[OSList] global self-organizing

[Skye Hirst]

Yes indeed.   Skye


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Julie Smith <jsmith at mosquitonet.com>wrote:

> Dear all ~
>
> I've been doing some research related to self-organizing and have been
> inspired by the posts and links offered here.  I also continue to find
> inspiration in the self-organizing principles and practices of Open Space
> Technology.  I would like to offer some passages related to self-organizing
> from *Not-Two Is Peace* by World-Friend Adi Da Samraj.  Many of these
> passages refer to the Global Cooperative Forum.  This is the mechanism Adi
> Da Samraj calls humanity to manifest as a necessary aspect of a global
> self-organizing system.  I've pulled sentences and paragraphs that
> specifically point to self-organization.  The book in its entirety is
> available online at da-peace.org or can be purchased from Amazon or
> elsewhere.
>
> "The purpose of the Global Cooperative Forum is to ensure that the
> totality of humankind, or everybody-all-at-once, is participating in a
> global political reality, and demonstrating the self-organizing means for
> making it right and keeping it right."
>
> "....The only power that can deal with these powers that are on the verge
> of destroying the Earth-world is everybody-all-at-once--meaning not merely
> mob power, but a new cooperative system for dealing with issues."
>
> "The role of the Global Cooperative Forum is to replace the absence of
> systematic responsibility with the presence of systematic order and
> integrity--a system that is self-governing, self-organizing,
> self-correcting, and self-rightening."
>
> "There must be an entirely new structuring of the human domain, and also a
> process wherein that entirely new structure can actually be given birth."
>
> "The old order will insist on its own persistence.  And, so, it is a
> matter of the old order getting up one morning and finding out that there
> is a Global Cooperative Forum instead."
>
>     "Fundamental (or all-rightening) change cannot be caused.  However,
> fundamental change can *happen*--as a spontaneous (and all-transforming,
> or all-reforming) self-conversion.  Also, the necessary self-conversion
> that is required for fundamental change to occur can, itself, be *enabled* to
> happen--not by causing it as effect (as if it were already not-existing,
> and, therefore, needs to be "created out of nothing"), but, most simply and
> directly, by re-empowering the self-organizing integrity and prior unity of
> the inherently egoless everybody-all-at-once that *already* *exists*.
>     It will not be the role-playing of "virtuous speaking" that brings
> about the necessary fundamental change.  Calling everybody to change does
> not cause them to change.  Those who are already moved to do right do not
> need to be told to do so--and, no matter how much advice and admonition
> they are given, those who are not inclined to do right are not going to
> "change their act".
>     If there is going to be fundamental all-rightening change, something
> has to *require* change.  Therefore, the world as a whole must be enabled
> to require change.  It is an acausal matter--not a causal matter.
>     The billions of humankind must become *self-organized*.  The Global
> Cooperative Forum is the means for *self-organizing* the total population
> of humankind into an effective single voice that can simply say how things
> *are* going to be."
>
> "The inherent collective and prior union that is the
> "everybody-all-at-once" is inherently egoless, self-organizing,
> indivisible, and cooperative.  The human world is currently populated (and
> self-fragmented) by billions of egos--all deluded by various kinds of
> influences, and all dreaming of the idea of being able (and even of having
> the necessity) to fulfill their accumulated desires.  However, in
> actuality, the world-all-at-once is an inherently egoless happening."
>
> "Unless they are specifically prevented from doing so, *all* systems will
> spontaneously righten themselves.  The universe is a self-organizing,
> self-correcting, and self-rightening process.  *All* systems are
> self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening--unless something
> interferes with the self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening
> process.  The current power-structures in the human world are actually
> preventing the self-organizing, self-correcting, and self-rightening
> process of humankind from happening."
>
> "Humankind must organize itself.  No "one" can organize it.  Humankind
> must, as a whole, animate the self-organizing force that is inherent in all
> integrated systems.  The self-organizing, self-correcting, and
> self-rightening force inherent in humankind as an indivisible whole--and
> not any particular individual or group of individuals--is what must emerge
> as the Global Cooperative Forum I am proposing to all."
>
> Love,
>
> Julie
>
>
>
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