Walaupun iklan dan slogan semasa, dunia tidak mengubah satu orang pada satu masa. Ia berubah apabila rangkaian perhubungan terbentuk di kalangan orang yang mendapati mereka berkongsi sebab dan visi yang sama tentang perkara yang mungkin. Ini adalah berita baik untuk kita yang ingin mengubah dunia dan mencipta masa depan yang positif. Daripada bimbang tentang jisim kritikal, kerja kami adalah untuk memupuk hubungan kritikal. Kita tidak perlu meyakinkan sejumlah besar orang untuk berubah; sebaliknya, kita perlu berhubung dengan roh kerabat. Melalui perhubungan ini, kami akan membangunkan pengetahuan, amalan, keberanian dan komitmen baharu yang membawa kepada perubahan menyeluruh.
Tetapi rangkaian bukanlah keseluruhan cerita. Apabila rangkaian berkembang dan berubah menjadi komuniti amalan yang aktif dan bekerja, kami mendapati bagaimana Kehidupan benar-benar berubah, iaitu melalui kemunculan. Apabila berasingan, usaha tempatan berhubung antara satu sama lain sebagai rangkaian , kemudian mengukuhkan sebagai komuniti amalan , secara tiba-tiba dan mengejutkan sistem baharu muncul pada tahap skala yang lebih besar. Sistem pengaruh ini mempunyai kualiti dan kapasiti yang tidak diketahui dalam diri individu. Ia bukanlah bahawa mereka tersembunyi; mereka tidak wujud sehingga sistem itu muncul. Ia adalah sifat sistem, bukan individu, tetapi apabila sudah ada, individu memilikinya. Dan sistem yang muncul sentiasa mempunyai kuasa dan pengaruh yang lebih besar daripada yang mungkin melalui perubahan yang terancang dan berperingkat. Kemunculan ialah cara Kehidupan mencipta perubahan radikal dan mengambil sesuatu mengikut skala.
Sejak penubuhannya pada tahun 1992, Institut Berkana telah bereksperimen dengan kitaran hayat kemunculan: bagaimana sistem hidup bermula sebagai rangkaian, beralih kepada komuniti amalan yang disengajakan, dan berkembang menjadi sistem berkuasa yang mampu mempengaruhi global. Melalui kerja kami dengan komuniti di banyak negara yang berbeza, kami mempelajari perkara yang mungkin apabila kami menghubungkan orang ramai merentasi perbezaan dan jarak. Dengan menggunakan pengajaran sistem hidup dan bekerja dengan sengaja dengan kemunculan dan kitaran hayatnya, kami menunjukkan cara inovasi sosial tempatan boleh diambil untuk skala dan menyediakan penyelesaian kepada banyak isu yang paling sukar diatasi di dunia—seperti kesihatan masyarakat, kelestarian ekologi dan kemandirian ekonomi.
Mengapa kita perlu memahami rangkaian
Penyelidik dan aktivis sosial mula menemui kuasa rangkaian dan rangkaian. Dan terdapat pengiktirafan yang semakin meningkat bahawa rangkaian adalah bentuk penganjuran baharu. Bukti rangkaian yang diatur sendiri ada di mana-mana: aktivis sosial, kumpulan pengganas, kartel dadah, geng jalanan, kumpulan minat berasaskan web. Walaupun kita kini melihatnya di mana-mana, ini bukan kerana ia adalah satu bentuk penganjuran yang baharu. Ini kerana kami telah mengalih keluar paradigma buta kami yang lama yang mencari hierarki dan mekanisme kawalan dengan kepercayaan bahawa organisasi hanya berlaku melalui kehendak dan campur tangan manusia.
Rangkaian adalah satu-satunya bentuk organisasi yang digunakan oleh sistem hidup di planet ini. Rangkaian ini terhasil daripada penyusunan diri, di mana individu atau spesies mengenali saling kebergantungan mereka dan mengatur dengan cara yang menyokong kepelbagaian dan daya maju semua. Rangkaian mewujudkan keadaan untuk kemunculan, iaitu bagaimana Kehidupan berubah. Oleh kerana rangkaian adalah peringkat pertama dalam kemunculan, adalah penting untuk kita memahami dinamiknya dan cara mereka berkembang menjadi komuniti dan kemudian sistem.
