Weekly SPARK - Experiment 8
You create your worldview with ‘Is Glue’.
SPARK EXPERIMENT
Specific Practical Application of Radical Knowledge
SPARK- Experiment 8
You create your worldview with ‘Is Glue’.
(Matrix Code SPARK008.00)
NOTES: The word ‘is’ does not exist in nature, yet you use the word ‘is’ quite creatively (although unconsciously) to manipulate how you experience yourself, others, and your Potentials in the world. You use the word ‘is’ as a glue to combine two concepts together that would not stay together without your insistance. The glued formulation modifies your ‘worldview’, which is a personal interpretation you manage expand or diminish your Clarity and Possibilities to suit the Survival Purposes of your Box.
You are predisposed, first by modern culture’s training and then by habit, to glue together a worldview with diminished rather than expanded Possibilities. Inside this distorted image, you act as if you are trapped by the prison bars of your custom-made worldview! In this twisted condition you imagine yourself to be ‘safe’, not realizing that what you really are is self-disempowered. It is like killing yourself first, before anyone else can kill you, saving the others the nuissance of having to kill you, meanwhile thinking you are ‘safe’. You forget altogether that you yourself made the film playing out on your inner movie screen, and have, right with you, at all times and in every circumstance, the tools and skills needed to edit or remake the film whenever you want. All you need to do is unglue the ‘is’s’ in your mind.
‘Is’ manifests itself through numerous conjugations, for example: is, am, are, was, were, has, have, had, do, does, did, be, being, been, may, might, must, can, could, should, would, shall, will, and also the ‘not’ forms of these words, such as ‘is not’, ‘am not’, ‘are not’, and so on.
You fabricate the Stories in your worldview film by ‘gluing’ 2 or more independent concepts together using ‘Is Glue’, a tube of which always hangs as one of the 13 Tools on your Possibilitator Toolbelt.
For example, consider the statement, “Completing the job on time is impossible.” With your new Clarity about Is Glue, you can see that you have taken the phrase ‘Completing the job on time’ and you have glued it together with the quality ‘impossible’ using the Is Glue ‘is’ as the connector. If you were to separate the two phrases and look at them without the Is Glue between them, you could see that ‘Completing the job on time’ and ‘impossible’ had absolutely nothing to do with each other until you arrived with your tube Is Glue.
By using your Is Glue consciously, you could just as easily have glued the phrase ‘Completing the job on time’ with 1,000 alternate phrases. Each new Is Glue job would generate its own unique worldview Story.
You could, for example, have created: “Completing the job on time is lots of fun.” Or, “Completing the job on time is like an all night party.” Or, “Completing the job in time is an exciting adventure.” Or, “Completing the job on time is no big deal for this wild team.” Choosing which worldview Story you Is Glue together depends on the actual Purpose you want to serve with your creation.
The question to consider here is this: Is ‘Completing the job on time’ really ‘impossible’? Or are you making it impossible by gluing together such a formulation? Consider the idea that gluing the phrase ‘Completing the job on time’ to the phrase ‘impossible’ is actually ‘cross wiring’, meaning, not an actual truth, but rather a manufactured Story. Consider the idea that you are making ‘Completing the job on time’ to be ‘impossible’ through the action of gluing it that way in your mind, and then telling your worldview to others to coax them to agree that your newly made worldview is ‘true’.
Look at another common worldview that you can create by Is Gluing “He” with “wrong” using the Is Glue “is”. The resulting worldview becomes, “He is wrong.” Think of the new options that would open up if you became aware that you were actually making him wrong with the Is Glue. You would then have the option of making him into anything else you might choose. “He is committed.” “He is exciting.” “He is inventive.” “He is caring.” Each formulation creates a different worldview, and each formulation invites a different style of workability into the situation.
Consider how often you hear or use these infamous cross wirings: “I cannot do this.” “Resources are limited.” “My job is tedious.” “This is a real mess.” “Now we have a problem.” “This is bad.” “This is scary!” “We are certainly in a crisis now.” “This is confusing.” “This certainly does piss me off!” “This is hopeless.” “They are the competitors.” “We are lost.” “This cannot be done.” “I do not have enough time.” “I do not trust you.” “There is not enough money.” “I am tired.” Each mock-up invents a world of its own. If you regard the formulations as if they are ‘true’, then the world is limited by the design of each statement. If you regard the formulations as only one of 1,000 possible worldviews – illusionary prison films made from phrases glued together with ‘is’ – then you instantly gain the capacity to reinvent worlds. This is not a joke. This is the domain of the Possibilitator.
