Werner's
work evolves ongoingly as a function of its true nature, and
expands exponentially as a function of the listening for it
in the world.
Over the years, many things have been said in the gallery about the
delivery methods deployed making
Werner's work,
available. When Werner first took
front and center stage,
when the possibility of
transformation
first became real
in the world,
when that fish walked up on land for the first time bringing with it
elephants
and eagles like a possibility, it was said the delivery methods
were harsh, austere, even arrogant. Whereas the
Zen
master jogs his students with a tap on the shoulder, some called
Werner's work,
the "two by four over the head" approach to enlightenment.
Of course, there wasn't ever a two by four anywhere in sight. But
that's what they called it anyway.
Lately in the same gallery it's been said the current iteration of
Werner's work,
has kinder, gentler delivery methods, that the
kinder, gentler delivery methods are a result of a new intention coming
from savvy marketing which realizes a less arduous approach is required
to maintain customer interest.
I assert if you look, you'll see the intention behind the totality of
all iterations of
Werner's work,
historic and up to the minute current, has hardly changed
at all. The intention is to share the possibility of
transformation
and make it real
in the world.
An island of stability in an ever changing universe, this intention
remains reliably, put it in the bank constant. I assert
something else accounts for the impression that a retooling of delivery
methods has occurred.
To the creek
trying to flow through the rock, it may indeed appear
there's been a change in the rock's quintessential nature once
the river figures out what works is to flow
around the rock.
Indeed, if any changes at all have occurred in the delivery methods of
Werner's work
they can be accounted for not by reworked marketing
strategies but rather by a simple obvious yet expected dramatic shift
in the listeningof the world.
for
Werner's work,
for Werner's ideas, and for
transformation.
Millions and millions of people no longer need convincing
about the possibility of
transformation.
By now we know it's possible. There's been a
contextual
shift in the listening for
transformationin the world
due in part or wholly to Werner's enormous albeit largely unheralded
impact. Inside this shift in global listening, not only has
transformation
become a real, tangible, thrilling, live possibility, but the
perception of and the receptivity forWerner's work
has also shifted dramatically. With this shift in receptivity for
Werner's work
comes an opening, a
clearing
in the global listening for it. So its delivery methods naturally
appear to be "kinder and gentler" because, to paraphrase the old adage,
even though they're still just as
rigorous
to speak as they always were, now they're easier to listen.
What was once opined as the "two by four over the head" approach to
enlightenment is no longer seen that way simply because a ready
listening for transformation, a global appetite for
transformation,
a global appetite for
transformation
has opened up. Its value now clearly evidenced, both neophyte and
veteran
participants
in
Werner's work
are more likely to listen for
transformation
from the get go.
Because of that, the
Zen
master's two by four tap is no longer required. The river,
already
anticipating
that
transformation
works like a possibility, now flows around the rock. But
the rock's quintessential nature hasn't changed.