July 2010 Letter to the Community
Submitted by WeStrive on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 17:52
Dear WeStrive Community, 
This morning, at 12:00A exactly, a community-wide research opportunity came to a close: it was an effort in co-creating the materials for this weekend’s Meet-up around the theme of social media’s effects in and on our lives. We invited our network to share their answers to three questions in any way that they wanted—email, text, Tweet, a message, a videoblog—and we received some wonderful answers! Tomorrow we will release the co-created video that Meet-ups around the world will be able work with during their gatherings. The three questions we posed were meant to inspire us all to begin to really understand just how effective social media is:
- What is social media?
- How does social media impact my life?
- How can I use it to benefit and do good in the world?
Dialogue by Tom Atlee
Submitted by WeStrive on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 17:17
Conversation is thinking in its natural state.
Thinking is the conversation within us....
Words began in human beings in the process
of transforming gregariousness into co-operation.
Thinking is the conversation within us....
Words began in human beings in the process
of transforming gregariousness into co-operation.
Not all communication is dialogue. Dialogue is shared exploration towards greater understanding, connection, or possibility. Any communication that fits this definition, the Co-Intelligence Institute considers dialogue. Communication that doesn't fit this definition, we don't call dialogue.
(Note: Some of our colleagues believe that what we call dialogue should be called conversation. See for example, Is "debate" or "conversation" the most useful form of public discourse? by Alan Stewart.)
Maitreya by Michael Hedley Burton
Submitted by WeStrive on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 16:57
There are many shades 
in the voice of a poet.
In our time
the poems that work best
are simply silent.
There comes one, however,
who shall speak
as rippling water
and as surging sea.
The power to raise the storm
and quell the serpent
shall be his.
Today we wait
for him to wake. Read more »
Consciousness of Freedom through Listening and Speaking by Luigi Morelli
Submitted by WeStrive on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 15:46
“And from a cliff-top is proclaimed
The gathering of souls for birth,
The trial by existence named,
The obscuration upon earth
And the slant spirits trooping by
In streams and cross and counter-streams
Can but give ear to that sweet cry
For its suggestion of what dreams!”
(Robert Frost, “The Trial by Existence”)
With these words, Robert Frost offers us an idea of what it is to be a “spiritual being having an earthly experience.” Read more »
