........am back in Brussels again - and have just had an extraordinary night of learning - buff - it does feel like something extra-ordinary happened tonight - so will be difficult to describe and put into words- but I'll have a go!
OK - it's about 'knowledge' - what it is - and who has it - and where!
OK I am in Brussels - why I am in Brussels is irrelevant - but probably not so - I am here for a Roma conference - hosted by the European Commission and the Council of Europe - and on one level good people doing good stuff - but tonight it feels bigger than that!
This will be the difficult bit to explain - tonight I saw very clearly that the next step for humanity is about where the 'knowledge' is 'held' globally......
......which of course is actually individually.....
......tonight I saw the 'knowledge' being held by those who are perceived by most of us (the others) as the ones who are the 'problem'.
I saw this knowledge not only true and powerful but also the future......
I also saw that how most of us look at all of this upside down - we see problems/issues etc but actually we miss the solutions that those who are living these lives can give us.......
They - those from these communities (and of course children ) - also don't see their own amazing knowledge because they live in our shared society - with all that goes along with that - so are 'educated' and live real lives as the ones who are marginalised, abused, discriminated against... and some as fighters against all of that - But living hard lives - but actually living lives which give them the 'knowledge' that the 'others' need. How many consciously live with this knowledge I don't know - I live an amazing life and have connected with many - but think this is a unrepresentative sample! - but the awareness/awakedness is there in still quite a small percent - but then all conversation starts at a different level!
So back to the bigger picture - we are all actually 'us' and the 'other' and we need to look inside ourselves for the answers to everything....
So nothing new - all so obvious then! But tonight I do see so very clearly that the transformation required for 'us' is to look to those that we see as the 'problem' and to recognise that they actually have the knowledge for our shared solution.
Not certain I explained it as clearly as I saw it - but this stuff is all about the paradigm shift - the change we need/ are making in our thinking - I know I need to be able to explain more clearly something so fundamental - but maybe I am being presumptions....
But hey hey - this is my blogg and my learning - and wow - it feels enormous!!!!!!!!!!
