Opening Up the World's Heart Chakra

That was really the first time you were asked about why you started the Evolver Network? ...January 2010??? wow.

The participators in the Evolver blog system have asked this of eachother many times over... and over. and over.

I've been kind of wondering where the your answers were all this time... thank you for the beautiful reply. I agree that we must all continue to "share our passions, joy, and energies as we help each other learn, grow, and evolve." Without our heart chakras open, and everything that comes through that, we cannot be truly effective in bringing the much-needed love into the human population during these trying times...

...and this is a very worthy cause for starting a network like Evolver... for now. (no sarcasm intended)

My questions to you in response, are:

1. Are there plans for enacting any kind of unified call to action through the Evolver framework, or are we leaving the action to be thought of, acted on, and supported by the regionals alone?"

2. If not now, what will be the indicators in our community here, that the time is right for a unified approach?"

These are not intended to be demeaning questions... I'm just wondering, as I see many spores across the nation (including Seattle's), struggling to find a project or projects to agree upon and move on... We talk all day and night on Evolver here, with many, many people's attention... When does the next level of involvement/evolvement come into being?

Thank you in advance for your reply Jonathan...

-ned.

After posting my last comment publicly, I had the serious notion in my belly that you may just write back… and this possibility spawned a LOT of thought in myself. I went back over and read my comments and questions several times, all the while thinking about what I have learned lately about local action vs. mass action and homogenization vs. diversity, and was actually composing a comment to oppose my previous one...

But I'm glad you beat me to the chase.

As you can see, I, and many others like me are caught between this extreme desire to do something radical and the knowledge that everything is happening at it's own pace for it's own reasons… I am, due to my own thought processes, impatient… and seeing the world seemingly going to pieces around me, I wish for a mass (r)evolution of sorts, without thinking of the necessary steps for that (r)evolution to successfully take place and sustain itself…

I am glad that my impatience prompted me to post those jolting questions, because through them and the responses garnered, I (we) learn more…

I love the fact that Evolver is here for us. I love the fact that people can talk all day and night about the things that they do and do not believe in and spread that knowledge to thousands of others like myself. I love that through this talk, action is being germinated and sprouting all over. I love the fact that the Evolver Spores are actually a form of action in themselves.

I know that you guys are doing what you set out to do... I mean hell... I'm speaking up right now, and thinking about things a lot more deeply. (which is much more than I was doing before) … and for this I thank you, thank you, thank you.

I will continue to take the small actions necessary to produce a more effective large action when the time is right.

-ned.

I feel that I have almost totally changed the subject of your original post and feel silly for having done it...

Perhaps we could turn the comments back towards the poster's original subject: "The Opening of the World's Heart Chakra"

In all honestly, I don't really know what all this entails... Would anyone be willing to shine a light on what this opening means to them?

I probably have something to learn here...

Because of Evolver my Heart Chakra has been completely opened in the last couple months. Getting involved with this website and starting my own spore is one of the best things that I've ever done. Looking at everything this community has accomplished so far in just the short amount of time it's been around is amazing. I encourage anyone that is thinking about doing a spore to do it. It is an amazing feeling to participate in a spore, and a even more amazing one to put one together. I would also love to do anything I can to help Evolver HQ. If there is anything I can do online from Sacramento let me know.

Jonathan, my friend, this place is an oasis on the 'net. Isolated as I am I've yet to meet other evolvers in person but interacting with them here does a lot to keep me going, to keep me reassured that I'm not crazy (well, not too crazy), that there are others out there, that the Awakening is real. It's hard to remember this surrounded as I am here in Kingston - a hotbed of social rest, as one wit put it - by dogmatic materialist scientists, die-hard capitalists and various apologists for the vEmpire who figure "I've got mine...." The Left Brain rules in this town and it's like a Black Iron Prison around the heart chakra sometimes.

Your work here is greatly appreciated. It is absolutely worth it. Perhaps one day we shall meet and I can thank you in person but for now, this will have to do:

Thank you!

