Radical Unreasonableness
Rather than a resolution set that is quickly swamped by the details of life, my one commitment for 2017 is to Radical Unreasonableness in every domain in life. An experiment in pushing the limits of the results I produce in every arena in my life: my marriage, immigration consulting work, personal transformation, family breakthrough, social media promotion for Laurie, the impact of the Encounter training.
My plan of approach is to develop habits that support Radical Unreasonableness. Writing this blog will be one of the habits, meditation, fasting 3 consecutive days every month, daily journaling, and aiming as high as I can imagine.
Radical comes from a Latin word ‘radix’ or ‘root’ — some source as ‘radish’. My goal is to focus on where life springs from, to tap into that primal energy that flows from God. In the meditation I have been doing (I’ll do a post on what forms of meditation I am practicing) I’ve noticed three ‘modes’ of relating internally. One is self that wants to look good, be right, be in control, and feel good about itself. Let’s slap him with a term — the Groveler. He prostitutes himself for the paltry coin of acceptance. The second self is the shadowy, dark/angry/bitter/vengeful self — the Shadow, who is ready to flare up into a conflagration at the slightest provocation. Beyond both of these would be the spacious source of my self, the authentic, True Self. I don’t experience these in particularly a linear way… they aren’t polite and don’t take turns. Rather they seem to be going all the time; always on in parallel. What shifts is the attention *I* pay to any of the three of them. When I realize that there *I* am choosing what to attend to and actually experience that freedom to choose, the truth appears that the True Self is bigger, more spacious, more primary, more real, eternal where as the Groveler and the Shadow are derivative, secondary, distortions, fallen.
January 2, 2017