I am indebted to Mike McConnell who contributed material for this
conversation.
Werner's
work constantly evolves and expands
(observably
so). The basis for this is twofold. Firstly, it's the true nature of
transformation itself to expand (as anyone who's ever invented the
possibility of being transformed can attest). Secondly, with each
expansion of transformation comes newer and newer vantage points, newer
and newer vistas, and consequently newer and newer perspectives
which allow
the work of
transformation
to be rediscovered ever newly and to expand continuously.
Historians will note the various iterations
Werner's work
has evolved through - indeed, the various iterations it
continues to evolve through. Newer and newer ideas emerge.
Newer and newer abstracts come forth. Newer and newer possibilities are
invented. Newer and newer intelligent
thinking
occurs, each and all of which pave the way for (are the shoulders on
which stand) whatever new expressions of
the work,
come next. And in the process, the languaging with which transformation
is expressed and communicated (transformation comes forth as a
linguistic act ie as a
speech act)
becomes increasingly accurate and clear as its use is ever finer tuned.
These ongoingly newer ideas, abstracts, possibilities, and intelligent
thinking
are riveting, attractive, not to mention pragmatic (which means they're
useful and they
work).
And we all want to have
life work,
which we each express in subtly different ways, some of which are
ego-centric,
some of which are altruistic (it's arguably the rarest of things which
all we human beings would freely admit we have in common). Yet while
ideas, abstracts, possibilities, and intelligent
thinking
form a great deal of how
Werner's work
ongoingly expresses itself in the world, at
the heart
of it all (and at the start of it all),
Werner's work
is experiential (meaning what,
Laurence?).
The waythe workmanifests in an individual's life after the onset of
transformation, is through the aforementioned newer ideas, abstracts,
possibilities, and intelligent
thinking
in
conversations.
But it's the access to (and therefore the onset of and the
sustaining of) transformation itself which is almost entirely
experiential - in four words, to transform your life is to naturally
maintain and sustain the experience of
"who you really
are"
under all conditions and all
circumstanceslike a possibility.
Listen: maintaining the experience of
who you really areunder all conditions and all
circumstances,
isn't an inherently difficult
proposition.
Really it isn't. After all (try this on for size), how can you ever
not be
who you really are?
(which is of course the great
Zen
conundrum ...). Rather, what
the work of
transformation
reveals and lays bare (at least in its flagship, entry-level programs)
is that which gets in our way of experiencing
who we really are,
and thereby gets in our way of beingwho we really are,
and thereby gets in our way of being transformed
under all conditions and all
circumstances.
Be responsible for that (or as
Werner
astutely says it, "Take a hold of that") and as a natural
consequence, you'll have easily, effortlessly, and
powerfully invented the possibility of being transformed.
A note about an experienced experience, and about
taking responsibility for an experience: when
Werner
asserts "experienced experience disappears" and "taking
responsibility for an experience completes it", don't debate it,
rationalize it, intellectualize it, or argue about it. Now there's
nothing wrong with debating, rationalizing, intellectualizing, or
arguing. Their
trouble
is you won't get the value of experiencing an experience to disappear
it, or taking responsibility for an experience to complete it, through
any of those modalities. The way you get their value is by (like
Nike) just doing it ie by trying them on for size.
Consider this: what exacerbates (makes worse) and belabors any and all
upsetting experiences, is being unwilling to experience them fully.
We're thrown to try to back out of (and create blame for) upsetting
experiences, when the way to complete them fast and move on, is to
experience them fully and take responsibility for them (the only way
out, it seems, is through).
