Connecting Inner and
Outer Transformation:
Creating a Quantum
“Holomovement” with the
Spheres of Co-Creation
Many have recognized that we have to combine inner and outer
transformation if we are to effect the radical changes needed in our world. As
Gandhi famously said, we need to be the change we want to see – we need to
bring about a revolution in both the deepest level of our consciousness and our
outer global systems, and every dimension of our being in between. Given the
scale of our crises, nothing less is called for today than an evolutionary
leap, a whole-scale, whole-systems, holistic transformation, from the deepest
source of our consciousness and of creation itself, aligning ourselves with the
unity at our core and the unified field of the Cosmos.
As both an ontological model of the dimensions of our being,
and an online platform for collaboration within and between those dimensions, the
Spheres of Co-Creation is designed to facilitate this process.
The Spheres of Co-Creation is both a model of the nested
relationships between the inner and outer levels of our being; and an online,
interactive platform for the collaboration and co-creation of those working at
all levels. Designed as nested spheres, enfolded within and unfolding out of
each other like concentric ripples, a spiral or a torus, it illustrates the
different levels of our being, inner and outer, individual and collective, and
the dynamic interconnections between them.
The spheres represent a concentric spectrum spiraling out of
the universal consciousness at our core, spanning from the innermost subtle
levels of consciousness and energy to the outermost complex global and cosmic
systems: Consciousness, Energy, Psyche (individual and collective
thought-forms), Ecology, Economy, Socio-Political and Planetary/Cosmic. Each of
these spheres is affected by, and affects all the others, in ripple effects that
radiate outwards, upwards and back again, returning to their centre. This
movement is like a hologram of ever-evolving fractals, in a continuous
feed-back loop, an ever-evolving spiral from the core of being into
manifestation and back again, to the implicate order and the source of all
potential.
As an ontological model, this spiral (or torus) illustrates
the relationships between the levels of our being: the way the outer levels –
our ecological, economic, socio-political and planetary systems -- emanate out
of the subtle, hidden inner dimensions of consciousness, energy, psyche and
cultural thought-forms that underlie them. The outer forms of our society
express the inner patterns that in-form us, which means we can most powerfully
transform them from the inside outwards. The outer changes, in turn, feedback
and inform the inner, and thus both our systems and the consciousness behind them
are synergistically, and simultaneously, all the way up and all the way down
the line, transformed.
As a practical interactive platform for collaboration, the
Spheres of Co-Creation is also designed to act as a spring-board for a
“movement of movements”, bringing progressive organizations and initiatives
working at all these levels into relationship, communication and co-creation
for the radical, integral transformation of our consciousness and our systems.
We are all connected in the Source of Creation and the unified
quantum field; when we leverage the power of that unity, bridging divides
across sectors, races, genders, cultures, generations – we galvanize the
potential for an extraordinary movement of movements that can truly transform
our world, from one based on separation, competition and violence, to each
other and nature, to one of regeneration, cooperation, true unity-in-diversity,
at every level, rippling through all dimensions from Consciousness to Cosmos.
Once we connect the dots between the inner causes of the
crises -- our divisive consciousness – with the outer symptoms-- climate
crisis, pandemic, racial crisis and gender divides, political, economic and
ecological collapses – we can also connect the dots that lead to the solutions,
that galvanize the unity at our core for our healing and renewal. Within this
greater context, we can come together, from all walks of life, and connect to
uproot the causes, and bring in the true unity that is our common source and
birthright, at every level of our being, our lives and our global society, personal
and collective, across all divides and sectors.
With the Spheres of Co-Creation, we can create a broad-based
movement, drawing on our deepest and widest powers, the deepest power of the
unity at the core of our being, and expressing it at all levels. This
overarching movement of movements would be both deep and wide, profound and
inclusive, drawing on the power of the unity at our hidden core, and reflecting
it in our world in every dimension, from consciousness and subtle-energy fields
to individual and cultural psyche, to social, ecological, economic, political
and planetary systems.
