Unconsciously One

We have unconsciously created our true nature. . . 

To the best of our knowledge, a strange phenomenon has taken place in the last few decades.  Take all the greats of our known history, and put them together in a room.  Take Lincoln and Einstein, Jesus Christ and John Lennon, you know the people you always name when asked which dead people you'd like to have over for dinner, if you had the chance. . . 

Don't stop at one this time, invite a dozen of your favorite historical figures to dinner. Anyone, who died say, before 1980.  Let them gather together before dinner so they can get to know each other and mingle while you set the table.  

Now imagine, just as luck would have it, your best friend calls as you are about to sit down to eat.  Not wanting to be rude or, you quickly pull out your latest iphone or smartphone and politely tell them you're having Jesus over and you'll call them back.

The engaging chatter at the table comes to an abrupt silence. 

You look up to a table of stunned faces. 

Embarrassed, you try tucking the device away but you're met with a dozen objections.

Suddenly you just became the most fascinating person at your dinner table. 

Why, you ask? A modern person in the modern world in constant communication with not just everyone they care about, but everyone everywhere, would easily make you the person they would most like to talk to.  Throw in the fact that you have continuous access to a global database of information and data and even the reluctant scientist at your table would chat you up. If only to convince you to let them take a look inside the device to see how it works.

More likely than not, after the obvious questions, they would want to know how this ability affects you. What does it mean for your life? How has it impacted your relationships?  How has it changed the world? 

Living in the modern world today means you have access to something that, until the last few decades, has been elusive to even the greatest that have come before us.  For the curious and adventurous, this means more than the latest sports score or social media update.  With global communication comes a powerful new global awareness. 

This can be both a blessing and curse depending on which side of the storm you find yourself caught in, should this global awareness set its sight on you or worse, your mistake.  Our media is still caught up in the novelty of the sensational and salacious.  As we grow in our use of this awareness, so too will their programming, lest they become obsolete. 

For the person of means, today's world affords you not only a global awareness, but a global presence as well. Our corporations figured this out quickly and if money is no object, you're only a plane/boat/train ride away from the place you always dreamed, your long lost friend or your ancestral home. 

Which brings us back to dinner and the who's who of history at your table.

To them, seeing a world united, interconnected and interdependent would likely only confirm what they secretly felt in their time.  Validating what they could only dream of life when they took their risks, held their course or summoned the courage to try again.  

While there can never be one true measure of success, most will agree that at least one important factor in determining the greatest to ever walk among us, would be world impact.  For some, that would be the deciding factor.  There's no denying that we aspire or at least admire those among us who affect the whole.  The more altruistic the better, it seems. There are far more selfless heroes celebrated than honest thieves.   

From King to Gandhi down history's highway littered with the memories of every life spent or taken in service to their fellow man. All the way to Jesus who sits at the head of our moral high table. We at the least respect in our hearts a life spent in service, even if our lips say different.  We may not like to admit it, but deep down, buried in our collective unconscious, we know even if its just for this one brief flash of matter, we are part of a whole. 

Despite this age of 'self', every day more and more people are finding the personal evidence necessary to convince them of this fact.  As you become more aware of the synchronicity of life or the rhythms of nature at play only a fool would deny the wisdom of their own fifty trillion cells that comprise them, working as one.

What is more celebrated and utilized than our creations that bring us closer? Connecting and sharing in ways dinner guests never dreamed. We unite even if its just to proclaim how un-united we are. Relishing in our uniform uniqueness.      

Unconscious people create unconscious collectives and just as the blood pumps despite the fool's assessment, so too does our collective unconscious create all evidence necessary to reveal our true nature. 

  

The Seed of Story

How we can use nature’s flower of life and the principles of Holodynamics to create compelling stories and characters.

We all know it when we see it. A compelling script with a story world with more depth than we can digest in one viewing... A dynamic scene that draws out our emotion to the point of tears or anger... Characters so well crafted that they stay with us long after the credits roll...

While there is no magic formula to a great story; all great story imitates or informs great life. In our world there is a pattern, a design prevalent in all of physical life, including ourselves.   A framework that, if followed, will greatly enhance every story and fully realize every character.

It is the template that springs matter forth into expression and manifestation. I believe we can use this clue from nature to improve the quality of our storytelling.  It will fully inform the world of our story and organically generate the depth of our characters.  

THE FLOWER OF LIFE

The ‘Flower of Life’ is the most prevalent pattern in the natural world. It is found in everything from plants to galaxies. From it, the platonic solids that form all matter spring forth. It is the template of creation itself. Indeed,  it is the pattern that we ourselves are formed from.

The best example of the flower of life can be found in our own origin. From the moment of our creation this is the pattern at the heart of our origin. For those that don’t remember, here’s how we start...

An egg is fertilized by sperm to form a spherical whole. Here is the flower of life development side by side with our initial stages of life:


As you can see from the intial sphere we subdivide into two, then four cells and so on. To create the seed of life, you follow the same process...

