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Sancturary for All Life & land emancipation

My dear friend Eric loves Jim Corbett and for good reasons. As I read some of his favorite posts from the 'Sanctuary for all life' book I felt the voice of truth speaking in a powerful voice.

Eric has more quotes in his blog. I post the ones that speak to me in this moment as I work in a text about flows.

I hold this question in me now: where I am allowing for symbiotic naturalization in my own life?

Amplify’d from eric.harris-braun.com

1. The richest, most efficient, dynamically stable, “no-waste” economies evolve naturally, as spontaneous orders unmanaged by human beings (for example, the Amazonian rainforest).

2. A highly developed economy of this kind grows through the emergence of new symbioses that strengthen its ability to support life and harmonize diversity.

4. “Sustainability” concerns the stabilization of the human economy’s degenerative relation to the natural economy at a level that the natural economy can support without further degradation.

5. “Symbiotic naturalization” concerns the integration of a human economy into the natural economy in ways that strengthen the natural economy’s ability to support life and harmonize diversity.

6. Unlike sustainability, symbiotic naturalization requires the transformation of civilization, to establish the institutional base for human beings to become good citizens of the land’s whole, untamed community, enabled to live by supporting rather than degrading the life of the land.

9. The invisible hand that guides the natural economy’s evolution reveals that our best choices are transitional, our best intentions are disoriented, our personal moralities are peripheral, and the covenant community’s guidelines are inconclusive; but universal liberty is fundamental:  The land’s liberation remains focal.

…the problem with civilized humanity’s exploitation of nature goes beyond our treating it as a commons that is just there for the taking.  The problem is rooted in the managerial delusion that the land belongs to us either inclusively, as a commons, or exclusively, as property, to use, degrade, or destroy however we like.  The land is actually a living community to which we belong.  …  The tragedies of the commons and of appropriation will end only when the land community’s enslavement ends–when the land is given back to the land.

Read more at eric.harris-braun.com
 

Consciousness reach

I met Drew Dellinger in an evolutionary salon in 2006. We were part of a circle of 90 people in service of collective intelligence and social creativity. Drew came in the middle of this circle and read this poem which brought tears in my eyes. I found it today in my awareness, searched for it and pass it on.

The central question is what are you doing now you know?

The hieroglyphic stairway


it's 3:23 in the morning
and I'm awake
because my great great grandchildren
won't let me sleep
my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the planet was plundered?
what did you do when the earth was unraveling?

surely you did something
when the seasons started failing?

as the mammals, reptiles, birds were all dying?

did you fill the streets with protest
when democracy was stolen?

what did you do
once
you
knew?

I'm riding home on the Colma train
I've got the voice of the milky way in my dreams

I have teams of scientists
feeding me data daily
and pleading I immediately
turn it into poetry

I want just this consciousness reached
by people in range of secret frequencies
contained in my speech

I am the desirous earth
equidistant to the underworld
and the flesh of the stars

I am everything already lost

the moment the universe turns transparent
and all the light shoots through the cosmos

I use words to instigate silence

I'm a hieroglyphic stairway
in a buried Mayan city
suddenly exposed by a hurricane

a satellite circling earth
finding dinosaur bones
in the Gobi desert
I am telescopes that see back in time

I am the precession of the equinoxes,
the magnetism of the spiraling sea

I'm riding home on the Colma train
with the voice of the milky way in my dreams

I am myths where violets blossom from blood
like dying and rising gods

I'm the boundary of time
soul encountering soul
and tongues of fire

it's 3:23 in the morning
and I can't sleep
because my great great grandchildren
ask me in dreams
what did you do while the earth was unraveling?

I want just this consciousness reached
by people in range of secret frequencies
contained in my speech.

Drew Dellinger

Are we the most intelligent life form?

Life thrives under the Rules of the Commons. Value creation is part of the code of the universe. I am part of the social organizing forces of the universe. I am capable of raising to my highest potential and produce and distribute the value I receive and more.

In this post Arthur invites us to become part of the immune system of the planet, which basically means 'create new patterns'. I can shift my awareness and find this rules not as theory but as a central identity in my consciousness. If I do so then the desires of the ego won´t have the same impact than the aspiration of serving the higher good.

Consume what is life producing, touch each and all with goodness, find grace in the communion with nature and people, find your right placement and dance in the dawn that heralds all that truly is. And maybe one day we will be able to say... yes, we are the most intelligent form of life.

Amplify’d from blog.newcurrencyfrontiers.com

The Central Covenants of Successful Economies

Rules of the Commons

  1. Any limited resource you take is yours only temporarily and must be returned in full when you’re done with it.
  2. Use what you take to grow the value producing capacity of the commons.
These may just sound like nice ideas, but I assure you, they are neither idealistic nor merely theoretical. Organisms and species ignore them at their own peril. Those that break these covenants deplete their environment and progressively erode their chances of survival, eventually causing their own extinction (or near extinction). However, every species and individual that follows those rules enriches their environment and increases their chances of survival.
Read more at blog.newcurrencyfrontiers.com
 

What wikileaks and GNP tell us…

GNP is an old metric system which needs innovation if we are going to create a thrivable planet. Wikileaks is not about Julian Assange, it's about innovation, freedom and collective activism in a form we have never seen before. This post links both in a masterful way.

Yet another sign of evolution. Corporations...are u listening?

Amplify’d from blogs.hbr.org

Here's the big economic secret that we already know: 20th century institutions aren't fit for 21st century prosperity. The global economy's addicted to what I've termed dumb growth: the myopic, often meaningless "growth" that accrues by destroying the environment, that grows by preying on the vulnerable, that depends on bailouts and austerity packages, and that robs entire societies of the animating passion to do meaningful stuff that matters, and replaces it with contempt for nature, the future, and one another.

