Turmoil-Technology
In times of turmoil, relational technology becomes increasingly valuable.
Catastrophic weather events, warring nations, civil unrest, institutional instability—how will we hold it all together?
As population booms have filled the globe, what will we do when climactic shifts displace our neighbors and have them calling at our doors?
How do we live our beliefs among people who wish to live their differing beliefs in peace alongside us?
With all the narratives flying around, how can we ensure that we are seeing beyond programming and stereotypes and relating human to human?
I find it to be perfect timing that I planned to teach curiosity this month, because curiosity is the vibe for cooperating with uncertainty and collaborating in the presence of vast unknowns.
The structures and templates available to us for how to live were forged in very different conditions, and yet having been present all our lives, they seem to be baked in knowns of life.
Curiosity is what allows me to release the known, to traverse the unknown and call forth into real being what was once unimaginable. Curiosity is an emptiness, a limitless possibility field in which I can take refuge any now.
Curiosity puts me in relationship to reality, to its vastness, to the Everything available any now.
Curiosity is the foundation of intimacy, the wonder and rapture I feel in the right-now moment, when this is all there is, when I have no idea what might be coming next, but a willing hunger.
Curiosity is an essential skill for living into the world of the future which is already here. It's the future because our systems are outdated, but it's happening now, already.
Relationships. Relationships are still what is important, what has always been important, what makes buildings stand and rockets fly—every element of physics and math is a matter of relationships. Like in physics and math, there are principles of right relationship in human emotional and rational matters.
Curiosity is to relationship technology like the zero is to math.
Who could imagine how much nothing matters?
