Transformation Economy

Sacred Geometry: Vesica Pisces, Phi, Cross, Triangle, Flower of Life

What the Mayan Calendar is all about - Ian Xel Lungold

"Not everything we can see right now,
environmentally, politically,
economically, socially or personally looks pretty
(like the depth of betrayal),
but it sure is beautiful to be able to see it at last.
When or how ever else could the lies be brought to an end?
Only in the light of truth, by turning over the
rocks to see what crawls beneath,
and that is what each and every Day of the Mayan
Calendar has been all about."

Ian Xel Lungold, The Mayan Calendar Portal (Messages)

The Illusion of Reality

Your life is a mirror of yourself. Reality is an illusion you attract with your heart (emotions, feelings) and you lock with your mind (awareness).

Individually you attract and lock your individual reality, together we co-attracte and co-lock a collective reality: Experience co-creation. It takes place on 3 levels: mentally (thoughts), verbally (words) and physically (actions). Thoughts, words and actions is all energy  we must choose them carefully. Positive thoughts, positive words and positive actions create a positive reality. Indivually and collectively. If humanity has a negative vision of the future, we will attract a negative future. When the collective has a positive vision of the future, we will attract a positive future. We get what we expect. The future is what we expect it to be. The universe will answer and manifest the matrix of reality.

What you see is what you get. What we see is what we get. This is illustrated in the story of the 'purple feathers'.

For a more scientifical approach you can watch the documentary below.

The Illusion of Reality (BBC)

 

The Emerald Tablets of Toth Hermes Trismegistus

The Emerald Tablets of Toth the Atlantean Priest King (Download .pdf)

Literal translation of one of the most ancient and secret of the great works of ancient wisdom.

"When ye as men can learn that nothing but progress of Soul can count in the end, then truly ye are free from all bondage, to work in a harmony of Law."

The Matrix is a System

"The matrix allows us to accept death as normal and the only personal eventual possible outcome. While at the same time draining every excess amount of energy you have to feed theself sustaining system of illusion and self-authority, without leaving you enough energy to escape the systemyourself." (Text review from YouTube user: 3thought)

"This is an important time of the evolution of consciousness and to come into personal awareness that reality is a matrix in which we consciously experience linear time and emotional. There is an awakening of ancient teachings and wisdom brought forth now by those who return with the knowledge to enlighten humanity during this transition. People are sensing, or dreaming, creating synchronicities, and connecting the dots to something they may not as yet be able to name, but they sense it's coming. To understand this, one must think out of the box." (Source: Crystalinks.com)

Emotion attracts reality and awareness locks it.

Understand Alchemy and you will understand Gnostics. Understand Gnostics you will understand Rosicrusians and Freemasons. Understand Freemasons and you will understand the Matrix. Understand the Matrix and you will understand the System. Understand the System and you are ready to be unplugged. The truth will set you free.

"They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority." - G. Massey (Egyptologist)

Are you ready to be unplugged or are you fighting to protect the system?

The Matrix is a System

Reality is a Matrix

Reality is a Matrix. The Hindu call it 'Maya', the big mental construct. This physical reality is a consciousness program created by digital codes. Our body is merely the vehicle for transportation in this 3D world. Reality is a co-created hologram. Thoughts become things. We are all one.

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." - Yoko Ono

 The Matrix of Illusion

Left Brain vs Right Brain test

Last April I posted a test determine if either your left or right brain is dominant. Here's another, even more fascinating experiment.

Click on this link and take a look at the lady. Do you see her turning clockwise or counter-clockwise? In case you see her moving around clockwise, your right brain is dominant. If you see her moving counter-clockwise the left hemisphere of your brain is dominant.

Left brain functions
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

Right brain functions
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

Do you see her dancing clockwise or counter-clockwise? Most people will see her dancing counter-clockwise. Some people can see both. It´s fascinating to experience your own brain using both sides. It worked with me, especially while thinking about something emotional, e.g. something that makes you very happy or sad, and then thinking about something very logic, such as trying to calculate how money is left on your bank account. But if the balance of your account suddenly makes you feel really happy or sad, maybe you will see her moving clockwise again. Try it!

Engineering is finding its purpose again

“In order to achieve their potentials, spirituality needs digital technology and digital technology needs spirituality. At an essential level, the two traditions complement each other. Humanity’s survival may depend on interaction between them.”
- H.H. Dalai Lama

This quote is the introduction to a discussion paper on Spiritual Computing by Craig Warren Smith. Craig Warren Smith is a former Harvard (Kennedy School) professor, a founder of the global movement to close the Digital Divide, and for 30 years a Buddhist teacher. In the mid-1990s as a consultant to Bill Gates, he led a strategic planning process that helped Microsoft and its founder find the distinct role of philanthropy in its corporate culture.

Craig Warren Smith spent over a decade researching whether technological developments are either harming or beneficial to the future of mankind. The director of the Spiritual Computing Research Group now argues that several trends – Web 2.0 innovations, neuroscience's interactions with the Dalai Lama, and West's new embrace of premodern wisdom traditions – all combine to bring spiritual principles at the doorstep of the world's technological laboratories.

