Episode 13: On the Horizon
If we look beyond the seemingly chaotic state of the world today, what is on the horizon? What if the chaos is not actually chaotic, but the ending of a “timing” with a tremendous amount of free, unbound energy available for leaders.
Marti and Todd explore what it means to be at a “mythic” level of engagement, imagination and risk, turning off our internal monologues, and what it takes to move forward in these times in a negotiable way with action and receptivity.
From the Edge: Dissolving the Edge (Marti)
Conscious Rant: Death by Comparison (Todd)
Timeline
1:22 Todd’s introduction to horizons
4:34 Touching the horizon
6:41 Mythic level of engagement
9:16 Risking as part of thriving
10:15 Timings as completions of life cycles
11:11 Working with the energy at hand
19:12 Brilliance coming to us, through us
20:06 Parasympathetic dominance and flow
21:23 Paying attention to internal dialogue
26:49 The global condition - a timing perhaps
29:29 Balancing urgency and the need to relax
31:45 Parasympathetic dominance and sympathetic dominance — sensing and action together creating flow
35:17 Receptivity and action
37:07 From the Edge: Dissolving the Edge (Marti)
51:03 Conscious Rant: Death by Comparison (Todd)
Quotes
“Do what you need to do to calm your nervous system, to enjoy life's pleasures. And let's also talk about the necessity of embracing this urgency without going mad.” — Todd Hoskins
“We need new ways of seeing — ways of being in the world that reconfigure our current understanding of everything — the problems, the possibilities, business, leadership, economics, learning, politics . . ." — Todd Hoskins
“Sometimes we must chop wood and carry water; we must take care of ourselves and each other. And, far too many people are working too hard on incremental change to ways of operating in the world that don't work.” — Todd Hoskins
“I'm not calling for political revolution or a business revolution, but rather a revolution in how we show up in the world. And this requires BEING different.” — Todd Hoskins
“What is the horizon? It's a direction, not a destination.” — Todd Hoskins
“I can't tell you what direction is right for you. I do know we need to shift our gaze, recognize the aliveness and depth that are available, and stop messing around with short term solutions to problems that are inconsequential right now.” — Todd Hoskins
“The things that we need to call through, the things that are unknown to us that we need for taking leaps in this world are actually knowable, but not in ordinary ways — not in the ways we try to know things.” — Marti Spiegelman
“The capacity for humans to work at this mythic level — the level of metaphor and imagery and energies on the move. This capacity in us is unlimited. But it's like we we've shrunk our horizons so, so close to us that we have forgotten we have this capacity.” — Marti Spiegelman
“Without taking a risk, nothing will grow.” — Marti Spiegelman
“Information is always flowing toward us over that horizon — it's reaching out to inform us. This is exactly how the physics of the universe works. There's a constant flow from other sources into us.” — Marti Spiegelman
"Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." — William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
“I think when we accept what is without judging it, we just go with it. That right there changes the horizon. ” — Marti Spiegelman
“What the world needs is for each of us to be who we actually are and do our best work in service to life where we are. If we step out of that and try to save the world, we may be less effective.” — Marti Spiegelman
“When we let ourselves be, we discover what it is to be human. You can't first define it and then be it. You have to be it first.” — Marti Spiegelman
“We have been trying to think our way to that next level, mostly because we have been taught that logic, reason, and thinking are primary.” — Marti Spiegelman
“We have been taught to pay attention to outcomes and end products — the visible tangible measurable world is the one we must know. We’ve been taught that form and measure describe the edge of our world, and in turn that limits us to a certain level of consciousness, whether we realize it or not.” — Marti Spiegelman
“We’re even seeing ways to create and evolve that can restore the health of our natural environment and our societies, however we are not changing our behaviors. We are not changing our choices at a collective or cultural level. At the level of collective wellbeing we are not advancing at all.” — Marti Spiegelman
“There is an edge that resides at our current level of consciousness — it’s an edge we can sense collectively; it’s an edge that we believe is protective and yet is begging us to take the leap. It’s an edge that is both compelling and terrifying because it can only be experienced, not described in language. Instead of that terrifying, death defying leap over the edge, what if this edge can simply be dissolved?” — Marti Spiegelman
“It is human to compare, and comparisons are killing our imagination.” — Todd Hoskins
“Our rational intelligence is designed to analyze and calculate. It is a valuable part of our evolution, useful in so many ways, and yet not where good ideas come from. So by getting into analytical mode, we lose our creative capacity.
Value comes from the whole – from the interaction of relationships that create something new. When we start picking things apart, we lose touch with the whole.” — Todd Hoskins