Namaste,

PG

The Revolution is Within

I don't want to rain on your parade in any way, Jonathan, but there is much work still to be done at those events. Maybe just by working the event gives me an opposite idea of things. I've talked to people about how if I'm volunteering I'm not necessarily there to enjoy. Its bound to be stressful but I would like to let people know that if just a little more help came along, it would be much easier to make these things happen.
I know that Corinne (the regional coordinator of the NYC Spore) is working this very minute on the next Spore. I just met with her not an hour ago and she puts in serious amounts of time to have people like Larry come across the country. There were also other issues beyond heat with the venue that I would not like to mention and I'm sure you (Jonathan) are aware of.
My personal experience of that night were slightly more dark. I work a 9-5 and directly upon getting out, I head out to buy some wine and grab a PA system. I carted those items over (I forgot the cart at the venue later that night) but when I get to the event I find that someone has already taken care of all musical/sound equipment and the bar has been replaced by the venue's people. So an hour and a half of lugging things around was wasted. Right when I arrive, I am trying to help keep the volunteers organized while trying to deal with now useless stuff. That went okay but not all volunteers that said they would come showed. Shout out to Troy and Eric for being volunteers I never met before that night and being so SUPER helpful! Sorry to SuzQ who I seemed to have a serious communication problem with over emails.
Once we have the door set up, I realize that it was my responsibility to not only organize who's doing what but also to take care of change and the cash box. Maybe that was my own flaw but it resulted in asking around for change frantically for our first guests. Luckily, Charlie who was taking care of food offered up some initial change. (thanks Charlie!)
So then I ran out to get more change and along the way a couple volunteers asked me to carry a big rack of bottled waters.
Through out the night I ran out and got change every once and a while. I guess this half of the night wasn't so bad and I did get to enjoy the talk with Larry that I found very appropriate to what I was doing that night. So the first half wasn't so bad and maybe its necessary for me to relive it and see that I was actually in good spirits through out that.
After the talk I realized I had not eaten and was exhausted from all the scrambling earlier. A couple of my friends came by to check out the party and I was so hungry that I couldn't really communicate or make good decisions. I went out and grabbed some cash for the food provided but I found that there was only one item left that was not of the best quality, luckily the man giving out food gave it to me for no charge. I got to chat with the Baltimore people too and I found them really enjoyable.
I guess the rest of the night is where I think my friction comes in and maybe its my own fault.
I couldn't leave even though I was tired. I wanted to make sure that the rest of the night was a success.
There was this man named Jeff who had drank too much that night. He was shouting at the bartenders for $2 so he could get a beer and when I asked him to stop he started shouting at me for $2. Then when he found he wouldn't get that from me he started shouting at anyone for $2 which of course he didn't get. I started worrying about this guy because in someways everyone at the events are my guests and I try to treat them like they're in my home. So me and a couple other people really don't want to have to shove this guy out but he's being a huge jerk so we try talking with him but he's drunk and probably did not understand. Eventually, Charlie (thanks so so much AGAIN) convinces the guy they're going to fight, tells him to come outside, and just watches him stumble into the street where he (Jeff) forgets what he was doing.
Later, I had a couple good friends there like I said before and one of which was a person who's really gone through dark days. At one point his head poked up while we were talking and he said, "I know what crack smells like and that is it!" So now I'm worried about our guests and start thinking, "what the hell is going on? crack, drunks? This is no fun anymore." I decide that we need to start cleaning up on the first floor (people were partying on the second). There were only a few of us NYC Spore Volunteers there to clean up, I'd say three. I recruited my two previously mentioned friends to help sweep up and carry the generous donation of an awesome sound system (I forgot your name sorry) back to its car. We move all the tables, throw out trash, sweep up, and mop up. Then we head upstairs and wake up sleeping people. The DJ upstairs shut down and we made sure the upstairs was cool.
So, I don't know why I really mention all this anymore, I know Corinne goes through a lot more work for these than I do. I just want to let guests and people in the community know that if they want to see these events be really truly awesome and what they really can be, they take A LOT of work. When we only have 2 or 3 main people making things work, its very hard to keep it going. I felt really bad the rest of the weekend and in general not happy about the way things went. I felt like some sort of underling of a giant ego party. I will not be helping at the next Spore, I want to spend my time taking care of myself at the moment and not drunks or drug addicts. I felt like I had worked a 16-18 hour day (that's including my own normal workday) and I didn't feel too good about it. I'm sorry if this sounds bitter and there are many points that I probably don't see. I'm just sick of moping, sweeping, and moving stuff at Collective Hardware. I am sick of people dancing to DJs when they're high or drunk under the guise of changing the world. Sorry again and maybe I'm so wrong in so many ways and you'll convince me to come back somehow but I am fed up and I don't feel good about what I worked on.

