In collective intelligence the ways in which we move, expand with technology is key to the development of the global brain. We have all the technology we need to talk, collaborate, empower ourselves. We are in the creation of social practices to raise our collective consciousness  and learn how to become powerful individual players as we wire the Global brain and hold the field for higher consciousness to emerge.

In my own experience as online facilitator my edge is how to design and facilitate sacred circles online. The power of a container, the call and entering the space, the sacrecy of holding space for all which arises, staying in the fire.  As we do it the development of 'new antennas' starts to happen.  You see, our natural technologies (body)  is made to sense each other in a physical space, to interpret body language and even silence. There is much more information that just the words, the body disposition, the energy of the space. As we do sacred circles online we learn new ways of feeling and being with eachother. Sensing into the center, share our love and wealth. 

Its so inspiring when a group is able to get into a sacred online container and reach higher consciousness and have the ability to sense each other.  There are so many ways to do this via synchronous and asynchronous technologies. The technology is there what we are developing is our practices so what we get is wisdom technologies.  For example, meeting via skype allows for people to meditate together in new forms. There are ways to stream music (meditation bell) and do different practices together like sharing a visual image before the meditaiton, sensing each other physical location in space, sharing from silence via voice or simultaneously via de chat window or forum. There is such beauty in the immediacy of the online spaces. The intimacy is reaching new levels as we develop capabilities on being fully present to one another and developing our social practices.

Note: This is a new kind of online protest that uses blogs to spread a petition globally. To participate, just add your blog by following the instructions in this blog post.

This not an issue of partisan politics, this is an issue of basic human rights and democracy. Please help to prevent a human tragedy in Burma by adding your blog and asking others to do the same.

By passing this meme on through the blogosphere hopefully we can generate more awareness and avert a serious tragedy. As concerned world-citizens this something we bloggers can do to help.

How to participate:

1. Copy this entire post to your blog, including this special number: 1081081081234

2. After a few days, you can search Google for the number 1081081081234 to find all blogs that are participating in this protest and petition. Note: Google indexes blogs at different rates, so it could take longer for your blog to show up in the results. Also note -- if you want an accurate count of the number of blogs that joined this petition, make sure you scroll to the bottom of the Google results and click to view results that were omitted because they were similar.

3. If you know how to add tags to your blog posts, add the Technorati tag 1081081081234 to your post as well. This will make your post findable sooner in Technorati.

THE SITUATION IN BURMA AND WHY IT MATTERS TO ALL OF US

There is no press freedom in Burma and the government has started turning off the Internet and other means of communication, so it is difficult to get news out. Individuals on the ground have been sending their day-by-day reports to the BBC, and they are heartbreaking. I encourage you to read these accounts to see for yourself what is really going on in Burma. Please include this link in your own blog post.

The situation in Burma is increasingly dangerous. Hundreds of thousands of unarmed peaceful protesters, including monks and nuns, are risking their lives to march for democracy against an unpopular but well-armed military dictatorship that will stop at nothing to continue its repressive rule. While the generals in power and their families are literally dripping in gold and diamonds, the people of Burma are impoverished, deprived of basic human rights, cut off from the rest of the world, and increasingly under threat of violence.

This week the people of Burma have risen up collectively in the largest public demonstrations against the ruling Junta in decades. It's an amazing show of bravery, decency, and democracy in action. But although these protests are peaceful, the military rulers are starting to crack down with violence. Already there have been at least several reported deaths, and hundreds of critical injuries from soldiers beating unarmed civilians to the point of death.

The actual fatalities and injuries are probably far worse, but the only news we have is coming from individuals who are sneaking reports past the authorities. Unfortunately it looks like a large-scale blood-bath may ensue -- and the victims will be mostly women, children, the elderly and unarmed monks and nuns.

Contrary to what the Burmese, Chinese and Russian governments have stated, this is not merely a local internal political issue, it is an issue of global importance and it affects the global community. As concerned citizens, we cannot allow any government anywhere in the world to use its military to attack and kill peacefully demonstrating, unarmed citizens.

In this modern day and age violence against unarmed civilians is unacceptable and if it is allowed to happen, without serious consequences for the perpetrators, it creates a precedent for it to happen again somewhere else. If we want a more peaceful world, it is up to each of us to make a personal stand on these fundamental issues whenever they arise.

