Deep personal intention beyond the individual

Deep, personal intention to go beyond ego for the sake of the whole -commitment to live one’s life for the greater good, regardless of the sacrificial implications for oneself -humility, which means a recognition of the limitations of one’s own knowing -willingness to embrace uncertainty -capacity to comfortably engage complexity for sustained periods of time -courage and autonomy to go against the grain and voice disagreement regardless of the personal implications -ability to be both fully autonomous and surrendered to the collective -ability to embrace multiple perspectives without losing one’s own

Second tier enactment

Consistent capacity to function at a high level (teal enough to make key decisions from 2nd tier.) Commitment to the enterprise. You’ve really got to keep choosing to live in community with this group now. Profound enough awakeness (1P) and devotion (2P) to support service (3P) in a lived, felt, subtle and causal and gross body enactment. Commitment to self-transcendence in each individual must be adequate to sincere humility but even more important to forgiveness. From the heart of being forever, everyone needs forgiveness

Universal spirituality and shadow work

As stated in the inner collective, a personal vision of its preferred vision and its personal mission in life is determinant. That will create the right attitude to live in community and make an effort to be impeccable and congruent in its thoughts, words and actions. Another very important factor is the inner health, self esteem and general well-being. If this factors are not balanced in a person it will have a direct impact in its attitudes, values, beliefs and morals. That is why I consider that a general practice for all members of the community should be any form of shadow work following the ILP program that should be a must in the community. I could say that most of the problems in human interaction and ability to bring projects to a successful completion has to do with the level of self esteem that a person or group has. A sense of connectedness is a result of our spiritual practise. In the level we advance in our spiritual path, people will increase its sense of connexion, caring for others, the environment, its will to participate, contribute, share, love. I would say that here we are talking about one of the core elements of a community. Even if we don’t call ourselves an spiritual based organization. Universal Spirituality has to play a central role in our daily practices. This will open the possibility to get to higher levels of human expression, interaction and manifestation as a community.

Be aware of you

 

Respondents perspectives on how the interobjective realm may thwart community development:

• The lack of awareness, not using the own capacity to think but follow things without using your brain. The lack of sense of individual responsibility.

• Lack of courage leading to conformity against one’s better judgment -lack of autonomous intention and commitment to the greater goal

• Lack of hability to promote and enhance evolutionary processes towards more integral, inclusive and harmonious behaviours.

• Perhaps the most challenging aspect here is to maintain member motivation and keep a continuous level of active participation throughout the years. We should continuously ask “what motives people in our community?” There must always be a community gain as well as an individual gain, and this is something that it is hard to achieve

• Individuals who lack self esteem and have a sense of powerlessness tend not to make a minimal contribution to the community. When the real or perceived rank within in the community is low; the individual places the leadership role on other people in the community and does not thrive at the same extent as someone who may have a perceived higher rank. If there are not sufficient members in the community who participate (lead) in driving the intentions of the community, this could negatively influence the success of the community

• If one is not stable emotionally, physically and mentally there would be a lack of mutual compassion and understanding. Our personal EGO has to be recognized by us and the correct identification of how it works must also be a daily work. We can´t be foolish to think that all this is to be saved or a way to get personal redemption, we have to be able to recognize the Context we are talking about and live it with our most passionate self development in service to the whole.

• A lack of self-acceptance. Too much uninspected neurosis. Not enough self-understanding, insight, and shadow work. Not seriously enough committed to practicing and to giving 51%+. (“I’m afraid. I don’t trust. I don’t love. I hallucinate the possibility of safety and immunity. Being alive hurts. I want to overpower you so I can feel better.

• We have a way of seeing the individual gifts of everyone, so not much thwarts the collective. There is the possibility of one person’s main issue being pressed onto the body, coopting the attention and energy of the rest.

• Same as before, the struggle between my own benefit and the good the community, among competition and cooperation. The prisoner’s dilema illustrates what makes us bet for a lower world. Fear, lack of trust, bad experiences, frustration, al those emotions prevent us from trully supporting the community. Any bad move can start a vortex of degradation, starting a ‘tit for tat’ strategy that ends up in destruction. It is hard to resist that path.

• Too much ego. Isn’t this the one that can get all of us, and all of its cousins (pitty, shame, etc). However, to have companions who can notice the beauty of intention in the ego to make that learning visible for the community, now this is a gift.

• Consumption only, no ownership self-presentation and promotion

• In my estimation, the biggest thwarting inner force seems to be insecurity that creates fear. That insecurity generated fear leads to lack of communication, lack of listening, etc, all as protective devices. This then leads to factionalism, confusion, work not getting done as feelings are massaged, etc. All of us are broken and unhealthy in some regard. But the average overall internal health has to be high for the community to succeed.

