OK, I NEED TO FACE IT. I AM AN EMPATH. I FEEL THINGS.
and i SEE THINGS TOO.
the completed version of things,
i don’t know the process that gets me there.
i somehow just see it.
it almost got me expelled from elementary school.
in the fourth grade, our class was given a complex math test.
i finished the test way before anyone else
and i took my completed test to the teacher.
she walked me directly to the principal’s office
and told me
“you know we have a zero tolerance policy here for cheating.
you have no work done on these questions
and only give me the answers.
i don’t like doing this, but you leave me no choice,
i have to expelled you from school.”
“But i did not cheat.” i replied.
as i followed her to the principals office.
here i sat, an 8 year old kid trying to explain to the principal
but neither of them wanted to listen,
until suddenly, a solution came to me.
i said to them, “lock me in a room by myself
and give me 10 more questions
that you haven’t given anyone else.
give me 1/2 hour to answer those questions
and let’s see what happens.”
They agreed and said,
“you know if your answers are wrong,
you are going to be expelled.”
i told them i understood.
10 minutes later, i knocked on the door.
they asked me, “Do you give up?”
i answered, “No, i have finished the test.”
But the teacher said, there is no work here
on how you found the answers.
and she walked me again into the principals office.
The principal looked at me
as i braced myself for what he was about to say.
The teacher said, “are you going to expel him?”
The principal looked at me a long time and said,
“No, I am not going to expel you,
i am moving you up several years in math
to see just how much you are capable of doing.”
i love this story, because it sums up the way i have always been
i know things without knowing how i know them.
And it is easy for the math teachers of the world
to think i am crazy,
because it is so easy to continuing seeing what we always see
but i am realising more and more,
THE OLD WAYS ARE NOT THE NEW WAYS
and as scary as it is to leave behind the only thing we know
we can not enter the new paradigm with old paradigm thinking.
it is the story of Moses leading the Jews out of slavery
spending 40 years in the desert wandering
but what was really happening was something different
the mind of the slave could not enter the holy land
only the children who were born in the desert,
who never knew slavery could enter the hold land.
THE OLD WAYS ARE NOT THE NEW WAYS
i see now the model that works.
it will change everything.
it will end conflict and the gridlock that exists in
government. business. families.
it answers problems we have had no answers to.
i see it already fully functioning in the future.
but i need the help of those who can create sytems
that don’t currently exist
i need to connect with people who understand the answer
and can retro-fit the systems to guide the answer into reality.
there is nothing wrong.
the world already is a better place.
we just need to put the systems in place
to disconnect from this reality and connect to that reality.
anyone interested?
let’s start talking together.
i can’t do this on my own.
That is the lesson of the Mosaic.
That is the lesson of Swarm Intelligence.
That is the lesson of seeing that what we see is not what is.