Longing for a Syntropic Future without Roles and Membership Layers

A contemplation provocation: Maybe it is the rebel in me that never wants to grow up, or it is a call for freedom from the more beautiful world I hold in my little green heart as a possibility. Most likely it is a bit of both. What I am sharing here, took many months to surface from within me, and was amplified through

my learning in the Syntropic World⁠

and through reading ‘Hospicing Modernity’ by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Read my book review

here⁠

Roles and Membership levels/layers are challenging for me. Through this many months of self-inquiry I realized they have always been challenging for me, especially roles. No role or membership layer or archetype will ever make me feel whole, since it always only represents a tiny fraction of all that I am. Can I just show up as Kath, please? The

@Syntropic Wellness Economy⁠

I envision needs to be able to welcome me as a sovereign human being in wholeness; instead of trying to squeeze me in a particular role, archetype, or membership layer. 🗃️

I feel roles and membership levels for humans in an organization/community/group are not only redundant but can also be harmful. It’s an attempt to try to fit my very own, unique complexity into something static that is not intrinsic to my being (or any other life form), and that doesn’t allow me to breathe. It feels like cutting off essential parts of me, while taking on a label, a limited identity that can never do justice to all that I am. Suddenly my authority to speak to matters ‘outside’ my role or membership layer is diminished, even though I might hold valuable insight and expertise around a topic. Yes, I have experienced this ‘lack of authority’, not only during my employment in various jobs in Modernity but also in self-governed communities/groups.

Roles, archetypes, and membership layers limit and separate us not only from who we are as individuals but also from one another. They slice an organization/community/group into bits and pieces in an attempt to make sense of complexity. They objectify us and move us further away from our prosocial relationality. We become a thing. Intimacy is being lost when adopting roles and membership layers. An unnecessary distance is being created. It’s something you can hide behind. Like a veil. It’s not true, because it can never be whole!

When I think of Samara Trust, I feel obviously more close to Tyler than to the Treasurer. Does Tyler need the label Treasurer in order to do what he wants to do? No, not in my world. Does the role of Treasurer give him any authority that he wouldn’t have as Tyler? No, not in my world. Are the actions of the Treasurer more trustworthy than the ones of Tyler? No, not in my world.

Are we unconsciously creating a hierarchy for membership in Samara Trust as a precessional effect by adopting layers and levels, even though we say that the field map is holonic and nested? There is a movement from Ecstatic Learner to the next layer, and a movement into the layer after that and so on. I perceive it as a hierarchical ladder, no matter how often we say it isn't. It will eventually create a pyramid, since we will always have more ecstatic learners than stewards, fellows, council, kin, …

There is a sense of gained exclusivity and power that comes from reaching the next membership layer - more rights, more responsibility, more power, more control, more access to prosperity. It’s hard to deny: A hierarchy is created. Why? What is the incentive behind it all? When all we seek is a simple structure that can help us govern. A sense of separation between different membership layers is inevitable. Are we creating just another version of Modernity, because we are stuck in an unconscious trap of deeply conditioned patterns?

I’d love to play with archetypes, simply not for humans. What about playing with archetype practices like prosperity pooling, syntropic storytelling, and others we might discover on our journey.

I’d love to hospice roles as part of hospicing Modernity while midwifing a syntropic future.

I’d love to simply be a member of Samara Trust without tags, titles, layers, roles, or archetypes to carry with me. I am Kath, a member of Samara Trust. In membership I’d love to agree to simple rules of engagement that allow us to hold each other accountable to walk a right, true, and beautiful path in love, compassion, and dignity. I’d love to engage in an ongoing conversation on value by sharing our commitments and expectations with one another through synergistic auditing out loud.

From my simple heart,

Kath 💚

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August 24, 2022

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