I was quiet for the last 45 days or so. Part of this was family vacation - but part of it also was me taking time for deep reflection, the result of which i want to share today. - before i begin, and because of the long silence - i want to express my deep gratitude to you, who are taking the time to read this, to often respond in private conversation and especially those - you know you who are - who have chosen to support this publication financially. This means a lot because it shows me that there is real value for you in what i am offering. Thank you!
The reflection of the past few weeks primarliy revolved around the question of who we - individually and collectively - must be in order to be worthy of anything being aligned with us. Not that i haven't thought, spoken and written to this extensively already - the reflection of my hiatus was more about the how we get to be what we must become.
For consistency i will re-iterate the three main pillars briefly:
1: Remembering
what it means to be a human being rather than a consumer is surprisingly easy. Time and time again i see that people effortlessly tap into the deep and often unknown knowledge of the three-hundred-thousand years of human experience we all carry within - and - in the same movement reveal how thin the slither of 300 years of colonialisation and industrialisation really is.
Either this sounds obvious and easy to you, or you see it as childish hippy talk. In the former case, you can continue to step 2 - in the latter, you have some work to do.
2: Coordinating
what you find when you connect with the deepest sense of what it means to be a human being alive on this planet with everyone else. If you haven't fully remembered, this step is impossible to you. It is impossible because it requires deep trust in the fact that every human on the planet ultimately feels the same level of vulnerability and woundedness as you do. Only this trust can open you up to sharing your deepest humanity with others.
Once you do, it opens up effortless collaboration because everyone simultaneously steps out of the ego-profit-maximisation game which defuses the massive first mover disadvantage of the multipolar trap of the current shitshow. If that sounds like nonsense to you, you need to go back to step 1.
3: Building
the physical, social and emotional reality that deeply integrates the previous two steps is paramount. Most of us manage to connect to our deepest humanity and we often manage to get into coordinating coherence with others - in pockets. In pockets of space and time. Usually we get sucked back into the molochian hamster wheel. Even the most immersive experiences of this kind tend to have a half life of a few weeks at max.
In this step it is of crucial importance to focus on the physical reality that makes living aligned with the previous steps possible. This is not an intentional community that uses its beautiful expression of remembering and coordination as a marketing mechanism for yoga and ayahuasca retreats. Instead, this is living with and off the land - living with and in community.
I can sense a deep longing for making the above a reality. It is shining through the cracks of the meta and the poly but there is nothing to shine on, just yet. At least that's how it feels. But what if we actually trusted that we are the many, that we are unique and beautiful - just like every human being you will ever meet? What if we just started living as if the world were already the beautiful place we know it can be?
While we are constructing the foundation to make the construction of the possibility a tangible possibility for everyone on the planet for free with the Oslo Project, the thought of "just" starting to live outside of the shitshow became louder over the past few weeks. And i wasn't alone - whenever i clumsily expressed these feelings i found shared ground.
As a result, i have created an online video training version of the INFINITIVE retreat and book to serve the Remembering which acts as a gate for a community of other others to serve the Coordinating. This is a very early prototype and since you actually read all the way here and would like to know more - send me a note t@thomas.cr or +491785830082 (signal/whatsapp)