Relational Being

Individually we tend to think that who and what we are is determined from inside –
that we define ourselves. This is only half of the truth.
What we are is also created by what the universe sees us to be.

We operate in a relationship to myriad layers with varying degrees of freedom, from fixed to fluid, continuously reshaping and reinventing ourselves, and altering aspects of our exterior.
The universe contains the definitions of what we are materially and biologically, from atomic
structure to DNA.
The world holds information from our ancestry and our personal past about the way that we have come to be.
Aspects of our existence
are recorded in the information that external systems accumulate
about us.
Other people hold perspectives, memories and points of view about who they perceive us to be.
We ourselves construct our being and our worldviews through our lifetimes,
holding memories, thoughts and intentions.


Who You Be

Discovering and living from a new reality is a gateway to profound change in how your life works.

You are more than you think you are.

There are multiple levels to your existence and each of them arises from a mix of how you define yourself and how you are defined by the world around you.

When you recognise and engage with the richness of that reality, there are new potentials for development, generation of possibilities and harmonised flow of your life.
Physical - The material world
In Systems - Records & Data
Ancestral - Your place in time
Interior - In our body-mind
In Others - How they see you
Ancestral - Your place in time
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Physical - The material world
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Interior - In our body-mind
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In systems - Records & data
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In others - How they see you

What does this mean?

How we see ourselves and the world

We construct our worldview and it changes, sometimes a little and sometimes a lot.
This worldview drives our decisions and our choices.
We may adapt ourselves to the world/others or we may seek to control it/them.
How do you sense the flow of the world?
How do you interact with it?
What if you could be part of the flow, neither controlled or controlling?

The universe is a living system

The unrecognised scientific reality is that the world is not only material.
Beneath that, it is shaped by information, in continual change and flow.
We are embedded in that information flow, shaped by it and shaping it.
Being sounds like something static and passive.
When you fully BE, you are an active participant.
To live as if you are completely connected means entering in to a collaborative unfolding.
Be the Experience and the Experiencer

Keys to Entry

When you think of yourself as matter, you can only interact at a physical level. Your sensing and awareness of yourself and the world are limited.
You have a sixth sense, a seventh, and more.  We speak of gut-feel and instinct but we make our conscious mind the boss. It is not as clever as it thinks.
You can also know and sense the exterior through INTUITION. The information flow is directly accessible. This is a natural capacity that you can learn and develop.
In addition, you are EMBODIED. Your body is aware of itself and its interior needs, as well as subliminally detecting the exterior, including other people.

Who you BE is an action, not a thing.
You are not a noun, rather you are a verb or an ongoing stream of verbs.

Enjoy more reading about Relational Being and the Science of Possibility
Substack Articles

What is Relational Being? by Jon Freeman

And why might you care?

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A New Way to Navigate Your World by Jon Freeman

Part 1 of a New Relational Being Series

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Who are YOU in a Relational World? by Jon Freeman

Part 2 of a New Relational Being Series

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It is well-known that many shamanistic cultures experience direct connections with the spirits of plants and animals.  Assuming that you don’t regard that as illusion or projection, you might ask  - what is that for us and for today’s world?

There are “modern shamans” – people who work with that realm of connection.  In fact there are many – horse whisperers, plant spirit medicine practitioners for example.  There are well-known examples of people who garden in collaboration with nature, and books such as Dorothy Maclean’s “To hear the Angels Sing”, which describes how enormous vegetables were produced in the seemingly barren soils of Findhorn.  Machaelle Small Wright has given in-depth accounts of how she created the Perelandra garden.

There are also stories of animals – particularly horses - being used in healing.  There is a great story of one such in my Substack “A tale of a psychic horse”.  I also talk about nature spirits in the “What’s Nature to you” chapter of “What makes you YOU” and the chapter on shamanism in “The Science of Possibility”. 

It is an inevitable outcome of the “information field” as a central theoretical theme in both books, that our ability to connect with what animates other parts of the living world will reveal itself in many ways.” 

Read this substack article: The Tale of the Psycic Horse

Your body is made of cells, which form organs and other systems. Anything in the world has sub-elements. Anything in the world is also part of a larger whole. This is the nature of holons, that they are identifiable, nested elements that we can choose to focus on, as we zoom in or out to the scale that we need.
“The whole context of Relational Being is that the universe is governed by a Field of Information. This includes the relationships we have with the flow of the universe in the sense of “God”, or “The Divine” or “The Force” or any equivalent term for the spiritual context”