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>>So, to put it in English, you believe in going out and helping people who need help with the skills you have, and meeting up with other people with different skills? That's all your pyramid of viral help is.>>
Nope.
There's a seemingly minor difference that's actually HUGE which you overlooked.
You failed to humbly climb a tree and share your vision and ideas in ways that link two others together - totally outside of you. The pyramid must invert to become a service model. Nobody can be above, higher, better than anyone else. And in the tree metaphor I am actually climbing higher so that I can "see" more, but I must risk falling to "see" and if I get arrogant I might miss and branch and fall.
Again, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with skills "I" have. If I was just taking what "I" have and helping others by using those skills, I'm not really connecting, risking, etc. I am only "exchanging" "my" time or "my" resources.
Quid pro quo exchanges only deal with the horizontal. That's not service: it's either business or a pure exchange of time/money for services. Horizontal exchanages do not involve risk. That's like spending time plugging nails for Habitat for Humanity. I'm not derrogating their model. HFH does wonderful things in this world.
But there's a brand being created with HFH and in the purest sense of the word, each house is building the brand which leads to more exposure, etc. To keep attracting the time and trust and energy of volunteers year after year, the HFH experiece has to be matched by a sense from volunteers that they are really doing good work and that there are no hidden political or money agendas.
What I'm getting at is that each individual can occupy the least role in the inverted pyramid and share energy and ideas that fuel a personal ministry to help and serve others, etc.
I'm not saying to NOT help HFH, but that HFH or any service program can be that much more empowered and alive if people placed more of their personal sense of responsibility and power in the equation.
>>I can't fault you for wanting to help people. I know many of the people here are already doing what you think you are doing, they just haven't made up a funky new language for it.>>
Yes, you are right. We all have skills and energy and there's a deep sense of feeling and wholeness that we all experience when we reach out to others.
I just believe that when we risk thinking about others and discovering ways that connecting people with skills with people who would use those skills - without any agenda that has us claiming credit - magical things will happen.
People need to clear their trust through others. And all trust is looking for is integrity and neutrality.
Think of how many marriages are due to some third party putting two individuals together? That's about as pure of an example of this service model.
I just believe this can extend to every aspect of our lives. We don't need to compartmentalize our lives into work, family, personal, religion, etc. There's just not much energy if we interact with each of these sectors in a vacuum from a horizontal exchange-based quid pro quo.
Why?
Because there's just not that much risk.
Work: too much time for money.
Family: too limited time for warm and fuzzies.
Personal: if, when, how.....
Etc.
Controlling and allocating time and resources becomes a never ending challenge that never really works the way we'd like it to work, etc. For we could "always do better" etc.
Imagine the magical things that could happen if more people outside of us actually took steps to "help and serve" us by connecting us with people/resources/ideas etc. that could raise us up and allow us to have more energy and time to help and serve others, etc.
Putting more risk into the equation means you must "let go" more and fall into and embrace the present moment more. The more responsibility we take for our happiness and joy the more we will learn to embrace the timelessness of the present moment. I believe the service and support and the resouces will just "be there". Why? Because I simply have faith and believe they will be there. Period.
If we fight the present moment and think we must control and "do it all" we - I know from my own experience - tend to feel pain, regret or fear. And if when we feel this we blame others we are fighting off the need to "let go" and embrace the moment.
Call it ego or whatever you want.
I know this may sound wacky or simply so much rehashed fluff. I really don't care how others define this.
All that matters is NOW.
I just really believe in GO!!
And leave me out of the exchange. I'm at the bottom. I'll stand in the back of the room. Or I don't even need to be in the room. For if I put two together and they both have the opportunity to know that the first two in partnership were out to help this third leg, the viral open example of service is set.
This is what sowing is all about.
Peace.
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