Glossary - Neologistic Concepts

Combination of Spiral Dynamics orange and green - sustainable and regeneratively open, focused on personal development but within leading the mainstream (instead of exiting it), like e.g. Minerva University does.

An example that is in itself an example - from ancient Greek auto = self; like this sentence… Something that operates on the meta and standard level simultaneously.

A refinement of body-mind in Wilberian Integral Theory. The embodiment that has boundaries in the material realm.

An update to Kant's categorical imperative that goes from should to can - everyone could live like this, without saying that they have to. Maybe they come up with something even better. It could also be called categorical possibility, but nice with two C's.

Building on the insight that scientists construct knowledge based on their communities and the intersubjective validation of objective reality - with the focus on inquiry. Used as opposed to traditions or schools of inquiry, or fields of study. Technically, it is a vortex of inquiry.

The conceptual vision space that holds (aspects of) a response to the challenges of our time through bringing together what is already possible in terms of Co-Living, Co-Learning and Co-Working in local hubs, connecting these across the world and with other networks. How this will happen is vague at this point and at the same time strongly probable.

A loosely defined concept that is largely a placeholder to contrast the emerging paradigm. Broadly thought of as late-stage capitalism, industrial; nation-state; representative factional democracy. Articulated in books such as The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff, 2018).

A compassionate and benevolent stance geared towards development.

The hypothesis (based on sensing) that there is one overarching paradigm emerging in our contemporary (Western) world - a paradigm which is manifesting in many different dimensions of life.

Other terms: islands of sanity or safe havens. Resilient spaces - often physical, like an established community - that function as safe spaces and spaces of regeneration in times of chaos. Similar to the pope's conclave, it is a space "in between" stability.

A state of balance where essential structures - including living environment, habits, beliefs, identity, social network - are aligned to let a particular emergent property of repeated patterns, one's "life", appear.

The network of benevolent genius and professional gifted ecology that supports life to accelerate unfolding.

See dedicated entry. (Forthcoming.)

Acting in the tension between being globally aware and locally anchored and operating. (The capital "C" is deliberate.) Think of the global internet and a locally embedded community connected to the land.

Post-Homo Colossus; a variation of Yuval Harari's Homo Deus.

A guiding framework for practicing gloCal citizens along distinct Axles of Life - for prioritizing one's energy for work and play in order to embody one's regenerative impact.

An example that is at the same time on the meta-level doing the thing described. See also Auto-example.

Sovereignties that interoperate with the sovereignties of others - open. An early form of Mutual Holarchic Sovereignty.

Ranging from geopolitical Multi-Polar Mutual Sovereignty downward through nested levels of self-governing wholes. Holarchic = each whole is also a part of a larger whole.

The people who mutually have a (degree of) trust that they are "on the same side", in a network-of-networks fashion. Here people give each other the benefit of the doubt of benevolent intentions.

A point that is not directly tied to the conversation but that is meaningful to share on its own and/or for the flow of the conversation. A brief excursion beyond the main topic, talking about something that moves a person; even though it might not semantically be helpful to the conversation, the release of tension can have potentially healing effects and might invigorate the speaker.

A combination of "philanthropy" and "invest" - phil also meaning "loving". Investments which are also OK if they turn out to be sponsorships - just as good as funds in themselves.

Evolving bodhisattvas in and for the 21st century - incorporating multiple qualities. See Polysattva Academy.

An integrated human (infra)structure that serves as a conveyor flow of multidimensional human development - for anyone who wants to awaken their inner genius.

What is currently the norm in woke / pseudo-spiritual / good-vibes-only circles regarding what is "acceptable" to state about one's internal life - e.g. that co-dependence is in all circumstances bad to the point of it being appropriate to feel shame about it (which is of course in itself not OK, so there is repression on top of that, which is in itself a kind of sin…). A description of a Shadow Jungle.

Enlightenment, Purpose, Love and Service - as four independently worthwhile conceptions of what to aspire to in a human life.

