Integral leadership Review, January 2010

 Leadership Quote: E.S. Wibbeke
Leading Comments: State of the Integral Leadership Review
 Leadership Coaching Tip: Judith B. Kaplan, Ruby A. Rouse & Richard S. Schuttler, Gut-wrenching Decisions: How Ethically Do You Behave in a Crisis?

Dialogue: Will be continued in March 2010
. A Fresh Perspective: Sandra Martinez, Leader Development, Adult Development and the Military
 Article: Col. Susan R. Myers and Jeff Groh, The Future of Strategic Leader Development at the U.S. Army War College
 Review: A Holistic View for Responsible Leaders-Peter Merry, Evolutionary Leadership, by Antonio Marturano
 Article: Zak Smith and Chad Stewart, Leadership and the Pathway to Abundance Review: Per Linell, Rethinking Language, Mind, and World Dialogically-reviewed by Russ Volckmann
 Global Values Update: Alan Tonkin, Climate Change & Values
 Article: Dorothea F. Zimmer, Some Questions About Europe
 Review: Otto Laske, Measuring Hidden Dimensions of Human Systems: Foundations of Requisite Organization, Vol. 2, by Bernardo A Merizald
e Article: Maureen Metcalf and Carl Fernyak, Family Owned Business Succession-Building on a Legacy Approach, Case Study, and Results
 Review: Howard Bloom, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Revision of Capitalism by Keith Bellamy
 Leadership for the Masses: Keith Bellamy, Subway Ride to the Bronx
 Student Paper: Jeannie Carlisle Volckmann, The Nonlinearity of Cultural Tradition Leadership Cartoon: Mark Hill
Notes from the Field Jonathan Reams, International Leadership Association Conference, Prague
 HaddasahWeiner-Friedman, International Leadership Association Conference, Prague
 Terry Patten, Renaissance 2 and a Political OpEd
 Michel Nguyen The, The Integral University in Paris
David McCallum, Integral Leadership in Action Conference, Austin, Texas
 Gary Hawke, Integral Leadership in Action Conference
 Bjarni S. Jonsson, Spiral Dynamics and the Iceland National Assembly
Gayle Karen Young, Integral Spiritual Experience Year 1: A Part-Whole Experience of a Journey into Unique Self
 Jessica Roemischer, Evoking Beauty-Music in Action
 Emil Moller, Authentic Leadership in Action-Europe

Announcements: UK, France, US, Italy, Belgium
Leadership Emerging

E.S. Wibbeke, Global Business Leadership
Gail T. Fairhurst, Discursive Leadership: In Conversation with Leadership Psychology Leadershift-Two Uses of the Concept-Clayton and Gobillot and a Note on Role Theory
Don Clayton, Leadershift: The Work-Life Balance Program
Emmanuel Gobillot. Leadershift: Reinventing Leadership for the Age of Mass Collaboration
A Note on Role Theory: Jeanne Jackson, "Contemporary Criticisms of Role Theory," Journal of Occupational Science Coda: Reflections on Adam Kahane's Power and Love, Don Beck and Rugby in South Africa

I  am wishing a most happy new year 2010 to all friends and readers´worldwide.
May it be a jumptime of possibilties, joy, breakthroughs and new imagination. And confidence and trust for all tough challenges to come:. The strt for a new decade where the impossible becomes the possible. And the sense for the miraculous is coming back and creating influence in the world(s).


