Organization For Free

I have heard more than once a mention about New-Age groups and collectives self-organizing in line with natural systems. This is taken as a 'more evolved' way to manage our groups (or, I suppose, not manage in the case of self-organization).

While it does sound like a fine idea to me--at least at first glance--over time it becomes problematic when one realizes that we are not a critical mass of elements and/or molecules. For us, as human-beings, the matter of 'self-organization' becomes much more complex--if not complicated--due to the increasing levels of complexity involved when we move from atoms to molecules to organs to entities to collectives of entities.

For instance, we--as human beings--are the stuff of which dreams and desires are made of. We have our own personal inclinations and idiosyncracies. Some very odd and pepculiar. We have... in short... a capacity for forming 'intentions.'

The diversity of our dreams and desires is precisely what can offer a richness and depth to a particular group. That is one of the beautiful things about Zaadz, and a clear power that it assserts over, say, a more narrowly focused group with a more deliberate set of intentions--such as, say, The Integral Institute. With Zaadz there is no charismatic persona heading the legions of followers (though we do have a few 'stars' in the making here at Zaadz). To my understanding, this is one of the keys to preventing any of the traditional group pathologies from forming in the Zaadz Commons: the fact that there is no single, charismatic persona around which everyone else is made to orbit like so many moths to a flame. 

At Zaadz anyone can be a 'star' any day of the week. Someone might have a word to share with you that 'fits perfectly into the space of your awareness.' Someone else might share with you a song. Yet another person might place an image before your eyes that gives you courage and strength in a time of desperate need. And tomorrow it could be somebody different... someone new... someone you hadn't even known existed. Yet someone who becomes a beacon of light--a Star--in your eyes.