Unlocking more layers of our knowing, consciousness, and being as we make sense of the world.

I've been in the content creation world now for almost 10 years. In that time, I've done some great things, made some mistakes, learned how the media world works, how to get people's attention, and how to better make sense of the world.

One of the biggest passions for me has been bringing a new level of consciousness to the way we make sense of our world. To consider not just the facts of a situation, but a bigger picture.

Our world is rife with challenges right now. Perhaps more than we could have possibly imagined. There is a deep level of complexity to it all yet surface level, reductionist, and basic political framing rule how people make sense of the world. This in itself is a problem because people are then trying to solve problems in ways that are short sighted, narrow and that will inevitably create another problem somewhere else.

It's not helping because we aren't getting to the core of what is happening. We aren't defining our problems well. We aren't truly understanding the drivers of what is occurring in various situations in our world, including the ways large scale government or consensus narratives are leaving people in a trance. We're not including the level of consciousness driving the way we think, act, relate and choose to be.

To look at the 'bigger picture' might be to ask things like:

What are the cultural drivers within a story or situation? What worldview is driving the ideas or conclusions? Are the assumptions being made that are only held due to a lack of information? What else might be affected by an action or a solution taken? Who might be benefiting from a certain narrative, and how might that be coloring what facts are available or what story is going emerging? What game dynamics and incentives are at play that might be causing a manipulation of narrative or perceived solutions? What forms of societal or generational trauma are at play here, and perhaps coloring perspectives of a single event differently?

Most importantly, can we ask these types of questions while not jumping to rash conclusions and allowing anger to stick around for too long such that we lose sight of our ability to make sense. We don't get stuck in records of the past or old ways of looking at our world and instead open up for new perspectives to emerge.

Making sense of these things in this way requires us to slow down, be more intentional, curious, open, and embodied. I call this 'Embodied Sensemaking.' We've been practicing and raising awareness about this way of making sense of ourselves and our world as a core practice at Collective Evolution since our inception in 2009, fleshing out and refining the practice over the years.

Consider This...

During major global events, or quickly unfolding events, it is common for people to want answers immediately.

What's happening? Why? Who is involved? What will happen next? What should I do? Are we being lied to? Who is to blame? Is this a psy-op etc.

Getting these answers with certainty is usually impossible. But it doesn't stop millions of social media users from claiming they have all the answers. It can even drive us to want to take a stance of certainty on something because we feel uncomfortable being uncertain (a whole other topic to address.)

In seeking certainty, chaos ensues as people race to be FIRST to have an answer, often leading them to jump to conclusions that may not even make sense.

This is our current culture for many reasons. From a lack of capacity and resilience which adds to our discomfort with uncertainty, to media and social media dynamics of benefitting from being FIRST even if we are dead wrong, to our culture simply creating a mindless habit of moving fast.

In this chaos, so much is missed as we become stuck in the mind and perhaps driven by emotion.

We forget to sense how we truly feel about the global event, what it might mean for us, how people are being affected by it, the layers of human consciousness acting upon it. We forget all the things we don't know, aren't sure of or the layers of complexity at play. We often don't ask those questions about game dynamics, drivers or incomplete narratives - if we do, they are usually surface level and quick assumptions that usually come from our preconceived notion of who the bad guy is.

In this, we miss out on being conscious of the psychological, spiritual, emotional and other important physical drivers of global events. We also miss out on what our intuition or gut might have to add. By this I don't mean that intuition tells you the exact truth, this is a misconception. moe so, intuition provides us with useful cues around what might feel off, what might be misleading, what might be correct, what might resonate or where we might look next.

To be clear, I believe this problem is rampant in mainstream and alternative outlets for news. Both are generally operating at fairly limited levels of consciousness.