The New Culture
THE NEW CULTURE PROCESS Action - Strength
Document 7
“Examining a system from the outside, its components and processes delineated, it can appear rather complex. Take an ant colony, for example. Yet put into motion it is simply behavior; for the ant it is a very efficient and sensible way of Life."
~ Soror XNC
There are two forms of simplicity. There is
simplicity due to inactivity, innocence or limited
awareness. And then there is simplicity refined
from intimate knowledge (i.e. consciousness) of
the complex chaos that lies between the two…
So in that case, the answer to chaos and over-
burdening complexity is correlation and then,
refinement.
Consider that a lack of group cohesion will move
the individual parts of the Whole closer toward
disarray and produce a social structure where
the functions of basic survival are of the
individual’s lone concern. Those who thrive are those most fit to the system that does remain, and each is fully responsible for seeing that their own endure.
Restoring the disarray through social models in which every function of survival becomes everyone’s equal concern is a common response. Yet is it any more balanced and “Whole” for every component of a collective body to bear the requirement of fulfilling every function?
These are really just opposite faces of the same idea… the former has the parts of the Whole completing their specialized motions to duplicate the same sort of amenities and possessions, albeit in a very individualized regard… the later has the parts of the Whole cooperatively replicating the same set of motions without specialization, commonly to share in the same amenities and possessions held between all. One has brought Human specialization to its complex extreme; the other has done the same for Human generalization.
Yet Nature’s Truth is that for a “body” to evolve, cooperation and cohesion are to be tempered with specialization. The organs cooperate synergistically but each one is highly specialized to contribute a unique purpose. A cell is specialized in the same way to its role in the organ, and so it is the same with every part and particle. Each has its special place in the cohesion of the Whole.
Toward this end, a common theme among writings of exemplar civilizations is that their constituents are fulfilled by their own special purpose.
As we’ve been discussing in other guises, purpose determines process. Applied to a hierarchy, for example, the “process” of the greatest number is to eke out the best possible survival while carrying out the tasks which sustain a specialized purpose of another above them. Thus eking out a survival is the purpose which determines the process for these folks. More likely than not, they live to work. And exist in the strange paradox of
living an individualized role without their true fulfillment as a unique Being. With material survival steering the wheels of action, moments of inspiration and aspiration are too easily discarded. In the New Culture, the suggestion is that hierarchies are best reserved for efficient-prioritizing of Time-related tasks and certain Time-based understandings. Not for social systems. And not where it affords the opportunity to exert power or trickle down limited parcels of control.
Instead, it will be the heterarchy that provides the cohesion and specialized fulfillment we need, even while generating karmically-positive systems of function and compelling self-governing freedoms.
In a heterarchy, each participant in a collective body shares an even position of power and accountability. The process for all is to contribute their utmost because there is a very direct correlation between actual input and actual return. If you aren’t accountable to your role, you do not receive returns from the collective body. No one is an employee; no one owns or directly profits from another’s energy-input. No one receives from a level other than the level to which they distinctly contribute.
When the wheels of action are steered by the intent to rise above mere material survival and thrive – for every part to become enriched with the vitality of Life – contributing from a place of self-expression and purpose is essential. Each Human is unique expression of Divinity and cannot be regarded as an interchangeable, replicable part. A Human will not thrive under that idea.
Drive presently emerges in response to a potential of advancing within the hierarchy, but when are inspiration and aspiration of real importance, if but to escape some portion of the hierarchy altogether? Who is driven to deliver their utmost and express their depth of all they have to contribute when most of living is devoted to working and extra output might mean extra struggle without extra return?
To open a playing field and level it in terms of power and accountability immediately renders all players potentially beneficial and influential contributors, and then to encourage those players to discover their own role and form internal teams (think organs) based on accountability to the parts and positions one chooses to play within the same level field (think collective body)… would bring amazing results! For the Truth is that people desperately long to contribute something unique of their Authentic Portion.
A heterarchy correctly applied – that is, as a circle and then as interactive
“wheels within wheels” – can achieve these things.
And Human potential will be Liberated by the process.
“If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever we find an extreme in the modern condition, we must resist
the temptation in the New Culture to answer it with its opposite. Rather, we must discover the opposite and then marry the two into a temperate condition.
This explains why, when we speak of Human Progress and aiming, in every Spiritual sense, toward the Stars, our next breath is in recognition of the Forces and Laws of Nature.
As with the (Macro-Cosmic) "Above", the most predominant quality of Nature is diversity – all the manifold appearances of ONE Truth. Thus it has wisely been said that Unity in our Diversity is the pinnacle of civilized expression. Turning our complex and rich diversity into a harmonious algorithm is the true ennoblement of our race.
Not only is our experience in the material-external made abundant through the great diversity surrounding us, allowing for our Knowing to expand and be refined, the same holds true for the development of the species as a whole, as it does for the development of our micro-biology. Diversity allows for increased opportunities to share and transfer knowledge, increase strengths and immunities, and ultimately evolution. Consider that in Nature the environments which progress are the environments affluent in their bounty of unique, contributing parts AND a high predominance of symbiosis and cohesion.
Unity-in-Diversity can be developed by examining Nature further and replicating the same. The answer is with tempering the needs of the Whole with the needs of each part without diminishing the context of the part’s inherent uniqueness, and while developing a middle meeting ground where information can be exchanged and developed between the two.
© 2011 The LIFE Movement
You are viewing the text version of this site.
To view the full version please install the Adobe Flash Player and ensure your web browser has JavaScript enabled.
Need help? check the requirements page.
