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INTRODUCTION TO THREE DIMENSIONAL NETWORKING

This is the story of "How Humans came to Live in Peace and Plenty". It begins . . . There was a time when humans did unspeakable things to one another, and that led to scarcity and privation, that led to more cruelty, in an unending cycle . . . Of course, we do not know the details of the story, but it involves coming to understand and honor the gift of the least among us . . .

Breaking the cycle will require understanding how each of us can contribute to the function of the whole system. The understanding comes from changing our point of view from that in which objects compete for space to a point of view where we can see how each thing is connected to all other things.

There is a dimensional aspect to Networking. In fact there are three dimensions and when we look at things from three dimensions we come to understand our essential unity. This is not about good and evil or faith based belief. It is about the flow of value through the whole system and we need to develop a new vocabulary to talk about changing the set of connections (bridges, relationships, bonds) that constitute the reality we live in.

Ending poverty will require systems of production in which everyone can participate. Healing nature will require systems of production that cooperate with natural processes to increase biological diversity rather than diminish it. There are a number of ideas about what those structures look like. examples Working back from the implementation of those structures, we would first need a group of people who agree to cooperate in the implementation. Working back from a group of people reaching that agreement, we would first need to engage those persons living within the relevant locality in a conversation about how the proposed structure would benefit them. Working back from engaging people in that conversation, we would need the cooperation of those already interested in changing the relationships in the system - as opposed to creating a new "organization" that competes for attention and funding with all those existing organizations.

That is the idea behind Local Organizing and the Planetary Mind. We propose a local network weaver empowered to bring together, in each locality, representatives of nonprofits, businesses, governments, and educational institutions, to engage each of their members, clients, customers, constituents, and students in the conversation about "What can we do to make our community a better place to live?". In that process some localities will discover new ways to arrange the relationships so that they better feed value back into the total set of relationships (connection, bridges) within the locality, and put together the resources to implement that new structure. As new structures are implemented, the information generated through implementation can be made available to all other localities - and we would begin to think as a species - improving the cognitive function of the planetary mind.

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