Microbes and the Economy
How Microbes Could Save The Body Politic.
This was the headline of a marketing e-mail from Money Week Magazine. Money Week is one of the only financial publications I bother with these days as it is largely immune from the moronic economic illiteracy of the main stream media. Their content is considered and often forward thinking, but when they start talking about microbes I have to admit a new level of respect. Talking about microbes in the context of economics and suddenly for the first time in years I no longer feel quite so crazy!
Over ten years ago I sat in a room with Tracy and Jane as they discussed how the most fundamental human responses and emotions were in fact determined not by our own intelligence but by that of our microbial populations. I was already trying to process the fact that everything was frequency, colour could heal, time and space were relevant only in certain dimensions, and now they are explaining to me that my microbial population outnumbers my human DNA by a factor of ten, and even if I wanted to make a change in my life I first needed the consent of my microbial population.
As was so often the case the content of the Programme proved well ahead of its time and as I finally got the implications and importance of a co-creative relationship with our microbes (and accordingly our environment) the research started to appear as confirmation. The fact that Money Week even mentions microbes is encouraging but the content of their piece was disappointing to say the least. (For those interested it discusses the fact that big data and huge moves forward in our understanding of how microbes work in our bodies (did you know that we have 10 times as many microbes in our bodies as we do human cells…you are only 1/11th human…) might save the NHS. And if a huge part of our fiscal problem is the NHS it might just save our democratic systems too.)
To develop the Creative Space Programme took a great degree of flexibility of thinking, a willingness to explore outrageous connectivity and at times a thick enough skin to express seemingly crazy ideas as probabilities rather than possibilities. Add to that more than a dash of Divine guidance, a procession of some the most amazing and inspiring people, ideas and coincidences and we sort of get to where we are now. Hopefully, the trail the Programme has left will allow many to navigate their way to the sense of possibility it has allowed us.
Believing at least six impossible things before breakfast leads for a far more fulfilling illusion than the it can't be done model. So think big, think outrageous. It is an illusion so might as well make it a good one!
Lots of love as ever
Bill