"A Course In 'Us'"
'WE' grew up, learning in our families...'words, values, ideals, beliefs'...internalizing this 'family-socialization' as 'foundations' to our lives...'foundations' that 'we' learned as 'real'...'true'... 'unquestionable'.
It's basically a universal process and result.
Parents teach us 'to be'...and 'we'...try to 'be'...that.
Families use those 'foundational tools' to this day...to build 'ME'.
Rare are families who taught 'me' to question whether family 'foundations' were or weren't real or true...or how and why to question 'all'...thereby granting 'me' permission to do so. After all...hadn't parents, too, internalized 'all foundations' in their families as unquestionably 'real and true'.
But...can you sense what is 'real and true' change... between small face-to-face bands...and larger communities where our social-beliefs came to 'live'...i.e., where the 'property-concept' and our multitude of propert- subservient gods...came to live...to dominate?
Increasingly, across time, while 'we' were internalizing and believing...listening to parents as if they knew...'all'...all around 'us'...the world was changing.
New and more dangerous 'predators' learned to hide amidst our 'foundations'...moved into our families...moved about our communities...fooling us into thinking they were one of 'us'...and cared about 'us'.
Isn't it way, way past time to illuminate and lift...'what is real'...and 'what is not'?
Lift why we were led to 'mimic and parrot' family and community social beliefs...'real or not'? Lift why we weren't taught to query 'us'...to understand 'us' in our universe better...
including understanding how better to protect 'us' from the predators 'we' birth?
'WE' Are 'THE' Social-Problem... And Its 'ONLY' Solution
"The 'Course' invites all readers to sit and breathe and really engage with emotional openness...
such openness best possible in a small reading team (2–5)...'small' to reduce the social-space absorbed by having 'too-many' participants to be an effectively accessible and shared learning-space for 'all'.
"The volume of this Course's readings and work, follows from the roughly 250-380 generations of 'us' (depending on when 'inequality' was established in a geographical area). Successive generations that have kept 'us' growing in our number...structurally separating 'us', increasingly...
from our most socially-informative, supportive and impactful world of 'face-to-face...eye-to-eye.
Separated from our fundamental learning-environment...that demanded mutual-caring and shared information-reliability in our small hunting-bands in which evolved the modern 'us'. Evolved this brain in face-to-face, eye-to-eye interwoven-identities of interdependency.
Separated by 'too many'...spread across too large a space...we've been relationally and perceptively diminished without full-sensory, close, informative relationships to most persons now proximal and somehow impacting us without our knowing them...or understanding our mutual impact.
Like infants...we have waited and waited for someone to come fix 'this'...'fix' us...fix 'all'.
For millennia...no one has come. 'Gods' have never bothered to return.
We have a ton of work to do to dig out from under the debris of our socially-imposed delusions and adaptive self-deceit...all assisting the differential-benefit of the elites...at cost to 'us'.
Dig out from the learned debris that enables and ensures the filling of our 'Daily Death Ditches'
...every single day...convincing ourselves those bodybags are not filled...with 'my child'.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WORK THIS COURSE ALONE!
IT TAKES AN 'OTHER' FOR AN 'I' FOR A SOCIAL 'ME' TO EXPLORE 'WE'. BUILD A TEAM!
Minimum: 2 people | Best Results: 3-4 People | Maximum: 5 people
How Teams Learn Together
Probably the first attempt at a global learning experience to integrate mind, body, and planet relationship-awareness skills as the most fundamental and underlying tools towards our collaborative team practice in community engagement and problem solving. Each chapter ends with team projects focused around 'our' mind, body and planet:
Mind Projects
Collaborative inquiry frameworks for understanding our social dysfunctions, abusive power structures, exploitive belief systems and more...through guided team inquiry.
Body Projects
Physiological activities for our social body-awareness and wellbeing, found in understanding our socio-biology while challenging team health-perceptions, and rejuvenating body-activity.
Planet Projects
Cosmos/planet-integration practices for re-awakening our 'child-wonder' in sensory-awareness and abundant regenerative relationship with neglected Earth systems...a part of 'us' since 'forever'.
Understanding Why Collaborative Learning Works
The Biological Foundation
The Course's collaborative learning framework addresses our systematic conditioning and learning that makes organizing feel uncomfortable, socio-biologically difficult. Understanding these socio-biological barriers is essential before beginning the reading team journey.
Essential Reading Before Starting
Our ' Getting Started guide' explains why organizing feels socio-biologically difficult and provides practical steps for overcoming learned 'social-isolation' that prevents collaborative capacity.
Understand Biological Readiness →The Course provides systematic species-recovery learning that communities have failed to teach since elites emerged. Start with understanding why collaboration feels difficult, then build your reading team.
Ready to Begin A Transformative Collaborative Journey?
The 4-book Course provides the learning framework for species-level transformation through reading teams of 2-5 people
Remember: This Course goals can only be obtained through collaborative-inquiry, by design, not individual reading. If 'we' start out thinking 'I' can do this alone more easily than together...that's the elite pulling you into the fantasy of 'individual success' while leaving most others behind.
Find 1-4 other people, review the 'Getting Started' guide to understand biological barriers, then begin Book 1 together.