((World Commission)) on Global Consciousness & Spirituality

A Global Blueprint for the World Commission

In these reflections I shall present a global blueprint for the World Commission. I shall attempt to show why I believe the existence, mission and vision of the World Commission are of supreme importance for our planetary scene as we enter the 21st Century, and has a vital role to play in securing a sustainable and flourishing future for the people of the earth.

This blueprint has been distilled over decades of research on the perennial quest to uncover the common ground and source of diverse cultures and worldviews on a global scale through the ages. When we expand our rational consciousness across the spectrum of worldviews we rise to a global perspective in which striking patterns become more evident in our cultural evolution. In this higher dimensional lens we can see, for example, that the human condition has matured, evolved, and arrived at a critical threshold, and which direction we now choose to take will determine our future sustainability.

Many visionary leaders across the planet now realize that how we self-consciously manage our cultural life in the next two decades or so will be decisive. This challenge calls for a new and unprecedented awakened global consciousness and new mindful institutions which will play a vital role in fostering our highest and best collective self transformation for mutual flourishing. The World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality is one such key instrument and institution for leadership and creative change.

AWAKENING GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS: OUR MATURATION AS A SPECIES (ENDING THE SOURCE OF CONFLICTS & OUR PATH INTO THE FUTURE)

Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life. In this drama it is seen that egocentric patterns of minding and living directly lead to fragmentation, alienation and human pathologies at the individual and collective level. The great spiritual traditions have long seen that the key to our survival, sustainability and flourishing turns on our conscious evolution into dialogic patterns of life which bring forth our true moral, rational and spiritual nature as a species.

This crossing as a species into global consciousness involves the direct encounter and co–creation of the common ground between worldviews – the fundamental Logos which is the source of diverse cultural and religious worldviews. Here it is seen that the primary source of chronic violence and breakdown of human relations traces to egocentric patterns. The key to ending violence between cultures and advancing to global cultures of peace, nonviolence and mutual flourishing is our individual and collective advance as beings who live in patterns of deep dialogue. We suggest that this transition as a species has arrived at a critical turning point and that the single most important event now facing the human condition and a key to our future is this advance to awakened global consciousness.

The awakening of global consciousness is a new and monumental event in human evolution, even though it has been emerging throughout our diverse spiritual traditions through the ages. But this great event in the human drama is not readily apparent because people tend to process reality from their personalized perspectives, worldviews, narratives or cultural lens. Whereas access to global consciousness comes only if and when we are able to stand back and gain critical distance from our particular localized perspectives and enter the more expansive space of a global perspective in the awakening of the global mind.

• The global turn in cultural life is inherently encoded in our great planetary cultures and has been emerging throughout the ages.


• Our great spiritual traditions and teachers were all in diverse ways fostering and opening the way to the awakening of global consciousness.


• The mature awakening of global consciousness that we now face in the 21st Century is new and unprecedented in the human condition.


• Access to such global consciousness can only emerge from and though the transformation of rational awareness and intelligence into a global perspective.


• A truly global perspective taps a higher dimension of existence, reality, rational intelligence and experience.


• When we stand back from privileging our personalized perspectives, and localized worldviews, narratives, ideologies or cultural lens the horizon of the global perspective, the global lens opens. This is a key stage in becoming a critical thinker.


• When we enter the integral space where diverse worldviews originate and meet we gain critical distance from the localized perspectives and new and astounding dynamics and global patterns across and between worldviews come into focus. We arrive at the deeper common ground that is the generative source of all worldviews.


• Here we see that our great spiritual traditions (east, west, indigenous and other...) have recognized that we humans co–create our living realities through our mental and conscious activities – that we are as we mind. How we process Reality – (our inner psychic life, our outer world and ecology, our experience...) is all important in making our living realities. It matters how we mind.


• One striking pattern in this global horizon across worldviews is that humans have been in a deep and painful maturation from egocentric or monocentric patterns of minding (processing reality and experience) to more holistic, integral and dialogic patterns of self making and world making. When we look at human evolution through this global lens it becomes overwhelmingly apparent that a lead story is our maturation as a species from more adolescent egocentric patterns of minding to more coherent, rational, moral, integral and holistic patterns of life. This dramatic shift in fulfilling our human destiny as we become mature global beings has been emerging over millennia through our great spiritual endowment.


