June's Co-Intelligence Poem...

(This poem by Tom Atlee will be presented in sections over 3 months. The full poem can be read here)

The Tao of Co-Intelligence - first section

I.

All that comes into being
is evoked, is called forth
  by relationship, interactivity, co-creativity.
Each being, each motion, each event
is called into existence
    by the dance of beings, motions, events.

Identity, consciousness, reality, experience
all arise from
    relation, interaction, and co-creation --
and are, in their essence,
    relationship, interactivity, and co-creativity.

There is nothing outside of this.
It is the fabric of the Whole -- its weave, its melody --
as it births itself from potent, centered stillness
    everywhere

and Here.

II.

This dance, this conversation, this co-incarnation
  shows up at every level of reality
    from the subatomic to the planetary to the intergalactic
  and in every dimension of reality
    from the spiritual to the psychological to the physical.
It is both higher reality
    and lower reality
      and every step of our journey
        through the Middle Kingdom.

III.

To understand this
is to let go of control and prediction...
is to let go of guilt and blame...
is to let go of solidity and certainty and permanence.

To understand this
is to embrace learning and evolution...
is to embrace partnership and collaboration...
is to embrace love -- and its empathic embrace of all.

To understand this
is to honor self and other,
  and the knowledge we bring to each other,
    and the weave of the story
        in which we find ourselves together...

To understand this
is to honor our diversity and our unity
        and, above all, their dance...

To understand this
is to attend to the pattern of that dance, that conversation...
    is to attend to the shaping power of its setting...
    is to attend to the creative energy
        of its responsive spirit.

To understand this
is to work with the tides, the currents and the shores
  of the vast ocean of aliveness
    and to stand in awe
        as it becomes cloud, rain, river, and ocean again...
for the dance, the conversation, the weave of wave and cloud
    is infinite in its forms, and is everywhere
    in and around us
        now
    presenting itself vividly, meaningfully
        with silence and with space...