Reconciling incompatible ideas is a really good way to make fundamental progress.
– Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
What would it be like to explore your beliefs? Or your ideas? Or your hopes, desires, and dreams?
What would it be like to explore another’s way of being? Of doing?
What would it be like to engage in trusting, adversarial discussions where the goal is not to prove each other wrong but to help each other be right?
What would it be like to find comfort in error and not ego, to recognize growth comes from foregoing what doesn’t work and forging what will?
What would it be like to have your universe challenged by people who want to learn from you?
What would it be like to take part in discussions where love is demonstrated by the vigorousness of the debate, where mutual respect is made manifest by a willingness to journey into the other’s worldview?
What would it be like to be in a community that invited you to step one inch, one foot, one mile outside your comfort zone? What would it be like to have that community support you in the steps you take and the steps you don’t?
What would it be like to subject your beliefs to open inquiry, and be willing to relinquish them when they fail the challenge, and understand that your belief needs no basis to be accepted other than the fact it is your belief and is valid and useful to you? And to be equally willing to accept a completely contrary belief is valid and useful to another?
What would it be like to be eager to explore another person’s point of view with the understanding they are eager to explore yours? And if you realize yours is flawed, work with others to find those flaws and address them? And if another refuses to recognize their worldview’s flawed, to accept their worldview works for them without prejudice, or anger, or regret?
Dennis Pitocco and I recently discussed adding a forum entitled MindWalk 360º to the realm of 360º Nation Events, a meeting where thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes are tested, where participants are invited to act on their talk, where challenges are encouraged as avenues for enlightenment, where the self is invited to expand and test the common ground of competing ways.
It’s something we’re considering, and we need to know what questions you want explored, what topics you want discussed, what realms you want explored.
We can’t do this without your help, and you’re being offered a seat at the table.
And if you don’t want a seat? We need to know that, too. Join us or not, let us know in the comments below.”
“All things change in a dynamic environment.” –Project 2501
@Zen – Wonderful. Looking forward to wherever our conversations take us.
@Susan – Excellent. Although FWIW, I don’t do right/wrong. Those are moral judgements and I’m not qualified to make such. I’m good with incorrect/correct, useful/unuseful, and of course, chocolate/strawberry…
Thank you both for commenting.
Joseph
I’m with you, Joseph!
Absolutley love the opportunity to explore, expand and integrate discoveries and insights on creating reality, since we’re obviously creators and co-creators. How does it all work; this emerging quality we possess and find awe-inspiring in seemingly random, serendipitous and synchronistic moments we undeniably experience?
How do we actually create and, more importantly, maintain a sense of flow?
I’ve got some ideas, notions, a bit of understanding, perhaps, and a wild imagination about what can happen. I’d love to explore that in any environment with friendly others that ask amazing questions.
Standing by….
Firstly I want in. Convince me I am wrong, show me I am right is a helpful point of view; I need now to reflect on this and will return.