On Unprecedented Results Belong Not to Individuals But to the Collective Body: The dream turned into reality
By george wesley dannells on Jan 7, 2009 in All categories
a computer algorythm takes into account all the variables before processing information further. But what the computer lacks is the ability to forge all the data to produce something new. Herein lies the potential for collective creativity.
Baha’I writings speak volumes about consultation.
And this is exactly what Bahai consultation aims to produce: Collective learning and deliberately allowing an unprecedented result that belongs not to the individuals but to the collective body.To be continued.
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Growth of One
The wife is away on pilgrimage, so I’m holding down this fortress of well-being for the moment. Sometimes I get assistance from my fellow fortress keepers.Concurrently, our third intensive program of growth has begun on Saturday. The night before I was musing to myself -and I should be ashamed for having such thoughts- that only a handful of people were going to show up due to the early hour. But during the night I had a dream about the meeting, and in the dream there were hoards of exuberant people ready for teaching! Then in the morning, when I arrived at the Center, I saw that the dream had turned into reality. I was stupefied.