Please join me in calling on the Burmese government to negotiate peacefully with its citizens, and on China to intervene to prevent further violence. And please help to raise awareness of the developing situation in Burma so that hopefully we can avert a large-scale human disaster there.

Weaving and synching in Zaadz this was alive: Shakti and Kundalini. This connected to sharing this little piece on Kundalini with Alex Grey wonderful art. Inspiring!!! Thanks Michael

I have been pretty inmersed and amazed about the potentials of social networking and the movements in the generation of technologies making possible that GAIA creates her GlobalBrain. Here are some of my favorite bytes this week, the first about facebook and the second my experiences in SecondLife:

Social media networks like facebook are becoming the first players because of their open structure and potentials for connections (human to humans, human to applications, human to content).  Demographics are like wow! 45million users a high percentage of 24 to 35 years old and moving.  The 100 most influential blogger are in there and I have found my professional network and all  friends there in a matter of  days.  I had  fun adding  applications and now I can share my delicious (social tagging), my flickrs pictures, my work profile, my sites and cool applications like the 6 degrees and others to communicate non verbally with others. I can ask questions to all my networks in one click. I wonder is Zaadz is thinking on opening its structure to developers so they can provide us with cool applications. It is a fast move that in my point of view is a must if they want to give its users more capacities and be competitive. In one year facebook has attracted 40,000 developers who have developed 3900 applications! And...growing...if you think on going curious add me to your friends.

Here is my profile:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=564335368

The other cool movement I want to talk about is Secondlife. I did an online seminar this week about GAIA and the GLOBAL BRAIN and while developing the content I stepped into some great stories. And as it happens with synchronicities this week I saw a posting on What is Enlightement Magazine on second life so I thought I will add my small contribution on this topic. A story and some findings and a video for you to look deeper into this virtual worlds:

My first story happened like 2 years ago when I was invited to participate in a Secondlife session about identity and virtual worlds. Being an web strategist this is one opportunity you can´t miss. So...there I was. A total newbie getting an avatar (your virtual humanoid), getting dressed and being totally stupid trying to walk, fly and not crash into everything!

The event was held at an island called Live2give (cool name eh?). This island was made by people who have the same syndrome that Stephen Hawkins has where your body doesn´t respond to you and your brain may be totally ok. Well, for this people second life is the opportunity for them to not be judged by their physical appearance and being able to walk, fly, swim, go to parties and relate like a 'normal' human being. Incredible place, full of poetry and images of them and secret places where they hide their treasures.

We met in a circle with water (look at picture) and had our cushions to seat. We talked for one hour and then went to fly and swim together. We went to an underwater cave where this adorable heroes shared their deepest gifts. And we stood up together in silence. We shared a space of resonance, respect and deep knowing that we were in something really really really big. It was a spiritual moment of greatness. 

My finding on how Secondlife have helped people are some cases like:

After suffering a devastating stroke four years ago, Susan Brown was left in a wheelchair with little hope of walking again. Today, the 57-year-old Richmond woman has regained use of her legs and has begun to reclaim her life, thanks in part to encouragement she says she gets from an online “virtual world” where she can walk, run and even dance.

 Roberto Salvatierra, long imprisoned in his home by his terror over going outdoors, has started venturing outside more after gaining confidence by first tentatively exploring the three-dimensional, interactive world on the Internet.

 John Dawley III, who has a form of autism that makes it hard to read social cues, learned how to talk with people more easily by using his computer-generated alter ego to practice with other cyber-personas.

 Brown, Salvatierra and Dawley are just a few examples of an increasing number of sick, disabled and troubled people who say virtual worlds are helping them fight their diseases, live with their disabilities and sometimes even begin to recover. Researchers say they are only starting to appreciate the impact of this phenomenon.

And of course when something new comes along,  it comes along for one purpose, and then evolution takes it and shapes it and finds six or seven other purposes for it. And as it does, it produces surprises.

I am interested in the different applications so... I also want to know what people are doing to augment their collective intelligence and work together in new ways. If you are curious...see what NASA is doing in the posted video.