The Morphic/Morphogenetic Field and Resonance

Morphogenesis (from the Greek morphê - shape and genesis - creation, literally, "beginning of the shape") is the function of influence that determines the way that something develops. In its common use in biology, it is the biological process that causes an organism to develop its form. When it comes to conscious evolution we talk of the morphic field as that aspect or condition of vibrational energy, as an element of the evolutionary impulse, that defines us all and that we control through the alignment and resonance of our own vibrational energy “contribution” to the total field.

Core Concept: There are invisible energetic fields that influence behavior.

Rupert Sheldrake offers a hypothesis of formative causation that involves "morphic fields," which provide the pattern for both physical objects and living beings. Morphogenetic fields are defined by Sheldrake as the subset of morphic fields which influence, and are influenced by, living things. The term morphogenetic field generally referred to a "collection of cells by whose interactions a particular organ formed" in 1920s and 1930s experimental embryology. "The genetics program of biology was originally in direct opposition to the concept of morphogenetic fields... an alternative to the gene as the unit of ontogeny." Due to the success of genetics, the term fell into widespread disfavor in the 1960s, although it could be still be found in developmental biology literature regarding limb and heart fields. 

"In such instances, no claims are usually made other than that these areas of mesoderm are destined to form these particular structures". Sheldrake commented on the distinction between his usage and that of the biologist, whom he said uses the term "morphic field" as a heuristic device, which is conceptually distinct from his own use of the term. He says that most biologists regard morphogenetic fields as "a way of thinking about morphogenesis rather than something that really exists."

“The term [morphic fields] is more general in its meaning than morphogenetic fields, and includes other kinds of organizing fields in addition to those of morphogenesis; the organizing fields of animal and human behaviour, of social and cultural systems, and of mental activity can all be regarded as morphic fields which contain an inherent memory.”                       

—Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past (Chapter 6, page 112)

In the context of morphic fields and conscious evolution, resonance is the function of synchronous or “harmonic” vibrational energy that is manifested by people in mutual states of attunement and alignment. Attunement and alignment have a variety of contexts most often associated with love, respect, gratitude, graciousness, and thankfulness but can extend to any aspect of significant human focus. These feelings CAN have discrete manifestations, such as two people being deeply in love with each other, or be a shared general manifestation, such as a broad appreciation of a beautiful day in nature by everyone who has the opportunity to experience it. This link exemplifies the concept - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zl9puhwiyw

Thus, as we gain facility with the “tuning” and “play” of the instrument that is ourself, we can appropriately align to contribute our output to the greater whole of the assembled group. This “group” may be family, community, neighborhood, church community, or an ad hoc gathering of people in some location. When we “play” with the larger group it is incumbent upon us to be aware not just of our own internal tune, but of how we combine with the tone and timber of the rest of the group. What is the TOTAL output of sound and how does my contribution affect that? These very real attributes of resonance, in the classic sense of the word, are vitally important in that we can adjust our own tone, volume, or timber (generally the way we play), without changing our “tune”, to produce a richer, more resonant total vibrational result.

The importance of this concept for Conscious Evolution is that if a certain critical mass of people behave and think in a certain way (ethical, loving, creative) a morphic field is created which makes it easier for others to experience that conditional state. Every one of us who experiences an awakening, a sense of comprehensive compassion for the whole is helping to build and to share the morphic field. The hypothesis here is that when the field is sufficiently infused, it becomes a new morphic seed/unit available to all.

Thanks for being there and reading this - may you have a good day :-)

Smokemaster John

Heroes, Stopping The Critical Destruction of Our Planet, and Being The Change!

Sooo... I'm cruising along working on a PBIO assignment in the middle of the night and a friend from Crete (Thomas) pops in on the LinkedIn discussion that I started and says
" Friends, we have an information standard which is sufficient to make decisions. We have to raise the energetic input by acting. It is hardly imaginable, that a society will change without adaptable actions it can copy. To our opinion no word is strong enough to challenge the dogma, that only chemical agriculture can feed the world. And there starts the change. At the basic. We have to harmonize food production to learn the effects of participatory biosphere energy systems. We are not alone as we will have the support of a very power full actor. Life. Whos complex functions are yet not very well known. We need light towers of action to be adapted originated as far as possible outside the system order and grow them to new idols.  Without green “heros” it is hardly to imagine, that there are substantial amounts of green followers!"