Namun kebanyakan kerja semasa pada rangkaian memaparkan bias paradigma lama. Dalam analisis rangkaian sosial, perwakilan fizikal rangkaian dicipta dengan memetakan hubungan. Ini berguna untuk meyakinkan orang ramai bahawa rangkaian wujud, dan orang ramai sering terpesona melihat rangkaian itu kelihatan. Penganalisis rangkaian lain menamakan peranan yang dimainkan oleh ahli rangkaian atau membuat perbezaan antara bahagian rangkaian yang berlainan, seperti teras dan pinggir. Ia mungkin bukan niat penyelidik ini, tetapi kerja mereka sering digunakan oleh pemimpin untuk mencari cara untuk memanipulasi rangkaian, untuk menggunakannya secara tradisional dan mengawal.
* Apa yang tiada dalam analisis ini ialah penerokaan dinamik rangkaian:
* Mengapa rangkaian terbentuk? Apakah syarat yang menyokong penciptaan mereka?
* Apakah yang memastikan rangkaian terus hidup dan berkembang? Apakah yang membuatkan ahli sentiasa berhubung?
* Apakah jenis kepimpinan yang diperlukan? Mengapa orang menjadi pemimpin?
* Apakah jenis kepimpinan yang mengganggu atau memusnahkan rangkaian?
* Apa yang berlaku selepas rangkaian yang sihat terbentuk? Apa seterusnya?
Jika kita memahami dinamik ini dan kitaran hayat kemunculan, apakah yang boleh kita lakukan sebagai pemimpin, aktivis dan usahawan sosial untuk sengaja memupuk kemunculan?
Apakah Kemunculan?
Kemunculan melanggar begitu banyak andaian Barat kita tentang bagaimana perubahan berlaku yang sering mengambil masa yang agak lama untuk memahaminya. Secara semula jadi, perubahan tidak pernah berlaku hasil daripada pelan strategik atas ke bawah, pra-dirancang, atau daripada mandat mana-mana individu atau bos tunggal. Perubahan bermula apabila tindakan tempatan muncul serentak di banyak kawasan yang berbeza. Jika perubahan ini kekal terputus, tiada apa yang berlaku di luar setiap tempat. Walau bagaimanapun, apabila ia disambungkan, tindakan tempatan boleh muncul sebagai sistem yang berkuasa dengan pengaruh pada tahap yang lebih global atau menyeluruh. (Global di sini bermaksud skala yang lebih besar, tidak semestinya seluruh planet.)
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Intrinsically connected to any concept that is emerging is looking to what stands in the way and blocks the new from arising. This is why ignorance and arrogance are both self and collectively-defeating; they prevent the respect and freedom that is necessary for true innovation and evolutionary knowledge to emerge. Attempting to control, intending results, and consciously or unconsciously forcing inherently blocks the movement of the larger "spirit", which is bringing healing, and new growth. Clinging and insisting upon former paradigms that are no longer working, meaningful, appropriate, and are even dangerous to persist in doing is counter-productive to advancement. It requires courage to turn and face what was good in the past, but is now detrimental in the present and for the future, and remain open and generous to the newly emerging. Fear of the unknown and close-mindedness keep ignorance and arrogance brokering for leverage to sway all things to the former, to the known, to controlling, to continuing to force antiquated ways of thinking and doing. And yet, we cannot manipulate our way into revelation. We can only step aside, and with open generosity step aside, and allow "the spirit", which moves all things and all of life to pass through us, both as individuals and as a collective humanity. Ground-breaking art and revolutionary innovation do not arise from predetermination, but seek revelation from higher forms of knowing. Only surrender to freedom can free us, or reveal new and emerging ways of being and knowing. We cannot truly "fight" our way to attaining freedom, anymore than we can "fight" our way to achieving love or respect. Love and respect require that they be freely bestowed and freely received.
