Are You a Pilot or a Passenger? (Part II)
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Within the next few decades, human kind has been forecast by an assortment of scholars and visionaries to move through what portends to be a looking glass into a literally unthinkable world. In this world, informational and technological advance is so rapid that the following day is forever unforeseeable. In this world, all that we have known and all that we can know is not enough to hint at the potential of tomorrow.
Today’s truths will be quickly overturned by newer more complete, more accurate truths. The simple ideologies of our grandparents are no longer able to cope with the deluge of information. Rigid internal rule structures are no match for flexibility and readiness.
Profile of the Pilot
Pilots hold an internal position that allows for the constant updating of information. Pilots do not cling to the constant informational feed of media and society but surf it. They operate from the stable knowledge of “who they are”. Unknown to most people, this knowledge is actually contained in the way they organize their body (their posture, speed of movement, and hundreds of other small factors). From this stable internal position pilots engage in constant learning. In this way, Pilots master information and use it to their advantage in creating choice realities.
This orientation has biological repercussions. The brain that is constantly learning is actively exercising its ability to learn and change. In brain-speak this ability is known as plasticity and refers to both functional and structural adaptation in the brain.
The Choice
As we continue into the age of information each of us has a choice – to be a Pilot or a Passenger. The onslaught of information today is demanding we learn to use ourselves well if we are to enter the world as autonomous beings co-creating our own experience and not robots solely at the mercy of the world.
The price for not using yourself well is to fall prey to the perpetual brainwashing machine that is society; to become hooked on the mandates of external direction, locked into the matrix of societal programming. The alternative is to cultivate readiness, to learn your own at-best position of readiness, to stay alert and aware – to take part in the on-going creation of the world with intention each moment.
The personal key to this kind of adaptability and success is structural well-formedness. Structural well-formedness is a measure of the integrity of the organism, in this case you, the individual. The more well-formed you are, the better you will be able to navigate the inevitable tides of change. As part of this, those people who think for themselves are more capable to navigate the rapidly changing world than those relying on external structures and rules as their guideposts. Pilots choose the life they are living and then sort for the signals that support them in that position. They are constantly integrating new facts and information from the extant world which then informs the template from which they frame out and create the world into which they are living.
As the future unfolds, people will be more easily identifiable as being in one of two groups: Passengers – dormant potential, led from the outside in; directed, robotic, brainwashed, tossed around by the changing of informational tides, and Pilots – potentiated reality creators, directing, alive, brainwashing, endlessly surfing the wave of change.
Self-awareness is an art and a science. Piloting your own ship is a skill that takes passion and practice. The future of our species is to learn to use its brain…you can begin now by learning to use your own. The choice is yours. For those to whom this appeals, those who are interested in assuming the mantle of responsibility for the world in which they live – both individually and inter-dependently, the choice is easy.
Spiral entrepreneurs are pilots. We are pilots guided by the northern light of our own purpose. And we use our businesses as tools to amplify the expression of that purpose.
