Collective Inquiry in Australia

There is too much to write about and far too little time to write it all. I spent the morning doing a radio interview and then my weekly conference call. On both I spoke largely about what I am seeing about how a global cultural matrix of higher values can be formed. Now that I have given a couple of talks in Australia I am seeing that “it” is continuing. The investigation that I have described traveling from New York to Copenhagen has arrived in Perth and Sydney. When I speak to people I explicitly tell them about what is building in cities all over the world among the people who are engaged in the global inquiry that is “The Universe Project.”

As soon as people hear about it I can feel that they become part of it – and even more importantly, so do they! I can see how it affects them immediately. They listen more attentively, they participate more fully and they take themselves more seriously because they now it matters. They know that they are not just in a lecture or a discussion to get some understanding for themselves alone. They are part of a building, living, global, inter-subjective culture that needs them to take it further right then. And people feel ready for the challenge. People have told me that what thrills them is that they have felt done with seeking, but they haven’t know what to do with everything they have learned and now they see an opportunity to make an important contribution to a global effort.

And when people in New York or Copenhagen hear that the people in Sydney are taking up the investigation right where it was left in the earlier cities I see them change too. They become more serious because they are not just participants, but they have helped create was is now moving further. And they want to know where it goes. And the people in Sydney want to tell them what they have done with the inquiry. That is a global matrix built on engagement with a collective inquiry into human life. That matrix, I believe, will be the catalyst that will inspire, conceive of and ultimate create a global culture based on higher values and awakened awareness.

Our shared exploration of Evolutionary Enlightenment us to…

1. want to evolve more than we want to be secure
2. what to engage with others more then we want privacy
3. experience the tension of growth over comfort
4. be sincere rather than protect or self image

Those, by the way are the four values that the group in Copenhagen came up with as the values of a new culture based on an emerging understanding of our responsibility as awakening humans for the future of direction of evolution.

Is that easy?...no! Is it worth it?...definitely!

I will write again after or during the seminar that I am having this weekend to report on where “we” have taken the investigation next.