Berhane-Aymero

Wednesday 16 March 2011

A Rationale and Guide for Nonviolence

This Post is reproduced (from Monday, 18 January 2010)

here again to help the social movement of the youth, which has correctly deserved the name - SOCIAL Tsunami - shaking all tyrannies around the globe. -Tyrannies, which don't refrain  to employ all the means and the violence at their disposal, like what we are witnessing these days in Libya, Bahrain or Yemen, to extend their defunct survivals; whereas JAPAN is standing up to its challenge as one Nation, to save every single man/woman of its People from the NATURAL Tsunami and partially man-made disaster it is facing. 

May ALL HOPE and OUR EMPATHY move to JAPAN !
AND
May ALL tyrannies come to their downfalls!

Hoping that JAPAN can cope with all the challenges and severe days it is facing today, it is now high time that Humanity has to reflect to the utmost to question the vulnerable trajectory  civilization has taken so far, negating  the very fundamentals of its future existence!
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A Rationale and Guide for Nonviolence


".... life, from its beginning more than three billion years ago, did not take over the planet by combat but by networking."....Fritjof Capra /


Revolutions and wars are exceptions to the rule, coup d'etats are perversions of the rule....And the rule seems to be evolution embedded in creativity/emergence, whose existence becomes apparent in due time and space to initiate a fundamental change..... That is, I presume, the Kernel of human experience in history


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Nonetheless, it has to be noted here that Year 2011 has given us the opportunity to witness that there are good and bad exceptions.  EGYPT and the nonviolent youth movement for FREEDOM all over the Arab World and North Africa are testimonies of these good and beautiful phenomena liberating the MIND of every soul! (16.03.2011).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocultural_evolution

What is the inter-relation between social structure and collective consciousness ?
What is the role of structure and collective consciousness in our future human development...?

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Following is an aspect which I think is very relevant in our context and helpful for our community's political dead-lock:

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Chapter Twenty-Two

A rationale and guide for nonviolence
as a basis for conscious evolutionary activism.



Hier reproduced in summary in accordance with the permission of the author:


In any situation or system, seek ways
to replace force with consciousness.
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Force, in this context, refers to the use of coercion or
overwhelming strength or power to dominate, control, or otherwise
get one's way, often against resistance. The power used
can be physical, economic, social, intellectual, emotional, military,
psychological, technological, etc. The more force used,
the less we take into account the nature or needs of the Other.
The more we take the Other into account, the less force and
resources we need to accomplish mutual ends.
Consciousness, the capacity to be aware, in this context,
includes all the interior dimensions and capacities of life that
can—among other things—help us deal successfully with
our changing world by sensing, understanding and creatively,
collaboratively relating to the conditions in us and the entities,
interactions, and contexts around us.

This evolutionary moment challenges us to bring the power
of consciousness to bear on the process of self-reflective evolution
itself to replace the creative violence of supernovas, lifeand-
death struggles, and wars with highly aware intelligence,
wisdom, and care.

So as evolutionary activists, we seek to replace force everywhere,

in every entity (every individual, group and
system);
in every interaction (every conversation, exchange,
conflict, and engagement with nature);
in every context (every situation, culture, gathering,
community and urban design); and
in every form of consciousness (in all sensing,
learning, visioning, morality, and all other forms
of thinking, feeling and experience).
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Our consciousness then evolves
towards true collaboration, where we—
you and I, us and our adversaries,
humankind and nature—help each
other get what we each need and want—in cooperatives,
family conversations, in deliberative democracy, in Nonviolent
Communication, in permaculture.
...

This shift from force to consciousness is the fulcrum of
human evolution at this critical time—at individual, collective,
and systemic scales.
As we reach our planetary limits, the downsides of force,
violence, and control become increasingly obvious. Our
technological and social capacities to generate harm through
our efforts to force, impact, and control people and life—no
matter how well intended—threaten our extinction.
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The more fully we understand, the less force or energy
we need or want to use. The less energy we use to serve any
given need, the more efficient and elegant our systems and
behaviors become, making them favored by natural selection
and the general directionality of evolution.
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Guidance concerning evolutionary means:
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A addresses the role of conversation.
B talks about creative use of diversity.
C explores how to handle dissonance.
• D discusses deep, inclusive simplicity.
...
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Guidance concerning realms of evolutionary action:
...
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• 1 deals with the health of the systems themselves.
• 2 deals with contexts and systemic awareness of them.
• 3 deals with the systemic capacity to effectively respond
to complex, changing circumstances.
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1. Cultivate healthy self-organization.
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• Cultivate healthy behavior
• Cultivate healthy power
• Cultivate healthy flow

2. Cultivate healthy systemic contexts.
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• Healthy social context.
• Healthy contexts that govern meaning
• Healthy physical contexts
• Healthy natural contexts

3. Cultivate healthy systemic responsiveness and collective
evolvability.
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• Cultivate collective intelligence, learning, and
memory -
• Cultivate collective self-awareness, integrity,
and humility -
• Cultivate the collective capacity to generate and
pursue shared intentions -
• Cultivate systems that embody collective compassion
and mutuality -
• Cultivate the collective ability to make wise,
creative decisions -
• Cultivate collective co-creativity and evolutionary
sensibilities -

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This is a section/chapter from Tom Atlee's " book :

"Reflections on Evolutionary Activism"....



(Tom Atlee & friends : ....These are....interesting intellectual and activist circles of our generation...with a lot of new insights and ideas)


http://evolutionaryactivism.com/wagn/Get_involved


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The Synthesis

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Legacy politics: When two people quarrel rejoices the third – to rule over them… (up to the 20th century)

Visionary politics: When two people come together rejoices the third – to join them in their Human Empathy…(… 21st century ….)

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Human DIGNITY:

21st century is the era of Liberation Movements for Human Dignity, encompassing all other Movements, to make them superfluous – non-dogmatic, non-religious and non-ethnic with the great Common Collective Will for Human Empathy!

11 0220 11 - EGYPT's Dignity Day, the Landmark for a radical break with all Tyrannies!

Thanks to

Tunisia -The Heroic Pioneer of Freedom!

2011 - The Dignity Year for Tunisia