The Spheres of
Co-Creation as the Basis for a Quantum “Holomovement” for Radical,
Whole-Systems Transformation
It was David Bohm, the great physicist and cosmologist, who
first coined the word “holomovement”. As
David Peat, a colleague of his, wrote “The holomovement is a key concept in
David Bohm’s interpretation of quantum mechanics and for his overall worldview.
It brings together the holistic principle of “undivided wholeness” with the
idea that everything is in a state of process or becoming… For Bohm wholeness
it not a static oneness, but a dynamic wholeness-in-motion in which everything
moves together in an interconnected process.”
As Peat says, “The theory of the Implicate Order contains an
ultra-holistic cosmic view: it connects everything with everything else. The
central underlying theme of Bohm’s theory is the ‘unbroken wholeness of the
totality of existence as an undivided flowing movement without borders’…Bohm
believes that the Implicate Order has to be extended into multidimensional
reality: in other words, the holomovement, [as] the ‘fundamental ground of all
matter’, endlessly enfolds and unfolds into infinite dimensionality.”
I quote at length here, because Bohm’s vision is so
suggestive in our context of a movement of movements for holistic
transformation. Peat continues: “Extending this to the personal and collective
social levels, for Bohm, “the individual is in total contact with the implicate
Order, the individual is part of the whole of mankind, and he is the ‘focus for
something beyond mankind’... Bohm believes that the individual who uses inner
energy and intelligence can transform mankind…and goes on to suggest that an
intense heightening of individuals who have shaken off the ‘pollution of the
ages’ (wrong worldviews that propagate ignorance), who come into close and
trusting relationship with one another, can begin to generate the immense power
needed to ignite the whole consciousness of the world.”
“In the depths of the Implicate Order, there is a
‘consciousness, deep down – of the whole of mankind’. It is this collective
consciousness that is truly one and indivisible, and it is the responsibility
of each human person to contribute towards the building of this consciousness
of mankind...‘There’s nothing else to do, there is no way out. This is
absolutely what has to be done and nothing else can work.’”[i]
(It is no small testament to the astuteness of Bohm’s vision that Einstein
called him his spiritual son, and the Dalai Lama called him his scientific guru
– hard to imagine better credentials, crossing the borders themselves of both
scientific and spiritual genius and authority!)
I believe the time is ripe now for a wide-scale,
whole-systems, holistic social movement that embodies the principles of the
holomovement – that is, in fact, the holomovement itself. Only this can
transform our consciousness, our lives and our systems at the magnitude and
speed needed for us to survive on this planet and enter our next phase of
evolution. We have to draw from the unity at our core, the unified field that
informs and unites us all, if we are to create a new world of love,
regeneration, renewal and communion.
Action Plan for the
Spheres of Co-Creation Holomovement
During the pandemic, we became acutely aware of what is
actually essential, what we really need to survive and thrive, and at the same
time, what is inessential, unnecessary or harmful; what alleviates our crises,
and what has actually caused them. The need to distinguish between the two –
what is helpful and what is harmful -- and to support the former and eliminate
the latter, came clearly into the light. Now we can make use of that as the
basis for re-booting ourselves, our ways of life and our systems, with new
priorities that honor what is really essential, for the well-being and highest
potentials for all life on this planet.
We all need good food, clean air to breathe, water to drink,
clean energy sources, safe shelter, simple natural, preventative health care,
community, a sense of belonging and meaning. We need education based on
world-views that promote the recognition of our true interconnection and
Oneness, with each other, all of nature and the deepest Source of all creation,
and the availability of practices and tools to help us realize that, both
inwardly and in outwardly.
Locally, this would be through our own actions, mutual aid
groups, cooperatives, local food resilience, etc., which have already started
springing up everywhere, spurred on by the pandemic and specter of larger
systemic collapses. The pandemic has given a spurt to the movements for local
self-reliance and regeneration – local gardens, local barter and new
currencies, community land trusts, citizens councils and support centres,
ecovillages and Transition towns – that were already emerging as responses to
the challenges of the climate crisis and the larger ecological, economic and
social collapses coming down the pipeline.
