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"Do not run away. Run inward, as unripe
grapes hurry toward their own sweetness." -
Rumi
Manya
Mike & Jim
"The closer I get to this jim, the
more I feel that there would be benefit in working with you to
set the context for the 8-12 month long group developmental
work, which I see is viable going forward for the
developmentalist work, it would multi-faceted, would be
group driven, maybe like study group, perhaps we need to talk
a little about that/research some best practices for study
groups, because what i think will work in the real world is
gathering people together for this work, just like TEC does
for the work of business, we might do business and
development, which is going to be much deeper, more personal
work, but nonetheless valuable I think...
What's your opinion?
I’m game! But this assumes we can guarantee two stages of ego
growth upon completion. Or a couple of stratums will do too in
a pinch. <G>
I can't guarantee you any ego growth, but I can model what
regression looks like for you.<G>
"Ah, yes, regression (referring to ego complexity)…that too
seems important. I know you said it tongue in cheek, but it
reminds me that some of us who like to crawl out on dozens of
branches…need to sometimes crawl back to the trunk."
While this is a real exchange, the essence of what I would
like to say here, has some levity, but true irony, in that
those worried about up, are not.
Much of the developing world today
is entrained on the ladder principle of
BS. This
principle basically states that higher is better. So, there
are now dozens of groups seeking to develop people upward as
fast as possible, as if in the ludicrous notion that if they
succeeded that somehow the world would be a better
place...yet, aren't we proving now, ironically, that the
principle is flawed?
The faster and faster we pretend
that we climb the ladder, complexity laughs at us and expands
exponentially higher and higher as the Red Queen
wins again.
I asked Jim if I could use his
quote, as it is typical of the development that I see occurs
as we wake up, and then begin to climb down the ladder, that
we have skakily ascended for the sake of better, more and
higher.
When in reality, live is really
lived in the assimilation of more robustness, and not more
complexity; more resilience, not height of awareness.
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