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.
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Our young people are our key to a great future
Albert Einstein..."No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.".
The deep key to the success of charities such as 'Every Family Matters', 'Choose, Change, Become' and 'International Youth Forum' is that they are run by youth for the world.
Other, lesser keys, include protecting the young people from impositions, traditions and adult mores; supporting resilience, courage, adventuresomeness, creativity; endorsing/supporting character, personality and individuality.
Vital contributive positions/skills of adults are professional mentoring, coaching and facilitation of powerful youth motivators of 'autonomy, challenge, making a difference/contribution' through which real and meaningful life experiences lead to awareness, judgement, skills and confidence - part of what we (whom apply Einstein, as above) call 'GLIP' learning, 'glipping'.
These young people have had great success in attracting resources to their initiatives - people, places, funding, projects. Perhaps this is because they are making a difference as they evolve themselves. I like that they will be responsible for my world later as I'm not proud of what I see we adults have done, but I do like what I see in our young people.
All whom acknowledge/help young people in any way do a fine thing.
The deep key to the success of charities such as 'Every Family Matters', 'Choose, Change, Become' and 'International Youth Forum' is that they are run by youth for the world.
Other, lesser keys, include protecting the young people from impositions, traditions and adult mores; supporting resilience, courage, adventuresomeness, creativity; endorsing/supporting character, personality and individuality.
Vital contributive positions/skills of adults are professional mentoring, coaching and facilitation of powerful youth motivators of 'autonomy, challenge, making a difference/contribution' through which real and meaningful life experiences lead to awareness, judgement, skills and confidence - part of what we (whom apply Einstein, as above) call 'GLIP' learning, 'glipping'.
These young people have had great success in attracting resources to their initiatives - people, places, funding, projects. Perhaps this is because they are making a difference as they evolve themselves. I like that they will be responsible for my world later as I'm not proud of what I see we adults have done, but I do like what I see in our young people.
All whom acknowledge/help young people in any way do a fine thing.
Sunday, 26 January 2014
GLIP - GLIPPING - A new word for humanity, the world and for ALL...
A new word – and a great new world...“GLIP”
And glip is....verb, adverb, adjective...
“...to be, to do, to know, in the now of deep joy, seeing and knowing the world
and all its peoples in their potential and magnificence”.
To glip one is conscious of all and consciously acts to ensure sustainability,
collaboration, community, possibility, creativity, joy, fun, love, health,
celebration, courage; in this place ethics* take care of themselves.
*truth, honesty, trust, equality, transparency/openness, no harm to living
matter (unless threatened by it) are all taken as fundamental to glipworld
consciousness.
We – 'the glippers' are already many (given future choice, everyone) – and we ask thinkers about the human race to show (a) that such a universally valuable word already exists and (b) that the suggestion of a 'state of being', of this order, will not vastly improve the likelihood of humankind to reach its real potential.
We suggest that all might consider attaining and being 'glip' in all they write,
decree, speak, act and live....no damage, no hurt, all fun, health, honesty,
trust and confidence in open creative possibility....'the unfettered whole self'
for all, everywhere, now and for all time.
*For those concerned with religious, territorial, personal, community or
historical issues, the acceptance, indeed celebration, of others' freedoms is a
fundamental and required part of glipping/being glip. Glippers will always air
to the best for the most, seeking mutual collaborative wins where ever possible.
And glip is....verb, adverb, adjective...
“...to be, to do, to know, in the now of deep joy, seeing and knowing the world
and all its peoples in their potential and magnificence”.
To glip one is conscious of all and consciously acts to ensure sustainability,
collaboration, community, possibility, creativity, joy, fun, love, health,
celebration, courage; in this place ethics* take care of themselves.
*truth, honesty, trust, equality, transparency/openness, no harm to living
matter (unless threatened by it) are all taken as fundamental to glipworld
consciousness.
We – 'the glippers' are already many (given future choice, everyone) – and we ask thinkers about the human race to show (a) that such a universally valuable word already exists and (b) that the suggestion of a 'state of being', of this order, will not vastly improve the likelihood of humankind to reach its real potential.
We suggest that all might consider attaining and being 'glip' in all they write,
decree, speak, act and live....no damage, no hurt, all fun, health, honesty,
trust and confidence in open creative possibility....'the unfettered whole self'
for all, everywhere, now and for all time.
