The Rule of Awareness

Leslie Gadman and Cary Cooper
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Leslie Gadman: London South Bank University
Cary Cooper: Lancaster University

Chapter Chapter 5 in Open Source Leadership, 2009, pp 94-113 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The “rule of awareness” is based on the principle that pure spiritual potential is limitless consciousness, yet what you experience is circumscribed by your history of social interactions. From an ontological perspective, or being where you have been, this means that your history shapes your perception of reality or your “ideality.” As a consequence, identifying with what you see is like wearing blinkers that focus your mind’s eye on specific details, instead of on the whole of reality. Learning takes place when past experiences resonate with new distinctions and we open our awareness to new worlds of abundant possibility. Or put more simply, we only learn when what we expect doesn’t show up in the way we expect it to. Learning takes place when we feel compelled to explore these new worlds while existing in our present one. As the 3rd-century neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus said: “the way up is down and the way out is in.” In this chapter, we encourage you to go down and in to that quiet, creative, right-brain space where pure spiritual potential exists and is accessed. This is an ageless source of wisdom and guidance that flows from within and softly speaks to us. We invite you to open to that source of inspiration because it has so much to say, yet it is all too often overlooked. This is because most of us have too much going on in the logical left brain, the side that brings order and structure and to which we give so much prominence.

Keywords: Open Source; Relief Worker; Ontological Perspective; Clock Logic; Spiritual Consciousness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230236806_6

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