We need to take our power back into our own hands. No
government, financial institution or global agency can do that for us; in fact,
it has become ever-clearer that it is exactly such institutions that are
depriving of our power, our freedoms and our rights, as well as destroying our
eco-systems and proffering technocratic solutions leading to an Orwellian
dystopia. We need to support each other to rebuild a parallel society and
communities that restore our freedom and well-being, from the grass-roots up,
while re-igniting world-views of wisdom, compassion and interconnection, from
the inside out.
These can be the end-times for the human race, or a
powerful turning-point– but only if we see the lay of the land, and take it
in our own hands to change direction: decentralization, local self-reliance, reforestation, Earth democracy, organic farming, building cultures of community, caring and regeneration. We know what we need to do (there are many wonderful
groups charting the way); we just need to connect them.
Knowing What We Want,
and Leveraging the Power to Bring it into Being
Many say now that we need to be the change that we want, but
we have to know what we want first! That means if we are to collaborate for the
future we want, we need a strong vision behind us. And that vision itself, if
aligned with the unity at our Source, and the highest powers of evolution it
propels, will have enormous, unstoppable, invincible power behind it -- the
power that can both meet our needs and maximize our gifts and potentials,
personal and collective, local and global.
Our vision for our future can bring together our highest
priorities, provide what all of us need to survive, and at the same time the
scope we need for our highest potentials to thrive, our unique gifts and
interests. This vision may not be as hard to come to agreement upon as it may
seem –we already know our basic needs, what is essential for our survival, and
also have the context for our highest potentials to flourish, a cosmological
and evolutionary vision of cosmic proportions, of awe-inspiring Oneness, with
each other, nature and all of creation, a power behind us that can surmount our
crises if we join it in co-creation.
We already have the ingredients for a vision for our future,
they just need to be stirred together, and baked. We already have the makings
of our new story, we just have to put it together, and come together in action,
to realize it in our world.
The Functional Model:
How the Spheres of Co-Creation Online Platform Works
The way the Spheres model works is simple. Initiatives
working at all levels for transformation will be sent a manifesto [iv] of the vision
and goals of the movement, invited to join, and also submit their details to be
mapped in the relevant sphere(s) and subcategories in which they are working.
They can then find others with whom to collaborate in those spheres, or join up
with others across spheres for cross-collaboration -- a cross-fertilization and
synergy between dimensions and sectors that generates a whole movement of
movements, greater than the sum of its parts.
In this way, we would catalyze the dynamic power of
co-creation, leveraging the power of unity across boundaries for exponential
momentum, of whole-systems, holistic transformation, at the speed and scale our
crises today demand.
If you look at the illustration of the model, you can see
how this will work. The online functional database/platform looks exactly the
same as the model, seven concentric spheres. When you click on each sphere, it
links to a page that shows all the sub-categories for that sphere, and the
different organizations working in them, with direct links to their websites.
Joanna Macy speaks about the three different aspects of
transformation, all vital to a successful movement – 1) resistance
(deconstruction of the old) 2) regeneration (of the new) and 3) the
transformation of consciousness, that both underlies the first two and brings
them forward, in-formed by a deep evolutionary
movement from the core of our unity. [v] Initiatives working on all these aspects are represented in the sub-categories
of the Spheres of Co-Creation, at all levels, personal and collective, local
and global. When we embrace this wider vision, and see how all the levels and
spheres of action are connected, we generate enormous leverage to both uproot
the deepest causes of the crises and bring in a new consciousness, systems and
structures, in every dimension of our being.
How these different initiatives and levels of work will
weave together and converge will itself emerge in the course of the movement’s
evolution. There is no pre-determined grand plan we can impose with our minds
(life always has its own plans anyway!), but align our minds and hearts with
the deeper forces of evolution flowing through us, and ride their emergent
waves. New structures and systems, in line with nature and our own deepest true
nature, will naturally emerge, breaking through the veils of separation, into a
higher order of unity, with each other and all life.
