Why me? Why you?

This series of posts is dedicated first-among-equals to E because she needs the results of this research, she needs it all, and she needs it now.  Having her in mind helps focus and hone these words to what is needed this instant, here.  (And of course, it is all meant for me as well. It is ever thus.)  Although this post may sound very different, it is intended as a continuation of my love letter to E and to B and to myself and to the year that is passing.  To my ears, this post sounds challenging and a bit annoying.  Yet even that is not a bad place to start. I am happy to have written it at all.

Today's post is a chance to clarify who this research is for--who is the audience. Why you?  Why me?

First, let me start with that research phrase that my non-traditional thesis advisers gave me.  This phrase applies to you to whom I write these words, though others can listen in:

The world needs a world prophet and you are one, so get to work and learn as you go.

The title of "world prophet in training" is a job description.   The world needs men, women, children, and others who choose to inhabit this job description and learn to give what it requires.   The "job requirements" are individually designed and must be owned.  No two prophets are ever given the same.  No one else can take your part.  Are you willing to teach yourself to give what only you can give?

World Prophet is a joint calling.  We are called to join together.  There is work to do on both the outer and the inner levels that can be done only together.  As we each "be ourselves", we join together.

The "job" of the World Prophet, the job that can only be done truly by those who come together, is to set the Definition, Direction, and Purpose (DDP) of the world garden.  Even having one world prophet is qualitatively different than having none.  But when it truly "takes off" and becomes something unprecedented is when there is a large collection of "world prophets in training" acting as one within a single group Coning.  The coning has to be shaped when there is such a large group -- that is part of what the "research" of my PhD program with nature is about.  Not everyone need join this shape or this Coning.  There are many callings and many ways to say, "yes!" to them.  Yet my calling is to point in the direction of this shared shaped group coning and call together those who will.

Here are a few of the "articles of faith" with which I write these posts:

• You will be happy and joyous to the extent you accept and own your part in creation.   Engage.  You were built for engaging.  The results as such don't matter.  Just engage.
• For those who are called as World Prophet, true joy will come from getting to work as a world prophet, in training.  Some things are so worth doing that they are worth doing badly.
• Abandon all good ideas.   Good ideas will not make you happy.  If you are doing something because it is a good idea, you will disappoint it and it will disappoint you.   Good ideas are never who you are.
• Honor the challenges of life.  Let your challenges show you who you are.  Whatever the challenges you face, it is always your challenges that show you where your courage is, and then the grace beyond the courage.  Don't be distracted by your reactions to the challenges you face.   It is the challenges themselves that show you who you are.
• You are given by a Will which you did not invent and which you do not own.  Own this will by making it yours, complete and whole and free.
• Have fun.