Building a wisdom network

Below are some strategic guidelines that a group of inspired people may want to apply if their goal is to help consciousness and wisdom grow in the world. Let's name core group this group of inspired initiators, and constellation the network that will emerge from their inspiring transformation.

Honor all planes of Human Being. Physical, sensitive, emotional, mental, spiritual... which allows a much wider space of sharing and communication than the exclusive mental one.

Honor emergence. Emergence? is the creative force of the Universe. Learn it, honor it, trust it and accompany it, be its conscious gardener. One must like the void of uncertainty.

Use rituals. Because they engage our sacredness, meetings should take place in sacred spaces that are opened and closed with rituals. Rituals from many wisdoms and traditions should be considered and incorporated in the culture and practice of the core group and the constellation.

Build a Wisdom Charter. It is important to inform people where the core group operates from. A 'Wisdom Charter?' (or whatever name is chosen) is a powerful tool to express a set of 'axioms' as an expression channeled from the Divine Source that the core group considers as absolute. Such charter works as a strong repellent for those who don't feel the call, and as a strong (and strange) attractor for those who feel the call. Then links with others are generated on clarity and strength. The Wisdom Charter? is part of the Social DNA? built by the stem cell?.

Circles, circles, circles. Wisdom, and the center of Sacred Circles, are spaces in which the Divine can be manifested, where Her voice can be heard and spoken, individually and collectively. The center of the circles is where clarity and light can be brought from all angles, leaving no space of shadow. This is where deep relationship with the Self, with Others, with the Source of life can be acknowledged and serve as a soil to grow manifested action in the world. See wisdomcircle.org.

Be Transitioners?. Have a foot in each old and new worlds. By acknowledging and honoring the old world and the new emerging world, we become aware of their different rules, mechanisms and paradigms. Then differentiated coordinated strategies can be efficiently built, with clear role distribution. Some participants operate well in the old world, others in the new one, and a few are at ease in both.

Control invisible architectures. Humanity is in bad shape not because humankind is evil. On the opposite, we believe that a majority of people are good and of goodwill, they would do good around them if they could. Some of what maintains humanity imprisoned in pain and deviant behaviors is the invisible presence of invisible architectures that keep people unconsciously trapped into old patterns that are not relevant anymore. Examples of invisible architectures are language, ontology, beliefs, money, social networks, space. They work as catalysts from which social behavior emerge. Understanding, improving and controlling such architectures leads communities to the next stage of consciousness that humankind needs to reach the next stage of freedom, power and happiness.

Support social software. Social software is what empowers communities by offering powerful means to self-manage themselves, deal with complexity and offer each individual a representation of the emerging whole. They facilitate memory, creativity, delivery, conceptual and symbolic representation, modeling, conflict resolution, myths and story telling, culture, memes, knowledge, empathy, extrapolation, consensus building. Wikis, blogs, peer-to-peer databases are early manifestation of social software. They reconcile the apparent contradiction between individual and collective levels (Tragedy of the commons?). After the writing as the core technology of the era of pyramidal intelligence, social software is the next dynamic writing tool, the meta-language, that will support the next emerging society.

Create new monetary streams. These streams orientate money toward projects that increase true wealth. For instance an ethical credit card can be created in partnership with banks. Holders commits to use it exclusively to make ethical and sustainable purchase. A percentage of each transaction can go to the commons, allocation can be decided upon a collective process.

Support new monetary systems. Don't address exclusively the allocation of money, support the development of new community currencies such as open money that catalyze new social dynamics, support sustainability, collaboration, sufficiency.

Honor sustainable places by gathering there. Meetings and forums should take place in places (ecovillages, progressive cities, retreat centers) that embody the values shared in the community (sustainability, world consciousness, etc). It is also an opportunity to be connected to local cultural, ecological, economical contexts and learn from them.

Learn, practice and support Collective Intelligence and Wisdom, as a vision, discipline, methodology.