• The egocentric (monocentric) mind is a stage in our human development (evolution) which tends to separate and objectify the thinking subject from the objects of thought, and to remain centered in and privileging its particular worldview (religion, ideology, cultural lens) as the exclusive measure of reality (meaning, truth, fact, value, experience, existence). The egocentric mind is broken off from the Integral Field of Reality and packages, constructs, separates, divides, polarizes, fragments all its touches.


• Our great global spiritual traditions have noticed that this way of constituting and processing experience and reality (this technology of minding) inherently leads to fragmentation, polarizations, dualisms, irreconcilable splits, alienation which is a primary cause of human and cultural pathologies of all sorts. It divides and fragments the Self in its inner life, it artificially separates off the Integral Self from its world, from Others, from relations to Nature and the Ecology, and sets in motion profound and chronic clashes between worldviews, cultures, religions, identities, perspectives...and is a primary source of degeneration in all aspects of the human situation, at the personal and collective levels. So a global consensus (diagnosis) is that ego minding is a primary cause of the spectrum of human pathologies. And the consensus prescription is that to change this mentality is the single most important factor in transforming the human condition.


• One striking result of the general global law – we are as we mind – is that egocentric or monocentric patterns of minding generate and create lifeworlds and living realities that produce human suffering and pathologies: egocentric minding generates egocentric realities.


• Another great finding is that we humans have a choice in how we mind – and diverse spiritual teachings – especially in their moral force – show the creative alternative to egocentric patterns of minding.


• This creative alternative is to break the deeply entrenched habits of ego minding (as if it were a mental vice) and advance (through strategies of rehabilitation and reconstitution) into more integral, holistic and dialogic patterns of processing Self and World. This transformation is a key step in awakening global consciousness and the global perspective: to enter the global perspective is to co–awaken the global mind, and vice versa.


• Crossing into global consciousness: global perspective, global minding, global lens opens a higher and deeper dimension of reality; this is what is new and unprecedented in awakening the global mind and the global reality that is disclosed in this integral technology of minding. So "global consciousness" is not just about "thinking" or "concepts" or "theory"...it is, as we shall soon see, the most profound pragmatic and practical action we humans can take to change our worlds.


• But humanity has hitherto lacked an adequate global grammar and a global lens to fully activate this integral/holistic/dialogic technology of mind; and since our living realities are co–created by our patterns of minding, the supreme technological advance in the human condition is this advance to the integral technology of minding.


• This new and unprecedented activation of a global grammar and global lens begins to become clearer and more accessible if we now experiment with some simple symbolic notations to help us clarify these two contrasting technologies of minding: the global narrative of cultural evolution brings into relief two great contrasting domains or fields of Language, Consciousness, Experience, Human Ecologies: the Egosphere and the Logosophere. It is now of highest urgency to distinguish , disentangle and clarify these two domains of human existence.


• The great spiritual endowment of the planet converges on the insight that there is and must be some Primal Originating Cause or Force or Power that is the source of all that appears – of all worlds, worldviews, perspectives, cultures, religions, ideologies, narratives...phenomena; this primal force is found to be Infinite and First: What–is–first.


• Diverse spiritual and philosophical (including scientific) traditions have sought to name this First Cause in diverse grammars, narratives, rhetorical forms, languages, names: for example, Tao, Aum, Yahweh, Allah, Christ, Emptiness (Sunyata), Nature, Energy...to name a few; but there remained no common universal (global) grammar or language to express What is First in a common and generic name – we have lacked a truly global name. But a "global name" requires a "global grammar" – a universal grammar across cultures and worlds.


• Deepest research into What–is–First reveals that this Ultimate Source must be Infinite and hence the same Unifying Force generating all worlds and worldviews across the spectrum of religions and cultures, the sciences and other disciplinary narratives: we lack a truly global name for this Infinite First.