Can the next generation of technologies advance the spiritual development of individuals and communities?

This discussion paper traces the parallel evolution of digital technology as well as Western Buddhism in the past 35 years and suggests why a productive interchange between leaders of both traditions has become both possible and necessary. At the doorstep of an historic convergence between biology and technology, digital researchers may well turn to Buddhism and then to other spiritual traditions to help them find unifying principles to guide the development of a fundamentally new generation of products and services that could fuel the $500 billion a year information industry.

Source: WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO TODAY? - Buddhism’s role in Bringing Spirituality into the Next Generation of Web Technologies by Craig Warren Smith

According to this discussion paper 83% of US adults consider themselves “spiritual”. Spiritual Computing, once formulated, would meet needs of a growing body of consumers. Examples:

• the next generation of computer games may draw upon spiritual archetypes to provide interactive experiences that simulate spiritual journeys
• gaming as spiritual quest
• online enhancement of Islamic rituals
• locative technologies that use feng shui to create sacred spaces
• biofeedback interfaces that bring mindfulness into cancerous organs
• technological support for 12 step programs that transform addiction into empowerment

And not to forget:
• tomorrow’s online communities may self-organize to allow wisdom, not mere knowledge, to rise to the surface

Nova Spivack’s scheme of the evolving Metaweb (below) illustrates the convergence between digital technology en spirituality clearly. As the web is evolving we can see the ‘human/mind’ aspect evolving parallel to it. In this context Nova Spivack speaks of “Minding the Planet”. 

I used to work at NHTV Imagineering Academy. Imagineering is a new approach to business which takes an experience perspective (rather than a primarily economical or technological perspective) as a focus for innovation. Imagineering, a portmanteau word of imagination and engineering, was sometimes referred to as ‘engineering OF imagination’ but once in a while I also stumbled upon an article that would say ‘engineering FOR imagination’. The words OF and FOR don’t seem to differ that much at first sight, though the difference kept me thinking. While reading the discussion paper on Spiritual Computing I suddenly realised the similarity with Imagineering c.q. Imagination Engineering. They both have an intangible / soft and tangible / hard aspect.

                                     IMAGINATION | ENGINEERING
                                          SPIRITUAL | COMPUTING

What is happening right now is a worldwide convergence of modern technology and ancient spiritual wisdom. We are shifting to a period of engineering FOR imagination, imagination in this case referring to spiritual development of individuals and communities: engineering for psychological emergence.

People are craving satisfaction of their immaterial / psychological needs. Self improvement is a growing focus of consumer identity. People seek psychological self-determination and technology can contribute to this.

Engineering for psychological emergence seems to be in line with the vision Zuboff and Maxmin’s Support Economy as well as with Pine and Gilmore’s vision of the Experience Economy.

May humanity’s survival depend on the engineering of experiences to support psychological / spiritual emergence?

“Beings exchange admiration (rather than money, thoughts or communication)” said Ian Xel Lungold in 'The Mayan Calendar Comes North'. This is i.m.o. the key element what business should be about:
                                  
                                         ADMIRATION EXCHANGE

Admiration
This is the intangible part: providing inspiration to create admirable experiences for individuals and communities.

Exchange
This is the tangible part: Supporting, hosting, servicing etc. the interaction (of admiration) with a platform of channels/media.

NTHV’s Imagineering Academy defines a process for business transformation which contains both elements very clear. It’s great to see how the people behind fresh corporate strategies - such as Imagineering, Conscious Business and Spiritual Computing – are thinking about a sustainable future for mankind.

A broadly accepted definition of engineering is: 'Engineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity.' Engineering used to have a material purpose as the needs of humanity used to be mainly material. Now they are increasingly becoming immaterial. So the purpose of engineering should change alike.

“People have changed more than the business organizations upon which they depend.”
- Zuboff and Maxmin in The Support Economy

Business organizations will have to catch up with the material->immaterial change. Fortunately we can see large corporations opening up and allowing immaterial/intangible aspects to enter their business. Below is Craig Warren Smith speaking @Google. He also spoke at Nokia, Microsoft and Yahoo! Fred Kofmann, author of Conscious Business: How To Build Value Through Values, also spoke @Google by the way.

Spiritual Computing by Craig Warren Smith [56m:51s]

Engineering is finding its purpose again.

Personal Development Blogging

Priscilla Palmer recently got the idea to make a list of outstanding personal development blogs. Wednesday she tagged me for the Personal Development List on her blog and added Transformation Economy to the list. It's an honour be part of the list.

I think most authors, myself included, seek feedback (e.g. appreciation) for expressing themselves. Especially those who write about Personal Development are of course searching for feedback, as reflection plays an essential role in change. Personal Development Bloggers (let’s call them PDB’s) might be an extreme example of this. PDB’s dive into digital space because they see an opportunity in the Internet. Internet can accelerate the two-way feedback-process - and thus development process - from a time, distance and quantity perspective: Real time interaction between (groups of) people from all over the world.

