Topic du WEEK a la OCEANUS: WHAT DOES EMPOWERING GROUP LEADERSHIP LOOK LIKE?

I think we can ALL AGREE NOW that the TYRANT/DICTATOR/FEAR and EGO BASED - STYLE of LEADERSHIP is the OPPOSITE of INSPIRING, EMPOWERING, LIBERATING LEADERSHIP, no?  I mean, WE do HAVE a LOT of historic EVIDENCE to SUGGEST this particular GOVERNING SYSTEM, which does benefit US in some ways (“What have the ROMANS ever done for us?! ); however, it is clearly NOT the most ENLIGHTENED nor EFFICIENT form of LEADERSHIP, no?  Besides, I KNOW WE CAN DO BETTER!  

*And please KNOW this PHOTO was NOT STAGED…Laura took it of me while I was talking about something….hahahaha!  

Well, WE, at OCEANUS are seeking to ANSWER this very important QUESTION, “WHAT DOES EMPOWERING GROUP LEADERSHIP LOOK LIKE?“, through this epic SEA STEADING EXPERIENCE, known as Ephermerisle.  And WE are ALL STILL LEARNING!  *And that goes for the ELDERS, too!

I have a bloody strong FEELING (a KNOWING, if you will), that everyONE (*including plants, animals, minerals, protons, dark matter, quanta, unicorns, etc.) has a UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION to COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT and the “TRICK” is to LISTEN to everyONE’s INPUT (“They” are THERE for a good reason—even IF it is to SHOW YOU what does NOT WORK—which is just as valuable as what DOES WORK! Ask Thomas Edison!) 

IF you are AWARE/AWAKE and LISTEN to OTHERS, YOU will ALWAYS hear KEY INFORMATION (like PUZZLE PIECES!) and YOU will be able to HEAR (or if you are an EMPATH, FEEL!) the TRUTH in their STORIES (*hint: It FEELS GOOD/RIGHT to you), that will HELP YOU (and your ENTIRE CREW) make BETTER, more INFORMED (and hopefully, LOVE-BASED, NOT EGO-BASED) DECISIONS about OUR COLLECTIVE LIFE EXPERIENCE TOGETHER…on LAND, AIR and SEA (as is above, is below, no?)

Personally, I view ALL OUR PROBLEMS/CHALLENGES and/or “OH FUCK!” MOMENTS (*such as dropping the water heater in the water (!); breaking the engine on the Whaler (twice!); the whole HOUSING/FUEL/SEWAGE/WASTE/TRASH/WATER SITUATION –which applies to the WHOLE WORLD, I might add!; and way too many more to list here!) like a giant MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PUZZLE! 

THE PUZZLE is a PORTRAIT of OUR COLLECTIVE VISION for ONE, or OUR NEW EARTH, right?

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Our

New

Earth

And every PERSON (*as well as plant, animal, mineral, single-celled organism, etc.) HOLDS a PIECE of the PUZZLE!  *For example:  You CANNOT TREAT or CURE MALARIA unless you GET to KNOW the MOSQUITO intimately (inside and out!) and the Malarial VIRUS itself, right?

Therefore, WHEN we really LISTEN/PAY MIND-FULL ATTENTION to the PEOPLE (plants, animals, germs, insects, etc.) immediately AROUND US, they will REVEAL (through their STORIES and EXPERIENCES) KEY INFORMATION (aka, a PUZZLE PIECE!) that CONTRIBUTES to the COLLECTIVE WHOLE SOULution!  *Thus, TRUE LEADERSHIP means BEING able RECOGNIZE when a SOULution has appeared and then COORDINATE that SHIT!

NEXT, it is important to RESEARCH and IDENTIFY your readily accessible NATURAL RESOURCES (aka, TALENTS/SKILLS/STRENGTHS) BOTH in the PEOPLE who SHOW UP for you and your immediate ENVIRONMENT (SURROUNDINGS) because IF you are AWARE/AWAKE, YOU will DISCOVER, much to your de-LIGHT-ful SURPRISE and JOY, that the SOULution is ALWAYS RIGHT in FRONT of YOU (OR next to you, or behind you—Wait! LOOK in THAT corner!) and easily ACCESSIBLE!  NOTE: In PHYSICS, this funk phenomena is known as OCCAM’s RAZOR.   

