A designed-in characteristic of representative governments is that your representative does not speak for you; they speak for themselves. Since money is valued in that system, your representative's voice has already been bought by corporate interests, all the way up to the Supreme Court and Presidency of the USA. The only person who can speak for you is you. When you try speaking out in the current system you get pepper-spray in the face and added to the list of state-enemy terrorists.
There are astonishing differences between hierarchical and circular gameworlds (including galaxical, spiral, and toroidal organizational structures). Differences can be outlined in a comparison chart, as shown, but they boil down to the difference between leadership and spaceholding.
HIERARCHICAL LEADERSHIP: Degrades to control and manipulation to defend place in the hierarchy. Fear based. Autocratic decisions. Surrounds themselves with followers. Top-down - limits creativity. Leader is visible - stands out (See me!). Uses charisma, big ego, the mind. Source of threat - people give center away. Lone wolf. Single-fighter. The loudest wins - using a club. Leader thinks it is "my power." The people serve the leader. But must conform to company culture. Leader is a father figure - "Father knows best." Non feedback culture. Low drama. I win, you lose. Done for money. Objectives come from higher up. Mission statement is mere marketing. The position has the responsibility - not the person. Tries to avoid responsibility - "Pass the buck." Decisions made before meeting starts. The leader gets benefits, high pay, high status. Majority vote 51%. Gameworld for Gremlin competition. The biggest Gremlin wins. The culture of capitalist patriarchal empire. Based on scarcity - not enough resources. Leadership is a shadow principle. Creates slaves and drone followers.
CIRCULAR SPACEHOLDING: Spaceholder is a rotated role. Love based. Uses nonlinear meeting technologies. Uses multiple nonlinear decision-making processes. Bottom-up abundance and cooperation. Uses center, grounding cord, bubble. The ego has no place to stand because the middle of the circle is empty. Spaceholder invisibly uses a sword of clarity to navigate spaces. Spaceholder serves the team. Uses all 4 body intelligences: physical, intellectual, emotional (including archetypal feelings) and energetic - not just the mind. Context holders share distinctions. Circles use Rapid learning - a culture of ongoing feedback and coaching. Beep! Shift! Go! High drama. Winning happening. Done for high level fun, soul food and heart food. Uses Discovery Speaking and Dragon Speaking. The culture of archearchy (meaning the initiated archetypal feminine creatively collaborating with the initiated archetypal masculine to frame-up what is possible). Optimizes group intelligence. Objective is to access both linear and nonlinear possibilities and resources. Conscious use of Gremlin for holding and navigating space. A gameworld for archetypal lineages. Spaceholding is a bright principle. Creates empowered collaborators.
Leadership forces the existence of followership. Followers trade responsibility and choice for the illusion of security, acting like slaves or drones. Applying leadership in a circle forces the circle back into a hierarchy.
Circles function with a spaceholder, a context holder,
often times a scribe, a timekeeper, a Gremlin detector (identifying shadow principles and hidden purposes at work), and sometimes a
wanderer who keeps the group energy mixing. The spaceholder and the context
holder can be, but are most often not, the same person. One objective of a
circle is to empower as many context holders as possible.
The spaceholder position is rotated amongst participants, who are given rapid-learning feedback and coaching from others in the circle to improve their space-navigation skills. In a circular organization, power does not come from your position as it does in a hierarchy. There are no power positions in a circle because a circle has no end. The only thing you get to be in a circle is yourself.
A central purpose of a circle is to make a safe and empty space, that means without a candle, flower, crystals or other artifacts in the center -- because the open space gives better access to the nothingness needed for authentic creation. The space is used to liberate the nonlinear intelligence resources of each member of the circle in order to serve the common purpose. Spaceholding emerges from an entirely different skillset than leadership.
Hierarchies use two standard decision-making practices:
1. Autocratic (one person dictates, often before the meeting starts, and often from behind the scenes, meaning the autocrat is not even in the room but instead operates from behind the curtain)
2. 51% majority vote (with 49% losers)
Circles make use of at least thirteen nonlinear decision-making procedures, selecting whichever procedure best provides for the questions at hand, including Frying Pan, M.E.S.S. Process (Mayan Extraordinary Synergy System), Reign of Resistance, The Problem Is The Solution, Katiakitanga, The Genius Process, Ticking Questions, Follow Your Feet, Push-Pull, Mushrooms, Bellyaching, Journey Into The Earth, and The Exception Makes The Rule. Nonlinear decision-making processes often access unexpectedly-intelligent decisions that fit what is wanted and needed by the future through an expansion or shift of awareness, rather than modeling from the past.
People #Occupy-ing the streets have already taken their power back from the state. How is this so? Because unauthorized collaborative action with strangers is inconceivable for a slave of the modern culture system -- it is too scary when you are addicted to the illusion of security and comfort. #Occupy is the first and perhaps most difficult stage in shifting to adult human cultures on Earth, yet we are doing it!
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