Earlier in life I took some special friends for granted. They were unusual friends not because they were rare or even unique, but because they were and continue to be over-looked as friends by many. They were then certainly over-looked by me. Yet so central were they to my [already] living a great life that the process of coming to know them and recognising them as the great and generous friends they still are seems worth sharing.
The first time I identified my special friends was when, talking to an early older comedian friend, I asked how she remembered so many jokes. She said "I have no jokes, only special friends. No one ever forgets a special friend.".
Pondering this reply, I started looking at who my special friends might be. Then just into my teens, my search was for that which had contributed to some early successes in life. I found humour, fun and action. Later, at 15, a school report noted "Ian has integrity, independence of mind and a quiet sense of humour.". It seems I was building some early friendships, friendships that have opened so many doors and allowed access to so many great paths in my life. The expanded list has changed little. I continue a great life with and through my special friends. A life full of experiences such as here, right now, an accepted invitation to be 5 metres from the Caribbean and for free, or next month in India as a member of a world delegation on human values in the 21st centuary. Not a bad set of gifts through my friends.
So whom are my special friends?
Most obvious amongst my friends are fun, enthusiasm, responsibility, creativity, equality, commitment, adventure, independence, health, fitness, integrity, proximity to nature and passion. Achievement, fulfilment, confidence, peace all flowed so naturally from my friends; money, a great servant and never a master, also flowed (as sufficiency, never abuse) - a solid natural respected presence throughout.
One further friend I would now add....a profound, vital realisation: 'It is never too late'. Even through early years much seems 'late in the day' - at 11 a 14 year old brother seems old, 25 unbelievably far away, parents, at 30, are late in life (even past it) and so on. Yet, each year as I spend time helping others towards great lives, for this is one passion in my life, (it is what I'm doing in the Caribbean Islands right now), so many say 'It's too late for me.". Yet they are 20, 30, 50, 70....but it is never too late. I respect these Great Elders most in their amazing lives because they never stop learning, adventuring, testing possibilities...just doing new things. They have shown me it is never too late to begin new paths accepting their gifts from their, and I from my own, special friends.
Tuesday 19 March 2013
Sunday 10 March 2013
Knowing, Being, Now
One is the number of conscious channels our educated, traditional world wishes us to believe we have. Two thousand is the number of conscious channels our 2013 scientific world finds we have. It seems we ignore by failing to access one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine of our available conscious channels - and since these interact, their power within intellect is cumulative: 2000 to the power of 2000 is a massive intellect, or ‘knowing’. This knowing may be any or all of artistic, logical, aesthetic, sensual, spiritual, social, physical, creative, intuitive, collective….such treasures indeed.
It seems we have a great and wonderful exploration of potential ahead: to renew humanity's ability to enjoy a two-thousand x two thousand-fold increase in knowing and fully being.
Now plenty of us have great abilities here already. We never listened to our agenda-ridden teachers (however dedicated and good intentioned). They cannot know what they do not know and therefore are not able to teach it to even the most dedicated students. We, the un-teachable, preferred to listen to our inner-selves where the traffic was terrific, dramatic and much more complete. Many more, post school, have re-discovered their awareness of what they knew. All now trust in their knowing, enjoying the freedom of greater choice, knowledge and belief in 'intuition', 'just knowing', 'free-knowing', and so on, where this complete deeper knowing resides within us.
There are many more on their way, practicing 'knowing'. Whether 'just knowing' or 'fully being', or 'fully living' or 'being in the now', so many more are getting it. This pre-curser or adjunct to being fully conscious within and between ourselves is the essence of our regained humanity. Yet shall we regain it if our leaders, corporate entities and many traditions remain so blinded.
It is nice that dates are set when these things are to happen, are to come to pass and/or will form an epoch-change for us all - that cosmetic filigree of seers, soothsayers and visionaries whom absolve humanity from its responsibility to simply commit and be all we can be. Yet is seems a vital part of moving forward that we, each one of us, take responsibility for making it happen. It is as much a part of living, life and being as are breathing, eating and taking water. Not that we are great at these, when humanity is viewed in entirety, and consciousness, deep knowing, is not limited to humanity but has to include all beings on our fragile world as well as at least protecting and better honouring and living in allness with our one and only life-sustaining amazingly beautiful habitat.
