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Report to The Truth Emergency Media Summit on Liberation
Posted on Feb 7th, 2008
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Bruce
Bruce
My partner and I ended up as a working group, on Consciousness as we saw it, at The Truth Emergency Media Summit, Jan. 25-27 in Santa Cruz, CA. (http://truthemergency.us/). So, in about an hour we cobbled together the "report" below...
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Hello TruthEmergency/Media Summit,
Here is the report of our two-person Working Group on the topic designated as "Building Personal Skills." As most of goal statements under that topic seemed focussed on the general area of opening to awareness, we re-titled our little group "Becoming the Change that You Want to See."
The Working Group that reported just before us, Building One Big Movement, devoted a significant portion of their report to the idea that having a spiritual basis is crucial for empowering this movement. A key aspect of reclaiming our power to become the change we're looking for, is to understand how we have given it away in the first place, and how we are chronically manipulated into projecting what's uncomfortable to see within ourselves out onto situations or onto other people, like conspiracies such as the Neocons, who then use our fears to drive their agendas. Rather than resisting what we identify as wrong, which tends to lock it into place, we need to flow around it like water, and allow our creativity to flower.
The skillful adoption of these principles and methods of seeing how ego operates within ourselves is also vital in keeping our movement and all the various teams that arise as we pursue the goal of planetary liberation, from falling into argument and competition due to projection and efforts to control each other. It seems like time may be short. Timely awakening to these ideas may be pivotal in keeping ourselves on target.
The report pasted below has been edited very slightly from the one we gave on Sunday, Jan. 27th. I am also attaching a Word doc version of the report to this email. Thanks to all the people who made the Media Summit possible, and to all those who came and shared their ideas and vision.
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Hello TruthEmergency/Media Summit,
Here is the report of our two-person Working Group on the topic designated as "Building Personal Skills." As most of goal statements under that topic seemed focussed on the general area of opening to awareness, we re-titled our little group "Becoming the Change that You Want to See."
The Working Group that reported just before us, Building One Big Movement, devoted a significant portion of their report to the idea that having a spiritual basis is crucial for empowering this movement. A key aspect of reclaiming our power to become the change we're looking for, is to understand how we have given it away in the first place, and how we are chronically manipulated into projecting what's uncomfortable to see within ourselves out onto situations or onto other people, like conspiracies such as the Neocons, who then use our fears to drive their agendas. Rather than resisting what we identify as wrong, which tends to lock it into place, we need to flow around it like water, and allow our creativity to flower.
The skillful adoption of these principles and methods of seeing how ego operates within ourselves is also vital in keeping our movement and all the various teams that arise as we pursue the goal of planetary liberation, from falling into argument and competition due to projection and efforts to control each other. It seems like time may be short. Timely awakening to these ideas may be pivotal in keeping ourselves on target.
The report pasted below has been edited very slightly from the one we gave on Sunday, Jan. 27th. I am also attaching a Word doc version of the report to this email. Thanks to all the people who made the Media Summit possible, and to all those who came and shared their ideas and vision.
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Report of the “Building Personal Skills” (Becoming the Change You Want to See) Working Group / Collaborators: Bruce Tanner, Cynthia Kasireddy
A part of the Publicizing Truths with Consequence: Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit, Jan. 25 – 27, 2008 / www.truthemergency.us
Goal: Liberation, Personal and Political
What it looks like:
- To be surrendered to the situation right now, just as it is.
- To be calm, alert, at peace.
- To experience life directly, free of interpretation or filters (understanding all forms rise from interpretation).
- To see what is as clearly as possible, without misperception, denial, blind-spots, etc.
- To be aware of what the moment requires (the next obvious thing).
- To be free of judgement of others, of events, or of ourselves, that creates an “imaginary self” through projection, self-blame or seeing separation as real.
- To be free of manipulation from others that plays on our filters (prejudices or fears) to control us.
- To be able to relax into anything that is physically or emotionally painful without resistance, thus transforming it.
What steps are required?
- Understand the structure of the ego/imaginary self.
- Let go of psychosomatic tensions that lock our filters into place (free the breath).
- Observe tendencies to be unhappy with situations, project blame onto ourselves or others, or to be bored (waiting for another moment to conform to our demands).
- Bring awareness to any problems without needing our ego to “fix” them.
- Sense vibrant aliveness throughout our bodies and in the field around us.
- Be aware of gaps of peacefulness in the compulsive stream of thought.
- Always investigate any idea or theory for yourself (you are the only expert on what is true for you).
- Observe the flow of our breath.
Resources:
- Set an earnest intention to be free.
- Teachers and lessons will emerge spontaneously to meet that intention.
- Observe opportunities to be of real service to others (they are also your teachers).
- The ultimate resource is the highly alive, peaceful, pervasive, loving consciousness at your very center. By releasing tendencies of obsessive thought, this awakeness will arise naturally into experience.
© copyright Bruce Tanner 2008. Please feel free to share freely with inclusion of copyright notice.
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