Seeing and being the future

To see the future do not use eyes, use vision. One makes the future so by holding and living this vision.

There are those who want a different future and continue living the present - or even the past. Please, if a different future is what is desired, at least give this future a chance.

In all there exists a framework of habit which exists to keep the status quo: no change, no improvements, nothing disturbed. It is helpful - up to the obviously very limiting point that if nothing changes, nothing changes or 'The more you do of what you've done, the more you'll get of what you've got'. One may even change the breathing, eating and temperature habits in our lives - indeed, doing so may speed our future into being.

Perhaps surprisingly, the future is not a place or a time that starts in the future. It starts right now....from here onwards.

Thus, to change the future, start now. What one wants to happen (differently) begins here. Every vision of the future has 'attributes'. The beliefs, behaviours, actions, thoughts, emotions, values, skills and expectations which form one's future life need embracing. To embrace these is to form one's future.

One needs to understand that one sees not what we are holding on to, yet it is exactly this that is forming our present - and our current, our existing future. Once we change what one is holding onto, the future changes. So look very closely at what one is holding onto, for it is holding one, here, too.

A great exercise is to write down, reflect or meditate on what we are holding. Through this route what is held onto can be changed - easily. Compare past with future. Hold onto what one wants - the one really wanted. Leave the other behind...and whoosh - we have a new future.

Stay in the now to keep the old habit/s out, and stay in the future wanted.

Sometimes there is a challenge. New skills may be needed, new knowledge, new understandings - these are the easy ones. New friends are easier than new family. A new life, a new way of being, whilst a great excitement to some, is a huge rift for others.

Here comes right balance. Knowing what to let go and what one may keep. Some things are mutually exclusive, of course. Think about this. Others may want to travel, too, and some may say 'Yes!' and exhibit 'No!'. Discrimination, presence, action....yet always vision.

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The Games of Life

And so, here in 2012, we are a humanity of tricked game players. We are those who have chosen which games to play or we are those who have not chosen but are to play the games of others' choosing. And we are those, the corporations, the governments, the institutions, who are the big game organisers. These also comprise humans, but are not human. These, who have and who have not chosen, but who choose the games we are all to play and, through accident, inability or conspiracy, set the rules.

We play the games because humanity, like most life, depends on pattern-recognition to make sense of its world. Chairs are chairs, friends are friends, work is work, life is life. Fail to fit the pattern and acceptance will likely not be. It is quite a set of games. And all difficult to change.

The main rule is to engage with the rules, for to fail to engage the rules creates outsiders, deviants, innovators, death or even leaders....all, or mostly, lonely positions. These are great places!

One does not tend to win in the game, it is more that one survives to a greater or lesser degree. This would appear to be the aim of the corporation, the government, the institution: to allow survival in a controlled way. Through the rules of history, cultures and unintended consequences, we conform to the games and play - as actors on the stages of life - the correct roles, in the main.

To survive the ravages of a starving or thirsty nation (or, maybe with some earlier choices), wars, one may not have options unless other nations help. To escape the work-wheel game of training>employment>retirement one must win the lottery, be inventive or find an inheritance. To win the game of friends one must conform to friendship game rules - have personality and interest equal-to or greater-than one's peers. To enjoy one's family strict adhesion to its special rules is demanded – or a black sheep you will be. Be careful those who suggest better ways to spend our taxes, organise the fundamental game-rules of economics or change the rules of 'politics' or 'authority', for special rules apply to these deviant gamers and they will be challenged and most likely silenced.

Of course academics have a special 'Game of Knowledge', although this is undergoing a game-makeover due to mass communication. We now have Wikipedia, et al, to share the knowledge-counters, and the counters of skill, understandings and attitudes with which one wins the academic game. A similar, although as yet only partial, game-makeover has been applied to our 'Economic Game', with a recent huge counter-play by the old winners. There is evidence that 'The Political Game' is due a similar makeover through Avaaz, 38degrees and others of the internet-play. Families have been evolving their game for aeons, with state assistance, migration and learning/education the great trump-cards and game-changers.

Then we have the game of 'Break-Out'. Available to those who choose to ignore or follow rules of prevailing games rules. These are they who play the game of new communities. Or they play the game of 'Lets Make It All Better', seeing new patterns, new ways to win through with ever-changing rules of creativity, evolution, being, etc..

And who wins in this World of Games? Well, we have an answer and it seems not to be 42, unimaginable wealth or a guaranteed step on the stairway to heaven after we leave the Earthly Game Board.

The answer seems to be 'Great Happiness' which comprises the following. But to achieve this we have to step outside the standard set of 'Game Rules' which seem the 'Academic Game' evidence shows rarely leads to happiness for players anywhere.

Win the 'Happiness Game by....

having enough but not too much
making others happy
keeping healthy
doing something worthwhile, that 'makes a difference', but which does not cost/damage the earth
having really great friends
having integrity (trust in self and trusting others?)
having a spirit with enough courage, independence and adventure

It is a great game, the real game of life.

