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“Subatomic particles exist in all possible states until they are observed - at which point something definite emerges from the soup of possibilities.”

Book:The Three

Work

The Three

In this gripping narrative, a group of individuals must navigate a harsh, post-apocalyptic world where they must confront the limits of their own resilience and the harsh realities of existence. more

Author

Robert Moss

Robert Moss is an Australian historian born in 1946. His research focuses on Australian history and culture, particularly the history and cultural heritage of Indigenous Australia. Moss's works have had a profound impact on the study of Australian history. more

“A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.”

Thinking World Long Age Social Levels Awareness Depends Machines Institutions Metaphor Despite Faster Social Systems Disharmony

Author:Betty Sue Flowers

“The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living. Once they do, they can become a place for the presencing of the whole as it might be, not just as it has been.”

Has Beens Whole Problem Might Institutions Species Living Once

Book:Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

“What we're calling 'presencing' is possible because of this womb, where the absolute and the manifest interact. I think a buddhist would say that presencing can arise to the extent that we develop the capacity, individually and collectively, to extend our conscious awareness in both domains.”

Thinking Awareness Calling Conscious Capacity Absolutes Arise Buddhist Manifest Domain Womb Conscious Awareness

Book:Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

Source: Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society

“The U theory suggests that the central integrating thought ... will emerge from building three integrated capacities: a new capacity for observing that no longer fragments the observer from what's observed; a new capacity for stillness that no longer fragments who we really are from what's emerging; and a new capacity for creating alternative realities that no longer fragments the wisdom of the head, heart and hand.”