• It is also clear that the meditative traditions converge in developing powerful strategies and technologies to cross from egocentric minding into the holistic or nondual patterns of meditative (integral) minding – this is the essential teaching, for example in Hindu Vedic texts, such as the Bhagavad–Gita, or of the Buddhist teaching of overcoming egocentric life by meditatively crossing into the non–dual unified field where all things inter–connect and co–relate. But these teachings too lacked a global grammar and a global technology of minding.


• One striking pattern and disclosure that is of the utmost importance for seeing that entering the global perspective is a dimensional shift to a higher encounter of a global reality is the realization that there are two contrasting great technologies of minding that have emerged in human evolution: the ego mind conforms to a logic or technology of minding whatever its worldview may be; whereas the integral–holistic or global mind follows a universal pattern and logic whatever its spiritual teaching or vocabulary may be. So there are two great contrasting fields, domains, dimensions of Language, Thought, Speech, Reason, Experience, Meaning....This dimensional shift to the global lens is well beyond a mere "paradigm shift" within egocentric mind. It actually taps a deeper ground of Reality – it is an existential shift.


• Letπs experiment and play with some simple notation to mark off the two domains of Language and the two technologies of minding:
  
  The /Egosphere/ is marked off by "/.../" – any word or term, "x" used in the ego voice (ego language dimension) shall now be marked off as "/x/" (like ego quotation marks) to make explicit that it is spoken in the ego domain of language and consciousness: the ego lens.
  
  The ((Logosphere)) is marked off by "((...))" (like logos quotation markers) – any word, "X" spoken by the ((global voice)) in this Integral/Holistic Field of Language or Consciousness is marked off as "((X))" – the ((global lens)).


• ((Logos)), as a ((global name)): in my research over the past three decades I have focused on tapping and uncovering a deeper universal or global grammar that has been at the source of our diverse cultural evolutions and awaited being decoded and made explicit: It became clear across our diverse traditions of "What–is–First" (east, west or other) that there is a deep ((universal logic)) and ((grammar)) being tapped by the diverse spiritual and philosophical traditions: and I have proposed the word ((Logos)) as a candidate to help people see, recognize and understand that "What–is–First" – the Infinite Primal Source – is the same Universal and Unifying Force generating all our diverse worlds. (the term "Logos" is here taken from the ancient Greek wisdom where it has rich connotations: word, speech, language, reason..., but I now introduce it as a truly "global name" across traditions and worldviews).


• A new notation for the global grammar and technology: To understand and mark the dramatic shift into the global grammar and global perspective some simple notation would help. It became clear across diverse spiritual traditions that when the voice of the text (Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu, Jesus...) were speaking from the Integral Space of Logos, from the Unified Field of the Infinite Word – that the grammar and speech was spoken in an integral, nondual, holistic and dialogic voice. And I found it vital to explicitly mark this speech and voice and script with explicit markers: ((...)) , so any utterance in the Unified Field of Logos is "enquoted" by ((...)) which is the mark of the global grammar, voice and perspective, and of course of the holistic/integral process of minding.


• By contrast – whenever speech or language is spoken in the ego voice it is explicitly marked or "enquoted" by /.../, to signal explicitly that it is spoken in the ego voice and in the technology of egocentric mind. We thus begin to see that any word or term "X" is always ambiguous as t whether it is to be taken in the ((X)) Logos voice and grammar, or whether it is to be taken /X/ in the linguistic field of ego voice and mind.


• This contrast between the /ego mind/ and the ((global mind)) is of the utmost importance here for our ((blueprint)) for the ((World Commission)): for we shall now see, through the use of this simple notation, that entering ((global consciousness)) and the resources and endowment of ((global spirituality)) taps a deeper dimension of Reality and this is what represents a new and unprecedented breakthrough in the transformational work of the ((World Commission)). We shall see that the experimental use of the ((notation)) provides a certain ((symbolic power)) and ((simplicity)) and ((economy)) that will facilitate our reflection on the unique potential, power and work of the ((Commission)). And of course just to ((name)) the ((World Commission)) in this global notation already "says it all."


• Crossing from /ego lens/ to the ((global lens)) is a profound shift in the technology of mind and takes us into a deeper Unified Field of ((Reality)). To open the ((global lens)) involves a dramatic letting go of the /ego technology/ and crossing into the ((global, integral, holistic, dialogic)) technology of minding.