 

And I HAD to respond...   

Thomas, while I agree with that basic thought I think it is critical to realize that rarely do heroes emerge from thoughtful planned action. Heroes are usually normal people who rise to the challenge of abnormal circumstances in very specific ways, so in essence, whether you call it "fate" or simply being in the right place at the right time with the right attitude, that's what it takes. It's usually pretty impulsive. I don't get up in the morning and say "I think I'll be a hero today!" (except of course by the simple act of getting up and facing another day on the same planet with Monsanto!)

That said, part of my soul DOES respond to the call for heroic action and I do get up every day with the same willingness to give everything I have for the cause that I had as a military man, only now I REALLY feel the energy and motivation because it's about humanity not just the issues of one nation state or another. I DO have the impulse. I DO spend everyday thinking about what needs to be done and preparing myself to do it in every way that I can, just as I did in my time as a military man. I WILL go in harms way about this!

Only one problem - how to make damn sure that the person who IS at that specific point at that specific time is either ME or somebody with just as much commitment, passion, awareness, courage and overall chutzpah so that the moment isn't lost. There are 7.2 billion other folks out there and there are about 3 million of them who are directly engaged in one or more functional activities related to changing the paradigm, with varying degrees of preparedness for sudden elevation to hero, not counting the pseudo-spiritualists and crystal healers et al. That's really not good odds.

The reason you get heroes on battlefields is because you have a nice concentrated focus of good guys and bad guys. No fuss about "the odds" - just have more chutzpah than the other guy and be willing to go do what no one on their side believes you can or will do. Mark Dubois chained himself to a rock in a hidden location at the waterline to protect the Stanislaus River from the New Melones Dam and Reservoir in California in 1979. He was temporarily successful. Subterfuge and politics won out in the final result. He has spent the rest of his life haunted by that. And he's a LIVING hero. Tough job to recruit for because most heroes die becoming a hero and if you live, the results may not be good enough.

Just my thoughts on heroes and being heroic, but by God I'm ready, Coach, Send Me In!! Tell me which wall their hiding behind and I'll climb back over it and into the fight. What? They're everywhere?? Well, I guess I'll just have to wait until I can see the whites of their eyes... or maybe just be the example I'm trying to be - living the right way, doing the right things, learning more about every facet of the game, building community, talking to everyone I meet, BEING THE CHANGE I WANT TO SEE. How many people will do THAT?? If we ALL stepped up to THAT role we'd see a difference tomorrow... many hands make light work.

Prometheus Project - What, How, & Why

I am completely committed to finding and assembling the right pieces and parts to create the consummate low cost, high impact collective action platform that will be both a dashboard for Spaceship Earth and a power train for collective change as and when needed. I call this effort Prometheus Project and the intention is to create a process that allows all the citizens of the earth to exercise a degree of democracy that defines and manages the well being of everything from Earth down to them individually, without the need for yet another layer of governmental hierarchy, especially given how poorly the bulk of them in existence today actually perform.

The encompassing environment, the noosphere, will consist of a network of networks, constituted by a massive number of mini-KINS, KINS Networks, evolutionary circles, and other small engaged groups or even energized individuals, that provide an ongoing substructure of activity, and information flow, both to and from each other and the later described fusion center for small group actions, project collaboration, collective larger group action, and sharing the vision. 

This network of networks will interact with a Planetary All-Source Fusion Center (PASFC) that is linked to what Barbara Marx Hubbard would call (in the context of SynCons) a synergy engine. This is best described as a process (see the diagram - Critical Global Parametric Data Warehouse) that gathers a comprehensive set of data about the state of the world by enhanced and expended measures of value, synthesizes analyses of this mass data collection process, and makes the results available via the PASFC, using flexible functions such as data mashups to display dynamic data changes as they are occurring and allowing a continuous monitoring Crisis Team to evaluate the critical dysfunctions that require larger collective action.The core element of this is already taking shape as an element of GEO and GEO-BON.

When various criteria of social/environmental, or planetary function, exceed certain thresholds of reality or functionality, one or more CCA (Collective Corrective Action) Synergizers (much evolved SynCons), or something like it, becomes the engine for concerted analysis, planning, and action (out of that much heightened, broader, and evolved state of social and functional awareness enabled by KINS and similar group structures). The output of these CCA (Collective Corrective Action) Synergizers would be targeted at specific issues using massive coordinated action to change the carefully evaluated dysfunctional dynamic to a healthy state.

