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November 2009 
3 Years At Zaadz and Gaia
Posted on Feb 27th, 2009
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Albert
Albert
In February 2006 I started blogging at Zaadz. Since then 3 years passed.
831 Entries
3090 activities in toto
26.800 + Profile Views
More than 300.000 views in sum, 160.000 alone in 2007
Feedback from Gaia members as much as from outside this community. From Germany, Europe and globally.
This is not bad in my view. For the moment:):) I decided for this form of communication- other than writing books, articles or essays -to produce a playful and highly interactive communication in real time. Accessible for global readers too even when not members of the community.
Leaving my German Mother Language and of course fully risking to loose roundabout 30 percent of verbal complexity in this way. Its time to align German speaking countries and its spheres to Europe and world.
I will change my blogging now into something new. At moment its not quite clear what form and metamorphosis will occur. Certainly articles, books, projects and lots of global professional collaboration.
I had an extensive exchange and collaborative exploration last months with German Austrian entrpreneur and game designer Patricia von Papstein. An article about Integral Play and Integral Leadership will emerge out of this dynamic female-male dynamics for the March Issue of Integral leadership Review.
Based on this 2007 article from Gwen Gordon and Sean Hargens. However taking it to the next level of Integral leadership:
Integral Play -An Exploration Of The Playground And The Evolution Of The Player
And in a common declaration and conclusio we articulate some form of follow up.
We both are Europeans and Germans. And we intend to ignite a new creative fire in playful ways from the "land of poets and thinkers"
I wrote in 2002 for Issue 22 of WIE this letter to the editors:
The Great German Fear
Thank you for this brilliant issue! I am living in the city of Berlin, Germany and the themes are very challenging. As Carter Phipps put it [in From the Editors]: ". . . Ken Wilber and Michael Murphy trace the beginnings of evolutionary spirituality back to the late eighteenth century, when the German idealists such as Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling began speaking about human history as the greater and greater unfolding of spirit in this world. Inspired by the burgeoning Industrial Revolution, the notion of progress was then all the rage in the West, a notion that would, over the next few decades, provide the underpinnings for the development of evolutionary theory. . . ." In Germany there is actually a great-unconscious-fear of exploring the transpersonal realms.
It seems that the terrible shipwreck of the Nazi past has created a psychic contraction. This contraction is expressing itself as a great confusion. Ken Wilber describes it as pre/trans fallacy. The land of the "poets and thinkers" is afraid of great visions and the possibility of an evolutionary quantum jump because of this chapter of its history. Ken Wilber describes it in One Taste: "What happened in Germany is, among a million other causes, a classic case of the pre/trans fallacy. In fact, the entire German tradition is a study in the pre/trans fallacy, producing now a Hegel, now a Hitler."
Therefore I want to make clear that Integral Play -as will be explained in length in the ILR article is catalyzing the vertical as much as horizontal complexity and diversity.
This is by far not childish or adolescent endevor. it can create great evolutionary heat and even dynamite. And it can overcome and liberate this great historic contraction and fear. Setting free the potential .
It connects dozens and hundreds of fragments of identity in national and global nexus. And far beyond conceptual, theoretical and paradigmatical Exercises of all kind. Beeing highly psychoactive.
As PLato once said:
"You can discover more about a person in a hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Its a great story for that Patricia and I met last year after he had run through very similar experiences last years. Regarding nearly dozens of points. While she started as entrepreneur and game designer I found everything we exchanged about the power and potential of adult integral play reflected in my blogging at Gaia. In at least 30 percent of all of my entries. That means roughly 280 posts of all kind.
Touching poltics, business, culture, gender, age, science, medicine, entertainement , identity, personal growth, global issues and the relationship between private and public spheres as they developed over thousands and hundreds of years.
We risked this very special collaboration and diving into the dynamics of male/female interplay. Explicitly beyond the flat either or of conflict and consensus.
Beyond standards of spiritual and poltical correctness. Beyond the platitudes of coexistence, come together and lets share something. Beyond discourses of all kind. And ready jumping off the cliffs of conceptual references.