• The ((...)) notation helps us to see that the ((global perspective)) enters the ((Logosphere)) the ((Global Unified Field)) where diverse worlds, worldviews, disciplines, perspectives, cultures, religions, co–originate, meet, and mutually interact and transform one another in a boundless field of interactivity.


• This ((...)) technology/notation (the notation, of course, is a symbolic encoding of the ((logistic process of integral–holistic–dialogic minding) enables us to ((think, see, say, express, experience, feel... )) at a deeper dimension of Reality than we could with the /ego lens/; so just to speak of the ((World Commission)) is already to situate this initiative in the ((higher order)) reality of the ((Logosphere)).


• This dramatic crossing into the consciousness of the ((global lens)) involves a profound shift in our ((human being)) – it requires a dilation of our minds, hearts and life to a higher dimension of existence, from an egocentric human to an integral, holistic, dialogic ((human being)). Diverse spiritual traditions have insisted that we become ((whole human being)) precisely when we mature into the ((global mind)) and ((global dialogic consciousness)).


• This activation of the ((global lens)) = ((global mind)) is nothing less than our natural maturation as a ((species)) – the maturation individually and collectively as ((rational beings)) = ((logos beings)); it is the ((activation)) of our dormant ((logos gene)) that brings out our full (human potential)). And this has been a global consensus focus of our spiritual traditions.


• The ((global lens)) enables us to make deep links, across cultures and worlds, that could not be made in the /ego lens/; we can now ((see)) for example that the ((global)), the ((meditative)), the ((holistic)), the ((integral)), the ((nondual)), the ((dialogic)) all ((converge)) in one expanded ((rational consciousness))...which is realized in entering the ((Logosphere)). The ((global lens)) activates deeper hologistic powers and capacities to ((network)) and ((synthesize)) across all sorts of divides – across cultures, religions, ideologies, disciplines, categories... It capacitates us to become integral and whole beings and to live together in deeper synergy, communion, communication, compassion, mutual care and deep dialogue relations. So ((activating)) ((global consciousness)) is a key to human flourishing.


• The ((global lens)) further shows how and why the ((Infinite Word: Logos)) issues in a boundless ((Unified Field)) and this means that ((global consciousness)) flows in the ((Unified Field of Reality)). This makes accessible the generative ((common ground)) underlying all worldviews and cosmologies. The ((technology of minding)) encoded in the ((...)) notation actually releases greater ((expressive power)) in decoding and tapping this deeper ((dimension)) of ((language, thought, experience, meaning, truth, reality)).


• This is what is new and unprecedented in our present ((historic moment)) of awakening ((global consciousness)). The ((global narrative)) goes deeper into the ((narrative power)) of the ((logosphere)) and brings out the foundational ((global truths)) that are seeded in our great ((narrative traditions)). The ((technology)) was ((latent and emergent)) in earlier traditions, but now it has manifested explicitly in our present ((historical moment)) and accelerates this unprecedented stage of ((conscious evolution)).


• One astounding disclosure in the ((global perspective)) is discerning a hitherto missing ((global worldview)) or ((universal cosmology)), or ((global ontology)). It is vital to see that crossing into the ((Logosphere)) requires that the ((thinking subject)) existentially ((enter)) the ((Unified Field)). This passage into ((integral minding)) has been documented in great detail throughout the ((meditative–dialogic traditions)), east and west. So the ((Logosphere)) cannot be processed through the /ego lens/ and the /ego mind/. The "thinking subject" must herself become a ((primal thinker)) and move in, through and with the dynamic flow of the ((Unified Field of Reality)). This ((lawlike flow)) of the ((Logosphere)) is the ((blueprint)) for any higher dimensional ((organization)) that seeks to foster and facilitate the awakening of ((global consciousness)) on the planet.


