either majority.... or... minority?

Invitation to play to the CWG community

Implementing our highest understandings on governing ourselves

In the book 'Conversations With God, The Uncommon Dialogue, part III',  Neale Donald Walsch wonders in chapter 16:" What (else) marks a society as either ‘primitive’ or ‘advanced’?"

The answer is short and sweet: ‘ The degree to which it implements its own highest understandings’.

In the same paragraph, this statement gets followed by this meaningful  question:” What good are the highest understandings if you do not implement them?”

My name is Esther Dageraad.
I am an international advisor in sustainable community developments and I work from a paradigm of oneness.
I choose to invite the people who are attracted by the idea of applying the insights from Conversations with God in their everyday life, to have a close look at the highest understandings going, on: leadership and decision making processes within communities.

democracy

There are democratic elections being organised in one of the nations with the most impact on the use of all kinds of resources on our planet, the USA is in the process of choosing a new president.

I think it is fair to say, we ( modern Western World people) consider ‘democracy’ a reflection of our highest understandings on governing ourselves. It reflects the core choice to allow the majority in a group to make important decisions for the whole, like choosing community-leaders. “Who represents best our personal values and ideas on how to support the quality of life?”

Anyone who observes the actual behaviour of our species for a while, can notice how we say that we believe we are making important decisions by executing what the majority of the people involved in a matter consider to be the best approach.

Meanwhile, however, it is also quite clear that on all levels, from intra-personal, to inter-personal, inter-national, inter-est and inter(-n)-al, we do quite the opposite, every single day. 

So we say we desire to go to Seattle, meanwhile heading day in day out towards San Jose…. (reference to content of the book)

The road to San Jose is in this case, being ‘OK’ with letting a small minority make important decisions on, for instance, how the life-sustaining resources we have access to are used and cared for.

minority/majority?
These are the observations on those levels:

intra-personal  (in one’s inner world):

We put our conscious mind functions in charge of our choices, Which is indeed the majority of what we are most easily consciously aware of.
However, seen from our total mind capacity, our conscious mind functions form only approximately 20% of all functions being minded..... .
About 80% of the life sustaining processes within a person takes place subconsciously, far below the thresholds of our awareness. (Think for example: digestion of food and information, cell-regeneration, waste-management… to name a few functions the conscious mind is hardly actively involved in)

inter-personal (between two or more individuals):

We put the flow of 'matter' in charge of our time-investment decisions. We see material values (stuff, among which money ranks on number one) as most influential on our levels of interpersonal prosperity and wellbeing. As if we are thinking: " what really matters in our communities is what you can count". However, we are (at least semi-) aware that the things you can count and weigh (matter) make up only a fraction of the whole flow of what is playing a part in being well, in this Universe.
The majority of 'things' that really, really matter to satisfying levels of richness and wellbeing is the invisible flow of 'what you can really count on' in life: the immaterial flow of the treasures of a good life. For instance: trust, faith, belief, support, care, comfort, sharing knowledge, cooperation, kind intentions....... 

inter-national (between two or more countries)

Roughly 250 million voters on a population of roughly 320 million, sounds like a majority.Roughly 250 million voters on a population of roughly 7 billion, is very much a minority.

inter-est (the relations between 'what is')

Does 7 billion of very influential people alive today sound like a whole lot of beings alive?

Human beings are only a tiny minority, in numbers, of all beings alive on this Earth, ​who's lives we impact a great deal with our day to day decisions.

Well, going to San Jose might be a beautiful journey too, with a lot of fun and interesting debates along the way, bringing forward the experiences we chose in order to evolve and advance, both personally and as a species…..?
HEB’s* litmus test: Do those governing systems work well?
Is prosperity and wellbeing indeed thriving, for all involved?

I suspect there is hardly anyone in this world who would answer these questions wholeheartedly with:” O yes! I observe that we are all doing really really well!”.
And if there is, I am pretty sure (s)he isn’t voicing the majority’s experiences.

So…can we come up with something that works better, for all involved?

“Yes we can….!” Or am I on the wrong election round here ;-)

Where is the next meta-physical roundabout where we can choose to take the road to meta-physical ‘Seattle’?

This idea, this text, this invitation to play with the content of this website, may very well be such a meta-physical roundabout.

I figure that this big election, might be a very good opportunity to really look deeply at our decision making and self-governing processes and move into another direction with it.
Developing ourselves in a direction that honours, joyfully and freely the (natural, spiritual) human constitution, reclaiming peacefully our human co-creative choices-rights as a tribe member in the tribe of mankind.
Implementing our highest understandings......
if you like making either or choices....... either oneness..... or... democracy.

I know, that is the same exit on this meta-physical roundabout, which makes it a both/and choice, here.

In co-creation with the source of life, I designed invitations to play with this oneness-paradigm, in the light of choices revolving around leadership and I made them available through this website: http://being-one.weebly.com/
Showing those who are curious about it, very practical possibilities on implementing your highest understandings in what you perceive to be your community.

Honouring your freedom of choice, holding the be-do-have paradigm**, the way it usually does work wonders, for all involved.

Enjoy!

* HEB's is a reference to the content of the book to, meaning Highly Evolved Beings

**the be-do have paradigm is also a reference to content of the book