I really like what You were saying John. It reminds me a lot of what a
psychotherapist whom I know in Paris, Jean-Michel Atlani, has developed in
his work on what could be termed the Psychology of Incarnation. I believe
this discussion is very important to organizational learning because it
goes to the crux of organizational behaviours, a basis which I feel is
underlying hierarchy of needs, and instincts.
In a vein similar to what Barry Dyer has put so succinctly as, "We are not
human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a
human experience.", Jean-Michel starts from the premise/observation that
we enter embodiment as pure Love/Oneness. The experience of the body and
from its care-givers, shapes how this Love manifests. The experience of
breathing for example, imprints that it can be received and given. Then
how the body at first, and later the mind and spirit is imprinted by close
care-givers, shapes how the individual then works and relates in life.
Because of the physical links to natural parents and to conception, the
dynamique of how Love circulates (behaviourally, physically, emotionally,
spiritually) between them imprints in a very powerful manner. Hence, much
of the individual's later relating, tries to shape inter-personal dynamics
to reflect this early imprint.
In the work which Jean-Michel and I am involved in, the way out of the
constraints of such imprinting, is in the direction of the True Self. It
is possible for individuals to let go of enough of their identifications
to experience this directly, and hence, their ability through their own
free choice to re-shape their Love Dynamique and their work and
organizational behaviours. [when I used to think that Choice was an
Illusion, I found out that I had not gone deep enough!] It suggests to me
that workplace cultures which acknowledge this direction to the True Self,
through respect for individual contributions and a lack of imposition of
attitudes which rigidly identify people, is moving in an empowering manner
both for its people and for the organization as a whole.
Doug Seeley Compuserve: 100433.133 Fax: +41 22 756 3957
"What is the Whole which brings the Inside Together with its Outside?"
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