• Another way to express this is that ((global consciousness)) is ((existential)) and integrally flows in this deeper ((dimension)) of ((existence)) and ((reality)): this is another version of the ((global formula)): ((we are as we mind)) – /ego mind/ co–creates and inhabits an /ego world/, while ((global mind)) ((co–creates and inhabits)) the ((Logosphere)). We begin to see why a ((Commission on Global Consciousness)) is such a profound social, cultural, scientific, educational, moral, spiritual, political... revolutionary advance. And it begins to help us see that the mission of cultivating and ((modeling)) ((global consciousness)) has radical ((existential implications)) for every aspect of our human condition. There could be no higher or more urgent ((work)) to be done on this planet in the 21st Century.


• We are now in a better position to explore some striking features of the ((Logosphere: Unified Field)): In this ((Primal Source)) of all worldviews, all things are found to be ((boundlessly interwoven)) in dynamic relations. This ((holistic unified field)) has been presented in diverse ways through the ages, and one classical metaphor for this in certain meditative traditions is ((Indraπs Web)) – the Infinite Field in which every point ((touches and communes)) with every other ((point)). Imagine the implications of a ((culture)) living in this deep dynamic of Reality itself. And yet this is what our diverse spiritual traditions have been calling for across millennia. Such ((global spirituality)) is a direct expression of this ((global cosmology)). These dynamics of the ((Logosphere)) preside at the heart and core of all worldviews. And, again, these ((dynamics)) of holistic and integral inter–relationality is the ((energy)) that ((models)) and drives any higher order ((organization)).


• The ((global lens)) also makes evident the essence of ((ethics)) which directly reflects the dynamic interactive nature of the ((Logosphere)): for the awakened ((global self)) is not a separated /ego entity/ but a ((dialogic self)) that is interactively woven into the deep dialogue fabric of Reality; the ((I)) is always inherently inter–connected with ((other)), whether ((other selves, cultures, worlds...)) or the ((whole ecology)). The ((global moral law)) follows from this – ((always treat Others as you would treat your Self)), which is grounded in the fact that my Self is inherently inter–related with You, my Other, across all worldviews. This is the universal ((I <===> Thou)) dynamic that pervades the ((logosphere)).So another striking disclosure of the ((global mind)) is that the ((Global Moral Law)) cannot be truly ((lived)) in /egocentric life/. And here we find the ((rational ground)) of the ((Global Moral Law)) that is valid for all ((worldviews)).


• It becomes ((apparent)) that all of our highest ((values)) become ((realized and manifest)) in crossing into ((global consciousness)): the ((global lens)) makes clear the ((sacred essence)) of all ((persons)), and in this is encoded all the sacred ((human rights)); but it also brings out the sacred core of all that appears in the ((Logosphere)): All of ((nature)) is sacred so the ((natural ecology)) must be ((cared for)) on ((moral grounds)), as integral to the ((moral order). Here we see the virtues of ((global democracy)) – a ((Polis of Persons)) living together in the deepest mutual ((Respect)), again, the ((I <===> Thou)) dynamic, which leads to the virtues of ((Democratic)) values and ((global citizenship)). Here again it becomes clear that true ((global citizenship)) flows from ((global consciousness)) and the ((technology)) of ((global minding)).


• In this context we see that this ((Blueprint)) encoded in the ((Logosphere)) and ((global mind)) is the ((rational ground and foundation)) of any initiative that seeks to develop a ((Planetary Code)) for all the people of the planet across all borders. Such ((global codes of conduct)) for all citizens and institutions cannot be ((validated)) or ((rationally justified)) within the limited and impoverished resources of /egocentric/ culture and discourse. /Ego mind/ cannot ((fund)) and ((justify)) a truly ((global honor code)) for all people. This can only be accomplished within the ((universal resources and spiritual endowment)) of ((global reason, global mind, global consciousness)).


• Finally, it should now be ((apparent)) that ((global spirituality)) is precisely this crossing from /egocentric life/ into the deep–dialogic ((life)) of ((global consciousness)): this is the highest telos and consensus of our great planetary ((spiritual endowment)): the ((global lens)) opens higher ((Secular Space)) for ((civic life)) in a ((pluralistic culture)). True ((Spirituality)) is the highest expression of our ((rational essence)) and is not to be confused with /egocentric religious life/. ((Spirituality)) is the awakening of our highest ((being)), bringing us into ((direct relation)) with ((Reality as the Logosphere)); it is the process of self–transformation from /ego life/ to the awakened life of mature Integral ((Natural Reason)) and flowing in harmony with the ((Lawlike Moral Energy of the Logosphere). And ((Global Spirituality)) is this ((awakening of the Global Mind)), the highest mature form of ((spirituality)) in its ((global power)). Global ((Spirituality)) then is ((Awakened Critical Reason)) and is thus free of al /ego ideology/ and /ego dogma/. Now, hopefully, the direct link between ((global consciousness)) and ((global spirituality)) should be more manifest.