To risk radical openness and intention for the whole. Not tamed by forum rules like in World Economic Forum or TED Forums. However creative and reasonably innovative they may be. A forum can never produce that kind of intimate, powerful and personal dance and dynamics.
Bruno Giussani, European Director of TED Conferences:
Can you hear me?:):)
More to come. stay tuned. The article will be published in next Integral leadership Review. And included will be our common conclusio.
831 Entries
3090 activities in toto
26.800 + Profile Views
More than 300.000 views in sum, 160.000 alone in 2007
Feedback from Gaia members as much as from outside this community. From Germany, Europe and globally.
This is not bad in my view. For the moment:):) I decided for this form of communication- other than writing books, articles or essays -to produce a playful and highly interactive communication in real time. Accessible for global readers too even when not members of the community.
Leaving my German Mother Language and of course fully risking to loose roundabout 30 percent of verbal complexity in this way. Its time to align German speaking countries and its spheres to Europe and world.
I will change my blogging now into something new. At moment its not quite clear what form and metamorphosis will occur. Certainly articles, books, projects and lots of global professional collaboration.
I had an extensive exchange and collaborative exploration last months with German Austrian entrpreneur and game designer Patricia von Papstein. An article about Integral Play and Integral Leadership will emerge out of this dynamic female-male dynamics for the March Issue of Integral leadership Review.
Based on this 2007 article from Gwen Gordon and Sean Hargens. However taking it to the next level of Integral leadership:
Integral Play -An Exploration Of The Playground And The Evolution Of The Player
And in a common declaration and conclusio we articulate some form of follow up.
We both are Europeans and Germans. And we intend to ignite a new creative fire in playful ways from the "land of poets and thinkers"
I wrote in 2002 for Issue 22 of WIE this letter to the editors:
The Great German Fear
Thank you for this brilliant issue! I am living in the city of Berlin, Germany and the themes are very challenging. As Carter Phipps put it [in From the Editors]: ". . . Ken Wilber and Michael Murphy trace the beginnings of evolutionary spirituality back to the late eighteenth century, when the German idealists such as Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling began speaking about human history as the greater and greater unfolding of spirit in this world. Inspired by the burgeoning Industrial Revolution, the notion of progress was then all the rage in the West, a notion that would, over the next few decades, provide the underpinnings for the development of evolutionary theory. . . ." In Germany there is actually a great-unconscious-fear of exploring the transpersonal realms.
It seems that the terrible shipwreck of the Nazi past has created a psychic contraction. This contraction is expressing itself as a great confusion. Ken Wilber describes it as pre/trans fallacy. The land of the "poets and thinkers" is afraid of great visions and the possibility of an evolutionary quantum jump because of this chapter of its history. Ken Wilber describes it in One Taste: "What happened in Germany is, among a million other causes, a classic case of the pre/trans fallacy. In fact, the entire German tradition is a study in the pre/trans fallacy, producing now a Hegel, now a Hitler."
Therefore I want to make clear that Integral Play -as will be explained in length in the ILR article is catalyzing the vertical as much as horizontal complexity and diversity.
This is by far not childish or adolescent endevor. it can create great evolutionary heat and even dynamite. And it can overcome and liberate this great historic contraction and fear. Setting free the potential .
It connects dozens and hundreds of fragments of identity in national and global nexus. And far beyond conceptual, theoretical and paradigmatical Exercises of all kind. Beeing highly psychoactive.
As PLato once said:
"You can discover more about a person in a hour of play than in a year of conversation."
Its a great story for that Patricia and I met last year after he had run through very similar experiences last years. Regarding nearly dozens of points. While she started as entrepreneur and game designer I found everything we exchanged about the power and potential of adult integral play reflected in my blogging at Gaia. In at least 30 percent of all of my entries. That means roughly 280 posts of all kind.
Touching poltics, business, culture, gender, age, science, medicine, entertainement , identity, personal growth, global issues and the relationship between private and public spheres as they developed over thousands and hundreds of years.
We risked this very special collaboration and diving into the dynamics of male/female interplay. Explicitly beyond the flat either or of conflict and consensus.
