted onto the walls were fully integrated with whatever frequencies resonated within the chamber itself. In other words, specific temple chambers are fully integrated environmental "instruments" which act upon you upon entry.
Before that, in the 1960's and 70's, I was a consciousness expansion therapist at the first holistic medical clinic in the US, where I learned many ways to promote high altered states of consciouness--which was later applied to the international pilgrimage process in ancient sites.
- In a world where you were pursuing your deepest, most heartfelt callings, what would you be doing?
- Exactly what I've done . . . and am still doing. The blessing of a sense of deep satisfaction fills my awareness along with an ever-present enlargement of awareness--a sense of developing wisdom.
- What is the most important thing you have learned in your life?
- My--all/each of us--existence as a point of consciousness within an infinitely large living cosmos--our true beingness. I was fortunate to experience the profundity of this early in life--back in the early 1950's when information about such things was extremely rare and hard to find. What a blessing that was.
- At this turbulent moment in history, what do you think is the most important thing a person can do to help humankind (and the rest of the planet) survive the many dangers that confront us?
- Be aware. Be. Here, now. Recognize and step out of the delusions within our perceptions. Recognize that our thoughts and actions feed into and from the large fields of consciousness sometimes referred to as morphogenic fields. Do not descend to the state of narcissistic ego-level self serving, such as recently being misunderstood by so many as the teaching of the "Secret." Act instead as a being who recognizes the absolute truth of our complete interrelated connectedness with all living forms--and be one who therefore acts and creates out of compassion and true integration. Once such a state of being is experienced, one's decision-making becomes life-enhancing and creative, and one does not have to be taught what to do.
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Relationship Between Beauty & Sacred Space
I've spent many years involved with providing access to sacred space for people, both within their own consciousness and reality and within sacred places in various places around the world. Using what I've learned over the years, I designed and built a five acre sacred garden for the public in Marin County in California, and am now currently searching for a location to build a second smaller sacred garden somewhere close to my home in the southwestern U.S. Following are some of my… Continue
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"natural design processes":
source: http://humanemergencemiddleeast.org/build-palestine-blog/labels/Spiral%20Dynamics%20integral.html
Spiral Dynamics integral is based on the research of Dr. Clare Graves, a psychologist from Schenectady, New York, who designed a longitudinal independent, fifteen year research program to discover the “best” framework for human psychology. Graves discovered an evolutionary, developmental bio-psycho-social theory of human existence, which indicated that his search was a “never ending quest”. Graves was a pioneer in action research and the application of complex adaptive systems to explain human behavior. He surmised the co-creative relationship of life conditions and individual capacity. He also proposed a theory of change that explained the emergence of multiple intelligences, long before that terminology became popularized at Harvard, and long before MRI Scans made visible how areas of the brain “light up” when new connections are made.
In the last decade of Graves’ life his theories were field tested by Dr. Don Beck in South Africa. Reporting on these applied learnings, Dr. Beck co-authored “The Crucible” in 1990. He also developed a series of paper-based assessments for use in organizational development, including the Values Test and Change State Indicator, which you will have an opportunity to use in this course.
In 1996 Dr. Beck co-authored “Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change”. With this text, a growing body of articles and a repertoire of assessments, the Spiral Dynamics framework offered a resilient, responsive framework that allowed HR and OD professionals to move beyond the assessment of horizontal constructs of personal style and type indicators like the MBTI, to utilize a system with the potential to align the whole organization. It also introduced the color labels used to describe the eight developmental stages that have so far emerged in human existence.
Spiral Dynamics borrowed the term “meme”, invented by English biologist, Richard Dawkins and combined it with the values map that had emerged from Graves’ work, to create a vMEME – a values MEME. This new descriptor not only added to the meaning of meme, the depth of bio-psycho-cultural-social contexts, but also to organizational development, a language with richness and flexibility on every level of scale: individual, leader, team, department, organization and society.
vMEME analysis unfolds across six memes in Tier 1 and two memes in Tier 2. The qualities of I-ME-MINE alternate with WE-US-OURS at ever-complexifying levels, creating “memestacks” or “memeplexes” which become our personal and collective chords of existence.