Ego and inner development

Here I would say that the level of ego and emotional development are the thwart elements. Ego has many faces and its present in all levels of evolution. Spiritual ego for instance is one of the most difficult to acknowledge and deal with. We have to be aware of this and constantly check and coach ourselves regarding our level of Ego. Needless to mention that low Ego is also very dangerous. Our community should have a culture and practices that bring people to a balanced ego state. Even though the community may have several purposes. The inner development field should be present in order to have strong basis to build on top of them. Sense of safety and trust is another factor here. Invisible architectures in the community should foster a sense of safety and trust for its residents. If we fail in doing this, we could be endangering the whole project itself. Along with this, aesthetics play a very important role in setting the atmosphere for a healthy community. Scientific studies have proved the effect of aesthetics in human behaviour.

The inner individual supports the community

Responses on supporting forces from the inner individual realm

• Individuals who have the confidence to participate and be proactive about it, particularly for the greater good of the community contribute greatest to the success thereof. These individuals tend to find more opportunities for creating communal experiences. Religious beliefs and values are a huge navigator of individual actions and relationship to the community.

• It is important that all the community members have responsibility and caring for others and the environment. This is related to having a certain level of awareness and values, and it is usually connected with self-esteem, since everything comes from within. It is also crucial that members trust other members and feel secure within the community.

• The choice, using the free will. The awareness of starting a process that will change us.

• Have your own stories, information to share, ask the right questions, ability to engage with other people, to take ownership willingness and ability to work on oneself (impact of learnings).

Space to empty as inner tool

Space to empty. There are many energetic patterns that can occupy us. It is important to find the space to clear these, to be in the practice of clearing. Do this as a practice know that some days it just won’t go well. Do this with others. There is a model I have learned and practiced from the Art of Hosting community of practice. Get present. Have a good question. Use a listening tool. Harvest. Make wise decisions. Choose wise action. Find your mates. These seem to work well at the inner and outer levels, and the I and the we.

Why Personal development is a must

If there is Awareness then we can live and evolve together. I believe consciousness starts with awareness. Each individual is responsible for waking up to a new way of being and doing. It will affect how we act what we believe in and the way we can react to adverse circumstances which I think that there will be many challenges ahead and being aware of our context is everything. Inner and psychological health would be something that will let us evolve and act with Collective Intelligence, it starts with the individual to be able to reflect on the whole. taking care of ourselves detonates trust and promotes relationships we have to be able to handle and work with our emotional intelligence in a daily basis so that we are able to be in peace and clear within ourselves and irradiate our fellow mates. Our Soul work has to be a big part of the focus in our awareness, Soul is the key for a higher way to share between us. The new social DNA has to be based on operating from the Soul as much as we can and if we are able to master this we can show and learn with others. AHO!

Evolución personal, afinidad y fronteras

La existencia de un sistema de evolución y desarrollo “piso” (grado de evolución personal: valores, conciencia, trabajo individual, etc.) nivelado de los participantes. Aquí se vuelve una noción fundamental -esta reflexión debe leerse en relación a los aspectos del cuadrante objetivo colectivo que son de mayor importancia para el éxito del proyecto comunitario- el sistema de “acceso” a la comunidad (sistema de selección y reclutamiento) y el grado de apertura de la comunidad hacia el exterior. Por una parte es muy importante para la evolución adecuada de acuerdo a los objetivos planteados, la selección de miembros afines -sobre todo en el grado de evolución personal y desarrollo de conciencia, valores, etc- Sin embargo, en lo personal me aterra la idea del surgimiento de una comunidad tan “limpia” que se vuelva intransigente y cerrada para aquellos que no participan de su psique colectiva. Creo que en el límite éste es el gran problema de toda comunidad, ¿cómo hacer para saber cuando estoy pisando los límites de una comunidad claustrofóbica y fascista? ¿cuándo, lo luminoso está salvaguardado por valores oscuros que aparentan ser libres y abiertos pero en realidad trabajan para la preservación de los valores u objetivos de una élite dentro de la comunidad través de medios no justificables?

Diversity and inner work as a success factor

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The key success factor for the Inner Individual quadrant is diversity. Our community has
individuals with a wide range of inner sense and strengths. Some are visionaries, others detail people, other emotional people, others intellectuals, others humorous, those who want risk, and those who guard against too much risk, etc. From what we have read, and from our own experience, the key thing is to have the variety of strengths. From what we have read, one of the largest contributers to community failure, is, for example, too many idealistic visionaries, with not enough detail process people.

The second success factor is that individuals are willing to and in the process of doing inner work and being self-reflective. Thus the inner aspects of the project, our fears, our embarrassments, our prejudices, are up for inspection and change in the communal context and not taken as a given.