Beyond standards of spiritual and poltical correctness. Beyond the platitudes of coexistence, come together and lets share something. Beyond discourses of all kind. And ready jumping off the cliffs of conceptual references.
To risk radical openness and intention for the whole. Not tamed by forum rules like in World Economic Forum or TED Forums. However creative and reasonably innovative they may be. A forum can never produce that kind of intimate, powerful and personal dance and dynamics.
Bruno Giussani, European Director of TED Conferences:
Can you hear me?:):)
More to come. stay tuned. The article will be published in next Integral leadership Review. And included will be our common conclusio.
Access: Public
I am very happy to learn that we, ’Zaadz/Gaia’ have entered the third year. Remembering Meenakshi is celebrating the second year. Lot of changes have taken place very smoothly. We have to go more further.
In fact there is no simple WE, Sanmugan.
Different Cultures, backgrounds, ages and enromous diversity and complexity.
I will continue the spagat between communication in German speaking countries and global English language sphere. Lots of former buddies in discussions are not even active here at Gaia. Some have left Gaia.
So something has to change for me. I leave it open right now. And will find out what makes sense.
One thing is sure:
Gaia is THE community with biggest tenor on purpose and consciousness. Based right now heavily on Online Communication.
it was always most fascinating for to get feedback from people outside Gaia:):)
As Niels Bohr, the famous physicist from Denmark said:
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”
Yes, I agree with you. So many friends are not active here. That is a loss. Any how I meet them else where, like Twitter, You tube, and Face book.
Yes…and in the F2F world too. There are so many invisible and spontaneous trajectories of how people connect.
The global dynamics of visible and invisble communication, resonances and emrging and converging flows are not explored right now.
A most fascinating topic!
happy gaiaversary! hope you are here many more years!
Oh, Albert… three years already? Where does the time go? And oh, what an honor it’s been to host your words and thoughts and brilliance. I’ll echo Nicole, too: may there be many more. The emergence has only just begun.
Albert do you feel like I do, that it’s been longer? I feel I’ve been here> 2 years! Yes, those who read and give feedback without even joining the community area a readership we’ve to stay aware of. I’m delighted, and not surprised that you have a large viewership.
Dear Meenakshi,
this is most fascinating! I know that people from all walks of life, from all cultures, even CEO`s of strong companies, leaders, journalists etc..are reading here.
Therefore I kept always open acess for my articles. The moment will come when collaborations emerge out of Gaias beginings -even if will take 2 , 3 or more years -which I envisioned from my first blog entry at Zaadz.
Our moment as Gaia pioneers and users will come!
Joyfully,
Albert
Nicole, congrats to your dynamic God Pod too! It was really fun for me to express some more juicy communication there. Would like to learn more this year about your professional Franchise Engagement too.
Where will we all be in 3 years from now?
How will be celebrate SYlvester/new Year 2011/2012?
Very best,
Albert
Siona,
“the emergence has only just begun”
Absolutely!
Where will Gaia be in 2030? What can it be?
For the moment I want to thank you personally. To congratulate your team too. To say Thank You to the GAIAM company staff too.
I know you, Siona and your team are doing a great job. A tough job, for sure.
And you are an epicenter which is growing into heavyweight qualties in the global emerging landscapes of change, collective intelligence, evolutionary leadership, conscious business, playful social networks with purpose and spiritual consciousness , diversity and complexity.
Environmental ductus and hosting the most advanced developmental perspectives, approaches and frameworks worldwide in a fascinating open space.
Without subscribing to any stereotypes, specific jargons and polarisations.
Therefore I see Gaia contributing -as community- to the theme of Integral Play. Honoring the cycles of the child, the adolsecent and yet fully facilitating the playful adult. Integrating Dionysean as much as Appollinean approaches and going even beyond an either or.(As Gwen Gordon and Sean Hargens are describing in their article)
Thanks Siona for everything you have already done and integrated here.
Albert
Albert! Mother Germany is so lucky to have you! My dearest friend, Damaris, is German. I love the German Mind! And as Sonia mentioned, your ‘words, thoughts and brilliance’ shine like the Sun to me! Your words and work has had such a rippling effect in my soul! You are the best, Albert!
