From Separation to Unity 💥 How Quantum Physics, Neuroscience, Epigenetics and Ancient Wisdom are changing the game of how we live and do business 💥

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The images of the Capitol storming in Washington DC shocked the world and are a result of the separation paradigm we are living in for the last couple of centuries. As long as we see our mind (and thinking capacity) more important than our body (and our heart), we will keep seeing nature as secondary to our intelligence, we’ll continue to develop cultural separation strategies as “us against them” and see competition as the key driver of growth. People will carry on with feeling superior over others and we’ll pursue to categorize our professional world into different class-groups. 

So, how do we move out of this centuries-old patriarchal and ego-centric stubborn thinking, to evolve into a new kind of celestial being, in harmony with people, prosperity and our planet? Agile, responsible, resilient and confident with love and joy in what's to come, contributing to co-create new regenerative and collaborative systems.

Since the “I think, therefore, I am” meme dropped by Descartes, Cartesians view the mind as being wholly separate from the corporeal body. This mainly rational focus has brought huge prosperity and progress to humankind since via science and technology, but is no longer sufficient to the world’s challenges we’re facing right now. As also revealed by neuroscientist Antonio Damasio in his bestselling book "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain", emotion has the critical importance in the making of reason. Without accessing our heart we have a hard or harder time to make (good) decisions.

Living and creating business consciously

We believe it’s time to move on and create different mental models based on deep human values and a deeper connection with the heart as an untapped potential to human prosperity and wisdom. 

With the rise and influence of Eastern philosophies, mindfulness practices and Vision Quests / nature walks and the global spread of plant-based medicine practices from the tribes from the Amazon, the Western world has the opportunity to learn and integrate these Ancient Wisdom techniques, heal its past wounds and trauma, and potentially co-create a different healthy and prosperous future, leaving the still existing colonial natural resource depletion and related business models behind.

Quantum Physics, Neuroscience, Epigenetics and Ancient Wisdom have a crucial role in the discovery of consciousness and how we can live and do business more consciously. Spoiler alert: it has everything to do with understanding nature and its intelligence, including our own intelligence.

Quantum Physics

Quantum physics demonstrates that energy is beyond everything tangible and material and seeks to define and understand that which you can’t see or measure. Quantum physicists try to comprehend the indeterminism that’s part of the particles that make up our reality. This discipline taught us atoms have no physical structure. They’re made of invisible energy, not tangible material. The idea that we’re made of energy is one of the pillars of the connection between quantum physics and spirituality.

“Within every atom, you can find part of the stardust that comes from the very beginning of the universe. We’re all connected and form part of the same essence. Understanding this connection can help us understand the importance of being good. That’s because everything you do reverberates in the universe and comes back to you.” - Dalai Lama.

Neuroscience

When neurons in the brain and nervous system fire, they not only send the familiar electrical signal down the wire-like nerve fibres, but they also send a pulse of electromagnetic energy into the surrounding tissue. Such energy is usually disregarded, yet it carries the same information as nerve firings, but as an immaterial wave of energy, rather than a flow of atoms in and out of the nerves.

Buddhism has always defended this idea of energy and the need to transcend the physical in order to give your consciousness more relevance. At the end of the day, your mental impressions are what shape and form your reality. You are what you think, and what you think shapes your surroundings.

In a new more conscious world, we understand that things are not any longer about controlling everything and everyone (top-down vertical communication approach) any longer but about how to generate positive, creative, responsible, resilient and regenerative energy (horizontal communication). In other words:

How do we move from a controlling ego approach towards a more heartfelt being?

We can gain this energy by tapping into the wisdom and strength of our own being, going inwards. Before unlocking our own unlimited potential, we need to clear out old energies (belief systems and traumas) as we know now that our emotions are not stored in the brain but into our body cells. Hence, no-one can recall who said what in an emotional argument - as the bodily emotions are kicking in, neutralising the brain’s ability to remember any rational thought. Learning by being.

Watch this Russell Brand interview with Bruce Lipton, a developmental and stem cell biologist and author of The Biology of Belief on the consciousness of our body cells.

Additionally, check the Neuroscience of Consciousness from Oxford University website on recent additional findings in this field.

Epigenetics

Epigenetics most often involves changes that affect gene activity and expression, but the term can also be used to describe any heritable phenotypic change. 

DNA can carry memories of traumatic stress down the generations. Recently published findings indicate that individuals undergoing a negative response to traumatic stressors, can actually pass this on to subsequent generations through DNA processes.

Ancient Wisdom

Ancient tribes have known for centuries we carry the patterns and behaviours from our previous generations. Plant-based medicines such as ayahuasca gives us access to our higher consciousness. People who tried this medicine know the intrinsic value and connection we have with Mother Nature’s wisdom and intelligence.

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” - Rumi 

Opening the Heart

When we connect to our hearts, we can speak from the heart and open an entire different language of how we see things, feel things and are connected to one another and nature. Children have that inherited wisdom embedded by birth. By listening to them with an open heart, we understand the natural power they have in the way they understand the world, hence we can learn from and with them. Co-learning.

When we can let go of our imprisoned ego thinking, operating singularly from the mind, can connect to the heart, an entire avenue of new possibilities opens up to us.

We, at Conscious Learning Tribe, are connecting to global entrepreneurs and communities who are already on this path. We believe that the next big transformation in business this decade is not any longer about finding more incremental, often technological solutions to existing problems, but by going deep, in connecting to the heart to discover the most amazing technology within us. On a personal level first, in order to open new avenues of human innovation and spread our light upon others, our teams and organisations.

Innovation now is about finding the courage to let go of the old to be able to move beyond what we know and move together into uncertainty with confidence and trust that as a humanity, together, we’ll be able to reinvent ourselves, our lifestyles and our businesses.

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement." - Marie Curie

It’s a journey. Join us on our journey to create healthier lifestyles, design regenerative business and economies.

Recommended listening: Inheritance, a love letter to the outdoors, describing the wonder of sunrise by Lord of the Isles and the sublime poetry of Ellen Renton

With love & joy.

Rudy