All Discussions Tagged 'revolution' - Occupy Cafe2024-03-29T07:34:01Zhttp://www.occupycafe.org/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=revolution&feed=yes&xn_auth=noOccupy Heart 4/13: Occupy Your Heart ;-)tag:www.occupycafe.org,2012-04-11:6451976:Topic:240972012-04-11T01:28:37.125ZJitendra Darlinghttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/JitendraDarling
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<p><strong>This week, we dive into this call's namesake with "Occupy Your Heart."</strong> </p>
<p><strong>We are on the cusp of a revolution</strong> that lies beneath political, economic, racial and religious boundaries. The real revolution, is a revolution of heart—of courage and Love. </p>
<p><strong>We are evolving as a species</strong>—have been evolving, from fear-based instinct to love-based reason. We have a unique capacity to hit the pause button between perception and response. We have the further capacity to choose the meaning of our experience. The capacity is in our design, but it's not automatic...yet. </p>
<p><strong>Love has existed as a highly conditional phenomenon for ages.</strong> There are any number of circumstances that must exist for us to Love. The right man or woman, the right career or accomplishment, the right amount of money or income, the right childhood, the right...condition.</p>
<p><strong>Our greatest wisdom teachings</strong>implore humanity to embrace unconditional Love. Our most beloved social activists sought to demonstrate unconditional Love in action—King, Gandhi, Chavez, Jesus (yeah, he was). And many of you, too—advocates for non-violence—in the heat of the moment, remaining non-combative. </p>
<p><strong>A</strong><strong>nd we struggle. </strong>We struggle with our inner rage, frustration, impatience, and intolerance with "the 1%." We neatly bundle our reactivity and give it a catch-all term like ego or small self. In less conscious moments, we simply call it "them." We devalue ourselves and are complicit in widening the gulf between "haves and have-nots."</p>
<p><strong>This call will be a little different. </strong>This will be a deep excursion into the territory between instinct and reason, but it's less in your mind than you may think. In fact, until we're conscious of how our biological imperative for survival ignites and hijacks our conscious awareness, the mind is forever playing catch-up.</p>
<p><strong>I'm going to teach this week</strong>. I'll be taking you inside territory I've been mapping and unraveling for 40 years and teaching for the past 20. My mission, purpose and deepest joy is to illuminate this mostly invisible landscape that, when contacted and understood, revolutionizes all future experiences. </p>
<p><strong>I'll take you inside of the ALOHA Practice, an integrated, embodied Love technology,</strong> and describe in detail how to unlock the pressure your "ego" exerts as the stakes of a situation rises. To the degree that I succeed, you will eject layers of burdening self-judgment you may not have known existed, a key to shifting from fear to love, reactivity to empowered presence.</p>
<p>How might knowing how to shift your whole self from fear to Love impact:</p>
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<li>...your personal life?</li>
<li>...your effectiveness as an activist?</li>
<li>...you effectiveness as a collaborator?</li>
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<p> </p> A Proposed Outcome of the Occupy Movement: Creating & Installing A New Money System Without A Focus on the Existing Onetag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-11-06:6451976:Topic:56592011-11-06T19:21:27.755ZVic Desotellehttp://www.occupycafe.org/profile/VicDesotelle
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="color: #000000;"><strong>IF THERE's ONE THING I'D LIKE TO SEE COME OUT OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT ...</strong></span></p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275126758?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275126758?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="175"></img></a> ... It would be to <span style="color: #993300;"><strong>define it's purpose around a quantum change in the model(s) for money and its role in world economies.</strong></span> With this objective positioned clearly and…</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;" class="font-size-4"><strong>IF THERE's ONE THING I'D LIKE TO SEE COME OUT OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT ...</strong></span></p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275126758?profile=original"><img width="175" class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275126758?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="175"/></a>... It would be to <span style="color: #993300;"><strong>define it's purpose around a quantum change in the model(s) for money and its role in world economies.</strong></span> With this objective positioned clearly and correctly, we could begin to create alternative money system(s) and have the force of the Occupy people behind it to support it's emergence within varied global economies. Even if the old system is still in play.</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275127767?profile=original"><img width="175" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275127767?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="175"/></a>Rather than force the one's in power to change their hand, we instead <strong><span style="color: #008000;">build another system IN PARALLEL with the existing</span></strong>. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>It is possible</strong> to have adjacent money systems and correlating economies actively running at the same time.</span> In fact, <strong><span style="color: #993300;">this approach of building anew, rather than tearing down the old, is really the only way to allow transformation to happen without overwhelming levels of bloodshed.</span></strong> We need an 'evolution', not another 'revolution'. Let's not try to stop the existing one. Let's spend our energy building a new one.</p>