I laughed a little reading Plato!: “You can discover more about a person in a hour of play than in a year of conversation.” It has always wondered me that I have enjoyed relationships (truely!) with some of the most brilliant intelllectuals possible (!)….and I am like a five-year old, constantly wishing to play and explore.
Albert!!!! May you live forever!!! Your gifts are so beautiful!
Love,
Cheyenne
Cheyenne,
do you remember this day -it was as if we had a long deep exploring and playful conversation:):) -when we co-contemplated some of your fotos in the galery?
Bruce Lee
Kundalini
Saint Mary Magadalene
Kalachakra Tantra
There was not one nanosecond of hesitation between us how such issues could be intellectually and cognitively brought to one framework!
That was profound, playfully and seriously in one movement.
Love it!
Very best,
Albert
An article about Integral Play and Integral Leadership will emerge out
of this dynamic female-male dynamics for the March Issue of Integral
leadership Review…
EXCELLENT
I will change my blogging now into something new. At moment its not
quite clear what form and metamorphosis will occur. Certainly articles,
books, projects and lots of global professional collaboration…
YOU ABOVE ALL, Albert, already “know” that WE R ALL “Black Swans”
THIS CHANGE 4U will be YOUR Black Swan event …
Bravo and ALL hail to Albert
SO BE IT
Thanks Michael.):)
As usual:
You may have perfectly summarized it:
The next change for me, for lots of us as:
Black Swan Event:)
Great to have YOU as friend,
Best to my UK friend,
Albert
Oh, Yes, Albert! Of course, I remember!
My first interaction with you was you GV-ing me with - Are you channeling the Tathagata or giving darshan? (hmmmm….) I tipped over your fence to see if I could spy out whether this was irritating or attractive to you (!)(?)…….Just watching you daily in that chair, seeing when you might emerge giving me more of a clue! Then….one glorious day, you come to over and (as the Joker would say)…I realize, ooooh, We’ve Got a Live One Here!!!
Your well-roundedness is what leaves me stunned! Beautiful, beautiful mind, heart and soul!
Thank you, Albert! You and MICHAEL are gifted communicators!!!! When I think of a beautiful world, I think of many of YOUsss !
Love, love
Cheyenne
I do indeed look forward to this new emergence Albert! I especially loved this part:
We risked this very special collaboration and diving into the dynamics
of male/female interplay. Explicitly beyond the flat either or of
conflict and consensus.
Beyond standards of spiritual and poltical
correctness. Beyond the platitudes of coexistence, come together and
lets share something. Beyond discourses of all kind. And ready jumping
off the cliffs of conceptual references.
How exciting to move through, over, under, and dance around the polarizations and conceptualizations that keep us divided. Innocence, play, and spontaneity is a wonderful creative spring to healing I intuit. One where all can come together in the innocence of openness, play, and togetherness.
Happy Anniversary to us for your 3 years here Albert!
In endless friendship!
Ben
Hi Ben,
yes!
And connecting it with entrpreneurial will and intention. As Helen sumarized in this article for Kosmos Journal:
Evolutionary Entrepreneurship
ALL hail to Helen AS WELL
Albert, your writing is inspired & inspiring, thank you for all you do to enrich this community, and is it too late to say congratulations?
you bring new meaning to the saying by William Arthur Ward : “A mediocre teacher tells, A good teacher explains, a superior teacher demonstrates And The Great teacher inspires” .
Your every contribution here includes explanation, demonstration & a healthy helping of Inspiration. Thanks & Blessings,
Mike
Albert, AlBeRt, ALBERT!
Yes 3 unforgettable years! What a blessing in the open they and you have been and continue to be for me/we! You made me retrospect as I am about to celebrate my 3 year zaadz/Gaia anniversary in April too! With 31707 profile views, 400+ personal blogs, 838 photos, 850 friends + 704 members of the Joy SOULutions pod with 666 pod postings & countless other messages, quotes, book reviews, links & comments many of which have been triggered and inspired by you… WOW!
It is time to appreciate all that incredible playful, stimulating and highly interactive communication and take it to the next level where we would be able to collaborate, motivate and empower each other into action through play, creativity and artivism even more.