AFRIKAANS gelukkige nuwejaar
ALBANIAN Gëzuar vitin e ri
ALSATIAN e glëckliches nëies / güets nëies johr
ARABIC ??? ???? (aam saiid) / sana saiida
ARMENIAN shnorhavor nor tari
AZERI yeni iliniz mubarek
BAMBARA bonne année
BASQUE urte berri on
BELARUSIAN ? ????? ????? (Z novym hodam)
BENGALI subho nababarsho
BERBER asgwas amegas
BETI mbembe mbu
BOBO bonne année
BOSNIAN sretna nova godina
BRETON bloavezh mat / bloavez mad
BULGARIAN ??????? ???? ?????? (chestita nova godina)
BURMESE hnit thit ku mingalar pa
CANTONESE sun lin fi lok / kung hé fat tsoi
CATALAN bon any nou
CHINESE xin nian kuai le / xin nian hao
CORSICAN pace e salute
CROATIAN sretna nova godina
CZECH štastný nový rok
DANISH godt nytår
DARI sale naw tabrik
DUTCH gelukkig Nieuwjaar
ENGLISH happy new year
ESPERANTO felicxan novan jaron
feliæan novan jaron (Times SudEuro font)
ESTONIAN head uut aastat
FAROESE gott nýggjár
FINNISH onnellista uutta vuotta
FLEMISH gelukkig Nieuwjaar
FRENCH bonne année
FRISIAN lokkich neijier
FRIULAN bon an
GALICIAN feliz aninovo
GEORGIAN ???????? ???? ???? (gilocavt akhal tsels)
GERMAN ein gutes neues Jahr / prost Neujahr
GREEK kali chronia / kali xronia
eutichismenos o kainourgios chronos (we wish you a happy new year)
GUJARATI sal mubarak / nootan varshabhinandan
GUARANÍ rogüerohory año nuévo-re
HAITIAN CREOLE bònn ané
HAWAIIAN hauoli makahiki hou
HEBREW ??? ???? (shana tova)
HINDI nav varsh ki subhkamna
HMONG nyob zoo xyoo tshiab
HUNGARIAN boldog új évet
ICELANDIC farsælt komandi ár
INDONESIAN selamat tahun baru
IRISH GAELIC ath bhliain faoi mhaise
ITALIAN felice anno nuovo, buon anno
JAVANESE sugeng warsa enggal
JAPANESE akemashite omedetô
KABYLIAN asseguèsse-ameguèsse
KANNADA hosa varshada shubhaashayagalu
KAZAKH zhana zhiliniz kutti bolsin
KHMER sur sdei chhnam thmei
KINYARWANDA umwaka mwiza
KIRUNDI umwaka mwiza
KOREAN seh heh bok mani bat uh seyo
KURDE sala we ya nû pîroz be
LAO sabai di pi mai
LATIN felix sit annus novus
LATVIAN laimigu Jauno gadu
LIGURIAN feliçe annu nœvu / feliçe anno nêuvo
LINGALA bonana / mbula ya sika elamu na tonbeli yo
LITHUANIAN laimingu Naujuju Metu
LOW SAXON gelükkig nyjaar
LUXEMBOURGEOIS e gudd neit Joër
MACEDONIAN ?????? ???? ?????? (srekna nova godina)
MALAGASY arahaba tratry ny taona
MALAY selamat tahun baru
MALAYALAM nava varsha ashamshagal
MALTESE is-sena t-tajba
MAORI kia hari te tau hou
MARATHI navin varshaachya hardik shubbheccha
MONGOLIAN shine jiliin bayariin mend hurgeye (???? ?????? ?????? ???? ?v????)
MORÉ wênd na kô-d yuum-songo
NDEBELE umyaka omucha omuhle
NORWEGIAN godt nyttår
OCCITAN bon annada
PASHTO nawe kaalmo mobarak sha
PERSIAN ??? ?? ????? (sâle no mobârak)
POLISH szczesliwego nowego roku
PORTUGUESE feliz ano novo
ROMANCHE bun di bun onn
ROMANI baxtalo nevo bersh
ROMANIAN un an nou fericit / la multi ani
RUSSIAN ? ????? ????? (S novim godom)
SAMOAN ia manuia le tausaga fou
SANGO nzoni fini ngou
SARDINIAN bonu annu nou
SCOTTISH GAELIC bliadhna mhath ur
SERBIAN srecna nova godina / ?????? ???? ??????
SHIMAORE mwaha mwema
SHONA goredzwa rakanaka
SINDHI nain saal joon wadhayoon
SINHALA suba aluth avuruddak vewa
SLOVAK stastlivy novy rok
SLOVENIAN srecno novo leto
SOBOTA dobir leto
SOMALI sanad wanagsan
SPANISH feliz año nuevo
SRANAN wan bun nyun yari
SWAHILI mwaka mzuri / heri ya mwaka mpya
SWEDISH gott nytt år
SWISS-GERMAN es guets Nöis
TAGALOG manigong bagong taon
TAHITIAN ia orana i te matahiti api
TAMIL iniya puthandu nalVazhthukkal
TATAR yaña yil belän
TELUGU ???? ??????? ???????????? (nuthana samvathsara subhakankshalu)
THAI ???????????? (sawatdii pimaï)
TIBETAN tashi delek / losar tashi delek
TURKISH yeni yiliniz kutlu olsun
UDMURT Vyl Aren
UKRAINIAN Z novym rokom
URDU naya saal mubarik
UZBEK yangi yilingiz qutlug' bo'lsin
VIETNAMESE Chúc M?ng Nam M?i / Cung Chúc Tân Niên / Cung Chúc Tân Xuân
WALOON ("betchfessîs" spelling) bone annéye / bone annéye èt bone santéye
WELSH blwyddyn newydd dda
WEST INDIAN CREOLE bon lanné
WOLOF dewenati
YIDDISH a gut yohr