• Once we make this crucial distinction between ((Spirituality)) and /egocentric religious life/ (or /ego spirituality/), and realize that ((global spirituality)) opens higher ((global civic space)) for the flourishing of our most cherished ((human values)), it becomes easier to ((see)) that this is the ((Secular Civic Space)) in which ((global democracy, global citizenship)) and the new emergent ((global cultures)) may flourish. It becomes clearer precisely why genuine ((Secular Space)) is not possible within the fragmenting and polarizing dynamics of /egocentric cultures/which of course are always lodged in /ideology/ and /localized worldviews/. We must, for example, ask: to what extent is the current state of "American civic discourse" dominated by /egocentric politics/ and /ego democracy/= /egocracy/? Have we truly matured into a ((secular civic space))? A truly ((secular civic democracy)) can only arise through ((spiritual citizenship)). That would be the true ((American revolution)).

The artificial separation of /religion/ vs /politics/, or /church/ v /state/ (as important as this is for ego–cultural space), has not proven successful in accomplishing this genuine opening of higher ((ecumenical= secular)) ((civic space)) in which diverse worldviews, perspectives, ideologies, cultures, religions...may flourish in genuine ((critical self transformation)) and ((deep dialogue)). Thus, for example, if "America" is to be a truly "global", "pluralistic" multi–cultural", "multi–ethnic"...culture, we need to ask whether the current "civic space" is truly ((globalized)), truly ((secular)) and flowing in the dynamics of ((deep democracy)) and ((global citizenship)).

((Imagine)) an ((America)) in which the ((open civic space of citizenship)) has matured to become truly ((Secular)), where the highest virtues and values in the ((American Ethos)) are realized (or realizable) in the ((awakened and mindful Polis)). That would be an ((America)) in which ((global consciousness)), ((global spirituality)), ((global democracy)) flourishes. So there is not the slightest tension between true ((spirituality)), ((secular civic life)) and deep ((democracy)). ((Spirituality)) is the key to ((Secularity)) and ((Civic Democracy)). With this foregoing ((orientation)) the ((name)), ((mission)) and ((vision)) of the ((World Commission)) should now be more in ((focus)).

Part II: ((Blueprint)) for Higher Order ((Transformational Organizations))

((The World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality)) ((conceives)) of itself as a higher dimensional ((organic organization)) whose primary ((mission)) it is to play a ((leadership role)) in the great drama now accelerating on the planet. We have seen through the ((global lens)) that the most powerful and decisive ((event)) facing humanity today is the shift in the ((technology of mind)), and of cultures from the /egosphere/ to the ((logosphere)).

This profound ((evolutionary)) =((revolutionary)) shift that has been accelerating over generations presides and overrides other global "events". In this ((global perspective)) it has been suggested that the single most potent ((activity)) that can address and redress the urgent crises and chronic cultural pathologies that threaten our survival is the mass awakening of ((global consciousness)) amongst the people of the planet. Since our living realities are co–shaped by our mentalities and our habits of mind, a creative shift at the individual and collective levels in how we "mind" will have the most radical and practical consequences in transforming our existential human condition. It is therefore of the utmost importance in the rehabilitation and healing of our cultures that people become keenly aware of the role that /ego minding/ plays in causally generating the spectrum of our human pathologies. And one key task of the ((World Commission)) is to bring out this ((global truth)) by ((narrating)) and ((naming)) this dynamic. For ((right diagnosis)) is the key to ((genuine healing)). So it is in this ((context)) that we situate the ((mission)) of the ((World Commission)) as a ((Commission on Consciousness)).

