ad 1) Yes, I understand that’s what it’s about. And that’s why I want to come ;) And yes, diversity is an inhibitor — it’s hard to translate each other to each other. There are so many concepts and words and it gets very confusing. I mean, even the people doing something super close to me might mis-take something I say or do. The challenge is misunderstanding or not-quite-understanding is omnipresent (think the tower of Babel, humanity un-learning how to speak the same language).
ad 2) Yes, overwhelm is a perspective. I want to learn more about overwhelm. I do see it as a choice. Because the world is as complex as it is whether we are overwhelmed or not, and something in me feels like overwhelm is suffering from the story that we have to do something with it. I don’t have that. I see opportunity, not overwhelm. But many of us are overwhelmed and that’s a huge challenge.
ad 3) True. In the discussion about the US-internal politics, I hear that more people are ready to have the real discussions than we are aware. This is just my gut feeling but it seems like 20% of the population understand that “being right” isn’t getting us anywhere. That we need to listen. But mainstream offers hardly any tools to do that. That’s why people resort to voting etc, i.e. they use tools that are not getting them the spirit and results they are yearning for because they don’t know that there are better tools. And that leads me back to the “marketing question”. Being wanted does not equal being welcomed because we have a hard time reaching and explaining why we think our tools are a solution to the people who yearn for them. Just waiting until people google (figuratively or literally) the keywords leading the technologies of reunion might not be enough. That’s leaning heavily on the “I am doing good work and people will come” approach. If that were true, we’d already be there. I mean Buddha and Jesus have nailed it thousands of years ago. There is hardly anything more profound or wise to add — yet, it’s not happening.