IF you can Co-CREATIVELY COORDINATE these VALUABLE NATURAL RESOURCES (Human, plant, animal, and things, Oh my!) through INSPIRING, EMPOWERING, LIBERATING, POSITIVE, LOVE-BASED LEADERSHIP-- in theory, WE will not only have HARMONY and BALANCE in ANY COMMUNITY (aka, PEACE!), but also...

INCREASED CONSCIOUS CO-CREATION and MANIFESTATION

INCREASED EFFICIENCY/PRODUCTIVITY

BETTER QUALITY SERVICE for ALL!

HAPPY HEALTHY CONSCIOUS COLLABORATORS

LOWER COSTS (ie, “Opportunity Cost” of FUCK-UPS caused by MISCOMMUNICATION, MISINFORMATION, FEARS and other EGO-BASED BULLSHIT!)

BETTER COMMUNICATION—with a side of JOY, PASSION, LOVE, ENTHUSIASM and hopefully FUN throughout the WHOLE CREATION PROCESS!

And isn’t THAT the WHOLE POINT?!!  

ADOPT-A-HOMELESS!

Just so you ALL KNOW…I have technically been HOMELESS (or “Houseless”, as some of them prefer to be called!) for over 3 YEARS NOW –TRUST ME, it is NOT EASY! Being HOMELESS is ONE of the BIGGEST FEARS in this country (*but not other countries!) and I am LIVING IT but YOU probably are not even AWARE that I am HOUSELESS because SOME of MY FRIENDS and SEVERAL STRANGERS have ADOPTED ME!

Especially Melissa Pabst and Myan Binder--who were once STRANGERS!!!

And in many places, even OUR NATION’S CAPITAL, the HOMELESS are STILL TREATED MUCH like the LEPERS were treated in JESUS TIMES.

Jesus and the Leper

 There have been MANY MORNINGS, where I wake up (in LA, St. Louis, Miami, Reno, Shasta, Chico, Reykjavík, Ojai, etc.) and I have NO IDEA where I will be staying that same night, but somehow I STILL MANAGE to HAVE FUN and BE of SERVICE to OTHERS…but IMAGINE what I could DO CREATE, BE of SERVICE, IF I did not have to worry about where I am going to sleep each night?!!!   *And who KNOWS what or how THAT HOMELESS DUDE or GAL you see regularly “loitering” could DO, CREATE or BE of SERVICE to Life and Love?

To this day, I STILL don’t understand WHY we, the UNITED STATES, one of the WEALTHIEST (Developed) COUNTRIES in the world (“America! Fuck Yeah!”) have HOMELESS, when I have LIVED in muy POOR (Less Developed) COUNTRIES (ie, Tanzania, Dominica, Honduras, parts of CHINA, etc.) and THEY DO NOT have a HOMELESS POPULATION…WTF?!   Or WHY we have SO MANY EMPTY, UNOCCUPIED HOMES and BULDINGS all over the country but yet NO SQUATTER RIGHTS like they do all over EUROPE!  

Therefore, I am suggesting the ADOPT-A-HOMELESS PERSON movement as just ONE possible SOULution, out of many possibilities, because as far as I can tell, the homeless population has RISEN since my first encounter with the HOMELESS, growing up in Washington DC.  **Ask my mother--  even in middle school, throughout high school and even my ONE year at Boston University…I consistently volunteered at Homeless Shelters in Northern SubUrban VA, DC, South Philly (!) and Boston! *And it BREAKS my HEART that we have not TRANSFORMED this STORY yet.

NOTE to DC: IF I were PRESIDENT, I would stay in a LUXURY SUITE at the Watergate Hotel or such, and TURN the WHITE HOUSE into a OUR HOUSE, open to whomever needs SHELTER--seriously! 

Just IMAGINE if everyONE who SAYS they “care” about HOMELESSNESS, were to ACTUALLY CARE for a HOUSELESS PERSON!  

I can see how ADOPTING a HOMELESS PERSON would REDUCE PETTY CRIMES (The Homeless are not stealing your new 80 FT Television Screen—I mean, where are they going to put it?!);  ADOPTING a HOMELESS PERSON would significantly INCREASE NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTY, SAFETY and SECURITY; and SAVE TAX PAYERS a lot of bloody $MONEY$!

