Awareness, the antidote to alienation, attracts the agreement you aspire to actualize, ALWAYS

Historians and archaeologists tell us that our species started about 300,000 years ago, in what is now Africa, and that we proceeded to spread across the world.

As we developed in society and spirit we became distinctive in various ways, forming what we now think of as races and cultures, with worldviews that made sense from the granted vantage points.

And then, as agriculture and technology progressed, we met each other again, in many times and places, and we continue to do so every day.  The narrative trauma of our human history is the result of this.

But we never forgot our roots, our integrated human spirit that first became aware so many millennia ago before going our separate ways. We have stories about this, stories like the Garden of Eden. Deep longings for integration in the mythic recesses of our collective past.

The result is two contradictory impulses within the human condition that we all experience deeply every day.

One is ALIENATION.

The other is AGREEMENT.

Both are ever present in our psyches and deeply fascinating to us.

Some authors, artists, philosophers, and scientists invoke a sense of ALIENATION, both from nature and each other, thanks to the unforgiving quality of nature, even within this miracle of Earth, and also the hostility and brutality with which we have treated each other upon parting ways, forgetting our family, and meeting again in suspicion.

This sense of alienation continues to flow today through even the most stable and integrated societies as people demonstrate inherent distrust for the benevolence of their brother and sister humans.

But the competing impulse animates us more strongly, which is why the world continues to improve.

In our hearts we recognize a deep kinship with all other humans, we recognize a similarly dissatisfying condition of pain and frustration, and we are moved by compassion to build cultures of peace and productivity in which included members are free to bring the light of their authentic gifts.

This is the impulse of agreement, and it is what all communication ultimately seeks.  Many philosophers, authors, artists, and scientists convey this as well, with both nature and each other.

Every effective leader, without any exception I can name, who has been allowed by the world to continue to work, has awareness of these opposing impulses of ALIENATION and AGREEMENT within each human heart, and comprehends this contradiction with deep empathy.

So, if you wish to build and cultivate a culture of harmony and productivity, full of effortless creation, you must constantly practice the art of overcoming alienation and forming agreement in 100% of your communication.  This will attract the action you seek, and build the culture you envision.

That’s what I mean by PURPOSE, because the only way to do it is to tap into the meaning of your historically unique perspective and tell a story about what you, and only you, can see.  That, and only that, is how we craft communication that overcomes alienation and actualizes agreement.  In all times and all places.

Memorize this alliteration: Awareness, the antidote to alienation, attracts the agreement you aspire to actualize, ALWAYS

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