Sometime during the
past
forty six years, our global
listening
for
transformation
underwent a remarkable shift. In the hard-fought
battle
to bring the raging
wildfire
under control, you could say the wind suddenly shifted in the
firefighters'
favor. No one made it
happen.
It just
happened.
It was
timely.
So what was it exactly that
happened?
With the onset of
the work of
transformation,
a certain skepticism, a deep inbred doubt appeared that
transformation,
both
personal
and global, was even a
possibility.
And even if it were
possible
(as the most zealous of skeptics may have argued), then it most
certainly could never be disseminated in a so-called .... well ...
conversation for transformation.
Werner Erhard's
assertion that
transformation
could be disseminated
face to face
in a
conversation for
transformation
over a couple of weekends (rather than, say, requiring years and
years of contemplation in a convent or a
monastery
or a cave) was met with ridicule, if not outright hostility.
"Talk is cheap"
was the watchword of the day. But those were the days back when we
hadn't yet
gotten
it's not
talk
that's
cheap:
it's we who
cheapen talk.
That came later.
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