From current issue of Enligjhtennext magazine. Very important insights in work of Jean M. Twenge. For sure true for Europe too. Maybe in slightly modified ways. I followed the them last 20 years. When Ken Wilber published BOOMERITIS  it was one more insightful label for this epidemic.

The Narcissism Epidemic

When historian Christopher Lasch published his classic book The Culture of Narcissism in 1979, it was already clear that a new kind of human being had been forged in the cultural fires of the sixties-one who was more socially conscious, more free from traditional norms, and more thoroughly self-obsessed than in any previous generation. Now, thirty years later, the Me Generation has given birth to Generations X and Y, for whom phrases like "Building self-esteem," "You're special," and "Be all that you can be" have, for many, become instilled as foundational principles of existence. Indeed, with this new breed of budding narcissists, the cultural phenomenon that Lasch first defined has both expanded and intensified, causing many to question whether the trend toward individualism may have gone a bit too far. Primary among these critics has been thirty-seven-year-old San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge, whose 2009 book The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement may be the best and most comprehensive diagnosis to date of what she calls a "cultural disease."

It would be difficult to find a person who cares as much about those who care mostly about themselves as Twenge does. Her interest in narcissism was piqued during graduate school in the nineties while doing psychological research on how changing gender roles were affecting young people, particularly women. Twenge found that in addition to the new level of equality and individual empowerment that women were experiencing, there was an accompanying degree of self-infatuation that was, ironically, holding many back from expressing their full potential as human beings. Her interest in the subject blossomed, eventually leading her to publish Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled-And More Miserable Than Ever Before in 2006.
 The book, which garnered attention from a wide range of major media outlets including the New York Times, the Today show, and National Public Radio's All Things Considered, launched her into the national limelight and established her as one of the world's foremost experts on the narcissism phenomenon.

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See also:

http://www.generationme.com

http://ww.narcissismepidemic.com

http://www.jeantwenge.com

http://www.womenontheedgeofevolution.com/


presents today Elza Maalouf. And I will listen from one of het other edges of evolution. The deep understanding of Elza about memetic codes in diverse cultures is   valuable for me too.

@Organizers:

There is continental time in Europe too:. :):) I will listen at 18.30 pm CET. And hopefully in future lots of additional altitudes and latitudes will be announced too.

This week's call for the Women on the Edge of Evolution teleseries will be on Saturday December 19th at 9:30 a.m. PST, and will feature honored guest, Elza Maalouf to engage the topic "Women Leading Change: A New Perspective on Ourselves and Our World."

