Spaceship of Imagination

[Armen]

Space is the cradle of existence. A Spaceship is a dynamic space; a vehicle. In that spirit, it is time to turn up the heat.

A neighbor of mine who is a Russian linguist introduced me to the word "Iskra". It means spark. Catalyst (Just call me Sparky). Well, that is my passion and mission. To catalyze action. It's all about action.

ACTION! ACTION! ACTION! ACTION! ACTION!

With all it's perils, we are standing at the edge of this current, wanting to jump in and swim out, deeper and deeper. We want to take action, as an alternative community. It's where all the risk is, and therefore where we can most easily be confused, derailed, and divided, as we saw with the charles material. I have been organizing community for years now, and I know how hard it is, even with well meaning people, to hold it together. Believe me, I have made many blunders, and had lots of stuff blow up in my face. Rising from my own ashes repeatedly, I have learned, and we will learn continuously by doing. It can't be anything less but rough sees. It has to be expected.

Yet, we can't afford not to venture forth, not to take the risk, and keep pushing ever deeper into the realm of action and community. Along the way we will encounter all our rough edges and impurities, but we have to keep going, and assimilate every wake, every shock wave, until we can hold this new child safely that is birthing itself through our collective hearts.

It's fantastic that we have more and more people from within the system who are defecting, blowing the whistle, standing up to the powers that be, and derailing our current global trajectories.

Now imagine if we supplement this work with something totally new. The alternative. As Bill, Inelia, Alex Collier, and many have referenced, it is time to start imagining and expressing what we want instead. The more we talk about it, flesh it out, write it down, share it, make it clear, and act on it, the more likely it will come to pass.

This is where I feel called to. I'm not an insider. I can't tell you what happens inside Black Projects. I'm an outsider with a totally different perspective. In solidarity with my brothers and sisters who are hunting and tracking down the elements that keep us from acting on our creativity, I want to meet them half way by creating, and galvanizing others into creating something totally different. Us outsiders are bringing in the other perspectives. No?

We all have gifts, and missions to carry out. It's time to put the pieces together.

This is something I think about a lot, and have a lot to say about. So, I thought I can start by beginning with a thread where we can exercise our imaginations, throw out suggestions, workshop ideas, play with how we can continue further down the rode of supporting each other, setting each other free, and uniting our causes.

I'm a little scared, because if it works, who knows what kind of unsavory elements it will attract to create confusion and division again, but I agree that honesty is the best remedy. So, even though I'm scared, I want to keep moving in this direction, and I'll be honest right off the bat about the fact that I'm scared.

I have a lot of very specific insights into how people could be moving further into action, and I want to share them. Nothing may come of it, but I at least want to put it out there. My hope is that this thread will start a conversation, or amplify an already existing conversation in such a way that an infrastructure is developed for supporting and connecting individual missions into an amorphous, fluid, connected whole.

Feel free to chime in. I would love to hear what you guys are thinking/feeling in this regard. There is so much inside of me that wants to come out, and I am grateful for a chance to express my opinions.

See you out there...

[D-Day]

Hi Armen, I'm all for taking action and agree with everything you've said here 100%.

I too have been contemplating such things, especially in recent months... but I just can't seem to come up with a plan that I think is capable of seriously instigating/catalysing significant change.

That said, I'd really like to hear about any specific ideas/plans you might have come up with yourself...

Also, here's a few threads that were started recently and are kinda on the same track as this one (not sure if you've seen them already or not)...

Wake Up Project - Help Wanted: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?21957-Wake-Up-Project-Help-Wanted&goto=newpost

Uprising of the people of the world: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?21316-Uprising-of-the-people-of-the-world

Uprising, a march on area 51.: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22332-Uprising-a-march-on-area-51.

What is your best ufo footage this is mine: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22182-What-is-your-best-ufo-footage-this-is-mine

Disclosure & human nature: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22230-Disclosure-and-human-nature

So, it would appear that there are at least a few like-minded people here who would probably like to contribute to and expand upon the ideas/intention you've expressed in this thread, myself included.

I've bookmarked this thread now, it will be interesting to see where it goes from here...

[Armen]

I'm sorry to be so prolific, and to take up so much space. Honestly, I'm afraid I'm going to get busted for over posting. Just know that I'm doing it from a good place. I care, and there's a huge amount inside of me that wants to get out before I explode. Plus, I am motivated by an ever present sense of urgency. So, I'll just keep posting until somebody tells me I've gone too far. If that happens, please be kind as I'm not doing this for self glorification. If I don't share this, I will EXPLODE!!!!

This topic is so huge, I've decided to pick it apart and present little bite size pieces. I will endeavor to start with the abstract, simple, and work my way into deeper layers of complexity and detail over time.

The question I hold is, how do we move forward? How do we catalyze and maximize potential into action? I have found these questions to be the basis and foundation of such an endeavor.

Who Are You?

What did You come here to Do?

What Are the Wounds that have accumulated because you were not seen and properly treated?

How might I be able to Help You?

Developing a set of procedures and practices based on these questions can be a key ingredient in casting a circumference that entails the complexity and variety of social work that is possible for visionary, emergent, organization.