But what is a "Commission" on "Consciousness"? We have now seen that there is a dramatic reversal and inversion of ((priorities)) and ((realities)) when we shift from /ego mind/ to ((global consciousness)). In /egocentric narratives/, of whatever /ideology/ or /worldview/, "consciousness" is merely /mental/ or /theoretical/ and has to do with mere /thinking/ and not with "objective reality". But when we shift to the ((global perspective)) a profound ((inversion)) takes place in which we ((see)) that ((consciousness)) is the very ((fabric of objective Reality)), of the ((logosphere)) – that ((consciousness)) and ((mentality)) are the most potent ((forces)) in constituting and shaping our ((living realities)): ((consciousness)) is ((existential)), ((pragmatic)) and ((proactive)). ((Minding)) matters.

This is the great ((reality principle)) behind the strategic insight that the transformation from /consciousness/ to ((consciousness)) is the single most potent and radical act that we humans can perform in materially changing our living realities. And this is a primary ((reason for being)) of the ((World Commission)).

And here it would be timely to pause and look more deeply into the ((generic model)) of any ((transformative organization)) that seeks to play a leading role in this ((foremost event)) of the 21st Century. For any such ((organization)) to be ((effective)) on the planet, both ((locally and globally)) must ((model and source)) itself from the powerful ((holistic, integral and dialogic dynamics)) of the ((Logosphere)). Any ((organization)) that purports to be playing a key role in facilitating the transition of our cultures to ((communities of the future)) needs to be an ((organic organization)) grounded in ((Reality)) and ((exemplifying)) the principles, dynamics, features and virtues of the ((Global Ethos)) of the ((Logosphere)). This is a global ((Blueprint)) for ((Organizational Development)) in the 21st Century.

So the ((Co–mission)) as a ((consciousness organization)) recognizes that there is a vast growing ((network)) of other ((organizational initiatives)) around the globe that share in this common mission: and one ((imperative)) of any such ((global organization)) must be to ((network)) in the deepest existential sense of ((consciously joining in common cause)): so it truly is a ((Co–Mission)) on ((Global Consciousness)). Indeed, this is one of the foremost ((principles)) of higher order ((consciousness organizations)). This shared ((mission)) applies to any ((individual)) or ((institution)) that ((sees itself)) as essentially working to foster the awakening of ((global consciousness)) and ((global citizenship)) whether at the ((local)) or ((global)) levels.

Such ((initiatives)) would of course span a vast growing spectrum of efforts serving this ((global renaissance)). This could be, for example, an enlightened ((college campus community)) whose mission it is to advance the highest form of ((education)), or a ((movement)) to bring forth new ((instruments of peace making)), an initiative to bring forth a new ((global honor code)) or ((earth charter)) for the ((planet)), or any initiative by ((the people)) to bring forth a ((cultural renaissance)) through ((spiritual politics)), or an ((instrument)) to renovate the economic marketplace and ((transform)) the "corporate worlds" to higher ((corporate responsibility)) in ((humanizing)) the workplace... all reflecting the ((Global Logos Ethos)) for the ((people of the planet)). Obviously the ((World Commission)) sees itself as ((networking)) in ((common cause)) with this boundlessly expanding ((global network)).

So, in further developing this ((Blueprint)) let us pause and very briefly inventory some of the more salient ((principles, features, dynamics, virtues, strategies))... of a ((transformational organization)) such as the ((World Commission)) that is ((grounded)) in the ((logosphere)):

Generic Principles, Dynamics, Features of ((Organizations))

Let us ((Imagine)) the dynamic ((energy field)) of any ((living, organic organization)) situated in the ((Unified Field)). We have already seen that in crossing into the ((...)) sacred space of the ((Logosphere))...all who enter are dramatically self–transformed into a ((hologistic)), ((integrative)) or ((deep dialogic)) ((forcefield)). Of course such a ((Self: I am)) is always in a deep dialogue life of open ((experimental inquiry, learning and self revision)). What does this ((mean))? While any /individual/ or /institution/ remains lodged in the /egosphere/ it resides in linear /space/ and /time/ and is self /objectified/ as some kind of /entity/ or /thing/. The /ego self/ the /I/...is such an /object/ or /being/.