Elza Maalouf is an Arab-American futurist and cultural development specialist focusing on cultural and political reform in the Arab world, including Palestine, Kuwait, Dubai and Syria. As one of the world's foremost experts in Memetics of the Middle East, Elza was named by EnlightenNext Magazine as one of today's brightest minds. She is co-founder and CEO of the Center for Human Emergence Middle East, a think-tank and strategy center that emphasizes the understanding of cultures through recognition of the underlying values upon which they are founded.

Born in Lebanon, Elza is a former attorney and corporate executive who draws on more than 15 years of experience in the areas of depth psychology, world philosophies and consciousness studies. A dynamic speaker and trainer, she has offered hundreds of personal and professional Integral training seminars to people around the world.

Elza works closely with renowned social scientist Dr. Don Beck, Chairman of the Global Center of Human Emergence and co-creator of the Spiral Dynamics Integral theory (SDi). She believes it is precisely the application of "whole system" theories (such as Spiral Dynamics Integral) in the Middle East that holds the highest potential for finding culturally congruent solutions where all types of initiatives have failed before.

Dr. Jean Houston says, "Elza Maalouf is an évocateur of change, a midwife to a world in transition. Her profound knowledge of cultures, both Western and Middle Eastern, as well as her extraordinary skills in teaching and communication, make her a woman of profound importance to our world. Lucid and visionary, compassionate and pragmatic, she brings a true brilliance to her wide ranging understanding of the challenges of our time."

Listen live by phone or webcast, or download the complete recording anytime after the live call. An access code email with complete information on how to participate will be sent to all WeeSeries registrants. If you haven't registered yet, visit womenontheedgeofevolution.com to join!

Please share this wonderful opportunity with your friends and help spread the message of feminine empowerme

Obamas Nobel Remarks

Following is the prepared text of President Obama's speech at the Nobel Peace prize ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, as released by the White House:

Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:

I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility. It is an award that speaks to our highest aspirations – that for all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.

And yet I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy that your generous decision has generated. In part, this is because I am at the beginning, and not the end, of my labors on the world stage. Compared to some of the giants of history who have received this prize – Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela – my accomplishments are slight. And then there are the men and women around the world who have been jailed and beaten in the pursuit of justice; those who toil in humanitarian organizations to relieve suffering; the unrecognized millions whose quiet acts of courage and compassion inspire even the most hardened of cynics. I cannot argue with those who find these men and women – some known, some obscure to all but those they help – to be far more deserving of this honor than I.

But perhaps the most profound issue surrounding my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars. One of these wars is winding down. The other is a conflict that America did not seek; one in which we are joined by forty three other countries – including Norway – in an effort to defend ourselves and all nations from further attacks.

Still, we are at war, and I am responsible for the deployment of thousands of young Americans to battle in a distant land. Some will kill. Some will be killed. And so I come here with an acute sense of the cost of armed conflict – filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace, and our effort to replace one with the other.

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A new film. I just learned that Dr. Don Beck was directly engaged in the process of coaching the 1995 South African Rugby Team.

In Dons own words:

I have only seen the promotional pieces, but they, alone, stir me to reflect on those magic times forme. I was working with Coach Kitch Christie in the design of the totalmotivational strategy. I worked directly with the players. I brough tthem all Dallas Cowboys shirts because they knew so much about the team and the NFL.

 My heart and soul were engaged in the project because Mr. Mandela needed a nation-building euphoria, a superordinate goal, to rally South Africans into become such. Sports is very very powerful. You might find this attached document to be of interest because it contains the full strategy. I wrote the whole document overone afternoon on a Saturday in Sandton, a northern superb of Johannesburg. Kitch died soon after with leukemia that had plagued him during the last decade of his life, and even during the fierce competition. I truly loved the man, as did all of the players.

