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Welcome to the Journey
The main intention behind this writing is to share the discoveries on my personal Journey during the last 20+ years when I went out of the habitual/normal way of Life into something that only now I can describe as integral, consistent and purposeful Journey which in some particular ways, I believe, could serve those curious Ones who like to question the status quo of Life and the normal things .. be it old or new normal. I mean the Explorer, Pirate, Hacker, Challenger and adVenturer souls relentlessly wondering about this World and doing own research through their creative action guided (consciously or not) by the deep questions like "HOW everything Works here?", "WHERE it Comes from & Goes to?", "What is the PURPOSE?", "WHAT is my/our Role in it?" and driven by the inner desire to make this World a better place for our children and for the human generations to come.
This introductory article is the general overview of the whole Field of my experience, discoveries and findings I am going to share through the intended series of 9 articles (including this one) here on LinkedIn and on the Medium platform during the coming few months.
I hope my assumptions and hypotheses will serve as the questioning base for and invitation into deeper Conversation between the innate Pioneers who are looking for the opportunities to shape and ELEVATE our private and shared human Life in the ways that are as harmonious with the Natural environment so too equally caring about the Freedoms, Rights and decent Creative possibilities for all Human Beings.
The playGROUND
.. a Dream lands into the Body in the Womb .. to grow within the warm Darkness through all the prior Stages of the deep Story .. then to play, to explore, to create & to elevate the Game ..
I found that the Story & the Game are two well understood and powerful conceptual analogies to employ for describing the Field, the Process, the Structure & Development of the human action in the World.
The meta-form of the STORY helps to answer the arising basic explorative questions within the two of the four areas of causality described by Aristotle: "Where it is coming from?" (Efficient cause) and "Where it is going to? What is the Purpose?" (Final cause).
The concept of the GAME supports the perception within the 3rd area of Aristotle's causality framed by the questions "How everything is structured? How it works?" (Formal cause). The major attributes of the Game provide the basic structure for understanding the process and the Gist of the human action: the Field, the Laws, the Goals, the Rules, the Roles, the Resources, etc.
The human Life through the concepts of the Story & the Game can be seen and explored also as the simultaneous and holographic happening at the many different levels of structural complexity: Body, Person, Family, Community, Organization, State, Nation, Culture, Continent and the whole Civilization.
The Deep(er) STORY
.. One steps onto the ground .. walks into the Stories, Scripts, Goals & Roles .. given by Blood, Culture & Nature .. woven through Generations & Ages ..
Most of us would agree that usually we inherit the strongest traits, behavior patterns and models from both blood lines of our parents. It becomes integral part of our personal identity, we replay it in our Life and are happy with it unless it generates consequences contrary to the health, peace or happiness of us, our family or other people around us.
Generally we are eager to pass the best traits and behaviors on to our children, yet we try to moderate, reduce or even to eradicate the scripts and roles (the ones we are conscious about) that do not contribute to the happiness of our Life.
Depending on the level of our optimism, experience and developed perception of the World we can believe to a particular degree that the human Species as a Whole is evolving into something better. Still the many developments in the World during the recent years can be seen as the proof of the opposite.
Yet there is an emerging and inspiring point of view (understanding) based on the many personal and collective experiences (even the scientific hypotheses) that the human Being on both personal and collective levels is purposefully and consistently evolving into the Creature that is less consumptive and less competitive towards the Nature and other People.
What if the Essence of the emerging universal Human Deep Story (as well as the major Purpose of every human Journey) lies within rePlaying of the inherited Scripts and reCognizing of the dated Scenarios and Roles within the modern Stories of our Life to then let the worn Scripts go, thus facilitating the evoLution of the human Life and World, making the Earth a better place for all to live .. ?
The GAME at Play
.. the Player learns to perform well .. to choose, to solve, to achieve .. to do better, easier & more .. for the scripted habitual Success ..
The current period of the Deep Human Story can be called the DarWINian chapter of competitive Growth. It's essence (as the whole) can be described quite clearly through the analogy with the well known and widely played Monopoly boardgame that is designed around the core principles of today's human economic (creative) Life that is predominantly based on, measured and run by the monetary exchange.
Thus the majority of the structures, institutions and systems in our current Civilization are designed and driven by the deep competitive and consumptive survival values rooted in lack, scarcity and fear. This can be seen in the two most notable dynamics within the current hierarchical structure of the World: the growing Wealth concentration and decision Power centralization towards the top of the global pyramid through the international organizations.
Being on the gigantic "board" of today's global Monopoly Game doesn't look and feel too inspiring for many people as the Game is accelerating and becoming even more demanding and challenging. We know how the Monopoly boardgame ends .. and we have a few examples of the ancient human civilizations that collapsed after running out of natural resources needed to sustain the growing hierarchical complexities of human Life at that time.
TRANSITION into backStage & Next Stage
.. the Player feels & begins to question.. there probably is something More .. behind the stories, scripts & roles .. of the aged Play in the Caterpillar Kingdom ..
Are there any viable alternatives to the currently prevailing kind of the Game and the way of human Life on Earth .. ? Shall we look into and co-explore deeper the emerging new evoLutionary paradigm where the current DarWINian Caterpillar stage of competitive growth is approaching it's completion .. ?
What if the human Species currently is arriving into the subsequent Chrysalis stage to transition into the new kind of being (Butterfly Human) that has dissolved the aged inner competitive and consumptive drives both on the personal and collective level .. ?
What that Next Stage of the Game could look like .. ? What would be structures, institutions and systems to accommodate and run that Next Stage of shared human Journey .. ?
What kind of intermediate infrastructure, resources, conditions and human living environment are needed to host and facilitate the Chrysalis stage of transition into the next way of private and shared human Life .. ?
