Preface
Bongi: 14/4/21 Great edits Roz. Moved to editing for plain english/readability. Simpler still. Still need to add other names and instruments to the band analogy!
Reviewed by RS: 14/4/21. Minor amendments. Agree that the stroll in the forest should live elsewhere. Other comments:
Asterisk at the end by “Onward Team Human” – is this supposed to link to a footnote?
Joachim: This is gorgeous. It is also a dedication to Samara and its contributors, should we move it there? Totally agree that the stroll in the forest is a different section.
This book (story, journey, cycle, learning) is many things. It is a co-created, emergent expression of both a group of individuals. It is the call of a new Being. It is the story of Samara's gestation. It is the trail of breadcrumbs. It is the initial coding of how She works and where She is moving to. Most importantly it is a window into why She is here and what She is here to do.
As with all wholesome efforts, this form is the result of a mixture. A mixture of people and higher principles. A mixture of ideas, connections and something un-nameable, but essential.
Stand with us at the beginning of this Journey. Look out towards a massive, wide open field. It's a field of possibility, but see it like grassland. This beginning, right now, is one of wide-open gratitude. Standing side-by-side, we look together to the Horizon of the unbounded regenerative force.
The mountain range just below that horizon is the movement of movements that is the Regenerative Renaissance. These mountains move quickly for mountains, for Gaia has need. This is the nature of the ground we walk upon, and we are grateful for its dynamism. Seeds grow on these slopes. People and DHO's are growing on these slopes, and the life of that soil moves through each of us, growing with yearning to see a more equitable, balanced, evolved and thriving world. Thanks go to life for this movement!
The flow of this life moves through this part of an ongoing symphony. The virtuouso violin, viola, cello and piccolo of many mentors have woven threads that tie the melody together: Joachim, Rieki, Paulo, Joost and Keala. Work out amongst yourselves which instrument is yours... or just forget about it and keep going! The world needs your song and harmony! May you continue to refine and spread your wisdom and experience in a way that endlessly regenerates your purpose.
Each and every player deserves the joy they feel when the audience reverberates. This helps us see which parts of the song are worth rehearsing, repeating and evolving further. This new band is made up of an eclectic mix of travelling players that would enliven any song. Thank you, Drigo, Roz and Irina; you called the band together and started rehearsals, as well as putting the sign above the door. Thank you to Tyler who rolled in the grounded, structured beat of the Taiko that keeps us on track, no matter how the melody shifts. Thankyou..
- Jared, Justin, Alan, Fabi, Bongani, Dimitry.. Add name add instrument ;)
No musician would learn to play well without the schools, colleges and conservatoires they learn in. They would have nothing to play without the deft hands of the instrument makers, who craft these tools in solitude and in tandem. We thank the groundwork and dedication of the builders in Hypha and the school of SEEDS, for fostering our sessions and providing us a Home. We recognize and honour your careful hands in all we have touched and lovingly made music with. We also thank our allies and predecessors an adjacent campus: the Ambassadors Academy and their home the Movement Building Circle (MBC) wing. Many in Samara have enjoyed playfully benefitting from classes and receiving the insights of the Angels who guide this evolving container of learning. We learn from seeing and being part of the larger purpose that MBC has been focusing on for some time.
We are grateful to Samara Herself. Her Yin soul is what we sense into and gain nourishment and support from. Her Yang body, though just a baby, is growing quickly. We dedicate our efforts each day to the distinct regenerative force that evolves and animates it. As individuals with identities, perceived needs, names and forms we are grateful for what meets the needs of this trans-personal body and being, and to the family it lives within.
The shifting of form is always a challenge and a learning for the indivi-dual, so ultimately we thank the lessons which help us accept changes when they come. We thank the emerging principles which help us mature enough. Mature enough to relinquish a form when Samara needs us to. Mature enough to uphold a structure or boundary when Samara needs us to. Most of all we are grateful for the integrity of the people here, which makes all of this work.
We hope that like all good stories, this one captures you enough that the words fall away, the characters disappear and you find it speaking to you. Pick up the threads that have meaning to you when you look out towards the landscape oflandscape: organizations, DHO's, Movements and the Regenerative Renaissance.
May this story live on in youyou. andMay it birth more of the quiet dreams of the soil of the Regenerative Renaissance into something Real. Let it reach You, and specifically the Human in You that is the same in us both, and which rises to the call of "Onward Team Human"!*
With Love,
Samara and Her First Authors
Not sure how the below fits here in preface. Suggest for somewhere else and simplified - BW
In fact, the very idea for this book started with a gentle stroll through a forest, a virtual forest that is..
(click on the image to enter the forest and contact a Samarian if you want some company!)
As stewards of this forest we are seeking, (just like you are seeking in your stewardship in many areas) to nurture and learn in a way which supports a diverse and dynamic environment. May this environment serve multiple needs on multiple levels, but particularly the regenerative needs for growth and contribution, so that we can manifest the purpose that holds us together.
Like any good book (story, journey, cycle, creation), this is one that speaks of the Hero's Journey in each of us. It's about a beginning which calls us to act, the finding of a tribe, the meeting with a mentor, the inspiration to climb and the willingness to commit to going through the cave together to emerge into something new.
This journey is very new for Samara (ns), but already this universal pattern is playing out and the journey has fundamentally changed each individual who has stepped into it. The something new is emerging and we want you to walk through and out of the cave beside us into another dawn, familiar, but alive and new.
Inevitably diversity implies a greater variety of different points of view and this is a fundamental dynamic in any group, let alone those that seek to decentralise control, decisions and power and distribute authority. No story would be complete without seeing all the stages in a cycle and no D-HERO can realise their gifts and identity without every feature of a complete journey.