What is so interesting to see is that this interaction process between PDB’s is mainly about ‘beings exchanging admiration’ (to speak with the words of Ian Xel Lungold). Admiration derives from the Latin word ‘admirari’ which means 'to wonder at.' All those PDB’s make each other wonder as if they are holding a mirror for each other. In the mirror they can face their own reflection and see the truth about themselves. The word mirror by the way is also etymologically related to the Latin admirari.

I hope and expect that the exchange of admiration between PDB’s and others involved will result in great change. Why? Because the exchange of ‘wonderful experiences’ from people all over the world will help us reflect ourselves and change for the better.

At time of publishing Priscilla Palmers' Personal Development List already contains 261 blogs. Those are currently being integrated into a Personal Development Oracle. So next time you can consider using this search engine because you might end up somewhere 'wonderful'.

P.S. I tagged Mike Janssen for the Personal Development List  (since he has been of great meaning for my personal development lately). I also recommended Galba Bright of Tune Up Your EQ to Priscilla. Fun part is that Galba apparently already had been tagged by someone else and was referring to me on his blog. Great! :)

Life Changing Literature

Wandering through second-hand bookstore 'DeSlegte' is like feeding my mind. I can spend hours in 'DeSlegte' searching for inspiration. Why not order my books online? Besides the fact that it saves quite some money, the experience of nosing around in the shop gives a lot pleasure and it's relaxing too. While quick-scanning many meters of bookshelves suddenly it's 'Bingo!'. Now and then I feel fortunate while stumbling upon interesting books or authors that are not written down on my list (serendipity).  This fortunate feeling results in a pile of books at 6PM when the shop is closing, followed up by a necessary selection process.

Today I noticed once again that my personal interests are shifting. I used to spent most of the time in the Economy section of the store, today I found myself stuck at Psychology and Spirituality/Esotery for almost 2 hours. I bought five new books (which are marked with a *). Below is a list of what might be life changing literature.

Many thanks to all (see names between fences) who provided me with their recommendations. Hopefully others will benefit from this list too.

FR = Finished Reading | CR = Currently Reading | WL = Wish List

• Authentiek Leiderschap: Een Kwestie Van Wil En Moed, Johan Bontje Jan Willem Kirpestein, Willem Vreeswijk

• Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell (Geoff Marée)

• WL Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free, Ken Wilber

• WL Conscious Business, Fred Kofman

• Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue: Neal Donald Walsch (Laura van de Burgt)

• WL Door De Bomen Het Bos Zien: Ontdek De Eenvoud Onder De Complexiteit In Relaties En Organisaties, Jan Bommerez and René Hoppenbrouwers (Yuri van Geest)

• * Freedom Has No History, Andrew Cohen

• WL Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfilment, Tal Ben-Shahar (Polle de Maagt)

• Het Maakbare Brein: Gebruik je Hersens en Word Wie Je Wilt Zijn, Margriet Sitskoorn (NHTV Hotel Management / FFort Award)

• WL Ik: Gezond Egocentrisme – Meer Effectiviteit + Mission Statement, Remco Claasen (Mike Janssen)

• WL Ik Mis Alleen De HEMA, Manon Sikkel, Marion Witter (Machiel van de Poll)

• In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed, Carl Honoré

• Inleiding tot de Verwondering, Cornelis Verhoeven (NHTV Imagineering Academy)

• WL Ja-maar, Wat Als Alles Lukt? De Tien Regels Voor Een Ja-maar-vrij Leven, Berthold Gunster

• * Logica Van Het Gevoel, Arnold Cornelis (Mike Janssen)

• WL Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee (Galba Bright)

• WL Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion, Goleman, Boyatzis & McKee (Galba Bright)

• FR Souls of Distortion Awakening, Jan Wicherink (Ruud Hendrikx)

• CR Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership and Change, Don E. Beck

• WL Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, Joe Jaworski (Mike Janssen)

• WL That Which Transpires Behind That Which Appears: The Experience of Sufism, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, (Howard B. Esbin)

• WL The 8th Habit, Stephen Covey (Mike Janssen)

• * CR The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream, Paulo Coelho (Ruud Hendrikx)

• WL The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell

• WL The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, Eckart Tolle (Michiel Kerkhof)

• WL The Smile At The Foot Of The Ladder, Henry Miller (recommended at David Cicia’s blog)

• * The Spectrum Of Consciousness, Ken Wilber

• FR Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, Spencer Johnson

• * Wolfsklem: De Evolutie Van Het Menselijk Gedrag, Pieter Vroon (Mike Janssen)

• WL Zen and the Art of Making a Living, (Galba Bright)

• CR Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintainance: An Inquiry to Values, Robert M. Pirsig (Geoff Marée)

Furthermore on my wishlist:
• Literature by Deepak Chopra, literature on Integral Consciousness / Integral Thought (Integral Naked, Ken Wilber, Ervin Laszlo..) and literature on Shambala (Ken Wilber)