The social experience of finding oneself in between the shadow-patterns of oneself and the beings one is relating to (and all those who have been very impactful to them, like one's parents). See Psychologically Politically Correct for an example.

emerged in conversation with Kaja Bienzle

More precise than "collective unconscious".

emerged in conversation with Kaja Bienzle

An expression of life that one has access to.

Purposeful work-retreat where participants co-creatively live as a community and work on something that is "bigger than themselves".

Trauma-aware and -release-oriented. Etymology: like sex-positive, but for trauma(-residual)-release.

The time-spacious urge of what wants to happen - the tension between the current spontaneous genius and what wants to happen.

with Juliana Maxado

A synthesis between purpose and space. In other words, a community that has movement towards a specific direction - a group of people who are driven.

An inverted whirlwind: instead of leaving chaos in its wake, it leaves coherence behind.

A new form of discipline.

Intentional social fabrics - "shared spaces" in which people organize their lives in terms of housing, learning and working on different orders of magnitude, whose degree of belonging is resilient enough to live through (and bounce back from) conflicts.

The genes / memes of the heart.

with Stéphane Segatori

A more precise formulation of "collective shadow", since there is no actual entity that holds this collective shadow. Rather, the collective level - i.e. the field - can have a certain "static" or energy, which is not in itself a shadow pattern and dynamic, but rather an atmosphere - like the smell of a place.

The activation of anger that is transformed into clarity.

in a call with Gertraud Wegst

Regardless of being non-attached, detached, or attached - can we be flexible in our temporary attachments as they arise and fade away peacefully and gently?

with Lennart Tjarks

Daring to feel oneself (and others). As opposed to empfindlich, and even more courageous than empfindsam.

Something that gains from disorder.

Nassim Taleb, Antifragile

Loving oneself and from there purely others - first those closest, who one knows best and are most open to receive care (since we know how to care for them and how they want to receive our kindness), and then further away. Similar to holarchic; a refinement of benselfishness.

A transcend-and-include of benevolence.

Daniel Dennett (shared by Bjorn Heijligers)

A stability within a larger context - i.e. something that is systemically resilient (here implicitly stated).

A pattern which has been seen for the first time, not necessarily replicated.

Paul Poledna

Initially connected to participatory and multi-stakeholder design, it is bringing something into being through intentional collaboration. Its realm more vaguely includes co-working, co-living and peer-to-peer learning.

Living arrangements centered around sharing space and key facilities like the kitchen - and sometimes even a bedroom - with other people one is not legally connected with in a family. For practical purposes, equivalent to "intentional communities".

People who do not work at the same formal organization but share an office space.

A meta-stable society emphasizing human well-being, built on good values that we will be happy to call home and proud to leave to our descendants.

Jim Rutt, 2017

The process of making meaning of complex situations and information.

popularized by Daniel Schmachtenberger

A fancy term for a state of harmony all around the world - which implies that the current paradigm is abandoned, because a new system that does not rely on exploitation and the military-industrial complex has made the old one obsolete. (Not about living together on Mars ;)

Self-governing (where it originated, in politics) and autonomy or general self-sufficiency - with an overall independence that, with an insight of interconnectedness and interdependence, becomes unblackmailability.

as used by Daniel Schmachtenberger

Leaders are supported in their own humanity.

A niche modelled as a region in n-dimensional space, with each dimension a dimension of fit.

Distinguishing between traumatic residue - stuff that for the body is still present but which can be processed through emotional sharing or solo trauma-release - and major dissociative trauma: things that one should process together with a professional.

Instead of pubic hair. In German: Haar in erogenen Zonen or erogenes Haar for short, instead of Schamhaar (shameful hair / hair of shame).

Hypochondria about psychological things - similar to phrenophobia (anxiety about anxiety).

A better alternative to milk alternatives. In German: Getreide-, Nuss- & Hülsen(frucht)getränke. Works both in the sense of accompanying cereals and in terms of what they are made of.

Inspiring material: in a 1999 article, political scientist John Gerring spelled out eight "criteria of conceptual goodness". Three of these, applied to the example of good governance: