Intersubjective & the long tide

In the current group of practitioners we have been wondering what it is that is calling us, again and again, to sit in circle and practice once more. Even as we are in a transition phase with no clarity discernable on the horizon, we feel drawn in. There seems to be this deep wave, with a long tide, that we are all resonating with. It is the deeper wave of evolution happening through us, and we might not be the ones who see in 3D-reality the potential that we can sense through our bodies. It is not mere imagination, like in pure fantasies, because we practice it every week, we make our imaginal muscles stronger. What if more people would do this?

What if…, by Amanda Zamparo

So, what if we could bring this practice to more people, to businesses, institutions and schools? What if we could make affection and its juice available again to people – people that maybe forgot about this condition of human nature?

What would become possible if every community on Earth had a Collective Presencing meeting every week or month?

The real ambition of Collective Presencing, by Cheryl Hsu

The real ambition of Collective Presencing to “build collective capacity for generative action”, to unlock the pregnant potential of collective creation/poesis: “bringing something into being that did not exist before.” Becoming collectively present is one thing, but to become collectively creative? This is what ignites the fire in me. It’s never felt more true that humans and the more-than-human need to live into radically new daseins, plural ways of being-in-the-world that look and feel fundamentally different from the Modernist cosmology that centers the human. …..

And the thing is, Collective Presencing is simultaneously so ambitious, yet so humble. We can talk about this transformation of consciousness with the ambition of its very Yang counterparts, for example, the Metamodernism or Game B communities. But what I love about Collective Presencing is that it is radically simple: what is being asked of us is “full participation into life”, or as my Daoist ancestors describe: “Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

When we step in alignment with our soul’s calling, we can act, and create with the flow. Actively living into the emergent moment is as much an act of surrender as much as it is a leap. You trust yourself, with the utmost humility to become what Bonnitta Roy describes as “the first mover” in the churning currents of change. (blog: https://cherylhsu.ca/post/2020-11-11-first-mover/)

We end this body of this book with a contribution by Kim Maynard who lives high up in the mountains in Montana, and has lived and worked in very intense environments. She was one of the first two who stepped forward to co-host the first online sessions.

We are in a fascinating transition time, by Kim Maynard

We are in a fascinating transition time in consciousness, and it is reflected within our small Collective Presencing community. The practice and the book have brought us to a precious place of genuine, committed people listening deeply to each other. As we evolve with the larger consciousness, and get called into new territory, this phase may be coming to an end. The increasing density of awareness practices, and number of people on the edge of consciousness, is reflected in a ripening within Collective Presencing. Along with many other groups, we feel the new level of arousal as we poise on this collective brink. And also, like others, Collective Presencing is coming up against the limitations of this phase, as our many unspoken assumptions and previous patterns meet a new energy and become more evident. …..

The transition to a new phase requires new skills, assumptions, and practices. So here, rather than the energy being on the individual, the energy goes through the individual, from self-focus to throughput. This is not about individual awakening and it’s not about speaking about the map. It’s about being the territory itself, together. It’s not the people, but the collective consciousness that we can feel and respond to. It takes the essence of the Circle of Creation and upregulates it to a standard way of being together.

What if we have a bunch of first movers together? All of us being good at surfing? Some ride more on top of the waves, others are riding the underwater waves, because all are needed, as all waves are coming from the same life force. Patterns of waves, in different dimensions, are rippling out, moving each other. How to navigate this mystery together? What we learn from cranio-sacral therapy is that “It’s in the long tide that we can sense what is coming.” For sure, a lot of us sense something is coming… Let’s put the trepidation gently aside and share the dreams and the images we see, and the voices we hear in the wind. If someone gets a glimpse from the potential, something that could manifest in the future, can we recognize it as such and support it?

Can we re-populate the village, or even the planet, with some post-normal superpowers, the mystery we inhabit – that modernism made us believe is not true?