*For those concerned with religious, territorial, personal, community or
historical issues, the acceptance, indeed celebration, of others' freedoms is a
fundamental and required part of glipping/being glip. Glippers will always air
to the best for the most, seeking mutual collaborative wins where ever possible.
Sunday, 25 August 2013
Political animals are outside the box.
Ian Lewis FRSA FInstLM • To get inside this question a read of Jeremy Paxman's 'Political Animal' would really help as it empathises with both a distraught role (politician) and system (democratic politics) - where many well intentioned and basically good people are worn thin then out by a defunct system. It could be made to work much better, but the few rather than the many are able to create a failing system.
Clear and overt political values would be a solution where discussions, debates and decisions have to reflect the values present in the promises of aspiring politicians. Of course a 'voting-out' system, when values are not consistent, would also need to be a part of the mix.
The future requires a broader and more present value-set than current in evidence either by politicians or society. For instance (one may identify relevant values oneself in the following), a change of emphasis in our relationships and our society from ‘me’ to ‘we’ will not erode individual rights, ability, achievement, freedom of expression, or ownership in any way. Nor will it require that we relinquish our hard-earned cash or possessions, repudiate our economic system, or overturn our democratic way of life. The only practice we will give up is the need to strive for individual achievement at another person’s expense. That mindset in itself is flagrantly anti-individual and undemocratic: somebody’s individual rights always get trampled in ‘I win, you lose’ scenarios.
If we are to prosper, individually and collectively, each of us must wipe clean our mental hard drives of the sense of scarcity, lack, competition, and extreme individualism with which we are now programmed. To do this we have to challenge the very assumptions and thought processes on which those concepts and assumptions are based, moving to a collaborative politics locally and globally, with corporations, boards, conglomerates etc., removed from positions of influence into positions of servitude to democratic need.
Whilst this comment might appear to take focus away from politician in the democratic sense, it does question whether politicians reside more outside of government/s than within given the size and influence of many NGO's including corporations and industrial/labour collectives and owners.
Clear and overt political values would be a solution where discussions, debates and decisions have to reflect the values present in the promises of aspiring politicians. Of course a 'voting-out' system, when values are not consistent, would also need to be a part of the mix.
The future requires a broader and more present value-set than current in evidence either by politicians or society. For instance (one may identify relevant values oneself in the following), a change of emphasis in our relationships and our society from ‘me’ to ‘we’ will not erode individual rights, ability, achievement, freedom of expression, or ownership in any way. Nor will it require that we relinquish our hard-earned cash or possessions, repudiate our economic system, or overturn our democratic way of life. The only practice we will give up is the need to strive for individual achievement at another person’s expense. That mindset in itself is flagrantly anti-individual and undemocratic: somebody’s individual rights always get trampled in ‘I win, you lose’ scenarios.
If we are to prosper, individually and collectively, each of us must wipe clean our mental hard drives of the sense of scarcity, lack, competition, and extreme individualism with which we are now programmed. To do this we have to challenge the very assumptions and thought processes on which those concepts and assumptions are based, moving to a collaborative politics locally and globally, with corporations, boards, conglomerates etc., removed from positions of influence into positions of servitude to democratic need.
Whilst this comment might appear to take focus away from politician in the democratic sense, it does question whether politicians reside more outside of government/s than within given the size and influence of many NGO's including corporations and industrial/labour collectives and owners.
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Young people - every generation has the same story....
A survey carried out in the 1990s across England and Wales of 34,000 13-15 year olds by Prof Leslie Francis, University of Wales, Dept of Applied Theology, used five indicators of personal well-being. One in every eight held themselves in sufficiently low self-esteem to identify with the statement ‘I feel I am not worth much as a person’. Only 56% feel that their lives have a sense of purpose; 10% are completely without a sense of purpose and a further 34% are drifting. 52% often feel depressed and 27% have sometimes considered taking their own lives. One in ten do not find their lives worth living.
So what is the right collective growing up experience which joins home-life, school life and free time and which ensures our young people have great self-esteem, the right level of confidence, purpose, belief in themselves and trust in others?
So what is the right collective growing up experience which joins home-life, school life and free time and which ensures our young people have great self-esteem, the right level of confidence, purpose, belief in themselves and trust in others?
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
My special friends
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.
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.
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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