It is this kind of “pure” democratic process, supported and enhanced with technology, that points the way to a new non-governmental, non-minority controlled process of getting things done in a timely and effective fashion for the best benefit of all – it brings into reach truly “outcome based” processes that MUST take into account all the constituents of a given issue. The incentives for outcome based business, outcome based education, outcome based social policy, outcome based everything are massive when the measure of success and forward progress measure the well being of all things, the reality check is NOT a bank check, and the ultimate measure of success is the comprehensive outcomes. I see this as the NEXT level of evolutionary opportunity beyond the relatively crude and uncoordinated functions of ad-hoc networks put together on the spur of the moment to achieve these ends today, using whatever is functionally available and socially engaged, ranging from Facebook, and twitter to email and ripple relay announcements (#occupy :-).

What I’m talking about is promoting and facilitating the emergence of a new social structure focused on, and emphasizing, our ability to function collectively (a key function of our viability in the “new viable” of the breakpoint evolutionary change we are facing on the planet) that enables and empowers all citizens through heart centered, high values, energized, local networks where people come together to evaluate issues, make decisions, and take action collectively. The small group process provides the steady feed of information, awareness, and connectedness that overcomes the basic inadequacies of the rest of the current social process (failures of public education, divide & conquer process of social structure, Madison Avenue marketing, and resulting fractured democracy, etc.) where no matter what the situation is and no matter how well informed the people are (which is frequently horribly inadequate) they find themselves scrambling to acquire and meld the right information to make coherent well informed decisions, if they even get THAT far. As a matter of point they rarely get that far. THIS is where I see the direct capacity of our species to immediately take action that reflects a profoundly changed, aka “evolved”, state of living - with ourselves, each other, and the planet.  At some point out in the future humanity may move beyond the need for the enabling technology but it’s a structure that can work on many levels with or without enabling technology. 

If we can accomplish what I’m talking about in the next two years we can DEFINITIVELY say that we have set humanity on a new course that WILL result in a world that is socially just, environmentally sustainable, and spiritually fulfilling – rather quickly. We don’t need to get our current manifestation of governance on board. This IS simply taking back the ground that was allotted to us by our founding fathers from the special interests and corporations that have lied, cheated, and stolen their way to prominence in the control structure today. We return to a state where the people coordinate and TELL their elected representatives what needs to be done and hold them accountable for doing it. It presents what I consider the opening opportunity to profoundly restructure society to BE functional and effective in a truly democratic way.  If there is a basis for conscious evolution in our lifetime I believe this is it. Succeeding generations may move well beyond this but THIS, this is achievable in a big way RIGHT NOW. We’ve wasted enough time talking.  If not us WHO? If not now, WHEN?

Copyright © 2012 John R Strohl

A Sweet Lesson In Patience & Appreciation

A NYC Taxi driver wrote:

I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked.. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.

After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie. By her side was a small nylon suitcase. The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets. There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware.

'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb. She kept thanking me for my kindness. 'It's nothing', I told her. 'I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother to be treated.'

'Oh, you're such a good boy, she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address and then asked, 'Could you drive through downtown?'  'It's not the shortest way,' I answered quickly. 'Oh, I don't mind,' she said. 'I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice.

I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening. 'I don't have any family left,' she continued in a soft voice..'The doctor says I don't have very long.' I quietly reached over and shut off the meter. 'What route would you like me to take?' I asked.

For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing. As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, 'I'm tired.Let's go now'.
We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico. Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her. I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.
'How much do I owe you?' She asked, reaching into her purse.

'Nothing,' I said

'You have to make a living,' she answered.

'There are other passengers,' I responded.

Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug.She held onto me tightly. 'You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,' she said. 'Thank you.' I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light.. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life.

I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver… or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?  On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life.

We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.

But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

As always, thanks for being there and being you!!
John

I Don't Experience Essence The Way You Do...

In the conscious evolution community, as we have worked on the process of shifting from ego to essence with ease and clarity, many (particularly women) have expressed a seemingly common experience of "essence" _ a sort of warm, fuzzy, pink, orgasmic kind of experience - which has created something of a disturbance in "the force" for me because it doesn't resonate with my experience. I wonder if what I’m experiencing is unique to me, or just one of many ways that anyone can experience being in essence? Whatever...