If we truly seek a new and emerging better world, we should first look to getting out of the way, and permitting it to manifest. All true seemingly-miraclous knowledge and events, magical understanding and wonder are never forced or capped, which is exactly why they are so capable of bringing delight and joy. There is more to life than intention and force, which limit us to only knowing and also existing in the past. The new is always waiting for us; it never arises from our force or deliberate suppression. It is free, or we cause it to wither and vanish. The new would joyfully emerge if we weren't always holding it back, disallowing it from arising, or dictating to it, telling it who to be and how to be, manipulating it from the start to suit us and our limited views or selfish desires. So often, we stand in the way from all our actual and true wealth of healing that knowledge and wisdom have to graciously offer. If we learn nothing else in life, we would benefit the most from learning respect, for oneself, for all other human beings, for all animals, birds, fish, insects, plants, trees, forests, natural seeds, soil, water, rivers, oceans, air, all of creation, and natural forces and energies.
We continue to reject the essential deep and abiding respect for nature, the wisdom of natural processes and natural abundant energies, which are contained within and by our planet earth home, and are freely bestowed by our good universe to all inhabitants of earth. Nature, and knowledge contained in nature and natural processes and energies, is our most trustworthy and life-sustaining teacher that we have available to us, and right under our noses. Free energy devices do not create or store energy; they tap into existing, unlimited, zero-emmission, natural supplies provided by the universe. In rejecting and suppressing the breakthrough, ambient, free energy technological gifts of nature and natural processes, we gamble that our archaic, explosive, and lethal energy manipulations of nature and the (inflated and disappearing-unto-dust) money and power gleaned from them can and will increase our status over others, and also somehow save us and a future for the next generation and beyond. Yet, the reality is that the marketplace is no longer a viable answer to either our energy needs, environmental concerns, or even in providing true and lasting wealth. Nature is aligned with respect, health, freedom, abundance, inclusion, and continuing life. Sole reliance on trade within global monetary systems, which are ever-inflated even unto nothingness, are intrinsically anti-cooperative, and dependent upon competition that involve force, scarcity, fear, limitations, manipulations, profiteering, engineering of nature and natural processes, suffering, violence, and destruction of our natural (and cultural) world.
This competing mentality that continues to demand financial competition over, and monetary compensation from, the natural world, even though only global suffering and death is now the only possible outcome, also spiritually robs both individuals and collective human civilization of common decency, benevolence, and even sanity. We bankrupt more than just our grossly-inflated monetary currencies. Even more tragically, we bankrupt our true and lasting wealth in the natural abundance of our planet earth, and the spiritual soul of our own humanness. It is not just the physical lives of human beings, creatures, plants, crops, seeds, trees, forests, soils, rivers, oceans, and all waters that we are irrevocably losing, we are throwing away and trampling the heart and soul of our own humanity, and at grave risk of renouncing all respect for others, for love and for life. Ultimately, we will lose self-respect and dignity, and be consumed with collective and self loathing, or even worse, lose more and more conscience, open ourselves to the callous and violent harding of the heart and numbness of soul that accompanies the predatory devaluing of love and life, which can no longer feel empathy, connection, unity, or oneness with others, or even with or for oneself. These spiritual loses are preceding, and already foretell that we quickly losing the last bastion against the darkness of mounting despair that will trap all the living, both rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless in ever-increasing and spiraling-downward decadence, violence, physical and spiritual deterioration, degradation, destruction, suffering, mayhem, and death.
We cannot add to the bounty of nature; we can only limit and destroy the bountiful and abundant generosity of the universe when we are unconscious, or disregard deliberately the destructive travesties that we are doing on a global scale to our true and lasting wealth - life and love, health and vitality, our shared humanity, all of creation on our planet home, and all future generations. The natural world is capable of supplying all of our needs, while sustaining and enhancing our lives, if we allow the new, free and freeing, and truly saving power of natural, cosmic energy technologies to emerge.
Nature scatters their secrets and knowledge throughout all diverse human classifications, within all creatures and in every possible direction, even unto the cosmos. There is more to learn from studying nature right here on planet earth than many lifetimes could ever reveal. And yet, we choose everything that destroys nature and costs us, and now tragically and perhaps even irreversibly robs and costs us, our most precious and priceless gifts - love and life itself on on one shared planet earth home. All newly emerging knowledge, life and love are intrinsically dependent upon respect and generosity of spirit. We clearly don't have all the answers, but someone, some Universal One, both out there and within, might if we finally, and for the first time in human history, stepped aside and with due respect and awe, let them emerge and be revealed.
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