We Are Dreams
to self, others...'all'?
protesting maybe even for decades...with too little change to show?
So many of 'us' doing far, far too little...waiting for 'someone else'...to 'fix this'.
Discernible and visible...with tens of thousands of dead kids...daily?
How is that 'daily-dead' at all possible...as IF...'we don't know' that is occurring...
by who...and for who?
Please...join with me...to look into a most unusual 'mirror'.
A mirror to OUR profound social dysfunctions...thriving off of 'our' suffering.
A mirror...that is 'displayed' in a 'Course in Us'...a 4-book-centered 'course' to enable 'us' to better perceive ourselves...and the social-harm imposed on and through 'us'.
Perceive better...until we see 'ourselves'...in each other...in 'us all'.
That 'all'...who are 'us'...stuck waiting, hoping...for 'someone to come fix this'.
A mirror reflecting 'us'...until 'we' can finally, insightfully perceive...
'we' are the only ones...who can ever 'fix this'.
A beginning — not of words, but of witness.
A great many of 'us'...globally...feel simply exhausted...to our very core.
Exhausted in mind, body, emotions and spirit...and have for quite some time.
We have sensed that something profoundly different...has desperately needed done?
Actually...it has 'needed done' for all of 'our' lives...and far longer. It has 'needed done'... for 'all' 250-380 generations across time and across the world that made possible agricultural surplus. Generations who have attempted to live 'full lives' while inequality was being imposed on 'them'...stealing the dreams of generations...when it wasn't both crushing dreams and dreamers...i.e., inequality imposed on 'us'...at any social cost!
So...isn't there a 'different' question to be asked...and answered: 'desperately needed done...by who'?
After all...NO ONE has ever 'done'...what's been needed...for 'all'...'by all'...since 'we' started bending to imposed, intentional harm, imposed by such a very few broken-males...supported by their
recruited wannabe-broken males...
all driven by the infectious social-disease of the desperate chase for 'more-than'?
Please, come on in...and let me share with you just what I've been working on...across my lifetime...that is 'profoundly different'...and that I continue to work on like crazy...readying to engage all of 'us'... so that 'we' can finally do...what's needed done...for all of 'us'...and most importantly...with and by 'all of us'
Choose Your Entry Point
Let me offer different starting points into the site introducing...'A Course'...a collaborative, inquiring, experimenting, strategizing, regenerative project. 'A Course'...organized and written...to recover, rebuild and unleash our evolved-capacities to attend and assist each other to thrive...together. To live well, creatively, expressively and abundantly...all possible when 'we' enable ourselves to do so.
Our fatigue, depression and bewilderment comes in many forms and from many directions, so explore what pulls your curiosity as you will:
Burned-Out Activist
Exhausted from decades of 'our' failed activism? Yes...'our' systems that twist and diminish our evolved, collaborative abilities into 'individualized achievement' and 'our own' extraction...learned systems that have left you dumbfounded and depleted. Ready to confront our failure at the level that imposed harm thrives? You are not alone...unheard...or powerless.
Begin Recovery →Curious Learner
Want to understand how social systems are designed around the particularly male 'fevered-chase' for "more-than"...a 'more' that's 'extracted' from whoever, wherever...and how those systems have exploited our evolved capacity for collaborative living? Ready to examine how systemic inequality lives and thrives in most of 'us'?
Explore Framework →Ready Organizer
Ready to participate in inquiring, illuminating, sharing, comparing, theorizing, testing and building 'our social capacity'? Ready for 'our' expression, instead of exploiting and extracting from 'all' the gift of possible abundance that is only available in 'our' collaborative universe? Want access to better perceptive and collaborative skills at unprecedented scale?
See The Plan →All above pathways lead to the same recognition:
We evolved as collaborative social animals with extraordinary capacities for mutual care, shared perception and effective action. Those capacities have been constrained and withered in systems designed around ensuring 'differential-benefit' that has been coercively and deceptively extracted from 'us'...to toxically-benefit a very few...for millennia...with minimal constraints on their harm imposed on 'us'...whenever!
We're not starting 'our rebuilding ourselves' from scratch. These capacities evolved through hundreds of thousands of years of living in 'real relationship'...i.e., in face-to-face, eye-to-eye, small bands of hunter-gatherers in east Africa. We're re-illuminating, re-familiarizing, and unleashing anew what we evolved to be able to do through the endless impact of our senses...our senses that helped 'build' our amazing brain to process that infinity of constant sensory-input...and to ideate...and imagineer...
that we might thrive...together.
Yes...we are already able to do...so much better than 'we' do. Just as social-harm is intentionally imposed on 'all'...caring for 'all'...now as a 'village' of billions...also requires our committed intent. Complexity imposed simply by the loss of 'face-to-face' cannot produce our awareness and caring capacity at this scale...naturally. But it's a ripe ground for imposed and coercive harm.
A Course In 'Us'
'WE' Are 'THE' Social-Problem...And Its 'ONLY' Solution
The 'Course' is the first global and comprehensive approach to addressing intentional social-harm that is designed to illuminate:
- a systematic-framework for understanding how 'our' existing social systems...globally...have been designed, across history, around extracting "more-than"...from most of 'us'...in so many ways and forms'...to extract such deeply toxic, differential-benefit to be hoarded and flaunted by such a very few highly dysfunctional males.
- how said social-systems have damaged and withered our evolved, collaborative capacities - and how we can recover, rebuild, enhance and unleash our evolved-abilities to enable 'our' living well...abundantly...together.
- how activism...in its myriad of forms...has been mired in 'resistance-action'...seemingly capable only of 'tinkering' instead of harnessing 'our' collaborative, creative capacities to engage in constructing our lives that 'we' dream of living with others...instead of absorbed in defending ourselves from broken others.
- the impact of collaborative and collective action towards shared 'wellbeing' that is a deep structure of our socio-biology, a result of evolution, that makes so very clear...'democracy' may be prostituted and pimped by political parties and their monied elites...but it is a fundamental social-process emergent in our socio-biology...attending to each other's wellness in and through agreement...that enhances and protects our sociality in community-life...a socio-biological process at the scale of 'our wellbeing'...not 'my interests'."