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I believe evolutionary leaders and leadership
is the most important movement now happening on planet earth.
And what an evolutionary leader is,
in the deeper sense of it is picking up the impulse of creation
that's been going through for billions and billions of years, from no thing at all
to create energy, matter, life, animal life, human life.
And now human life has hit a crisis point.
And it's the first time in the history of any species
where a species becomes aware of its own evolution,
and becomes aware that by its own actions it's affecting its own evolution,
and the negative signals are it could affect its evolution to the detriment of life on earth.
Or... it could use its power of consciousness, creativity and innovation,
and science and technology to evolve the whole world equal to our deepest intention.
And an evolutionary leader wherever they may be, is one motivated like that.
And it's a new category...
And in my understanding of evolutionary leaders,
because every field is experiencing emergence as well as breakdown of old structures,
whether it be the religious structures, the corporate structures,
the university structures, political structures, within every one of those fields
there is emerging leadership, innovation, creativity...
and they have certain qualities in common.
I don't think we've ever brought ourselves together to see what are the qualities
that make one capable of attuning to what yet hasn't happened;
to feel such an enormous hope about it; and even more than just hope,
feel a genuine yearning to participate the whole way in giving your gift...
and a passion to express your unique part of the whole.
And the evolutionary leaders are a first collection
that was brought together by Dianne Williams and a couple of other people,
and Emily has played a very strong role in this....
Dianne's organization brought us together,
Deepak Chopra was the first person to collectively invite us,
we went down to La Costa, we had an amazing time,
and there we all were, we found each other.
Because almost every evolutionary leader has been a pioneer on their own.
And the yearning for community and communion and fellowship
among people who are stepping forward out of every single field that we have,
almost always being pioneers and not fully recognizing that there's a connectivity
on all those pioneers...
And perhaps the evolutionary leaders - not perhaps, IT IS the first I have ever been with
as one of those pioneers as a whole,
where every single person in that room is motivated
by his passion to express unique life purpose on behalf of the evolution of something.
One time recently...one of my passions is mapping and tracking.
I like to map; so I had a little morning session and the idea was -
that each one of these leaders would have to stand up...
It was very hard for us to get together because we're all leaders.
The first thing I said, "Let's go around...." there were maybe 50 people, 40 people in the room
and Steve and Diane were sitting next to me on a computer.
If each person would just stand up briefly... it's sort of what we were talking about.
- Tell me your name? - Lynn
Lynn - what gives voice to the passion that's motivating you to give your life -
for something that's emergent; and could you state in one minute what that is?
We went around one after the other for about an hour,
whilst Steven took notes, and tried to categorize
what functional categories that people naturally are part of.
And there was one man there who had been trying very hard to create global citizen...
- I think his name was... - Mark Gerson-
Mark Gerson; that's him.
Mark Gerson was there, working about collective global citizenship.
And what happened after we saw the connection of all these leaders
is that the global citizenry, when we all share our life purpose and go into -
these functional areas where we naturally express ourselves,
we could stay in the emerging world in our midst.
You could actually get a glimmer of it -
by this process even though it's not like we all... we thought maybe we'd have to do one project
but it's really still too diverse for that.
But the fellowship and the communion and the community
and then the communication into the larger world
We did ... where's the call to consciousness... this one...
We put this out and about 50,000 people responded.
They want to know what to do about the call for consciousness.
And we realized that the program that would even make that feasible
to respond to the number of people who would like to participate -
more fully in expressing their hopes...
it's the makings of the new world, it's right there.
So Emily... there's a press story of Emily...
Perhaps we had some challenges in deciding on any one thing to do
because there's also individuals.
Emily said, "Well we're going to have a show at the Royce Hall at UCLA
and you're all going to participate and I'm going to produce it."
And "Deepak, you will do this, Jane, you will do that...
Barbara, you will do this, Jason, you will do that..."
And we didn't pay attention to her for a while...
But then she got us all backstage and we realized she's the producer and we had to follow her.
because we didn't know really what to do. We didn't rehearse,
we didn't do our thing that we were supposed to be doing.
So this is the thing about Emily...
She took hold as the producer of the theater
and she had it orchestrated to perfection - was anybody there?
Yes, it was beautiful.
