Greetings!
Here is what's been up for me lately.
Why do we human beings react so strongly to stuff that is not going to actually kill or even really harm us?
Think about screaming in the car about missing an exit or at the person who cut in front of you.
Yes, I do this.
We know the neuroscience: our brains are wired to alert us to life-threatening situations by shutting down reasoning and activating our bodies to fight, to run away, or to freeze. We've had about 200,000 years of practice freaking out, while cars have been around about just over 200 years, so it makes some sense.
But the repercussions can create an awful lot of strife and pain, can't they?
The edgy place we seem to be in right now is that we mistake Republicans or Democrats for saber-toothed tigers, while climate change is so existentially terrifying we can't even process it at all.
The shit is hitting the fan in more clearly palpable ways. It's like the House of Horrors. Scary and exciting all at the same time. Mind-numbing scary if you don't understand what is going on, and scary/exciting if you have at least some inkling.
You know what I'd say. I'd say what is going on is that the human race is in transformation.
Right smack dab in it.
Luckily we are learning SO MUCH about how we tick and why we respond as we do; learning how to sit in uncomfortable places, discovering new ways of thinking and new ways of responding to our world. There is a plethora of resources available to the curious, and we are now digging in and DOING stuff ourselves . . . together.
I'd say that collective intelligence is the leader now.
I wrote about collective intelligence (a.k.a. the noosphere) in my March blog. It was cool to research it and think more deeply about it.
I've seen evidence of the amazing wisdom of collective intelligence in just our first Soul Talks (we're at maximum capacity!). With the people who gather, I learn experientially — about how we tick, about how to sit in uncomfortable places, about new perspectives and practices. I am being taught by others.
I am finding the new leaders to be everywhere.
It's quite possible that one is reading this newsletter right now.
One last note: You are invited to the 2019 spring Community Grief Tending on April 20. We are offering a deeper dive for those who wish to do this Grief work for themselves, and for the collective.
Clean windy air and Internet up there somewhere,
Kinde
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