I’ve been thinking a lot about change lately. 1 because I just started this HOS program and 2 because Obama showed us “yes we can” and all other indicators, global warming, financial shakeup, rising health/addiction problems seem to say “Please, We Need To!!”
And it seems that I continually run up with this idea that people are fundamentally lazy and don’t change unless there’s a figurative or literral gun pointed at their head. From this standpoint, we seem to only want to remove ourselves from what is painful, fearful, and seek an alleviation to the problem. But with that mindset, we’re not going to get very far. We’ll only change enough to avoid the thing we’re afraid of.
On the other hand, what I see happening with the Human Operating System and in various ways throughout my life and larger global history is people changing because they want to, because they are excited to, because in all honesty, positive change in exciting!
Devon talks about a default state, a place of activation where we are at our best. In the somatic field that I come from, we talk about potency and authenticity. This place of potency or authenticity is a place of excitement, enthusiasm, potimal health and has an inherant drive towards success. The whole idea of evolution in a sense seems to point to this drive, the natural unnending forward movement of the universe, the species, and us as individuals. Because, just as you don’t need to tell a tree to lean towards the sun, you don’t have to teach a human how to suceed, all you need to do is teach them how to be authentic, potent, activate their default… The success is inevitable.
It’s really thrilling to me that there are others out there who understand this, are teaching and living this. Are leaping, knowing that the net will appear because it has to, it is in our DNA.
July 20, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Right on Gabriel. Most people have tunnel vision, a completely inflexible belief system. Those beliefs are so connected to their identity that it’s very difficult to let go, to see there’s something better. They are so retarded that they can’t see they’re retarded. However, once one experiences authenticity or potency it’s hard to go back. Becoming more and more authentic is so pleasurable and positive that anything else becomes a disservice, to the individual and to society.
July 20, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Yes. The beauty or one element of the aesthetics of this model is that one changes without changing. There’s the story of the Samurai who prepared by having complete resolution and absolute oneness with the outcome. Before the Samurai begins the challenge has already been met completely whole-heartedly just not yet. With that starting point the end and the beginning are one. Our being settles and is ready for anything and in every moment there is the realization of the outcome that was already in one’s soma before the first breath of movementa and action.
July 20, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Great post Gabriel - thanks for your thoughts.
For me, the Human Operating System and Phoenix in particular are actually responses to a figurative gun that just hasn’t been pulled yet. As we come closer and closer to the technological Singularity (technology improving itself, information increasing at dizzying speeds, etc) we will need the ability to update rapidly - our thinking, our behaviors, everything.
What you do - somatically educating people back to their natural way of being - this is part of the preparation. I think we are part of a system-wide preliminary response to what is coming.
Establishing a society in which the Default (presence, authenticity, the zone) is trained into us from conception on - is the only way to adequately prepare for the future that’s on its way.
I like to feel the figurative gun pressing against my temple at all times - it unleashes the intelligent genes my DNA has been saving for just such an occasion.
July 20, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Thanks for the comments everybody, and I hear you Devon, sometimes I lie in bed just waiting for the world to wake up so I can keep charging forward. There’s so much untapped potential and I feel like too many people limit themselves by what society or the tiny voice in their head tells them they can or cannot do.
Running has been a great way for me of experiencing that loaded gun. I realized at some point that I was literally holding myself back, resisting my natural movement forward. Now when I run, I just let go and it’s amazing how fast and effortless my gait becomes.
Clearly there is something scary to mainstream society about people becoming engaged, checked in, and turned on because a lot of money, time and energy is spent keeping us dull. But I feel that we are in the midst of the most beautiful revolution. and apparently it will be twittered…