But we have to jump in, and the Spheres of Co-Creation is a
good place to begin – a model that can help take us where we are going,
gathering and weaving together the gifts and genius of the many, at all
different levels and sectors, as we go.
Joining the Quantum
Holomovement to a New Way of Life on Earth
The “holomovement”, in this new context, becomes a
deep-rooted holistic movement for whole-systems, whole-scale social
transformation, based on the unity at our core and the unified field of
existence, expressed at all the levels and dimensions of our being. It is a
movement of movements, a meta-movement arising from the forces of evolution
itself, that we need today to overcome our crises of fragmentation -- the
implicate order made explicate, the unity at the source of Creation reflected
in the myriad forms of our world.
When we tap into the quantum field, and the unified source
of creation, it is like riding the waves of a geyser – local actions scale up
and, at the speed of light, become global; at its height, local itself becomes
non-local, everywhere at once – we break the barriers of separation and go
viral, affecting the whole field at once, all factions, fragmentation, fractals
cohering to the impulse from a universal centre. When we align our power,
collectively, to the very Source that created us and all life, gathering a
critical mass of momentum, we break the barriers of the speed of light – and
the divided mind of mankind – and realize our true nature as an undivided
unity, the power of infinite love at the heart of the Cosmos. [vi]
This is the movement that we need to harness today, or
rather ride its waves, because they are already emerging -- all we need is to
recognize and align with them, join our own will and inspiration to the Source
of creation that is already within us, the unified field of life on Earth and
the Cosmos and its infinite potential, in which we are all already infinitely
connected.
This is the movement welling up from within, our own hearts
and the whole unified field that connects them, rising up for the sake of all
life, now and for all time to come.
Radiating out of the unity at our core from pure
unconditioned Consciousness to Cosmos, the simple model of the Spheres of
Co-Creation tells us, in one concise visual symbol, our ontological and
cosmological story, the spectrum of dimensions of our evolutionary unfolding,
from the unity at our core and back again. It can also tell the new story of
our return to unity, and its expression in our world: of the “holomovement”
towards a new way of life on Earth, the radical whole-systems transformation to
a way of being in harmony and alignment with the higher powers of evolution, of
co-creation with each other, the unified field of all creation and our own
deepest true nature.
-- Kavita Byrd
July 14, 2020
If interested please contact me at kavitaji25@yahoo.com or see the Shakti
Centre Global website at https://shakticentre.blogspot.com
Endnotes
[i]
David Peat, “David Bohm, Implicate Order and
Holomovement”, https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/article/david-bohm-implicate-order-and-holomovement
[ii]
For the succinct broad-strokes for the movement,
see Kavita Byrd, “Six Axioms for the
Regeneration of Consciousness, Ecology and Society”: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12CWHd0hvWvaZsDAhT5iLiEXq0U-3azrpXHisn6Qy2-k/edit?usp=drivesdk
[iii]
For a more detailed vision of background and
possible strategies for the movement, see Kavita Byrd, “Global Citizens
Movement for the Transition to a Sustainable, Just and Cooperative Society”:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KBOG6tdBcknURjUnnFQBpA--ZMJs6HZUHAaLwi39wKI/edit?usp=drivesdk
[iv]
See Kavita Byrd,” Manifesto for the Transition
to Sustainable, Just and Cooperative Society”: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AQMnfKhuo46ERRHhPIsMuacnoDj6ZBek-gG9OwPglrw/edit?usp=drivesdk
[v] Joanna Macy, https://workthatreconnects.org/spiral/the-great-turning/three-dimensions-of-the-great-turning/
[vi]
For deeper evolutionary and esoteric aspects,
see Kavita Byrd, “Spheres of Co-Creation: Deeper Evolutionary and Esoteric
Implications”: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12MYh68uwDG1YdZS7IQYlSlDhdUPkOPGcwBF8VWzMQe4/edit?usp=drivesdk
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