EXPERIMENTS:
SPARK008.01 TRACK YOUR OWN WORLDVIEW MAKING THROUGH THE JUNGLES OF LIFE For the next 7 days, stalk yourself. Follow the tracks of your Is Glue worldview-making and document your patterns in your Beep! Book. Each instance where you use the word ‘is’, perk up and capture an image of the worldview you are making right now. Make careful notes documenting which possibilities your worldview enhances, and which possibilities your worldview eliminates. Be clear and specific. This Experiment is to catch yourself immediately after the act of using ‘is’, then during the act of using ‘is’, then just before the act of using ‘is’, at which moment you gain a new option, which is to Is Glue a different worldview together. Break your patterns on purpose so you can see that your worldview is only a habitual pattern and not some absolute worldview.
SPARK008.02 TRACK OTHER PEOPLE’S WORLDVIEW-MAKING AS IT AFFECTS YOU For the next 7 days, track what other people around you are creating with Is Glue. It won’t take long for you to Notice how fast people Is Glue a worldview together and then step into it, thinking the world was like this all along. Perhaps they use a brand of ‘Super Is Glue’… The cost of imprisoning themselves in rigidly defended worldviews is easier to see from the outside. The frustrating scary part is when someone Is Glues a worldview that constrains you in some way, and they don’t care about it. If you have been Practicing building new worldviews, by now it is obvious how simple it would be for them to change their worldview, no problem. But the other people have not yet studied these S.P.A.R.K.s or practiced Possibilitator Skills. What can you do if someone else Is Glues a worldview together and it impacts you without your consent? How do you change that? This is a huge Culture To Culture question. For example, if the Is Gluers build a corporate gameworld that spreads plastic waste (think Coca Cola…) or toxic waste (think Bayer acquiring the cancer-causing glyphosate herbicide ‘Roundup’ when it purchased Monsanto for $66 billion in 2018…) assuming they can avoid the consequences. If you do not own enough stock in the corporation to be a controlling partner, how do you change their bylaws? Or how do you change the laws of the land if the heavily financed corporate lobbyists pay off the lawmakers with bribes? There is a new Archan profession called Gameworld Demolition. Perhaps you have a calling there? Meanwhile, we start Practicing. In your Possibility Team, sitting in groups of 3, the Client represents someone Is Gluing a worldview that negatively affects the Possibilitator. Coach, your job is to support the Possibilitator with Distinctions and Possibilities while they navigate into a Meta Conversation – which is a conversation about the conversation – with the Client, so that the Client reconsiders the design of their worldview. If the Client eventually comes around and wants to change the form of the worldview they have already Is Glued together, the Possibilitator can serve as a Gameworld Consultant and inform the Client that, fortunately, they have a spray bottle of Is Glue Dissolver hanging on their own Possibilitator Toolbelt. By spraying a couple squirts of Is Glue Dissolver onto their worldview, the original formulation slides apart into its component parts, and the Client can experiment with Is Gluing several new worldview designs until they find one that works better for all, including Earth’s ecosystems. Go for 15 minutes, then switch roles and continue Practicing until everyone has had a chance to Practice each role. Then reorganize into new groups of 3 and Practice again. Write and publish an Article titled something like: Using Metaconversations and Is Glue Dissolver To Reinvent Gameworlds.
SPARK008.03 PRACTICE USING DO-OVERS AS YOU PROTOTYPE NEW IS-GLUED WORLDVIEWS In your Possibility Team, sit in groups of 3. The Possibilitator tells the Client who they should role-play so that the Possibilitator has a chance to practice real-life worldview reformulations. When the Client hears the name of who they should role-play, they stand up, rotate 360 degrees, and as they sit down, they become the person who the Possibilitator specified to them. The Coach encourages the Possibilitator to vulnerably admit how the worldview they created causes the Client pain. The Coach and Client both give Feedback and Coaching to the Possibilitator about Authentically revealing what was going on for them before. And as the Possibilitator makes Proposals for new worldview designs, they also explain that the new design need not be perfect the first time, or even the third time. What works is to use Collaborative Communication and Radical Relating with the Client so that if either the Client or Possibilitator wants to Propose a new feature for the worldview design, the ‘death and resurrection show’ goes smoothly by using ‘Do Overs’. In Archiarchy, you get as many Do-Overs as you want on your way to creating a bright future together. This helps you to create a new worldview that is not held within the constraints of your previous Box. Try creating worldviews that give you an abundance of Possibility. Go for 15 minutes, then switch roles and continue Practicing until everyone has had a chance to Practice each role. Then reorganize into new groups of 3 and Practice again. Write and publish an Article titled something like: The Magic Power Of Do-Overs To Design New Worldviews.
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