Perhaps the firm-wired, primordially educated among us, those unaware of our responsibilities to ourselves, our world and all its deep interconnectedness will re-wire in time, and perhaps not – at least in time. But deeper knowing by those who are innately conscious and by those whom have rewired, who have taken responsibility for knowing and being and now, may save all provided we reach a timely tipping point, before nature does collapse all.
Some basics are to ignore the corporate messages (advertising, selling, progression) unless they are dramatic in their inclusiveness of all, unless they aspire to undoing the past and currently damaging practices and unless they show openness for individual and environmentally, not corporately hidden and lobbied-for governmental and societal blind ignorance. Then we make moves towards true self- and community-responsibility.
The opportunity for all to be known, all to be lived in the now and thoroughly enjoyed as the beautiful planetary beings we are is now, and perhaps not otherwise.
Who knows? We know. Really we do. So change something….? A first access to the 2000x2000 is at www.lifecollege.org with other points of access through glipworld and cosmicvertigo
Ian Lewis Adventure Ian Lewis Leadership follow ianspirational on twitter
It seems we have a great and wonderful exploration of potential ahead: to renew humanity's ability to enjoy a two-thousand x two thousand-fold increase in knowing and fully being.
Now plenty of us have great abilities here already. We never listened to our agenda-ridden teachers (however dedicated and good intentioned). They cannot know what they do not know and therefore are not able to teach it to even the most dedicated students. We, the un-teachable, preferred to listen to our inner-selves where the traffic was terrific, dramatic and much more complete. Many more, post school, have re-discovered their awareness of what they knew. All now trust in their knowing, enjoying the freedom of greater choice, knowledge and belief in 'intuition', 'just knowing', 'free-knowing', and so on, where this complete deeper knowing resides within us.
There are many more on their way, practicing 'knowing'. Whether 'just knowing' or 'fully being', or 'fully living' or 'being in the now', so many more are getting it. This pre-curser or adjunct to being fully conscious within and between ourselves is the essence of our regained humanity. Yet shall we regain it if our leaders, corporate entities and many traditions remain so blinded.
It is nice that dates are set when these things are to happen, are to come to pass and/or will form an epoch-change for us all - that cosmetic filigree of seers, soothsayers and visionaries whom absolve humanity from its responsibility to simply commit and be all we can be. Yet is seems a vital part of moving forward that we, each one of us, take responsibility for making it happen. It is as much a part of living, life and being as are breathing, eating and taking water. Not that we are great at these, when humanity is viewed in entirety, and consciousness, deep knowing, is not limited to humanity but has to include all beings on our fragile world as well as at least protecting and better honouring and living in allness with our one and only life-sustaining amazingly beautiful habitat.
Perhaps the firm-wired, primordially educated among us, those unaware of our responsibilities to ourselves, our world and all its deep interconnectedness will re-wire in time, and perhaps not – at least in time. But deeper knowing by those who are innately conscious and by those whom have rewired, who have taken responsibility for knowing and being and now, may save all provided we reach a timely tipping point, before nature does collapse all.
Some basics are to ignore the corporate messages (advertising, selling, progression) unless they are dramatic in their inclusiveness of all, unless they aspire to undoing the past and currently damaging practices and unless they show openness for individual and environmentally, not corporately hidden and lobbied-for governmental and societal blind ignorance. Then we make moves towards true self- and community-responsibility.
The opportunity for all to be known, all to be lived in the now and thoroughly enjoyed as the beautiful planetary beings we are is now, and perhaps not otherwise.
Who knows? We know. Really we do. So change something….? A first access to the 2000x2000 is at www.lifecollege.org with other points of access through glipworld and cosmicvertigo
Ian Lewis Adventure Ian Lewis Leadership follow ianspirational on twitter
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