Fellowship Meetings

Roles

Weighty Friends
- Wise Elders, Respected by the Community as such
- Humility / "Staying Low"

Slow Down. Be Present.
Counter the tendency to rush towards:
- What might sound "right" in a rush, but not actually be the Wise Right thing.
- What might get us individual acclaim (because I spoke the "right" thing).
- What might give me power / dominion / hierarchy over others
- "Charismatic leader" effects of "fast" meetings
Engage in clearer, deeper, more emergent thinking, listening and sensing
- Pay special Attention to Weak Signals that would otherwise be downed out
- Deeply listen to anyone who has a concern / nag / intuition that a course of action or potential, if undertaken, could hinder our ability to progress towards The Goal.
Revelation
- Uncover deeper meanings, potentials, and goals
- Allow higher order solutions to emerge that reconcile and resolve the concerns
Deepen Right Relationship in Community
Deeply respect and value the (spirit / inner guide / spark) in each person and in our community together

Quaker Meeting
Revival Meetings, in which people are brought into synergy and alignment, and the energy is Aimed in a Wise Right Good direction
Rallies where energy is coalesced and then Aimed at a Good intent.

Political rallies where people "rally" and synergize, and then energy is pointed towards a negative direction.

Pete brought in a theory of how brains work (William Calvin's How Brains Think, etc.)
Ringing in response to the stimulus
neighbors get a little of the signal from that...
they try to harmonize / resonate...
and each one has a neighbor on the other side trying to influence it to...
First the process of reception
the the conscious knowledge of an object
then different neurons start singing the tune of what they think it is
- some think its a ball
- some think its an apple
With the sensations coming in and neurons singing - end up with choirs of competing throughts about what we are seeing...
end up with clusters that have convinced themselves that it is an apple or tennis ball
recruit more and more neighbors...
there is a point where it makes
and depending strength of resonance and input coming in... then suddenly the whole thing tips and everyone agrees...

Jordan's current best understanding is that this is also how bees make decisions...
by clustering around potential solutions and "dancing" for them
The bees who believe the most and are dancing the loudest end up with all the others who are less "convinced" joining the one dance...
So it is similar resonance / emergence towards unanimous group consensus...
reference a book called Honeybee Democracy?