May the best is yet to come as we celebrate with you your abundant talents, indestructible vulnerability, open heart, brilliant mind, supra-sexual being and full of humor, adventure and playfullness daring spirit!
With Gratitude, Joy & Inspiration,
D a r i n a :)
Thanks Mike!
Your own Multi-Lingual Pos has triggered so much in me.
I am honored to be seen even in some teaching function:)
it relevant for me to create clear contexts and nexus. And to present it and express it as strongly as possible. To communicate clearly the edge which isnt covered right now neither by mainstream conventional media nor my so called new media or any other cross medial aproach.
Beyond the current converging and emerging streams of cosciosusness there and same time including as much as possible from what is becoming visible right now on large global scales.
Best, and thanks,
Albert
Darina,
we both feel conected and aligned to the spirit of TED .
As TED 2009 is nearing I want to underscore with both hands what you are adressing yourself in your blogging. And to open a new space which initiates something even more powerful. Not in the belly of masses or greater groups -important enough - but in the most imtimate We Space between committed, daring and bold people from different age, gender and other cultural differences.
THIS is seen by me as most radical force which can penetrate the most stonified mainsteam constellations. Which can create a fire and laser-like impact into all layers of the spiral. And which is not available right now in nearly all approaches.
I am inviting you to the next level of pronoia:)
Cheers,
Albert
See also this DVD Trailer:
Leadership Mystique
about the world class work of Manfred Kets de Vries. Very few have searched inside the psyche and mind of top leaders in his unique way. See the list of his books and articles. Exploring the borderline:):) between couch and couch. Between psychatry and management. Between left brain and right brain. Etc etc..
We want to challenge him. Exploding the de Vries universe between Keynes and Freud into new continents for new generations of players, innovators and leaders acting from a point beyond even his advanced categories.
In Integral Play . Riding a tiger which no leadership school on the planet ever had tamed:):)
Great links, Darina!
I posted in 2008 Designing Video Games to Catalyze Human Development
where i referenced to ARG too.
Patricia knows more about the existing gaming landscape. We will create an interactive global follow up to the ILR article. I have already requests from Pioneers of Change, Kaos Pilots and a member from the Self Hub.
What is essential for us will be described in the article and emerge more and more in real action and communication.
We know about the global players in this field and we want to make it more fiery. Galvanizing. Wild.
Challenging deeply rooted identity roadblocks in men and women too. And thus going beyond what Manfred Kets de Vries and other (excellent) actors already do.
Who are right now simply not crazy enough:):)
Will develop this theme further as soon as the article is published.
Congratulations on your 3rd year at gaia/zaadz! Thank you for our friendship, still new and blossoming, and for your inspiring blogs, and for just being you! Look forward to the “something new”! Blessings, Albert!
Mila,
I consider these 3 years as foundation building. Highly connected -right now more in an invisible way -with other projects at the cutting edge. In my first entry I outlined some perspectives.
Aiming at something dimensional beyond virtual and F2F.
Kein Kelly, Ray Kurzweil and hundreds of others have built already pieces of this puzzle. Cultural hacking is one other buzz word. Each of the entries of these years pointed towards this emergence of co-creating (r)evolution in human consciosuness, nature of innovation, leadership and cultural change.
More when the article has been published.
BTW:
Congrats and good luck for your move to Vancouver. Really one of the coolest and most creative cities on planet:):)
April 17th, 2009:
As I commented about Kets de Vries here:
“See also this DVD Trailer:
Leadership Mystique
about the world class work of Manfred Kets de Vries. Very few have searched inside the psyche and mind of top leaders in his unique way. See the list of his books and articles. Exploring the borderline:):) between couch and couch. Between psychatry and management. Between left brain and right brain. Etc etc..
We want to challenge him. Exploding the de Vries universe between Keynes and Freud into new continents for new generations of players, innovators and leaders acting from a point beyond even his advanced categories.”
.the reaction of Manfred Kets de Vries was indeed very sharp and angry regarding the article. Obviously some leading “leadership experts” are getting nervous about their claims and roles as doorkeepers at the leading edge.
Will update some other feedbacks later this year:):)