You Build Estuary to Participate in the Spirit World Which is Basic to History Transformation
From "Steal the Culture" to "Egregores", Estuary Building is the First Step
Chris Petkau has made a new video on the @vervaeke_john @JeanPhi76459673 "one level up" comment I made on our conversation.
I first vocalized this idea in my conversation with @JeanPhi76459673 and @vervaeke_john
When the @WisdomRebel video came out with @Freakoutery I saw the connection with the illustration
And that became a larger video
Which Chris distilled again.
This is how a thought ecosystem should work. Lots of recursion between people. In order to do this, however, you need to build a community.
In today's video this is what Justin Wells, professor of documentary at BIOLA reached out to help me develop for him.
Happy to help.
In my recent conversation with @PageauJonathan about vocation I highlighted that for me the main task is not "content creation" but community development. It's of course part of my pastoral vocation.
If you want to "steal the culture" as @vervaeke_john talks about. If you want "Game B" as @BretWeinstein hopes to launch. Your focus can't be on just throwing ideas out into the world through books and videos.
"Egregores" as @fullydavid and @Freakoutery coined it are FAR more powerful than books or videos. Books and videos aren't "spiritual" in the way that human beings are. If you want to translate an idea into the spirit realm you need people in community.
Once you realize this you might begin to realize part of why Jesus Christ is so important in the history of the world as @holland_tom laid you in his excellent book "Dominion". https://www.amazon.com/Dominion-Tom-Holland-audiobook/dp/B07YXDBGQ3/
You also might realize that any work you do will be laid on THAT foundation that Jesus laid and is the capstone/cornerstone. Any building without careful attention to the world's most successful culture stealer is folly.
We are cultivating an Estuary in Melbourne, Australia both online and face-to-face based on your vision. The group is steady growing each week so much so that we have now started to train facilitators within the group to allow scaling, replication and redundancy. There is a very diverse group of people who come to the meetups and conversations regularly go hours beyond the planned duration. There seems to be a deep hunger to re-establish community and have deeper, meaningful conversations with others. The meaning crisis that has dramatically accelerated over the last two years seems to be being reversed more by the Estuary than any other practical measure (I also run a seperate meetup based on John Vervaeke's lecture series and the participants there struggle to convert the ideas into practices that make their lives better. The discussions on "meaning" often lead to a natural introduction to the Estuary group ). One noteworthy comment we consistently hear from our Estuary participants is that there is no other group meeting in Melbourne that creates such a rich, fulfilling experience. Thank you for your vision Paul. It is changing lives.