In the late 1990’s the paths of Don Beck and philosopher Ken Wilber crossed. Wilber had just published a series of books including, “Sex, Ecology and Spirituality”, “A Brief History of Everything” and “Integral Psychology”, where he outlined his four quadrant, all level, integral framework. The meeting of Beck and Wilber resulted in the introduction of the integral framework into Spiral Dynamics – thus resulting in Spiral Dynamics integral. SDi also influenced Wilber’s writing, especially the easy shorthand of the colors used to describe the eight levels of development. He first incorporated this into his “A Theory of Everything”
The use of it in the middle east can be found in Elza Maalouf work
http://www.integralleadershipreview.com/archives/2007_08/2007-08-notes-maalouf-elza.html
The following reports was shared by Elza in July 2007. To augment this presentation we talked with Elza in August. A report of this conversation appears below the report.
On June 21st, 2007, Dr. Beck and I spoke at the Values-Caucus at the United Nations to a standing room only conference hall. Representatives of various Arab, African and Western missions, NGOs and UN agencies employees, nodded their heads in agreement with the emphasis that we put on the deeper reasons for conflict and poverty, and the deeper value-systems codes that produce such “us” vs. “them” polarities. Rather than the surface manifestation of clash between religions, ethnicity, races and nationalities, we showed how the integral framework examines the deeper cultural forces and tracks dynamic perceptual processes that detect deep underlying mindsets and motives.
Dr. Beck revealed--for the first time--his integral design strategy to support the UN’s Global work, offering a Five Fold Strategy that can systematically further the UN’s role in the emergence of cultures and nations in the world. With more than 30 years of scientific research and field-testing his framework on all five continents to deflate conflicts and support development, Dr. Beck uncovered, what he calls, the master code that has the complexity to manage in a polylateral environment. The UN being one of the major bodies in the world, now, that needs to further its involvement in culturally complex environments to become a strong catalyst for change. Dr. Beck explained in his presentation that “the Master code has to accommodate bands, clans, tribes, empires, nations-cultures, enterprises, geo-tribes, and a host of other value-systems and memetic priorities. Likewise, it simply must mesh in the new knowledge on change and transformation that is seriously lacking in all other developmental models.”
A brief outline of The Five Fold Strategy for the United Nations Global Emergence Plan:
Strategy 1- Uncover the models and processes for Global emergence through steps, stages, waves and sequence of development
Strategy 2-Create the measuring monitoring research technology to detect the global vMemetic contours and early warning signs of danger
Strategy 3- Construct scaffolding of solutions that address the needs, wants and aspirations of people in different vMemetic zones
Strategy 4- Onto this vast amount of data, overlay an understanding of the dynamics of change in its many dimensions
Strategy 5- Design a macro-strategy for introducing superordinate goals into leadership structures and decision-making domains around the planet
After Dr. Beck presented his comprehensive, large-scale design, we proceeded to show how we are practically applying this design to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. For the last 2 years we have been working with Palestinians especially, to construct a scaffolding of solutions that are tailored to the various value-systems in Palestinian culture. We are working with leaders from different sectors of Palestinian society, especially young men and women who have demonstrated a great ability to lead change. We are designing the vision for Fatah 21, or 21st century Fatah, with leaders from the Third Generation of Fatah. A vision that will not only unite Fatah around shared values and goals, but also unite the Palestinian people around the most important superordinate goal—a successful Palestinian State. From Fatah 21 to Palestine 21 ...
Frances Edwards, a board member of the Values-Caucus at the UN, who coordinated this presentation with United Nations personnel, is now following up with many ambassadors, missions and NGOs who showed interest in the approach, including the Syrian ambassador and the Netherlands, Kuwaiti and Peruvian missions. Frances' unwavering support and active involvement with our work is a testimony to the UN's openness to fresh approaches towards resolving world problems. The Values-Caucus at the UN, established in 1994 and under the leadership of Carl Murell, introduced to all bodies of the UN the distinctive need for stratified solutions based on value-systems in cultures, instead of the one-solution fits all models. The next steps for our work with the United Nations will include major trainings on the Spiral Dynamics integral model and application as well as presentations to different boards, commissions, and councils on specific solution-design to enable confluence and emergence.
You mentioned ceremonies in Scotland and stone circles. I share some of those experiences, as they arrived through my guidance, to be a sacred dance leader for every solstice, equinox and cross quarter day for over 8 years, stretching now toward 20 years with some gaps.
If you go to my ning network: peaceportal.ning.com you'll see photos of a dance circle inside Stonehenge - we were a scruffy group of international peace activists. I look forward to learning more with all of you...
These are two adult peregrine falcons at play.
I really love your evening and night images!!
I'll bet if we got together, we could have a lot of fun, and talk for hours...it's always great to meet "old friends"!
Lia