I once was ADOPTED by a FARM!  Lucky ME! *Thanks Jimmy and Macai!

  *I think you would be very surprised how EXPENSIVE EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE for a SICK or INJURED HOMELESS PERSON costs YOU, dear TAX PAYER!  Or a NIGHT in JAIL…which is where A LOT of HOMELESS end up for lack of place to stay. (But don’t listen to me, go do your own ECONOMICS 101 homework!) Also look up how the MORMONS in UTAH are HEALING the HOMELESS POPULATION---YEAH MORMONS!!!

And please KNOW that ADOPTING-A-HOMELESS does not mean you have to give them a whole room in your house (*even though that would be something JESUS/Allah and Buddha would do!) but just ACKNOWLEDGING them, SEEing THEM as PEOPLE…and since I have spent A LOT of my LIFE among the HOMELESS in THIS COUNTRY, I KNOW there are POETS, MUSICIANS, HEALERS, ENGINEERS, lots of highly SKILLED VETS…actually every single ONE of them was truly GIFTED in a UNIQUE way and I SEE the HOMELESS POPULATION as a VALUBALE (untapped) RESOURCE to US ALL IF they have their BASIC and most importantly, EMOTIONAL NEEDS MET and guess what?!  It does really START with YOU and ME!  We can ALL START by REGULARLY COMMUNICATING, authentically CONNECTING, CHECKING in on OUR HOUSELESS NEIGHBORS which is the TRUE DEFINITION of LOVE and CHARITY. 

And just so you know, at this very moment, CREATION STATION, which is a Visionary Community House and Non Profit Office in Cha Cha Chapmantown, Chico, has ADOPTED ME for the past week-ish…which ALLOWS ME the time, space and safety to write this blog and BE of SERVICE to YOU.

I would also like to take this OPPORTUNITY to THANK everyONE who has HOSTED ME over the PAST 3 YEARS…YOU are ALL PIONEERS in the ADOPT-A-HOMELESS MOVEMENT, who knew?!!  THANK YOU!!!!  You did DO what Jesus would do!!! Hahahahahaha!

I BELIEVE the ADOPT-A-HOMELESS MOVEMENT,  in combination with all the other great projects and programs going on across the country (Shout out to UTAH and DETROIT!), WILL END the HOMELESS STORY (FEAR and LEPERS!) FOREVER and EVER. Amen! A-Ho! YATZEE!

**And I would LOVE to HEAR more brilliant SOULutions to the HOMELESS EPIDEMIC in this country! 

  *I am BLESSED, thank you, more please!  

This is Kelly N Patterson Reporting from CREATION STATION, Cha Cha Chapmantown, California 

Dear CHICO-ish, I am BREAKING UP with YOU!

WARNING:  IF you READ this exercise in SPEAKING MY TRUTH and get UPSET/UNCOMFORTABLE in any way, then KNOW this is a CLEAR INDICATOR that YOU RECOGNIZE a not-so-pretty TRUTH about yourSELF.  And KNOW that it is OK. KNOW this is a BIG STEP towards TRUE SELF-ACUALIZATION and ultimately, SELF-OPTIMIZATION.

Dear Chi-Co-Cow-Paradise-ish,  

FAITH YOU!

I NOW SEE CLEARLY how I have become a SLAVE to LOVE for the “GOOD” PEOPLE of the Chi-Co-Cow-Paradise-ish area (pretty much all of Butte County), thus co-creating what could best be described as, literally, DOMESTIC ABUSE.  I SEE MY PATTERN…

PLEASE NOTE the “MY”:  As in I AM TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY for MY ACTIONS (and NO ONE ELSE’s!) and this means I DO NOT BLAME anyONE but mySELF…NOR DO I SLANDER OTHERS, FALSELY ACCUSE OTHERS (*did you KNOW the PUNISHMENT for FALSE ACCUSATIONS in VOODOO Justice is ZOMBIFICATION?!!!); NOR do I GOSSIP (*because I have NO IDEA what is going on in MY LIFE, much less someone else’s!! Besides I am only interested in SOULutions for ALL!)  And I NO LONGER PERSECUTE OTHERS…because I GET IT: Surely I have done ALL these things—with a side of kimchi and a violin—at some point, in THIS lifetime or many others! 