While the /egosphere/ is linear, /hierarchically ordered/, and divided into /classifications/ and /categories/ that are estranged from one another, we find that any ((point)) in the ((logosphere)) is a ((dynamic energy field)), a sacred ((power point)) which is ((holistic)) and dynamically interrelated to all other points in the ((Field)). The simple ((intuition)) is that ((Logos)), as the ((infinite force)) issues in a boundless diverse ((field of dynamic unity)) in which each ((point)) is at once ((distinct and unique)) and yet inherently inter–connected with every other point in the ((Unified Field)).

Therefore,the primal ((dynamic structure)) of the ((logosphere)) is that it is a ((unified field)) of boundless ((multiplicity and diversity)) wherein all ((points)) are in ever deepening ((unity in diversity)) and ((diversity in unity)). Thus, when "I" center my ((self)) in this ((I am)) – my ever higher ((awakened Self)), my ((global identity and individuality))...((I)) find myself in a deep dynamic flow of ((inter–relationality)) with ((others)), with the ((ecology)), now ((understood)) as the ((holistic unified field)). This is the awakening of the ((dialogic Self)) experiencing its dynamic and boundless ((link)) with this ((global ecology)). This ((I am)) can serve as a ((model)) for any ((x)), for any ((institution)) or ((organization)) situated in this ((organic field of relations)).

Such an ((organization)) is nourished by the ((living dynamic energy)) of the ((logosphere)). Thus it is in direct touch with and generated by this dynamic energy of ((Reality)) itself. It is here that such higher order ((organizations)) draws their ((energy)) ((meaning)) and ((life force)). They are (funded)) in and through this ((logosphere endowment)). And we shall see that this is a key to the higher ((dimension)) ((Logonomic life)) beyond /ego economics= /egonomics/.

Now ((imagine)) the ((World Commission)) or any other ((organization)) as being so ((situated and grounded)) in this ((living energy field)):

While a more conventional /organization/ is situated in /space/ and time/ and structured in dynamics of the /egosphere/, a higher order ((organization)) is ((situated in the ((space–time–consciousness)) energy field and taps the energy and ((funding)) of the ((logosphere)). This higher dimensional ((unified field)) capacitates ((it)) to manifest a more potent ((reality)) and higher ((possibilities)).

Here are some more obvious possibilities:

Thus, when the diverse ((members)) of the ((World Commission)) come together in ((common cause)) the ((local initiatives)) of each are thereby ((mutually amplified and augmented to a higher power)) through this very ((linking)) and this ((new awareness)); again, if there are many diverse localized ((initiatives)) spread across the nations around the globe yet engaged in like–minded efforts to move the planet to a ((cultural renaissance)) in facilitating the awakening of ((global consciousness)...then to gain mutual ((knowledge)) of one another and ((network in common cause)) will vastly accelerate and ((amplify)) the effectiveness of ((each)) through this ((deep networking)).

An ((imperative of this ((global ethos)) is ((thou shalt network)). This follows the ((lawlike dynamics of the Unified Field)). The ((energetics)) of the ((logosphere)) apparently follows the very dynamics of ((awakening global consciousness)) which is a kind of ((deep networking)). As ((individuals)) ((awaken)) higher ((life force, vitality and meaning)) are realized. As ((communities)) ((activate and awaken)) their ((life force and energy and vitality)) grows ((exponentially)) = ((hologistically)). We may call this ((Synergy)).

III: ((Imagining )) the ((World Commission)): ((Global Blueprint))

These ((principles)) and ((dynamics)) should give us enough of a generic sense for this new and ((emergent)) kind of ((organization)). And in the ((light)) of the foregoing we are hopefully in a better position to ((reflect experimentally)) on the ((vision, mission and work)) of the ((World Commission)) as a ((Commission on Global Consciousness)).

These, then, are ((focal themes) for our deep dialogue Retreat at Wasan III. This of course is offered in the spirit of ongoing ((dialogue)) and building on our earlier conversations at Wasan I and II. We invite all members and friends of the ((World Commission)) to critically reflect on these ((thoughts)) and share your ((reflections)) at this formative moment.