This week we focused on development—how does it happen and what does it mean. We also focused on a business project that is bridging the gap between where we are and where we want to be.

• Monday we discussed the mechanism by which development happens, when we step back from how we think we are and look at our characteristics clearly—when the subject becomes the object.
• Tuesday and Wednesday we looked into the stages of modernism and postmodernism and all the positive and negative things they’ve brought into the world.
• Thursday Victoria profiled Greendisks, a very cool company which embodies its mission of reducing waste and reusing existing networks as it recycles electronic waste.

Today I’d like to share with you this short video, where spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen and Integral theorist Ken Wilber talk about “the adventure of waking up.” Wilber talks about how every time we choose a higher thought or action than what we’re used to, we actually create new structures in consciousness. In this way, as we develop, so does consciousness itself. Cohen picks up this thread, discussing our awesome responsibility at this point in history: “We have to be willing to bridge the gap between our capacity to cognitively appreciate that these things are true, and actually become that realization and that recognition ourselves.”

What both men are saying is that it is up to each of us as individuals to push the boundaries of what we think we are, and, in doing this, we move the playing field as a whole.

Have you had any realizations—about who you think you are and what you think you are like—that you are working to integrate into your life?