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For twenty one years now I've been consistently, ongoingly used by these Conversations For Transformation essays. For twenty one years they've demanded without letup that I write them down. How does that work? Why does that work? I don't know (look: I really don't know). I would do a lousy job of explaining to you how and why ... because I can't. But the rubber meeting the road can be seen in the total number of essays written and in the total number of views they've attracted. So let's just say for argument's sake that I had to come up with two reasons (at least) to set aside all those hours over all those years in all those locations for which being prolific calls. Why would anyone in their right mind try such a thing?
The second would be this: in addition to the conversation for transformation, there's another notable conversation we're in. It's one we're far more invested in than the conversation for transformation. If you want to catch up with it, you can tune into it any time by watching or reading the news. Something occurred to me this morning as I drove to the village in my car with the radio on listening a news program, and I said out loud to no one in particular "I've been listening this conversation for decades, and it always turns out the same.". That conversation is: "The world is in a bad place, and it's not going to get better.". It's a conversation which, while ubiquitous, reeks of inauthenticity: we engage in it in the hope that things will get better. Yet we're its staunchest supporters and justifiers when it's challenged, yes? We come up with / justify all the reasons why things are only gonna get worse. So if I'm going to have any conversation for the workability of the world, it won't be the one on the news which although totally ubiquitous, has proved time and time again it doesn't make any difference! Given they're the choices, I opt for the conversation for transformation.
The first would be this: each of these conversations, long before they were posted online and made available worldwide, were conceived as / they occurred for me as intimate conversations with Werner. To ongoingly stay in conversation with Werner, you have to be prolific / write more to give away. It's a fact of life in the world of transformation that if you want to keep transformation, you have to give it away. Again, how does that work? Why does it work? I don't know. There's no rational explanation for it. Yet you know it to be true: the way you get to keep love is by sharing it, by giving it away. Love's like that. It just is. Likewise, the way you get to keep being in Werner's conversations, is to keep sharing those conversations.
That's how, twenty one years later, we got here. This was never set up as a twenty one year project. Rather, it started out with a meagre collection of snippets I'd written which I posted to a website, and then continued to grow from there. To be sure, the direction they subsequently took veered towards Werner's conversations, and I (curiously observant as to what that calling would lead to) allowed it to. What's of secondary interest are the extraordinary conversations Werner speaks. Just being in them assures transformation. But primarily, it's his conversing itself which demonstrates that speaking transformation is a muscle each and every human being has. That's a discovery which is altering everything. That's the gamechanger.