I Don’t Experience Essence The Way You Do

In my ego, I am like steel, strong but imperfect, amorphous, malleable, capable of holding a razor edge or being a weight, forgeable and corrodible. I am Neander-John Cro-Magnon Strohl the evolutionary homo sapiens. Emotions and intellect are the critical duality of my BEING. I AM my carbon-based life form.

When I am in essence there is a distinct shift of perpective. It is like changing from normal vision to wide view binoculars, only much better. It is like stepping back and forward simultaneously. I AM my own Escher instance… but it makes sense. It is not an experience OF sweetness or glowing light or floating or warm spaces but rather these CAN be attributes of that space. It recognizes but is transcendent of male and female roles (born in an ego-centric space) but more, it is most fully formed in the union of the two. I am transcendent of vulnerability or invulnerability. I AM.

My ES-sense is of a carbon fiber mesh, cleansed of it’s impurities in fire, tested in battle, lighter and stronger than steel, pseudo-crystalline structure of infinite wisdom and flexibility, neither corrodible nor corrosive. I AM the Agent of Change, the wind of change that is blowing from the south. I AM an Agent of Conscious Evolution, the supra-sexual homo universalis emergent and evolving. I no longer need to “know everything”. I just KNOW what there is to know and I need to know. I can feel the DIFFERENCE. I KNOW truth or falsehood as they emerge - in THAT instant - I can SEE the path. I am ONE with THE WAY. I do not need dominion, because I/WE am/are ONE. My ES-sense is of Yin, to Ego Yang. I/WE are the birther, the birthing, and the coach united. I/WE were coming. Now I/WE are HERE!!

So, I/WE LOVE YOU… but I don’t experience essence the way you do.

Outcome Based Education - Isn't That ALWAYS What We Want??

Folks, 

Twenty years ago I was involved in an effort to transform the educational model in the Jefferson County School System, on the west side of Denver, Colorado. What we were trying to implement was  Transformational Outcome Based Education, otherwise known as Transformational OBE. Our coach and mentor in this effort was William G. "Bill" Spady, who some refer to as the Father of OBE. He always laughed and said to be the the Father of OBE he would have to be 500 years old... and he was right!

Real, no kidding OBE has been around at least that long, if not longer. Yet, at that point, twenty years ago, the zealots and nay-sayers rose up in a chorus of dissent that could not be believed by anyone looking more than ten feet into the future. This motley crew was made up of religious zealots who claimed it was counter-religious indoctrination, freedom zealots who claimed it was MIND CONTROL and the schooling for the new world order, and worse. It would have been laughable if the result was not so serious.The result is that, twenty years later, we are still saddled with a completely ass-backward, out of date, and out of step 19th century educational model as we roll merrily into the 21st century.

I challenge you to think of a single thing that we do today, where the result really matters, that we DON'T use outcome based education - pilot training for commercial carriers, surgical training, military combat training - none of these things use a grading system and a set time limit. They ALL use a "demonstrated proficiency" aka you have to meet an expected outcome to be able to practice. I guarantee you, you will NOT be operated on by a guy who got a "D" in open heart, and you will sleep better tonight knowing that the guys and gals who defend your liberty have to demonstrate that they CAN before they are "field tested"!

So, when we are talking about education for the future, education that takes into account cradle to grave learning, that is focused on life long demonstrated capacity and proficiency, I don't think we need to get any more radical than to get serious about implementing transformational OBE. Your thoughts and feedback are, as always, welcome.

Thanks for Being There and Being You!
John

A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney

" THE recent remark by Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom that upon clinching the Republican nomination Mr. Romney could change his political views “like an Etch A Sketch” has already become notorious. The comment seemed all too apt, an apparent admission by a campaign insider of two widely held suspicions about Mitt Romney: that he is a) utterly devoid of any ideological convictions and b) filled with aluminum powder."

Thus begins the funniest and most pointed bit of political writing that I've seen since Molly Ivans left the scene (God rest her troubled soul!) This piece is called "a Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney" and was written by DAVID JAVERBAUM and Published: March 31, 2012 in the New York Time Sunday Review. You can see the whole piece here @ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinion/sunday/a-quantum-theory-of-mitt-romney.html

Bon Appetite!

and thanks for reading - have a great day!!

Smokemaster John