Who said there is not a jot of evidence that life is meant to be serious?

Was it Jane McGonigal or Woody Allen?

Time to review our systems and make the world work properly...

Ian Lewis - How to help empower and move blocked communities who want better.

Brazil is the 'B' in BRIC - the first of the four fast-moving nations. Take 10 minutes to hear how this really happened... "TEDxTeen - Jeremy Heimans - Aim Higher Than President"

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Jeremy Heimans is co-founder and CEO of Purpose.com, a social enterprise that builds movements to help solve major global problems.

AVAAZ - The Future of the World?

BEING FULLY HUMAN - Ian Lewis FRSA FInstLM

"Ian is a fascinating man to know and a great friend to have on the
evolutionary journey. He’s an innovator extraordinaire, but in ways
that most people wouldn’t necessarily see. Like most new visionaries that I know, Ian IS evolutionary energy at work in the world. Here’s what he has to say about the world of vision, leadership and energy:

“My work is adventure … adventure of thought, spiritual adventure, aesthetic adventure, entrepreneurial adventure, adventure in being complete and free. Every life-arena needs the adventure of new creation to keep it vital, refreshed, true and complete.

Once free, fully alive, open to adventure and all possibility, the future is yours. You choose all that can be in it. Life-energy knows this and (what I call) 'The All' or Allness is celebrated in a feeling transcending future, fulfilment, joy, completion, wholeness. My role as an Adventure Guide is to help everyone access 'The All', seeing and feeling pure source energy and possibility in everything.

As ALL (another name I use is 'The (or Our) Euphoric Field', in this joining with pure source energy, we become evolution manifesting in our world right now. This is the foundation level of real experience from which everything - ALL - happens."

[taken from an evolved except first published in 'New Visioneries'- Ian Lewis

Nice Life and Growing Up - Secrets of All

Life is a strange commodity. We all have some of it. We value it variously. It can run out surprisingly quickly. How to use it is an interesting question amongst many interesting questions on life. How many years we have in life will never be more important than how much life we put into our years. Some would talk about experience as fundamental, and some of these say experience is as to intensity not duration.

We know we would all astound ourselves if we did all of which we are capable. Science tells us we build connections in our brain at the astounding rate of 1,800,000 connections per second in the first
two years of our lives and never stop learning although various changes bring focus and relevancy to what we notice, retain and are able to retrieve.

Of all the metaphors for how the brain works I prefer the patterns, hooks and retrieval – we operate and identify patters of significance, create relational hooks on which to hang specifics and none of this will mean a jot unless we access these sufficiently often to build good tracks to find things again, and tracks do grow over, especially when other inputs are coming in at an estimated 11000000 items every second of every day of our lives – from our all our senses.

Tradition has it that we can only focus on one or a few of these 11 million inputs. This is being shown to be untrue. We have the capacity to focus on many more, indeed our brains do focus on much more all the time – usually unconsciously, and through enormously efficient filters to consciousness based on pattern-recognition/level of significance, which is situational - related to habit and/or expectation. Even processes of ageing and health are governed by expectations driven by, primarily, socially/culturally driven expectation.

In a later blog we move into the discussion on whether we are Grown-Ups or merely Growing Ups, but for now two sayings come to mind: “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” [Carver], and 'Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life'...both relate, in essence, to certain limitations on life, and particularly death.

Now many have concerns just now about the nature of spirituality, energetics and consciousness. One may be concerned with with a wide topic here, some would say of cosmic (or perhaps in some circles even comic) proportions. The great place that the next blog will go is into this arena of how to access at will and use the 11 million simultaneous connectedness our brains are using with an 'always on' availability. In my next blog this will also be cover the physiological origins of spirituality.

A question to followers: “Is spirituality of physiological origin?”.

Letter to All - The Secret, Seven Habits & Success

The Secret, Seven Habits and Success. Why we need to BE the future - so we really can see the future! So this is what we see.... “We are all living in this place of fabulous and incredible beauty called The Earth with an humanity full of life, opportunities, possibilities and wonder in creativity with all. The ever increasing gifts of abundance and fun just continue to flow from where they reside in the people, day after day after day, forever. This knowingness and complete connection with all in the lightness of being and fantastical effortlessness enjoy fulfilling our undemanding beingness. There are no gaps or uncertainties – all is present now in our well shared, unexploited, giving planet of plenty as we collaborate in being, loving and actioning wonder and possibilities. We have the planetary, state, organisational and community governance with wisdoms profound, open and selfless, which make this so. This life of games, fun and gifts goes on. We are un-paced, easy and free to enjoy our time, so fulfilled always, sharing with the magnificence of all, each and everyone. With potential fully realised and such freedom bringing alive all lives everywhere, who would leave? It is so right, true and in being with all. There is only here and now – more is unnecessary and wasteful.”

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