When people ask, and are asked these questions, something incredible happens. A sacred space opens up. Often, when I have done this with people, they respond first with shock, because, sadly, no one has ever asked them those questions. Ironically, even after asking many people those questions, I, myself, when asked, had the same kind of shock response. It wasn't cognitive. It was my cellular memory. Because I, myself had never been asked those questions. I found it difficult to answer, even with all my experience, and when I did, I was afraid of being judged and attacked. Once I experienced that it was ok for me to claim myself by stating to another human being the answers to those questions, and feel the total emotional support and reflection of understanding from my witness, it was extremely cathartic for both of us.

We are used to experiencing exchanges of energy as being structured in such a way that the receiver is filled while the giver is depleted. The unique thing about "seeing" a person, or in other words the "experience of understanding", is that both the witness and the person being witnessed are simultaneously freed from the perceptual molds that are incongruent with how they actually experience themselves. Freeing a person in that way releases vast amounts of crystalized energy. The experience is tangible, and demonstrable even across distances. Wherever a channel of communication is possible, the experience is possible. Both people expand out into space, and both are simultaneously flooded with energy.

Those questions lead to "Seeing".

Anyone can do it. I feel that it should be a standard social practice everywhere we go. So, in the very least, we could be asking ourselves and each other those questions. If we don't know each other, how can we act? That is my first suggestion...

[sunnyrap]

Remember 'the Wave' that kind of swept through sports arenas and concerts for a while? And those groups of singers that surprised shoppers at malls with spontaneous seeming, inspiring productions? It is shows of great cooperation and inspiration that seem to have the biggest impact, rather than shows of aggression--hostility.

What if a kind of positive 'false flag' event was staged all over the world, at the same time...massive numbers expressing peaceful, cooperative solidarity. Everyone in the world lighting a candle/lighter or beating a drum/can/noisemaker of choice and speaking-singing-chanting the same peaceful mantra of positive intention--all at the same time. Would it not drown out every scrap of secretive, power-lusting negativity on our pretty planet?

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At risk of being utterly corny: 'We are love, we are the world--Namaste'

[Armen]

At risk of being utterly corny: 'We are love, we are the world--Namaste'

I admit it. I'm corny!

[Tony]

Hello Armen,
You are so right, keep asking questions.
The answers do come, which creates more questions.
It's a refining process, admitting you are dissatisfied, you have the right to move on....up.
For me, it is like stepping out of one pool into a larger one, and you cannot go or fall back!

This is your destiny. Our destiny.

The trick is to constantly let go of the previous pool, but look back with compassion.

Tony

[Armen]

Discovering and Identifying Interests

If we didn't live in a parasitic world where people are seen as a resource, and resources are seen as an exploitable commodity, what would the alternative look like?

It baffles me that people have to make a living at all. What that means to me is that we start with the assumption that people are worthless, and then expect an individual to prove that they do, in fact, have value. What if we flipped it around? What if the basic assumption was that people have value, and then the question becomes how to enable and support that person in finding what they have to give?

We can shift our global psyche to a point where we understand that our greatest gift is the ability to create. Within our imagination and creativity lie many hidden talents and gifts. Right now it looks to me like we live in a world where most people are stuck doing work they hate, that is totally unrelated to their interests, or what they are truly capable of. Our definitions for "work" are so narrow, it couldn't possible encompass the variety and diversity of amazing contributions human beings could be making in every conceivable field.

In order to act, there has to be clarity. The more clarity, the more deliberate the action can be. I have found that when really talking with a person, I do discover that they have intrinsic interests and talents that coincide with their experiences in life, all to form what I would term a "calling" of some kind.

Therefore, I think it's really important to form discussions and forums around common areas of interest. So, the task is two fold. On one hand, discovering and classifying/discerning various areas of interests, and then setting up an infrastructure for people to organize and form community around that topic. This is essentially what has happened with Camelot/Avalon. The same process can be repeated with more specific topics.

That means, we can begin identifying specific areas of interest and setting up threads that allow people to converse and organize specifically around those topics.

For example, Dance and kinesthetic awareness is a huge part of my "mission", and interest. So, I set up a thread to talk about specifically that. A few broad categories I can think of to kind of get the ball rolling. Music, Dance, Art, Envrionment, Social work, Politics, Business, Healing, Health, Energy work, Research, Science, Spirituality, etc.

Those are just beginning markers. As each person gets more clear about the area they are called to, and what they want/need to be doing, the categories will create themselves. It becomes an emergent process. We have to be like taxonomists in a way, going out and discovering/naming the varying species of interests we have.

Once we have general categories, then it can get more and more specific. For instance, it can be as specific as, "I'm working on how to create an alternate currency in my community", just as an example. The important part in discerning what we want to be doing, is to come from our imaginations and our hearts, not from what we see as possible or practical based on our world today. If we do that, we'll just keep spinning our wheels in the same place.

With a clear slate, we need to just imagine what we want to be doing. That ushers in what I would call the "Future Now", and allows a bridge to be built between this world, and a new world. Then it's just a matter of creativity to discover how to make the transition.

I am intending to connect with folks on this forum in a respectful way, to learn more about what people here truly want to be doing, or are interested in. I don't intend to be forceful. Just offer opportunities for sharing. Intel is vital. The more we understand each other, the more likely it is we can help each other.