Essays and Articles in Exploration of "Catching the Updraft!"
CTU is a very general purpose model for enhancing engagement in any developmental process. The essays here are explorations in various ways the material can be expressed for various audiences. As these voices and audiences are refined the explorations will be expanded into books, articles, and courseware.
Contents
* The Engaged Purpose : General audience; Topic-Engagement; Entry in the Templeton Foundation "Power of Purpose" Essay Contest.
This essay is somewhat a "sermon" for a general audience about full engagement with life.
* Dancing with Life : General Audience; Topic-The Practice; Early draft.
The article attempts to replicate the structure and voice of a typical self-improvement magazine article.
* Engagement - The Origins of the Emergent Organization : Business audience; Topic - The Emergent Organization; Early draft and notes.
This is a business article on how proper engagement enables the emergence of power in organizations.
* The Texture of the Arising World : Personal exploration.
This is a exploration of the personal experience of trying to live in the state of awareness implicated in the arising world model. It is an example of some of the more spiritual or metaphysical material that arises as part of participating in the practice.
Arising New Essay Topics:
* The Creative Experience: Learning to Understand and Control It
* Surrender and Resistance: The Eternal Conundrum
* The Varieties of Choosing
* The Illusion of Control
* Secular vs Spiritual: The Ultimate Divide that Does Not Exist
* Inquiry : Entry into the Unknown
* Catching the Current of Your Arising Potential
* You are Your Arising Potential
* The Universe's Skid Control
* The Creative Panorama : Problem Solving, Invention, and Exploring the Unknown