3.9 Timeless Wisdom, Principles, and Values
As we followed the Golden Threads, we discovered that there was a timeless and universal set of Wisdom, Principles, and Values and caused people, societies, and living systems to flourish.
They were well known to all people of Goodwill.
Yet despite being universally known, we had struggled mightily to Operationalize them into our Way of Being as human species here on planet Earth.
We began developing a list of Concepts And Ideas as a kind of Lexicon or Rosetta Stone to help us bridge across linguistic differences.
This list below is a rough Work In Progress, but it will give you the sense of the Spirit from which the System flows, and its Values and Anti-Values.
We know that Wisdom is the perfect perspective of the One, Principles are derived from the Logos of the Universe, and Values are contained within and ordered by the Meta Value.
These are all domains of the Absolute, which cannot be concretized.
Yet nevertheless we can begin to articulate and illuminate elements of the Whole, as icons or pointers towards the Ultimate Reality that lies Beyond.
Following is a short start to hold the field.
Values
First, if you have not already read it, read Values and Universal Values.
Together they forge a very strong energetic field holding the space for what we Value and consider Good.
From these Values we can derive Principles that we believe will help bring into Reality That Which The Community Values.
Principles of Governance We Believe to be Approximately Wise
1. Our System of Governance should harmonize the Human System with the Living System
2. The Logos of the System should progressively conform itself to the Logos of the Universe
3. Our System of Governance should organically complexify itself from the bottom up, according to the guiding Logos.
4. Everything is a System
5. Every System is Interdependent and Interexistent
6. Right Relationship in an Interexistent Whole is Love
7. Systems Should Help and Not Harm The Systems They Contain, the Systems That Contain Them, and the Systems They Interact With
8. Every System Should Be Respected As Sovereign and Autonomous
9. Sovereign and Autonomous Systems with Conscious Agency Should Voluntarily Collaborate in Service of The Goal, for the Good of the Whole
10. Sovereigns May Not Violate the Free Will of Other Sovereigns in their Domain of Authority
11. Domains of Authority Should Be Determined on the Basis of Voluntary Consent
12. The Basic Unit of Sovereignty and Conscious Agency is the Individual
13. Individuals Should Forge or Join Circles
14. Circles Should Organize and Federate
By forming Sub-Circles, Super-Circles, and Collaboratory Circles
15. Immediately Related Circles Should Be Double Linked
Doubling linking creates connection, energy and information flow, and equilibrium / balance in the System.
16. The Total Nested Set of Circles Should be Unified by One Thing at the Absolute / Highest Level of Abstraction
17. The One Thing Should Not Be Concretized
18. Decisions Should Be Make Through a Process of Discernment and Consent in Each Circle
19. Decisions Should Be Transparently Communicated Up and Down the Linked Network of Circles
20. The Total Network Should Align Its Energy and Resources To Produce Throughput of The Goal Via a Network of Commitments
21. All Systems Including the Whole Should Use Feedback Loops to Learn and Get a Little Better Every Day - Continuous Elevation Towards The Goal