grief and the New Year
Good morning from the Left Coast.When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous 'political death.'What I think we're all experiencing, to some degree, is the 'layering' of many forms of personal and corporate grief. Simultaneously. So that focusing on one layer can obscure the others.So, rather than expound on grief like a theological expert, I'm just offering an outline of my thoughts, so that each of us can build upon them or change them in true 'corporate mind' fashion.I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more!Here goes. 'Happy' New Year!Marshall Grief and the New Year being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr) awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross) political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect) social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic) economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression) personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangement grief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction events grief is a natural social process holding on and letting go grief and transformation individual grief and corporate grief denial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships
Exactly Marshall ! Milan Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 9, 2021, at 7:54 AM, W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Good morning from the Left Coast. When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous 'political death.' What I think we're all experiencing, to some degree, is the 'layering' of many forms of personal and corporate grief. Simultaneously. So that focusing on one layer can obscure the others. So, rather than expound on grief like a theological expert, I'm just offering an outline of my thoughts, so that each of us can build upon them or change them in true 'corporate mind' fashion. I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more! Here goes. 'Happy' New Year! Marshall
Grief and the New Year
being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr) awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross) political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect) social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic) economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression) personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangement grief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction events grief is a natural social process holding on and letting go grief and transformation individual grief and corporate grief denial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships
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Thanks, Marshall. Ellie :) -----Original Message----- From: W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: W. J. <synergi@yahoo.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 9:54 am Subject: [Oe List ...] grief and the New Year Good morning from the Left Coast.When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous 'political death.'What I think we're all experiencing, to some degree, is the 'layering' of many forms of personal and corporate grief. Simultaneously. So that focusing on one layer can obscure the others.So, rather than expound on grief like a theological expert, I'm just offering an outline of my thoughts, so that each of us can build upon them or change them in true 'corporate mind' fashion.I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more!Here goes. 'Happy' New Year!Marshall Grief and the New Year being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr)awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect)social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic)economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression)personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangementgrief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction eventsgrief is a natural social processholding on and letting gogrief and transformationindividual grief and corporate griefdenial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
Colleagues,As soon as I sent my thoughts on grief, etc. I googled "Humpty Dumpty effect", and here's what I found! Though it's very late-20th-century, so is the O:E. Not to mention ToP, etc.Enjoy! And maybe take this another step into the 21st century.MarshallHumpty Dumpty Effect | | | | | | | | | | | Humpty Dumpty Effect | | | On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 07:58:08 AM PST, Ellie Stock via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: Thanks, Marshall. Ellie :) -----Original Message----- From: W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: W. J. <synergi@yahoo.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 9:54 am Subject: [Oe List ...] grief and the New Year Good morning from the Left Coast.When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous 'political death.'What I think we're all experiencing, to some degree, is the 'layering' of many forms of personal and corporate grief. Simultaneously. So that focusing on one layer can obscure the others.So, rather than expound on grief like a theological expert, I'm just offering an outline of my thoughts, so that each of us can build upon them or change them in true 'corporate mind' fashion.I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more!Here goes. 'Happy' New Year!Marshall Grief and the New Year being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr)awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect)social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic)economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression)personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangementgrief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction eventsgrief is a natural social processholding on and letting gogrief and transformationindividual grief and corporate griefdenial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
Marshall, I appreciate both your finding this and posting it. It is an attempt to put in a hierarchy a degree of complexity in how the future is created. Here is my response to the model. If you examine it closely you will find we did all of this over the Summers of Research. But we came at it a different way and I believe a much better one. JWM stated this in his Summer 70 talk on The Journey to the Center. It was the last talk in the series on the NRM. It is why we drew the NRM as a nine box grid with the Solitaries on the bottom and the Corporates at the top. The color code was our attempt to show how Knowing, Being and Doing interacted with each other. It had both horizontal and vertical interactions. We showed the Being dimension as slightly indented because we knew that in the Journey to the Center one went through orbits and gaps. We used religious terms because that is the word screen we needed to grasp the Transparency of it all. It is actually a modality of being profoundly human (Profound Humanness). When you get to the Center, words (the vehicle of the left brain) can not communicate the experience. Poetry, metaphors and the arts are necessary. That is why our singing was so powerful for us. But the objective authenticity of it was real. Any human being who came into the room and listened experienced it as well. It was objective Awe, and the experience of Transparency was as well. It was not some group "secret language”. I think a new abundance of songs will be written now that we and the whole Globe are experiencing the vast complexity of our Earth and Social interactions. Tim Caswell is doing exactly that. Please listen to his Podcast on Facebook. I would simply add that is why we called ourselves the Spirt Movement. It is not our Movement. We just happened to discover it and participated in it. And we sang about it. Peace, Jack
On Jan 9, 2021, at 10:22 AM, W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Colleagues, As soon as I sent my thoughts on grief, etc. I googled "Humpty Dumpty effect", and here's what I found! Though it's very late-20th-century, so is the O:E. Not to mention ToP, etc. Enjoy! And maybe take this another step into the 21st century. Marshall Humpty Dumpty Effect <http://www.spiral-dynamics.com/theory/chngtran.htm>
Humpty Dumpty Effect <http://www.spiral-dynamics.com/theory/chngtran.htm>
On Saturday, January 9, 2021, 07:58:08 AM PST, Ellie Stock via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Thanks, Marshall.
Ellie :)
-----Original Message----- From: W. J. via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: W. J. <synergi@yahoo.com> Sent: Sat, Jan 9, 2021 9:54 am Subject: [Oe List ...] grief and the New Year
Good morning from the Left Coast. When Twitter permanently removed Donald Trump's account yesterday, I became aware that what we are experiencing is a sudden, precipitous 'political death.' What I think we're all experiencing, to some degree, is the 'layering' of many forms of personal and corporate grief. Simultaneously. So that focusing on one layer can obscure the others. So, rather than expound on grief like a theological expert, I'm just offering an outline of my thoughts, so that each of us can build upon them or change them in true 'corporate mind' fashion. I'm sure that Jack will be up for this, and maybe many more! Here goes. 'Happy' New Year! Marshall
Grief and the New Year
being the sensitive and responsive part of society (HRNiebuhr) awareness that we participate in the stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance (Elizabeth Kubler-Ross) political grief – sudden loss of a hero/saint: assassination, dethronement, impeachment (Humpty Dumpty effect) social grief – loss of our ability to be physically together in community and denial of our desire for others (Covid-19 pandemic) economic grief – loss of job, career, means of sustenance, economic fabric (the Great Depression) personal/familial grief – loss an intimate relationship due to death, divorce, miscarriage, or estrangement grief over our awareness of our mortality, anticipatory grief, mass extinction events grief is a natural social process holding on and letting go grief and transformation individual grief and corporate grief denial of the grief process, inability to grieve, ‘rebound’ relationships
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