Virtually all physical manifestation follows this simply pattern.  All platonic solids, which create all physical life can be formed from this pattern as well. Scientists have confirmed that this patterns is behind life in development from the quantum level to galaxy formation.

You can continue this pattern and extend it out by adding more circles and discover more detailed patterns by researching The Flower of Life. For our purposes we are going to stop at ‘The seed of life’ which is created by subdividing the first circle and adding a circle that shares the same radius with its neighbors a total of six times to arrive at this.
                               


Now that we have the pattern, lets use it to flesh out our characters and in doing so, our story world. We’re going to use this simple shape to completely define everything about our characters. To do so, we have to look to holograms.

HOLODYNAMICS

You can find the complete definition of how holograms are formed with lasers and plates, here Hologram. For our purposes, let’s move to what is possible with them and the effect they produce.

In a hologram, you can look at any small piece of it and see the whole.
If you break it apart, and shined a laser into it, it would retain the image of the whole. A similar concept is that you could take any cup of ocean water and within it, it contains the elements necessary to recreate the whole.  This principle can also be found inside our brain. The protein strings that store memory act in a holographic way.

In his book Holodynamics, V. Vernon Woolf, MD lays out a whole new approach to life, consciousness and self. Holodynamics views reality as a coherent, dynamic, living, holographic information system whose structure is intimately connected with human consciousness.

It’s a comprehensive system that combines everything from Information Systems to quantum physics to spirituality. More can be found on it here Holodynamics.

One of the most interesting aspects of holodynamics is the principle that there is a common order to the development of our mind and thus, our life. He has defined six stages of development in which we experience life. To better illustrate this, we’re going to use the pattern of creation, the seed of life...

Let’s draw the anchor center circle and call that the TOTAL SELF.


The First stage of development is the PHYSICAL STAGE. It is in this stage that we experience our physical surroundings. Our primal instincts arise and inform this aspect of our mind. Safety or fear, life or death, hungry or fed. Our senses rule this stage and its only imperative is to survive. We will call this the PRIMAL SELF.

So lets take add the first circle to the center one to represent this physical stage:



The Second stage of development is the PERSONAL STAGE. This stage reveals the mind’s perception of the self. Body image, self confidence, as well as the intentions behind thoughts and action. Fears and desires spring from this stage. Personal preferences inform the ego which rules this stage of development.

Let’s add another circle to our unfolding seed of life and call it personal. 


The Third stage of development is the RELATIONSHIP STAGE. In this stage we recognize “others” and enter into living relationship with them. These relationships provide contrast for the experience of duality to manifest. We utilize duality to create preference and prejudice. Interactions in this stage lead to self definition and external judgment.

Lets add a third circle to the unfolding design and we can start to see the model. 





The Fourth stage of development is the GROUP / SYSTEMS STAGE. In this stage we interact with group dynamics and concepts and form this aspect to our experience in our mind. These systems can be small, like a family system or large like a the church or race mind. Nationality springs from this stage.

Adding the circle of group systems to our design, can you see how the stages beginning to build on complexity? How all the spheres of mind inform one another?



The Fifth stage of development is the PRINCIPLE STAGE. From this stage we come to form our beliefs and understanding about our experience. Our relationship in contrast with others as well our participation in group dynamics leads us to catalog our experience into principles we feel govern life (or should).

Adding the principle circle to the design and we have just one circle left. 


The Sixth and last stage of development is the UNIVERSAL STAGE. In this stage, the self that has begins to take all the preceding stages and apply them to all people everywhere in love and understanding and allowance. We recognize the synchronistic and unity of all life everywhere.
It is here the notion and understanding of a higher power and in all its forms. God, Christ, Source.
The evolution of humanity has led us to this point throughout history. Our religions at their best have proclaimed it. Our science is beginning to discover it and our technology has unconsciously created it. We interact with and inform the whole while allowing being informed by it.


Adding this last circle to our model for storytelling and we can see now by using it, we can create fully informed stories with fully realized characters. Of course, not every character and every story is going to fully present itself in every circle of development. That’s the point, the lack or denial of one aspect of self often makes the best story or most vivid character.

You can start anywhere with any character or the greater story itself. Take the principle of love for example and you can work it from a larger story perspective work it through your main character. Does he love himself in the personal circle or is he mad at God in the universal circle because his wife, represented by the relationship circle died leading to the physical circle and so on.  

Sometimes whole genres center on only one circle. Much of the allure of horror films and stories is that the story stays focused on the physical stage. Life or death. Survival. On the other end of the spectrum is stories life Forrest Gump or Avatar that fully deal with all stages of development. All circles of life.

More importantly, working story in this way allows the storyteller a place to put the sometime overwhelming stream of ideas and observations. The greatest benefit with the Seed of Story is the inherent understanding that comes when you begin to become more aware of how this impacts your own life. And becoming and sharing more of ourselves is the imperative behind storytelling itself.