Jonathan, thank you for your beautiful post. The image of Damien peeling his shirt up to reveal the tattoo is such an awesome synchronicity.

That's all I was going to say, until my eye caught the discussions and frustrations expressed on this page as I scrolled down to get to the commenting area. I don't have much energy for writing long posts right now, but I am moved by the energy I'm seeing expressed on this post and elsewhere around the site... of folks exploring bigger structural and tactical issues of how we will collectively "evolve" Evolver, and frustrations with our current limitations.

It feels like many of the problems are due to successes- that we've grown so quickly and are having trouble keeping up with ourselves (getting our ducks in a row, so to speak). I look forward to finding the most effective way for all interested parties to collaborate in solving some of these problems-- feels like an Evolver "steering committee" would be a good thing to consider-- a structure with an open feedback loop including passionate community members in addition to Regional Facilitators. What would that look like?

Until then, I'm struck by the thought that the discomfort & frustrations that some of us are feeling during these growing pains is a valuable tool, and a natural part of the process. As I'm perpetually reminded in my personal healing work, pain is an integral part of the healing process, showing the body where to send energy.

The opening of the heart chakra can be a very painful thing - that's why so many of us have closed it off in the first place -- to avoid the intense pain of *caring*. It is helpful if we can sit in the discomfort, allowing ourselves to feel it while maintaining a neutral perspective, breathe into the pain, through the pain, and continually ask ourselves what we want out of this, where are we trying to go, and what's holding us back from getting there? how can we give that thing a little love?

lofty goals aside, 'saving the world' usually consists of mopping floors, cleaning up vomit, dealing with drunks and addicts, dealing with our 'dirty' egos and other un-pleasantries...ask any mother (wink). we'll get it right yet...

you just gave me chills.

bursting with love,
m

I considered doing a UK spore but I feel that doing a spore for three separate countries is far beyond my capabilities. Aren't most spored located in one particular city/country?

If the spore is to cover the whole of the UK then it should be located in London. I live in the capital of Wales, Cardiff so it would be impossible for me to organise.

I would suggest that the UK spore be split up into England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland or even into major cities. However, there seams to be a general lack of British people in general on this site so splitting it up would just further dilute the population.

If somebody were to arrange a UK spore based in London I would certainly try to help in any way I could and I'd try to bring as many of my Welsh brethren along with me to any events that were organised.

From my little corner of the world, I am encouraged that this discussion is happening. By which I mean to say HEY! This is happening in very real time. I could write a lot of words about how relevant this discussion is to my immediate sphere of World. But I suspect y'all know already what I might mean. Open heart. Patient thoughts. Good and bad weather. Trees grow long time.

The sun fire is the center heart chakra of the solar system.
The flaming molten core of the Earth is the heart chakra of the Earth.
just as our heart is our fire and spirit.
It is all a fractal like pattern.
You work is on level of the spirit...you are effecting Time itself. It is much more valuable than monetary rewards.
Besides more people are becoming aware of this site everyday.
Monetary rewards will follow.

The Evolvers have been great, under both Jay and the guy running it lately.

I've witnessed a lot of group formation here in Seattle come out of the events. The Jigsaw Renaissance that I'm working on is working towards hosting Spaceship of Imagination and Money is Water, and all our collaborations came out of conversations that began in circle discussions at the local Evolver. Further, I have heard about many other collaborations going on as well, -- so: Kudos!

In Seattle at least, the Evolver is working, connecting hearts, and people are talking, forming groups, and moving!