Humanity rising - collaboration in glipworld

Know me, know of my passion for collaboration. What it offers this world!

Pure collaboration is pure consciousness - and pure consciousness is pure collaboration. Simplifying language we refer to as 'being in the glip place', 'we are glipping', 'in glipworld' and 'being glip'. So what does it - glipping - mean?

Glip is a word (verb, noun, adjective, pronoun... ) which describes a oneness with all, a place of immediacy and wholeness with vitality and easy action. Created to save a lot of description, discussion and diversion when, within its own definition, it demands movement, creation and action. Long explanations, discussion, discourse would be mutually exclusive and internally inconsistent, dissipating energy gained from connectedness with all and causing the energy to be moribund, stagnant, to have no place to go except to be talked about.

As an example of its value in shortening discourse consider 'glip' a word which describes, as a state of one's (or one's organisation/community) being in a euphoria of passion in a continuing moment, full of happiness, a joyful, soul-full, brightness, brilliance, fully authentic, open, absolute self-belief, clear direction, inspired visionary-thinking, at one with all, at once with all, awesome in potential, flowing access to this potential, a place and time of extra-ordinary energy, unstoppable genius, vitality, love of life, humanity, purpose, the cosmos, pioneering courage, relentless intention. Glip says all this in four letters.

This moment of being one with all has been known for eons and by many. The moment of transcendence, oneness with all, a life's high in the moment. These are glip moments, yet humanity is ever maturing and now has reached its current zenith where these moments are more than moments: they are extended periods – even existences for the many and especially in collaboration.

Both as individuals and in communities, whether communities united by purpose(the organisation?), geographical location, a belief or other commonality, they have reached a place where there is an awesome inspiring clarity of a collective potential and its realisation towards the purpose. It is interesting that this purpose may only give to the world, never take, damage or inhibit, for this would be neither collaborative nor conscious.

These C21st transcendent people, organisations, communities live transcendent lives, in transcendent locations doing transcendent things towards a transcendent humanity. They have overcome the overspill of C20th greed, selfishness and violence and know and live the future as the abundant, diverse, friendly place it is: dishonesty, violence and greed can have no place, thus some behaviours, even behaviours which have (quite recently) become norms within significant structures (e.g., banking, politics, commerce, agriculture, extraction industries) are so deeply unacceptable and are being rejected. It is a wide chasm and it is futile to attempt to leap this chasm in two bounds.

Fortunately this realisation, this transition, is a single involuntary leap into a new amazingly full life for humanity and the globe: it exists for many now and is available for all as soon as trust in collaboration emerges/is learned in oneself and in one's community/organisation.

2011 Global Year of Collaboration

In 1997, as Principal of Lifecollege, an innovative personal development academy, I talked to Europe, the USA, Australasia and parts of Africa and Asia about the European Year of Lifelong Learning. At the time I used satellite technology - 'squirting the bird'. We knew little of the web at the time. Responses from Sub-Saharan Africa, Iceland and Russia showed great enthusiasm and led to some great connections, each having many rich experiences attached and leaving lifelong-learning as a virtual by-product. Today I cleaned the sculpture presented to me by the French Minister of Culture at the time for organisating a collaborative exchange to Alpe-Provance-Cote D'Azure linked to Lifelong Learning in Southern France and in South West UK. Great days. My agenda then was 'step-change thinking' - moving beyond mere straight-line progression.

Today I use the internet to launch 2011 Global Year of Collaboration. This is just one of the progressions which have stemmed from the connections made so long ago, now encompassing fully 88 contries, many institutions and hundreds of people.

That which is common is the strength of collaboration between us all. No only the friendship and fun, but the determination to draw the best from the many opportunities of great collaborations. Not only have we many projects, both completed and in progression, but we have true progress for humanity.

Now I have to ask myself: Have I read poorly, or are the ancient texts a little light on collaboration? It does appear that, where undertaken with authenticity and trust theer were some great things achieved along the centuries. Perhaps even the greatest of empires depended upon collaboration in times of gain. Yet where was it later, in times of loss? Is this the true cause of the decline of empires? Trust and authenticity gone and the strength reduces to that of the parts, far inferior to whole held tight by collaboration.

Perhaps, in these austere days we need to look awhile at why collaborations are particularly relevant just now? Well, amidst the miriad of reasons, we can see time, finance and travel as savings and inteligence, expertise and increased potential as fine harvests or returns. Yet what matters to humanity, what is important and raises our quality of life, is also present in great collaborations.

I can only ask you to think about it. Perhaps you have a collaboration which will be something special in this special year of collaborations?