Read more at blogs.hbr.org
 

Happy planet index and the flows of wealth

interesting talk pointing towards what Robert Kennedy once said about 'GNP measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile'.

Marks speaks about the HPI (Happy planet index), shows some trends in several countries and challenges what we measure including quality of life, efficiency and a happy planet. Some question he poses: What progress is? What is the new definition for progress? How is life going to get better? How do we pave the transition without suffering instead of happiness?

He mentions 5 positive actions for a better well being:

1. Connect to others
2. Remain physically active
3. Be Aware of the world around you
4. Keep learning
5. Give to others

I enjoyed it. In a graph he shows what people care about and uses wealth in the old meaning. Wealth as money. I am curious about this. Is this the definition the new economy foundation uses for wealth?

Questions which emerged for me during this session:

What are the right indicators for social justice, sustainability, individual well being?

What kind of actions, spaces, indicators, feedback loops does a city require for its people to change behaviors and shift towards further alignment and connection with each other, themselves and the planet?

What currents (flows of wealth), if measured, would allow for further capacities of coordination among big numbers of people?

What can be done in your city/town so that there is less pressure in our planet?

Amplify’d from www.ted.com
Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index
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Gameification Vs pointification

Great distictions. Brands claim they are creating games yet what they are trulla doing is give points and badges. Games are more complex, require higher levels of engagement, creativity,choice.

Points are awesome yet they are not games. They are symbols to measure and make visible flows of participation.

Thanks @zippy314

Amplify’d from www.hideandseek.net

Can’t play, won’t play

‘Gamification’, the internet will tell you, is the future. It’s coming soon to your bank, your gym, your job, your government and your gynaecologist. All human activity will be gamified, we are promised, because gamifying guarantees a whole bunch of other buzz-words like Immersion! and Emotional Engagement! and Socialised Monestisation! You’ll be able to tell when something’s been gamified because it will have points and badges. And this is the nub of the problem.

It’s crucial that we stop conflating points and games.

Firstly, because it devalues points. Points are great. So are badges. Everything you’re reading on the pro-gamification posts about how powerful they are as motivators and rewards is spot on. Game designers resort to them – I resort to them – so often because they’re fantastic tools, and as with all tools there is real art and science behind deploying them well. They deserve to be studied, refined and adapted on their own terms, with their own vocabulary.

Gamification is the wrong word for the right idea. The word for what’s happening at the moment is pointsification. There are things that should be pointsified. There are things that should be gamified. There are things that should be both. There are many, many things that should be neither.

Read more at www.hideandseek.net
 

Sacred Economics | Returning money to the field of the sacred

A mind blowing piece by Charles Eisenstein. We give properties to money we give to the divine. It is an invisible force, changing all, shifting matter. Limitless in power. Financers are masters of the universe. When did we chose to loose our sovereignty and become the slaves of the divine money?

Wealth is not scarce money is.
Money is not wealth, it is wealth in potential.
One tool among many we can create. You wouldn´t use only a hammer to build your house, would you?

Read this art... more URL:  www.realitysandwich.com

21 techniques of community participation

I had a quick scan of the techniques proposed and its seems quite juicy. Pure wealth! I will read more in search for the pieces on currencies. Currencies constellations for acknowledging, measuring and trading wealth will enable the right flows of collaboration, reputation, expertise... for the wealth of each individual to be seen. For each of us to shine in the bliss of who we are.

Amplify’d from www.neweconomics.org
Everybody says that participation works. But what does participation really mean and what makes it really happen? This booklet contains 21 proven techniques from around the world. It shows how to choose between them, how to use them properly and where to go for more information.

Participation Works

21 techniques of community participation for the 21st century

Read more at www.neweconomics.org
 

Social currencies and the wealth of the commons

I am mindfully observing the emerging language to speak about currencies, wealth, economy. In the distinctions I am most resonant with, I find that wealth is what brings us closer to the true, good and beautiful. Closer to a higher WE in a symbiotic relationship with each other and lover earth.

This article is a reference to 'social currencies' which is a name being used to refer to currencies that build reputation, social capital, brand. They are more and more part of socially designed websites and services as a way to encourage flows of participation, cooperation, visibility.

Social currencies are contributing to make visible and measure the wealth you create. I would like to see more systems which allow us to see the wealth WE create as we move into conscious evolution of social systems.

Imagine you participate in climate change where there are many players. How do you know what are the groups that have the most leverage? which ones are thriving? where is more fun to work? what if you could see the sum of the social currencies generated by individuals in a group plus currencies given to the groups itself (in and out). Social currencies that may allow us to see things like cohesion, fun inside the group, expertise, impact, creations and more. Then you could choose in which field you want to play and what is a possible right placement (position in time/space).

Amplify’d from www.oliviermermet.com

Social currency is a common term that can be understood as the entirety of actual and potential resources which arise from the presence in social networks and communities, may they be digital or offline. It derives from Pierre Bourdieu’s social capital theory and is about increasing one’s sense of community, granting access to information and knowledge, helping to form one’s identity, and providing status and recognition.

We also examine the nuances of “checking-in” as a form of social currency and implied endorsement. Essentially, there are cultural and economical aspects with tying your “personal brand” to the locales you visit. You lend your reputation and audience and over time, you will be increasingly rewarded for doing so.

See more at www.oliviermermet.com
 

The gates of the future

Mmmm... I love Teilhard De Chardin... might this 'all together' be empowered by the work of your soul in form.

This quote arrived to me through Martine Sweeney. Inspiration is part of her dance in the world.

Amplify’d from www.facebook.com
"The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human--these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth...." ~ Pierre Teilhard De ChardinRead more at www.facebook.com
 
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