<p><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275127952?profile=original"><img width="132" class="align-right" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275127952?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="132"/></a>That said, realize that there are already thousands of alternative currencies trying to make headway around this objective within many communities around the world. They are an outcome of so many of us no longer being able to access the existing money systems. However, <strong><span style="color: #993300;">what these community currencies do not have is an aligned effort, such as what the Occupy Movement can provide</span></strong>.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXb-LrVkuwM&playnext=1&list=PLB81DC78418FCAFAB"><img width="175" class="align-left" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275128799?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="175"/></a>To the above end, I want to share a powerful series on youtube called "The Money Masters" which very effectively unveils the story of how money works and the men that manipulate it. <strong><span style="color: #993300;">If we are to implement new economic systems, as well as new symbols (money) to reflect them, we must first thoroughly understand the existing system</span></strong> in order to create a new one that isn't the same thing with a different cover. <strong><span style="color: #ff6600;">Please watch this series and give me your feedback on what you learn.</span> "THE MONEY MASTERS" <a href="http://ning.it/vnQq2N" target="_blank">http://ning.it/vnQq2N</a></strong></p>
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<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span class="font-size-2">Also I would very much appreciate your feedback on <strong>how we could <span style="color: #ff0000;">begin an internal movement</span></strong> <span style="color: #ff0000;">inside the Occupy movement</span> that 'moves' toward my proposal above</span></strong><span class="font-size-2">.</span></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-4">Who is interested in what I am proposing here?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">What are your comments?</span></p>
<p>Vic Desotelle</p>
<p><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1275130302?profile=original"><br/></a> <span class="font-size-2"> </span></strong></span></p> OWS- an alternative perspectivetag:www.occupycafe.org,2011-11-01:6451976:Topic:45752011-11-01T21:15:15.969ZRaffi A.http://www.occupycafe.org/profile/RaffiA
<p>Greetings fellow cafe folks.</p>
<p>I'd like to offer an alternative perspective on OWS. First I'd like to introduce myself-</p>
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<div id="yiv2049229758yui_3_2_0_39_132009880734454">I'm a native San Diegan, facilitator/process artist (co-host of the 14th annual World Open Space on Open Space in Moscow in '06; co-editor of Russian translations of process arts books and articles, including Open Space Technology: A User's Guide and the mini-hosting guide for World Cafe),…</div>
<p>Greetings fellow cafe folks.</p>
<p>I'd like to offer an alternative perspective on OWS. First I'd like to introduce myself-</p>
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<div id="yiv2049229758yui_3_2_0_39_132009880734454">I'm a native San Diegan, facilitator/process artist (co-host of the 14th annual World Open Space on Open Space in Moscow in '06; co-editor of Russian translations of process arts books and articles, including Open Space Technology: A User's Guide and the mini-hosting guide for World Cafe), .</div>
<div>After having been involved for about two weeks- which included one week of staying at Civic Center Plaza overnight- I decided to no longer take part. </div>
<div id="yiv2049229758yui_3_2_0_39_132009880734454"><div>I blogged about my participation from the very beginning.</div>
<div>And the last two posts go into the reasons why I've ended my participation in the Occupy Process. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://reinhabitsandiego.wordpress.com/">http://reinhabitsandiego.wordpress.com</a></div>
<div>I've lived half my life abroad- Iran and Russia (and was eyewitness to the Islamic Revolution (and the Iran-Iraq War and the US hostage crisis) in Iran and collapse of the Soviet Union. </div>
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<div>My own politics are in many ways aligned with those taking part. I was arrested in front of the CIA at age 17 (civil disobedience), at age 18 went public with my intention not to register for the Selective Service, throughout my twenties was a war tax resister. While in Russia, I protested the wars in Chechnya. </div>
<div>My worry - and that of a few others who share the values but not the strategy of OWS- is that elites are actually <em>interested in seeing OWS continue and grow</em> because little of consequence will come of it. I've seen in my life subtle and not so subtle means of engaging masses- including highly educated people- in movements that actually bear little fruit.</div>
<div>I think this comment by Richard Moore (linked to on my blog) sums up - a lot of my concern (I will add that I don't 100% agree with his perspective but at its core I think his point is a good one) where I'm coming from:</div>
<div><div><em>What I am sure of, is that none of the grass-roots initiatives or movements currently on the scene have any hope of changing anything. In fact, activist energy is increasingly being channeled and managed by the very system we are hoping to change. As with Obama, who managed to fool all of the people some the time, and even now is fooling some of the people all of the time. 'Hope you can believe in', if you're dreaming.</em></div>
<div><em>But someone like Obama can only channel those who see hope in the political system. More and more people are realizing there is no hope in the political system. So we are getting things like The Zeitgeist Movement and Anonymous, that cater to those who have given up on politics, and give them something to 'join' or 'follow' so they can pretend they're 'doing something'. Here is a relevant posting on Zeitgeist:</em></div>
<div><em><b><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberjournal/message/466">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cyberjournal/message/466</a></b></em></div>
<div><em>The latest of these vehicles of co-option is the Occupy Wall Street movement. This one's really a humdinger. It has all the right slogans, and an appealing internal process. Its success is not surprising, because it is the latest version of a formula that has been thoroughly tested and refined 'on the ground'. We might call it the 'twitter formula', and we've seen it in the 'colored revolutions' that were used to bring about various desired regime changes, and more recently in the 'Arab Spring' movements, that soaked up lots of energy and prevented unwanted regime changes.</em></div>
<div><em>Four years ago progressives found hope in Obama. This time around they're finding hope in the Occupy Wall Street movement. In both cases, this 'hope' became available all too easily, was accompanied by all the right mainstream publicity, and offered easy ways to join in and become not only a follower, but an active participant. This is what co-option looks like.</em></div>
<div><em>rkm</em></div>
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<p>I'm curious how this all lands for you!</p>
<p>appreciatively,</p>
<p>raffi</p>
<p>p.s. feel free to share with others, but do not include my last name (if you know it).</p>