In ALL directions of TIME:  I Love you. Forgive me IF I have hurt you. Thank you.  Party on, Garth!

BOTTOM LINE: I am ENDING this DOMESTIC ABUSE STORY.  PERIOD.

I SEE MY PATTERN:

·      I LEAVE the area only when I have become PHYSICALLY ILL (*remember “The Allergies” –with Nurses Jess and Anita? Or the Pneumo-bronchu “Ascension” Flu that hit us hard at CREATION STATION throughout most of JAN and some of FEB this year? Or the mysterious “Brown-Recluse-Staph Infection”?!  Or most recently, POISON OAK on MY FACE?! )  Regardless , this is PURELY MY SUPRESSED ANGER (FEELING HURT, MISUNDERSTOOD, ATTACKED, FALSELY ACCUSED, NOT APPRECIATED, TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, “PUNCHING BAG”, “SCAPEGOAT”, WITCH-HUNT TARGET of OTHER PEOPLE’s ANGER and UNHAPPINESS etc. etc., especially by people who refer to THEMSELVES as MY FRIENDS!!! ) surfacing in the form of  ridiculous ILLNESSES.  *THANK YOU, POISON OAK, for the POWERFUL, as in EM-POWER-ING lesson! 

·      I get SICK and then GO AWAY and have some ZANY ADVENTURES for a WHILE…

·      And then like A LOT of people (self) “trapped” in an ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP, I am LURED BACK to this AREA with APOLOGIES (*which I do NOT NEED, thank you very much…you see, I UNDERSTAND WE are ALL on DIFFERENT PATHS and I have COMPASSION for ALL PATHS); OR, I am LURED by the INIFINITE POSSIBILITIES of CO-CREATING a really, really BIG CONSCIOUS COMMUNITY that ACTUALLY LIVES a NEW EARTH (*as opposed to TALKING/PREACHING/LECTURING about it and then CHARGING PEOPLE for IT!); OR, a FRIEND “in NEED” lures me back….I am TOTALLY a SUCKER for a FRIEND (or anyONE for that matter!) going through a sometimes SCARY TRANSITION into a RADICALLY NEW LIFE; OR, perhaps it is just MY simple LONGING of a TRUE HOME (aka, A New Earth.)  I suspect it is ALL of the ABOVE (as is below, no?)

·      I ALWAYS RETURN to this particular area with LOVE, HOPE, FAITH and TRUST that THIS TIME will be better!  There is a brief HONEYMOON period and then WHENEVER I VOICE or STATE MY BOUNDARIES;  aka, SPEAK MY TRUTH (OR whenever I say my NO! OR CALL BULLSHIT on someONE; or even when I JUST QUESTION PEOPLE)…well, I have NOTICED that PEOPLE get VERY UPSET AT ME because I am NOT DOING WHAT THEY WANT ME to DO!!!!  And they call ME, SELF-ish?!!!!  Yikes!  So basically, I am SEEING that when I DO SPEAK MY TRUTH even in the context of my FRIENDS and FAMILY (*and yes, sometimes, I have to YELL because THEY are NOT HEARING ME when I am being GENTLE, GOOFY or NICE!), PEOPLE are STILL trying to PUNISH ME through various very creative ways…for example: PUBLIC SHAMING on and off FACEBOOK—aka, modern BULLYING; “If you were my FRIEND” GUILT (aka EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL); or THEY THINK because THEY GAVE ME some of their SCRAPS (and they call it CHARITY!) that I OWE it to THEM to DO WHATEVER they want me to DO—for THEM.  You SEE how FUCKED UP this is?!!!

This is what Being a SLAVE to LOVE looks like. Therefore, by writing this out, I am ending this DOMESTIC ABUSE STORY by taking FULL RESPONSIBILITY for MY BELIEFS and ACTIONS.  

You are FREE to post COMMENTS (because I BELIEVE in FREE SPEECH, not just the stuff we would prefer to HEAR!), but I will TELL you NOW…I really don’t give a FUCK what you THINK about my RADICAL TRUTH documented here (praise or bullshit!)…this is a SELF-made EXERCISE in RADICAL HONESTY for ME.   *Please READ WARNING ABOVE (again.)

And Thanks for all the fish! 

Kelly N Patterson