CONVERSATION for Feed-back & Feed-in
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.. the Player shares the feelings when being tired, disappointed, bored or simply curious .. about?the continuous Circling .. within inherited blood Scenarios ..
When One allows room for the assumption that there probably is something more beyond the habitual Stories, Scripts, Roles, Goals & spinning Wheels within the aged DarWINian stage of Life and thus enters the backStage (the Green Room) of the Shakespear's theater, it becomes attractive and even intriguing to step into relaxed conversation with the other Curious Ones about the Game & the Story at play.
The space & time for such kind of slow conversation when One immersively listens as well as attentively speaks to others (as well as to her/him- Self) sharing own experiences provides the rich feed-back about the subject One explores so it naturally translates into the precious feed-in for the cognitive process that runs simultaneously through the conversation and beyond it.
This builds the foundation for slowing down the habitual productive action and interconnecting it with the continuous learning process leading into inspired and empowered Innovation during the Chrysalis stage & Transition process.
Innate PERCEPTION that Follows
.. One starts seeing through the Scripts & Roles .. meets the Roots & Branches of own Story within the Blood, Culture & Nature of the Round EyeLand ..
Voicing out of own experiences (self-feed-back) and taking in the feed-back from the others and from environment in various forms (live conversation, direct observation, reading, watching video, listening to podcasts, etc.) feeds the Innate Human Perception system that constantly runs to aggregate, process and integrate the information received into harmonious and comprehensible Whole.
The Authentic INSIGHT (AI) of the human being helps to reCognize the habitual and recurring patterns in the form of Stories and the direction of the unfolding changes on all levels of Life's complexity ranging from Personal till Global (including Family, Community, Organization, Nation, Culture, State, etc.).
Exploring and wondering about the possibly emerging wider View beyond the DarWINian Chapter of the Deep STORY and beyond the competitive playGround of the Growth Stage in the GAME most likely are driven by the natural need for inspiring long-term Perspective and stability which becomes more and more difficult to find within the accelerating and intensifying whirlpool of changes in today's World challenging the very foundations of happy Human Life.
ReSTORY of the Game
.. One lets the worn scripts Go .. to allow more Space & slow Time for the innate Curiosity, relaxed Play & deeper Exploration .. to evolve with & within the Game ..
After arriving into the new point of View and seeing the next version of the Whole (Life & World) One naturally needs to deconstruct the oldest habitual structures of information storing and processing, also to dissolve the most dated scripts of behavior within her/his system (those which are not in accord with the updated view of the Whole) and then to re-integrate everything into the new comprehensive and efficient entirety to embrace fully the possibilities and opportunities of the next Stage, One is preparing to enter.
When allowed (giving space & time) this innate process of inner deconstruction & re-integration takes place without need for any particular One's conscious action and effort. It runs on still quite mysterious principle of Self-Organization that asks to be explored deeper. Still this process requires One to stay in relaxed state, to trust it's intrinsic intelligence and to surrender into Letting the worn-out parts of the personal stories, scripts & roles Go.
Symbolically the "composting" of the old stuff provides the fresh & fertile Soil for sprouting/activating of the next Seed that brings up the new tree in One's garden to enrich personal Life and allows our shared Game to evolve further.
a CALL to adVenture
.. a Call sets the Story rolling by challenging the comfort of One's Ordinary World .. call gets refused .. messages return to remind, the Quest must be undertaken .. the stakes get escalated .. until there is no choice but to accept the Call ..
I have received my Call 20+ years ago in the form of a book and being gently yet clearly guided out of the promising career. I believe every One has own "right timing" for and the particular form of receiving such kind of invitation to Explore deeper (depth also is the unique individual "setting") the personal habitual Stories, Scripts & Roles within the wider context, i.e. within the "bigger" Stories happening on the next higher levels of our Life's complexity: Family, Community, Organization, Nation, Culture or even the whole Civilization.
Then our innate deeper Curiosity is being triggered and in a way confronted with the basic needs for safety, security and Stability. And it gradually becomes an intensifying dance between these two complementarities which at the end of the day both do make up our happy Human Life. Stability provides time, space & resources for our Curiosity to explore, discover and create something New which then provides a next (and much better) base for Stability.
Yet most often these things are not organized into such harmonious flow. The accelerating and intensifying changes in the World during the last few years do not provide for stability today and continuation of this trend further hardly can be expected to provide stability in the coming years .. yet maybe these challenges can be witnessed and perceived as the repeated messages and "the stakes being escalated" to help us (as curious and creative Species) to accept the Call to our next inspiring adVenture ..
.. to elevate and move our shared Game into post-DarWINian Chapter of the Deep Human Story .. ?
Thank you for your precious time to read through this article. I hope it provided something that supports you on your personal earthly Journey or simply triggers your innate human curiosity. If not, maybe it can be of some value later.
If you would like to know more about the subjects overviewed in this article, please come back here in a few weeks to find the link below to the next article of the series.
To make it even more simple we can connect on LinkedIn or you can start follow me on Medium platform for publishers here: https://curiousfish.medium.com
Thank you! Let's talk through our walk .. when timing is right ..
Links to all articles in the series. Each to become active after the publishing.
[ 0 - white ] A JOURNEY into Deeper Stories
[ 2 - orange ] The Meaning of the STORY & the Story for the MEANING
[ 3 - yellow ] Human Action: the New rePLAY of the Old GAME
[ 4 - green ] TRANSITION into the Promised Next CHAPTER of the Story
[ 5 - blue ] Slow CONVERSATION of the Curious Ones
[ 6 - indigo ] Authentic inSIGHT (AI): reCognizing the Story Behind & BEYOND
[ 7 - violet ] SLOWING down into Letting Go to reSTORY the Game
[ 8 - green into blue ] A CALL to Slow adVenture to ELEVATE the Game