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I wonder if this kind of communication can happen on this blog..

Posted on Jan 17th, 2006 by Terri : Add a Zero Terri
I was reading some about Enlightened Communication this morning, and wanted to put up this post.....

http://www.andrewcohen.org/teachings/art-of-ec.asp

I wonder how relavant it is to this medium??? 

any thoughts?
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David : Explorer
about 13 hours later
David said

“A completely new order of human relationship”
Wow, who wouldn’t be interested in that?
Count me in TerrI! Where do I begin?
How do we establish a  controlled context?
What type of study (for lack of a better term) should I be doing to prepare?
Lots of questions obviously!
I would love to spend some time discussing this with you.
Exciting stuff!

Terri : Add a Zero
4 days later
Terri said

There isn’t anything else  more exciting… I have been thinking alot about how important it is, for this to happen, that we transend conditioning… transend ego… and how on earth that  changes the way we engage in this context for instance is fascinating…..
And how to establish a controlled context in this forum is also an interesting question… and i think very important one… What is it that is going to insure that this particular forum creates a tension that inspries people to reach beyond themselves…. and begin to understand in ways that are new, what this life is really all about….
It  IS exciting, and also unchartered territory..
lot’s to think about….

Albert  : ~
17 days later
Albert said

Here is an interesting interview which gives many hints to the criteria of  the process of EC:

www.nordicintegral.com/communication.html
What is Enlightened Communication?
In What Way is it New and How can it be used to Further Human Evolution?

An interview with Chris Parish. By Nick Drummond, Nordic Integral Team. January 17, 2004

The collective becomes singular; the collective becomes one mind; it’s a higher level of evolutionary potential. It’s the power of the many literally becoming one. Andrew Cohen

Summary
In this interview with Chris Parish, chief coordinator of Andrew Cohen’s European IEF centres, we enquire into: what would it mean to come together and communicate with a large group of people and have the feeling that you were meeting yourself? What would be the quality of the communication? How might it affect the relationship you have with yourself, the people and world around you? And what might this new quality of communication and thinking offer in terms of practical application? What’s more, how can this new level of intersubjective communication be approached as an integral science?

Chris Parish distinguishes enlightened communication as being a clear example of how enlightened minds can come together to create a deep sense of mutual understanding. He also explains the prerequisites for bringing about this higher form of collective wisdom and intelligence in communication. “It’s not just a group of people having a dialogue or conversation together…It’s a different sort of movement than trying to come together and finding consensus or trying to agree or argue out what’s the best thing. Because while all that has its place, often a lot of the ways people have come together in the past have tended to cater to the lowest common denominator of being the best way of getting an agreement” Whereas here, “there’s often a real sense of urgency that we want to go somewhere. So this isn’t something for one’s own indulgence. It’s not something to just bask in for ones own self-satisfaction.”

As Chris Parish explains, enlightened communication creates, “the possibility of a network of consciousnesses that is so fast … where there is no inertia between minds; there’s nothing in the way of communication; it opens up the possibility of something exponentially faster. Because the interesting thing is that when each person is speaking authentically… it’s not really a personal thing at all … It’s like someone is articulating ones own deepest soul feeling… the possibility is there that we could tackle all sorts of problems and find creative collective solutions that we probably would never have come across before. The possibilities are enormous.”

Cheers,

Albert

Mike : Development Realiser
about 1 year later
Mike said

I have not seen this work on Enlightened Communication before.  However it does sound a bit like what Bill Isaacs calls 'Generative Dialogue' - which invents unprecedented possibilities and new insights; produces a collective flow of meaning.  (Bill Isaacs - Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together).  I can see some ways in which this kind of medium might help generative dialogue.  The pace is slowed and people have time to think before they post.  Ideas don't have to be forced, half formed, into gaps in the conversation. 
On the other hand I think something is lost because people are not communicating directly - but through the technology.  Thought patterns are not connected and nuances may be lost.
Perhaps wikis and instant messnger/voice conferencing technologies may help this kind of conversation even more than a blog does?

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