By Karol Sprawka
Somewhere in the quite remote village of interior Portugal, very close to the ‘border’ with Spain, a few seeds of Next Culture have been planted. Through a small team of edgeworkers Archiarchy (the next culture that emerges, after matriarchy and patriarchy run their course) introduced itself. It happened on a sunday market in a village called Beira, where we offered our non-material value. We occupied the space with distinctions and maps that modern culture knows very little about. Upon arrival we invited Bright Principles and set our Archiarchal Menu of our offers that day.
People started to notice us and slowly, one by one, were approaching: asking questions, but more importantly being vulnerable. We practiced together being centered and grounded, we offered distinctions, we navigated towards feelings, towards the heart. We got intimate with each other. Some people expressed anger, some shared their deep concerns, some shed tears, some felt relief after being seen or heard. Sometimes they needed a little encouragement, like „hey, it takes only a bit of courage”, and courage they found.
Three of us delivering non-material value and distinctions almost constantly. Only afterwards I realized that in the midst of it ‘I’ that I knew disappeared: that, the 'I’ that had doubts or felt fear of being judged as weird, ‚I’ that wasn’t sure or didn’t know what to do was no longer. There I was, present, embodied in what I came there for, in contact, inviting, committed and ready. I saw Ewa’s and Berenika’s Beings ecstatically doing their Real Job, even when Ewa’s hair were cut she continued ecstatically landing distinctions (I never see her so joyous and beautiful when her Being does her job). It was honey in the heart to see my team in its element, to see the openness of the people, their readiness to risk, their longing to feel, to connect, to get clear. And they wanted more… the time passed in a snap of a finger. We exchanged contacts and have been invited, not only for lunch, but to keep delivering our values in their communities. We went there just to scan the space, just to try, and it turned out to be adventure and Pirate-like Next Culture High Level Fun.
One of the fruits of that day was delivering a workshop about Transformative Communication in another village called Castelo de Vide. Together with Ewa we again held a space where culture-to-culture conversation and investigation took place. My personal legend is that, yet again I introduced myself as someone who chose to live in the Next Culture, and as a Cultural Bridge and a Weaver I invite and share with others what we do and practice as Archans. And these are some of it: we Archans feel our feelings and communicate them, we complete incomplete emotions, we become listening spaces so our listeners not only can be understood but can unfold and discover themselves beyond what they knew so far, we shift identities into that what gives us more possibilities, more aliveness. We are Experimenters and Adventurers! We navigate towards five body intimacy and we radically relay on Infinite Resources. This is what I do and practice as Archan and this is what I share with other fellow Gayans, a living and breathing Beings of Gaya.
…and this is what we practiced that day. Well, some of it. And there was still so much to learn, and for me as a spaceholder so much to improve or do it more elegantly, with more clarity, like: context setting, clearer instructions, less pressure, more inviting and intimacy, less solving and solution seeking, being bolder, going first, being liquid first, allowing to be touched deeper, and slow down even more.
I see the shift in me comes from my growing firmness in my commitment to my evolution, to my dearest fellow travelers and my partner Ewa, to my deepening in the context of Radical Responsibility and my deepening Reliance in Bright Principles and my Archetypal Linage.
This workshop was on our final day of four weeks at Bridge House in Casa Fluxus. Seeing this readiness of participants and eagerness to do more I felt sadness of leaving. Now, writing this, I feel empowered by this experience, by empowering others, by walking on the edges of what is known. I also feel joy knowing that this group of people wants to continue to meet and practice new skills and become Experimenters. With this workshop I felt that my time in Castelo de Vide is complete, but also I feel inspired to continue on this path of conscious evolution. As for now I don’t find anything more needed for myself and the world. Also I don’t find anything that could be more ecstatic.
