Nipun Mehta, a gift for the world
Nipun Mehta appears as one of the most inspiring persons I have ever met. A few years ago, he and I met as guest speakers in a conference on the gift economy in California. I shared some ideas about collective intelligence and the coming of free currencies as a possible infrastructure for global generosity at a massive scale. Nipun came from direct grassroot practice of generosity and giftism operating through wide networks of people. He had tons of inspiring stories to share, each of them seeding generosity in our hearts. Small communities and trust networks rely on gift economy. In these human ecosystems we learn that what we give comes back to us. Games theory call it a “positive sum economy”. Hence gift economy plays a central role in the...
Read MoreFrom Centifolia to Centisophia
Two years ago I participated in the making of an event called Centifolia (scheduled late Oct. 2011). This event gathered players in the perfumes & cosmetics industry in the city of Grasse, South of France, known as the world capital of perfume. What did I do in such an event, and what interest should I have in this sector of the economy? First, my co-creative partners and I had 100% freedom to design the event in order to increase its collective intelligence. Second, the perfumes & cosmetics sector, that many people consider as superficial and useless, occupies in reality an important place in our everyday life, and in the economy in general. Indeed, viral ideas and collective intelligence actions can potentially provoke an inspiring and leveraging wave,...
Read MoreThe 6 agreements
The 6 Agreements serve as a social architecture to invite wisdom through dialog and conversation. A pdf version is available here. 1. A deep full breath before speaking This breath has many virtues. It helps participants to let go of their selfish urge to keep a grasp on the conversation. They can surrender to what emerges from the center. Participants offer time to themselves to observe their inner processes. What has just been said becomes deeply listened to and ‘breathed in.’ Participants move from reaction (responding, taking the floor) to creation (inviting creativity through emergence). Interestingly, each time one speaks right after someone else, leaving no space for breathing and creativity, the lower self takes control. 2. Listen to the center...
Read MoreCollective Intelligence Meetings in Auroville
In the next 2 weeks of my stay at Auroville, I will facilitate a series of meetings for sharing and building some practical reflection about collective intelligence, wisdom and consciousness. Morning meetings invite us in the body, afternoon meetings offer a space for dialog. No agenda, no goal, no predefined outcome. No matter what events you decide to attend, be punctual if you want to participate. Late comers can only attend as passive listeners. These spaces will happen in English, unless another language like French or Spanish gets chosen by the participants. Bring your wonder, your joy, your smile and playfulness! Dates & Place Monday Dec. 31 Wed Jan. 2 Friday Jan. 4 Monday Jan. 7 Wed. Jan. 9 Friday Jan. 11 Saturday Jan. 12 Body wisdom play...
Read MoreThe Great Sense
Here comes below a crucial text from Satprem that a friend of mine from Auroville (thanks Claude!) gave me while I spend a whole month there. I can’t resist to share this text in which I see so much force. It resonates with the words I share during my conferences on the evolution of our species. The difference? He wrote it in 1969. The Great Sense This is the time of the Great Sense. We look to the right or to the left, we build theories, reform our Churches, invent super-machines and we go out in the streets to break the Machine that stifles us – we struggle in the small sense. When the terrestrial ship is sinking, does it matter whether the passengers drown to the right or left, under a flag black or red, or one of celestial blue? Our Churches have...
Read MoreTime travel from the post-monetary society
I received an invitation to speak in front of 600 people who have decision making positions in their organizations. This event takes places in Toulouse, South of France, 4th of December 2012, and has the name of “Nuit des Réseaux” — something like “the Networks Night” in English. My talk will not look like a usual conference because I will come from… the future. I will tell how society evolved by freeing itself from money. I come as a witness and a teller. I meet a new exercise here, it feels attractive and confronting me to the unknown. Unknown within myself as I don’t know much about my skills as a teller (I have no practice of it), unknown because of the challenge I undertake, as I have not heard whatsoever of anyone telling...
Read MoreWhere are we in regards to building CIRI?
Many people write me to ask what’s the current status of CIRI – the Collective Intelligence Research Institute — we created and announced 18 months ago. It is true that we haven’t communicated much since this time, as most of our work has been dedicated to building contexts, develop many research projects and meet many many people in different parts of the world. This was mostly invisible work. Most of people who write me ask how they can contribute to building CIRI and support TheTransitioner community. Well, let me share a quick overview of what the long term vision is, so I can then speak about what short term actions are. Long term vision CIRI’s role is to serve as an embassy, a base in the conventional world. The kind of...
Read MoreMy trip to the US – May 24th to July 7th 2012
This post is about planning and updating this month and a half trip to the US. Therefore this page will be regularly updated. Main intentions about this trip Retreat for writing (just like the 2 months spent in Mexico mid-Feb – mid-April 2012) Being with my beloved brothers Eric Harris-Braun and Art Brock to continue conspiring on MetaCurrency and the post monetary society Meetings related to current ongoing projects I will try to keep the meetings part low so that I can really honor intentions 1 & 2. I want to remain fully open, generative, completely creative so that flows of next reality can continue being woven from that inner weaving loom Dates and places May 24 evening – June 1st evening: NYC A friend of mine offered me his apartment to stay...
Read MoreYour Nicest and Greatest Gift
Do not conquer Happiness, as Happiness can not be conquered. Happiness has to be decided. Claim joy within you because within you and thanks to you that the universe is inventing itself. The masterpiece of yourself is nourished by its own purpose. Your temporal being is a musical instrument you have chosen to play that celestial music. Do not mix up the instrument and the melody. The instruments are separated, distinct, temporal. Music is oneness, timelessness, universality. Music is to be celebrated by métissage and communion. Thanks to the music’s own rapture, it’s God who dances within it. Happiness is like a violin just close to your hand. Whatever may be the circumstances of your life, here and now, you can decide to grasp it and to play it. Do not be upset...
Read MorePresidential elections: who’s the next captain of the Titanic?
You get it: everything, almost, is in the title. It seems that most people have a hard time making the distinction between the captain of a ship, and the ship itself. If the ship has structural issues in the way it’s been conceived, it matters little who the captain is: structural issues will strike someday or another. The Titanic, by design, was made to sink, no matter its captain. By design too, it was made to be lead by a precise form of collective intelligence: pyramidal collective intelligence. Indeed, the Titanic was conceived, from its architecture up to its very details, to obey an omnipotent and omniscient captain, with a chain of command made to respond at his beck and call. What’s next, we know. A scenario that happened in an identical way...
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