(be) Benevolution
Benevolutionaries are people committed to making this planet a more robust, equitable, consciously evolving, cared-for and caring place for all sentient beings. They wake up in the morning, day after day, and this impossible, inexorable care is twined with the very air they breathe. They work (and play) in a diverse range of spheres and vocations on scales large and small but always with an eye toward inclusion, depth and range.
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Future stories: Chile, climate and conciousness
Santiago, Chile exploded. We’re all entangled. Can we help weave the pieces, protests, pain and possibilities together? Create flourishing just lives for all? What stories must we write?
Cracks: where the light gets in?
As teargas grenades crack and voices ring out there’s crazy beauty in the Chile protests too. I dearly hope this is where the light gets in.
Confronting fear: A reflection on transformations
Unfolding in Chile—and around the world—is a representation of how fear and resistance to change impact. Yet it may restore interconnectedness. How might we heal?
Think, are you thinking? Transformations 2019
My people cried today. Enough is enough, they said Surely, enough is enough. We rise. We stand. We speak. Enough is enough. We take back our power.
Chile 🔥🔥🔥: transformation points
I’m crying for everyone in Santiago which exploded Friday night. Yet there’s hope with the pain. Is it simultaneously shifting us? Opening better futures?
Our better angels: dancing across beliefs
Hyper-polarized world? No thanks! John Kessler and YOUNIFY are harnessing consciousness development, up-skilling us, for our better angels to emerge.
Elegant attraction: our emerging universe
We can forecast a more beautiful future and catalyze it. We’re, universally, selecting emerging synergy; elegantly attracted order; new beneficial properties.
This is a beautiful talk on emergence, its significance and fundamental importance for humanity. Emergence, its connections and underlying science are laid out clearly.
Read on for a life-giving, fount of energy. Love if you like to think about this in terms of what is being created.
Ingrid: Jamii Bora benevolutionary
“Ingrid can walk through any slum in Nairobi without fear for her security. She is known and loved by the street people who she has always been good to. She is considered a white-skinned African.” Micro-credit, alongside being seen, heard, understood, believed in, and...
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Benevolutionaries, transforming ~ benefit
Benevolutionaries start where they are. Included in their spheres of direct influence are the multitudes they will never meet and times they won’t live to see.
They are wildly diverse. Some are superstars in their fields. There are inspring intellects. There’s driven and accidental heroes. Some are people starting something simple and finding themselves changing worlds. And, there’s everything in-between.
* Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist, and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans.
Muhammad Yunus’s quote is from his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture.
Catalysing, inspiring ~ benevolution
The stories for positive change on this site are across 3 broad categories:
- Beauty — posts on aesthetic and expansive experiences. Art, poetry, travel and emotions catalyzing evolution.
- Benevolutionaries — that’s this page! See above for stories and descriptions.
- Business — it’s meta-modern baby! Conscious collaborative climate and socially sane business is outcompeting our old modern model.
Background ~ better be…
(be) Benevolution aims to assist our deep longing. We are responding to a pervasive sense of the tragedies of our time and, simultaneously, experiencing an ardent awareness of possibilities. The site, its stories and perspectives are to help our agency and engagement – with the painful and the promising – for practical, ethical flourishing.
Stories from before 2019 are drawn from Kings Catch Fire and Greenmode – some of our previous explorations and engagements in personal, family, species, socitey and global thriving.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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