PURE DEMOCRACY: Peacemaking using an Indigenous Change Process Occupy Seattle, February 15, 2012
Patricia Anne Davis, MA
1. Problem Identification: naming the out-of-balance condition.
Assumption of superiority – Trans-generational disconnect – Misuse of power – Inequity – GREED and fear of lose – FEAR of survival – Asleep to creative gifts.
Core Issue: the root cause that maintains the out-of-balance condition.
Conquest mentality; Historical documents instituted into infrastructure designed to benefit Colonialists Invaders ; Vatican’s Charter of Liberty defining ownership of land and property, including women; Vatican’s Charter of the Forrest: “Right of Discovery of Pagan Land” – Discovery Doctrine; Papal Bull, regarding American Indian Genocide and the Willie Lynch Letter regarding deconstructing Black people through Slavery.
2. Obstacles: emptying is correcting the obstacles to internal change that maintain the root cause of destructive and death producing choices.
“I am” my deficient self-image which is self-delusion; emptying self-doubt; Irish “keening” is public grieving of death; symbolic “death” of self-image; cleansing and purifying obstacles that are painful.
3. Realistic Ideal: reframing win-lose=no-win decisions into win-win decisions for constructive and life-affirming choices. Affirming powerwithin to have powerwith others eliminates the need for powerover.
Win-win decisions for collective survival; remembering that there is a Unity and we are within the Oneness of creation.
4. Co-creative Resolution: manifesting the win-win co-creative solutions.
Design safe and supportive places for emptying without judgment, condemnation or punishment. Design places to affirm our creative imagination and to our gifts.
Design Process: [powerwithin]
- Envision – visualize: seeing
- Conceptualize – intention: thinking
- Dialogue – affirmation: speaking
5. Life Application: co-creative situational leadership for decision making and designing the co-creative solutions.
Comradeship and solidarity: Alignment with the authority of our authentic-SELF.
Manifest Process: [to have powerwith others, eliminates the need for powerover]
- Construct – manifest: doing
- Life Skill – living co-creative solution(s)
I love it… I would also like to add the following within the heading of:
1) Naming out of balance condition: a) Disingenuous transactions between genders; between blamers and placators; vicious triangle of the interchangeable roles between persecutors, rescuers and victims. b) man-made scarcity model.
Core issue (root cause): Darwinian Natural Selection “theory” of “Survival of the Fittest” and crazy-making application/comparison of that from animal kingdom to human interaction. In short, reinforcing the lie that the Universe is not set up for Abundance and reinforcing the mentality of “Getting mine while the going is good….”
The above addition is just meant as a side note after the fact and not necessarily need to be added on to what was already recorded at that moment of the Pure Democracy gathering….