Got to know his wife, Judy, and son Clayton quite well. He was actually Scottish, maybe the first non Afrikaner coach of the side, which put him under lots of pressure. He more than proved his worth. When the team went to UK to play the English side following the World Cup victory, I asked Coach if he planed to remind his players, obviously the Afrikaners, of the Boer War. "Of course," he said, and made them watch the movie Brave Hearts two or three times. I still miss him..."

Two words: OSCAR BOUND.

"From director Clint Eastwood, 'Invictus' tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) joined forces with the captain of South Africas rugby team, Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africas underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match."

The poem 'INVICTUS' by William Ernest Henley, from which Nelson Mandela drew strength while in prison.

"Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."

Another lengthy piece of trying to make sense of things happening at the edge is an article from German publicist Frank Schirrmacher.

Frank Schirrmacher (born September 5, 1959) is a German journalist, doctored literature expert and essayist, writer, and since 1994 co-publisher of the leading national German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) is one of Germanys leading journalists.

I do so to make perception and thinking from Europe and here Germany more transparent and povide firsthand communication with it. As in the next years I intend to re-engage again in this space of emergence and in the context of global views and developments. I will comment on Schirrmachers take later. Simply want to offer it for the moment here. Outside the context of german culture.

To create impulses for emergence in German speaking cultures it will take direct face2face and personal communication with the Elites as much as with people from all walks of life.  Initiating new leadership and complex constellation building in Europe and Germany -within a global context -will be a top project and -after all the (necessary) memory and celebration in this yerar 2009 the transition for creation of new architectures of change needs to embraced as challenge.

Decades after the end of WW2 now the moment has come that Germany does not only import ideas, concepts and mentality from other cultures (the brain drain after WW 2 was a great trauma and loss)but export not only cars but the best of its cultural and poltical, scientic and collective genius.

The Age of the Informavore

The question I am asking myself arose through work and through discussion with other people, and especially watching other people, watching them act and behave and talk, was how technology, the Internet and the modern systems, has now apparently changed human behavior, the way humans express themselves, and the way humans think in real life. So I've profited a lot from Edge.

We are apparently now in a situation where modern technology is changing the way people behave, people talk, people react, people think, and people remember. And you encounter this not only in a theoretical way, but when you meet people, when suddenly people start forgetting things, when suddenly people depend on their gadgets, and other stuff, to remember certain things. This is the beginning, its just an experience. But if you think about it and you think about your own behavior, you suddenly realize that something fundamental is going on. There is one comment on Edge which I love, which is in Daniel Dennett's response to the 2007 annual question, in which he said that we have a population explosion of ideas, but not enough brains to cover them.

As we know, information is fed by attention, so we have not enough attention, not enough food for all this information. And, as we know -- this is the old Darwinian thought, the moment when Darwin started reading Malthus -- when you have a conflict between a population explosion and not enough food, then Darwinian selection starts. And Darwinian systems start to change situations. And so what interests me is that we are, because we have the Internet, now entering a phase where Darwinian structures, where Darwinian dynamics, Darwinian selection, apparently attacks ideas themselves: what to remember, what not to remember, which idea is stronger, which idea is weaker.

Here European thought is quite interesting, our whole history of thought, especially in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, starting....

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To feel, to sense,  think, to perceive , to create and to develop perspectives , to enact and create from these spaces and emrging new codes of reality is a radical new form of beeing in the world for 21st century. Few philosphers are at the same time artists and vice versa. Making live an artform in this new light of reality even rarer...

I found the writings of US art critic Donald Kuspit very liberating and lucid since I discovered some of them years ago when vsiting with my partner Anitta an exhibition of Adi Das art.

Here are 3 texts of Donald Kuspits work.  The 2003 piece about re-discovering the spiritual in arts  is very interesting for me as he explores what Kandinsky wrote about decades agofor the German BAUHAUS .

The Matrix of Sensations

 Color, Aesthetic Shock and Non dualism

Re-considering the Spiritual in Art

In the spring of 2003, art critic Donald Kuspit visited the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond to meet the graduate students and their work in preparation for writing the introduction to the MFA Thesis Exhibition 2003, held at VCU's Anderson Gallery.

