The Properties of Organization

June 18, 2004

Robert Macfarlane

 

  • Newly emerging organizations develop as a result of a number of factors:
    • The general pressure of inherent light and energy behind all intermediate forms seeks to express its infinite character in life.
    • The general play of forces in the environment exerts a pressure on all existing organizations to adapt to a dynamic and changing environment.
    • The pressure within a particular organization to achieve higher levels of expression within the current and advancing organization of life.
    • The increasing power of form, instrumentality, function, process and consciousness within each organization and its resulting capacity to perceive newer ways of adaptation and advancement.
  • Newly emerging organizations take a very long time to achieve an active expression in the current organization of life. The initial expression of a new organization may take place hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands or even millions of years earlier.
  • Newly emerging organizations start as a subconscious expression of light and energy that percolates to the surface of life through a complex matrix of intermediate organizations.
  • In time, it finds its first rudimentary expression in one or a small group of isolated individuals within a given collective. At this point it is a subconscious expression that will take a very long time to emerge as a clear formulation.
  • During these early periods, subconscious light and energy expresses as impulsive or unplanned action that produces acts or activities, which help the subconscious impulse take on greater clarity and form.
  • Through a series of such events over long periods of time an inner urging creates a perception that in time awakens as an organized idea.
  • The effort to consciously structure action and activities continues to help their inner perception to become an active formation in life.
  • The emerging organization advances incrementally.
  • The quality and nature of the inner drive, its organization in the mind, the outer instrumentality and knowledge of the forms trying to express it, the general conditions in the environment and the readiness of the collective for advancement determine the progress individuals achieve in expressing a new organization.
  • Throughout history individuals have spent a lifetime seeking ways to develop a new organization without achieving any practical results. Many times their knowledge was lost. In other cases, it was passed onto others who shared some insight into the emerging organization. This slow and tedious effort continued until every factor at each level in the concerned intermediate organizations was ready for the new organization to express.
  • The original subconscious perception acquired greater substance and form as the body, life force and mental energy worked to harmonize around this new idea. When the inner perception took on a subtle and integrated form in and across all levels of the existing organization, the inner conditions combined with the necessary instrumentation to express outwardly as a new intermediate organization.
  • The pioneer who succeeds in revealing a new organization is one who is completely in tune with this subtle and integrated form and possesses the skills and capabilities to express it as an outer organization.
  • Most new organizations are developed simultaneously around the world by a number of people. The result is credited to the individual whose inner and outer conditions are supportive and in harmony with life and its expressive capacities.
  • The reason these efforts take place at many locations simultaneously is because new forms emerge in and from the universal plane of light and energy into the outer intermediate forms of organizations. The emergence of new forms is not an exclusive movement; therefore, it finds multiple centers of expression to increase its chances of success. Those who are attuned and perceptive attract the emerging idea on behalf of the collective.
  • The emergence of a new organization is a very challenging situation because all of the pre-existing organizations have a life and expressive power that has already succeeded in establishing themselves in the outer world.
  • A new organization is isolated, frail, and open to challenge or threat from all existing forces. Since most new organizations are not self-sufficient, they require protection to fully establish themselves in life.
  • Many new organizations are destroyed in the initial stages of expression because outer conditions do not support the new order that seeks expression. Generally, this is seen as a failure, but in fact, it is only one step in a long line of the inner and outer forces aligning themselves at each level until they are strong enough to gain expression in life. Until the integration, harmonization, and instrumentality is complete, the conditions for expression have not been met and so the new form fails to express.
  • The pioneer that achieves a break through is an inventor or innovator. He or she is one in a long line of forms that has worked to express the new form of light and energy, which is capable of expressing more of the infinity of their nature.
  • The outer pioneer is one who has a number of characteristics:
    • He or she must have that inner perception and acceptance of the new organizations.
    • He or she must been touched by the emerging organizations to a point where a powerful energy related to its emergence fills the pioneer with a passion, drive, persistence and courage needed to complete the effort.
    • He or she must have the necessary inner knowledge and outer instrumentality (skill) to translate the increasing power of the idea into an outer form of expression through their own effort or the efforts of others.
    • He or she must have enough of a connection with life’s outer expressive capacity whether permanent or temporary to support the new organization during its emergence phase
    • He or she must be somewhat related to but detached from the current outer expression of life in order to permit the new idea to enter and express.
  • Once the new organization expresses itself in life, it must be nurtured until it becomes fully organized and self-sufficient.
  • If the pioneer is not able to provide these conditions, the form may not survive.
  • During the emergence phase, all existing forms of expression will challenge the emergence of the new organization. Therefore, a new organization must be protected from the established order until it has become self-sufficient and capable of a certain level of self-defense.
  • Evolution is full of examples of new organizations emerging and failing to survive for a long period due to the lack of nurturing and/or protection It is only when the inner pressure and the outer forces align, integrate and harmonize that a lasting outer form emerges.
  • In the field of biological forms, this process of emergence can take thousands, tens of thousands and even millions of years to produce a truly new biological organization.
  • In the field of social development, the time required for new forms to emerge is much less, but it can still take centuries or even millennia for a new outer organization to fully emerge in society.
  • As the society continues to develop and build an increasingly complex series of intermediate forms, the speed of emergence increases dramatically.
  • Once a new form has emerged and survived, it demonstrates a number of common characteristics.
    • It continuously undergoes a gradual and sometimes dramatic reorganization in terms of its outer form, instrumentality, function, process and power of expression, as it establishes itself and becomes self sufficient and later self expanding across the collective.
    • It seeks to extend its actions to a wider and wider cross-section of the collective until every individual possesses and utilizes its power. This process of horizontal extension has been historically a slow and tedious process, but as the overall expressive character of the outer infrastructure increases this process has become faster and faster.
      • In society when the organization spreads to the limit of the collective in which it has emerged, it uses a number of links to other social units so that in time it can find expression even in these unrelated or distant collectives.
    • All emerging organizations show a simultaneous process of horizontal and vertical extension as well as a continuous process of integration in both directions of its extension.
    • New organizations not only extend horizontally across the society. They also change in character from simple to complex. This change increases its power and capacity to express its force of action.
    • As a new organization emerges it creates a number of secondary organizations that support its expressive capacity at wider and higher levels of the collective order.
    • All emerging organizations demonstrate a capacity to improve and increase its efficiency and productivity and that of the collective as it expands in space and time.
    • All emerging organizations demonstrate the ability to create increasing valuable technology and instrumentation that improves its functioning and in turn all other functions within the collective.
    • All new organizations release a new wave of energy and light into the society that helps to build up a greater and more integrated power that drives the collective to higher and higher levels of survival, growth and development.
    • All new organizations create a new level of capacity within the collective to produce results that express an increasing level of quality when compared to previous organizations.
    • All new organizations raise the capacity of the collective in all types and levels of functioning that moves towards practical infinity.
    • All new social organizations increase society’s capacity to eliminate scarcity and to create greater abundance.
    • All new social organizations increase society’s theoretical and effective knowledge of life and existence.
    • All new social organizations increase the life span of members within the collective.
    • All new social organizations increase society’s joy and happiness.
    • All new social organizations increase the power of society to create and express beauty.
    • All new social organizations increase society’s freedom.
    • All new social organizations help society to rise from the physical realm to the plane of life to the realm of mind and beyond.
    • All new social organizations make society more organized and structured.
    • All new social organizations make society more disciplined.
    • All new social organizations create and express an increasing range of values across all planes of life.
    • All new social organizations require an increasing development of individual skills in order to use and master the power of organization.