Regusci Winery, Silverado Trail,
Napa Valley,
California, USA
December 28, 2011
I'm vulnerable. I'm unprotected and undefensive. I'm not wearing pads
or a helmet. I'm out in the open and uncovered.
Speaking on the
internet
like this, affords no protection at all. None. There's no
privacy. There's no safety. But that's not a complaint: it's what
goes with this territory. Anything I publish to the
internet
in these
Conversations For
Transformation
is immediately out there where anything can be said about
them, where any conceptions (accurate or inaccurate) can be imposed on
them, and where I'm not asked to correct or true up any
misinterpretations about them. In the theatre of the
internet,
I'm speaking openly and overtly with an audience comprising anyone and
everyone. No one is pre‑screened. No one has to meet any
pre‑qualifications. Even if their listening disallows me
speaking with them (that's precarious), then I'm speaking
in front of them (an even more precarious position) without their given
commitment
to listen me in any particular way, without their given
commitment
to create value for themselves from what I speak.
This is what it takes to deliver
Conversations For
Transformation
on the
internet.
It's
what's so
about
sharing light onWerner's work
on the
internet.
It's even more so about generating an
internet
presence
for
Werner's work.
On the
internet
there's no guarantee I'm speaking among
friends.
The
internet
isn't necessarily a safe space for speaking
transformation
and possibility. This isn't the same as speaking in the privacy of a
seminar. This isn't the same as speaking in a conversation which has
been set up with confidentiality agreements and ground rules. I don't
have the assurance that all foundational abstracts are in place before
I bring any new ones forth. I've got no control over the
order in which
Conversations For
Transformation
are read. I put it all out there with none of this assured. I can't
count on any of that in this medium.
Although I can't count on any of that in this medium, here's what makes
Conversations For
Transformationwork:
they're my / our relationship with
source.
That's really what they are. And that's all they are. If you get that,
they
work.
If you don't look at them this way, then try on for size that they're
my / our relationship with
source.
There's nothing significant about this, mind you. But
speaking as their author, that's what they are (ie that's what they're
intended to be): my / our relationship with
source.
They can be anything else for you, for that matter, which
shows up
for you as you listen them. If you get value from them, then they
work.
If so, take them: they're yours.
Free.
There's no charge. And if they don't
work
for you, then move on.
I think of writing
Conversations For
Transformation
and publishing them to the
internet
as akin to setting birds
free:
when I set them
free,
I never know to where they'll fly or to what impact. While it's my
intention they'll create value, there's always a risk no good will come
of them. In fact the odds aren't zero this could be a
total fiasco. Yet if the truth be told, mostly
extraordinary
things happen when they're read or heard. Inspired, a man traveled from
Cape Town
South Africa
to
London
England, a distance of nearly ten thousand kilometers, to participate
in
Werner's work
- as far as we know, the longest distance anyone has traveled
specifically to participate in
Werner's work
in the absence of a location closer by. Inspired, a man traveled from
Iran to
India
to participate in the
Landmark
Advanced Course
in the absence of any of Werner's programs being available
in Iran, he already having graduated from the flagship program in
another country.
Conversations For
Transformation
have been translated into the Thai language and read on Radio Bangkok
during peak commute hours.
What draws people to participate in
Werner's work
is a function of their humanity, not of their culture nor of
their nationality. Like anything else I do, I intend for this to
work.
And the truth is it does. It's not a concern to me that an
infinitesimally small fraction of the feedback I get is negative.
That's just like real Life, yes? The essential thing about
Conversations For
Transformation
is I don't put them out there with any ulterior motive. I put them out
there simply to put them out there, for the simple joy of
setting them
free.
The evidence shows wherever they fly, wherever they land, they produce
value. So I let them go
freely,
and they fly wherever they fly.
I'm not
attached
to them. I can't be. They're
words
like
birds.
Set
free,
they fly to a good place.