While he was at VCU, Kuspit delivered the lecture presented here, "Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art." In it he revisits Kandinsky's famous essay, "On the Spiritual in Art," and contemplates what it might have to say to artists working today.

The lecture was originally presented as the keynote address at a conference on the humanities and the visual arts held in New York in October, 2001.  

Part 1   |  Part 2   |  Transcript

 

As German I found these semantic clarifications from D. Kuspit very helpful. Kandinsky obviously used the word as Kuspit explains it. One could take Jean Gebsers work for further illumination. Gebser used it in a similar way as Kandinsky:. Here is what Kuspit explains for English speaking world:

 

". Obviously the title—and you see this from the poster as well—is a reference to Kandinsky's very famous and influential essay, in German it was "Geistige in der Kunst." I use the German word deliberately because the word "Geist" in German has a whole different resonance in history than the word "spiritual" in English. Spiritual sounds a little sappy in English. When we say somebody is spiritual, we're not certain if we're giving them a compliment or being ironical, in English. But in German if you say somebody's a "Geistiger Mensch" that's a true compliment, somebody deep, reflective, and serious. Now, this paper is coming from a number of different points of view, or trying to address a number of different issues.

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Now, one of the things that I think is going on in Kandinsky's art, and in On the Spiritual in Art, is an effort to deal with an issue that was raised in Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, which was published just about a century earlier. Phänomenologie des Geistes, it's sometimes called, phenomenology of mind, sometimes spirit, there are various translations in English, phenomenology of consciousness. And Hegel, if you read it very carefully, reaches a curious point. He goes from sense experience, okay, very particular sense experience, to pure ideational spiritual experience, and he argues that the climax of spiritual activity—let's use that word—is the spirit knowing itself and coming and becoming itself.

And then suddenly, having said that, he flips right back into sense experience, and he says the spirit knows itself most through sense experiences. So we have the idea of spiritualized sensing, so to say, implicit in Hegel, the whole thing starts over again, and I think Kandinsky is trying to address that moment

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Global Leaders Achieve Major Outcomes At First World Innovation Summit For Education

The closing plenary session of the first World Innovation Summit for Education - Wise has produced a number of ground-breaking outcomes that signal the beginning of a new era in global collaboration on education.

Revealing times! We have heard about the tragic suicide of German sportsman

Robert Enke

who suffered from hidden depression. In a world where only performance counts.
We have heard about the outing from

Donal Og Cusack

from ireland.

The first elite sportsman who outed himself as gay.

And British doctor

Brooke Magnati

who wrote for a lomg time the famous blog:

http://www.bellledejour-uk.blogspot.com/

anonymously.

SPIEGEL ONLINE wrote earlier this year:


lO Lord, download our guilt

You find on the left side of the German article some links where online homepages are listed.

Brooke Magnati described herself as master of compartmentalization.

Indeed, this is an important label. Though not profound enough. The complexity of emrging identiities and supressed subpersonalities which are in need of bringing brought to conscious congruence

Billl Harryman has an interesting

Blogroll

to the them of subpersonalities. And John Rowan, an integral specialist from UK will be publish next year a new book about personification.

Personiification: Using The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy And Counselling

My basic conviction is there are layers of reality emerging which are beyond the conventional label of shadow work. Its about complexification in the interiors of adult life and devlopment..

All the buzz in the media about outing processes of all kind is only scraching the surface. In the core of this public emregence is the need to recovnile private and public life. In new ways.

Compartmentalization is only a sign. it indicates that change, transformation, self discovery and the journey to ones own soul are in need of new ways of communication and expressions of life.

Beyond poltical, spiritual and sexual correctness. And even beyond the segregated life of sub-cultures. No agenda, defind mission statment and purposeful vision per se can do it.

It simply needs to be lived, expressed and communicated.

The day side of consciousness and the night side. No side is more important than the other.