- Wasn't it? It was really, really beautiful. - It was a great night.
And she was able... some spoke alone, some spoke in groups,
but we all stood up there and I think there were... Emily, how many people were there?
You mean in the audience? About a thousand, right?
A thousand, at least.
It was a huge audience and I remember when I had my chance to speak,
and I stood right there at the edge and there was this sea of faces
all wanting to know how to create a new world.
It's really a marvelous thing and Emily helped us to produce -
this event that I think is the first time that evolutionary leaders have been able to share
to a large audience what evolutionary leadership is,
leadership for the emerging world and how people can participate.
So what I really feel is the importance of what you're doing here tonight
in having people support evolutionary leaders.
And just about everyone that I've talked to who is an evolutionary leader...
who's in this room, or you wouldn't even be here.
is just to say that I cannot think of a more important thing to do.
And I believe that we are at the threshold of a planetary movement now;
and from an evolutionary point of view, crises precedes transformation.
Problems are evolutionary drivers.
Nature takes jumps through greater synergy;
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
and we are as a collective emerging humanity,
anyone who is motivated by that inner impulse
to be more, to create more, to love more, to innovate more,
We I believe, are at the point of social synergy.
That's a boring word for love, community, communion and procreation.
And what this gathering is tonight is it is an example of that.
And everywhere I go... and I just wanted to show you these two things too...
I'm reading Steve Mcintosh's excellent book Evolution's Purpose.
And he's going through the whole scientific understanding and interpretation of evolution
to demonstrate that there is an innate purpose
in the evolution of our consciousness and the evolution of our species.
And in my book Earth 2012 and Beyond,
we're saying let's all convene and join together to show up in convergence
on December 22nd, 2012 with a celebration of what's being born...
What's emergent, what's created.
And we have 12 members of the welcoming committee, many of whom are evolutionary leaders
and we want to invite everybody to be part of this.
So I guess I want to say in conclusion that connecting and communion and communication
of this emerging community that is motivated from within by an impulse,
It is a spiritual impulse that manifests itself in expression...
in voice, in creative action...
are the pioneers, we are the leaven in the loaf of the body politic... it's rising.
And only the people in whom it's rising could possibly create a world that is uprising.
I mean, who else could do it?
So I guess I would just like to thank you for your support of evolutionary leaders
and to give it over to any questions or comments.
Yeah, okay...
I've read from various people that some people believe there's a percentage
of the population that kind of needs to consciously be on board to -
effect the actual change; do you think that?
There are several different kinds of estimates.
Somebody... I believe it was Maharshi, said the square root of 1% in TM...
because he was very interested in that deeper meditation could shift a system so that's one thought.
Another thought from Ken Wilbur is that...
he estimates about 5% of the people are now in what he calls "2nd tier consciousness."
2nd tier people can include all of it and they respect the better part of all of it
but they do not say "I am only that." They see the system as a whole.
And Ken's estimate is that there are about 5% of humanity now
who are veering toward the 2nd tier or whole system consciousness,
or evolutionary consciousness.
And if they could get another 5%...
10% would then be a turning point, in his estimate.
And the work that we're doing with his network and Earth 2012, Steven Dynan and -
our event producer which we are all doing something with,
is wanting to get a hundred million people on the planet
feeling an experience of awakening and connecting together.
Hartmap... Are you familiar with Heartmap?
They have a big project called Global Resonance, heart coherence.
The head of Heartmap told me that his estimate is -
that our life support system could go.
Therefore, nature has to have built in a quicker way
for the evolutionary positive impulse to happen. It can't be just in a linear manner.
So the nervous system I think has come in just in time
to be infused with this kind of impulse;
all of our communications, our writing, our work and our planetary celebrations
so that we could experience in our lifetime
what it feels like to have a consciousness shift on planet earth.
We are right at a point of having to test out if we could destroy ourselves.
My own intuition is that we're right at the threshold
of that lower complexity consciousness shifting us towards
let's say a communion of those already moving to higher consciousness.
So it's not everybody has to change; it's the ones that are changing need to be in communion.
From my own deepest intuition about nature,
it's enough; that nothing is missing. Everything we need is given.
If we are aware of the evolutionary potential.
And I think if we could mature other areas of this movement...