a dancing cloud-being that waved at my mum and me as we were biking through the lovely Allgäu landscape in Bavaria, Southern Germany…. what story does it tell?

and here one photo of a series of a night-moon-clouds-steeple-photo-exploration that i did with my dad last night. you can see the whole exhibition here :)

it was an important and wonderful journey for me. it’s a field that i have been at home since many years without knowing it… i got big ears though when hearing about Joseph Beuys since i first heard about him – and now i am conscious of it and hungry for more :) such a spacious and sensitive way of working and all the time in connection with the energy field of imagination and emerging reality… i can feel that it had a profound impact on me! more about this way of working maybe another time when the experience converged in my memory into essences :) what i can say though is that it added a calm and somehow bodily spaciousness and artistic notion to the more facilitated or outcome-focused processes that i was used to so far. just placing one seed and one space… filled with your personal care and energy – but no forced desired outcome…

talking about ‘gathering substance‘ and bringing it into the space to allow it to interact and move around with the substance of others and of us as a whole… talking about ‘new organs of perception‘ and ‘instruments of consciousness‘ as way more broader, more subtle and life-connected expressions than ‘tools’, ‘techniques’ or ‘exercises’ for instance.

my PROCESS

the 2nd week was dedicated to developing our own work further and create a process of some sort to share with the rest of the group. i titled my process “illuminating interpersonal abundance – a playful exploration” :)
the core of it is to map connections in the interpersonal space (in this case of 1&1 groups). the initial spark for this occurred in me in Bogotá through Adri Luna’s invitation to lead a mapping process and through a 1st prototype with her and Sofía (more about these two magical beings in my story about Jim).

while the mapping does indeed help to discover concrete synergies i see it more like a vehicle to create a warm sense of abundance and possibilities as we encounter with openness in social landscapes to re-find (beyond re-search) the potential between us. building ‘new organs of perception’ and leaning into finding the hot links of meaningful synergies between us…

i will talk you through it – expecting you to know that it is oceans deeper to experience it yourself. my intention though is for this to possibly trigger similar/other process-design thoughts in you as you read this :)

PART 1

After starting with a short guided mediation of honoring and holding one’s own very own naked space of intimacy with the universe i invited people into a little milling (walking around the room) to give some good-morning-smiles and to warm the social landscape in this room while holding the intimacy with oneself.

The following parallelophoring-practice (term ‘parallelophor’ by Tijmen for parallel metaphors) had the intention of massaging some flexibility into the mind’s hunger for structure and clear instructions – i asked people to form groups of 3 and handed out these cards, each displaying an abstract energetic dynamic or phenomena:

The invitation then was for each person to think of a concrete example from their experience or imagination and to get into a dialogue around the dynamics that occur around this specific situation/context withOUT mentioning the example that they have in mind. so only talking about dynamics and relations – not naming subjects or objects. I’ll leave it to you to see how/if this practice relates to mental flexibility :)

nourishing a warm center while stretching the edges.

Another practice that i had in mind to do after this one and will surely try another time is to amplify the ununderstandable - an idea that i described in an earlier post - basically people form pairs and one starts sharing something that the listener will not completely be able to follow, either because the subject is out of his/her range or if it’s still to understandable than the person sharing will start leaving out parts, switch between languages or other ways to make sure that the listener will only understand fragments of what he’s been told :) The task for the listener then is to NOT ask clarifying questions and fill the missing gaps but to amplify what’s been shared and to explore with angle of questions would help move the edge of this story, without understanding it :)

PART 2

then i handed out  ”me-spaces” to be filled with ones name/avatar and some ‘tagwords’ (=profile-buzzwords) of what you feel is an important part of your identity.

On the floor i put a circle of black A4 papers which i introduced as ‘windows into interpersonal spaces‘ – so people would gather in pairs, take a black paper and find a nice spot in the room on the floor or on a table. They will start by laying down their me-space at the two ends of the paper and draw a line around theirs with white chalk.  While each pair were going into conversation and mapping out their interpersonal space i was writing suggestions of what also could be used to navigate through the mapping – i called it the expansion sheet. similar to the parallelophoring-practice this was meant to inspire a liquidity in what objects/nodes can be mapped and navigated across…

and indeed they came up with a beautiful variety of how to fill their interpersonal space windows – here a few of them (not higher resolution to protect privacy):

due to the time-frame we could only do two 1&1 encounter-round (meaning that everyone did two mapping-sessions with a different partner each) whereas you could do that for a whole day and sinking deeper into it for sure. that was a strong feedback i got – that this was a 2day-process packed in one hour! so here is my big lesson on spaciousness and letting grow from within other than trying to facilitate the emergent spaces…

finally people put all interpersonal windows and me-spaces up on a fabric at the wall and drew connections from their me-spaces to the windows they were part of. more meta-connections would be possible from this stage onwards – ranging from mapping gravity around issues or mutual friends mentioned across all 1&1 spaces or mapping story-lines of who went with whom and in which order… also impressing and somehow humbling to notice (for me at least) that we as a group did 15 interpersonal windows out of 136 possible different ones amongst the 17 people we were…

sensing what it did with people and the appreciative feedback afterwards gives me a warm sense of the big potential in this and i will surely in one form or the other continue to explore this :) you’re welcome to do with it what you want – i hope you allowed it to move something in you…

…here two pictures of an absolutely amazing tree here in a park in Oxford (where the green arrows points) that Kathy showed to us. it’s an old tree that has been cut off by a lightning but two of his branches reached into the ground like elbows and from there two full new trees came up decades ago and stand strong on their own today. it’s really impressive to see this!

besides the inquiry around leadership it’s interesting to look at what creates alignment. that can be the will or statement of a person but it can also be pressure from the environment, being faced with something we are all against, the emotion of joy in the beautiful sunset at the ocean or the possibility of getting free beer in the pub.

an impulse is born and gets shared and shared further until it finds a role in the system that has the energetic mandate to amplify it into collective movement. you could say the power-constellation/person took leadership – but what they did was just picking up a signal and amplifying it using their given or energetically evolved mandate.

groups are full of these leadership-pathways. people have preferred mates to share their ideas with (or to shy to share with others) and then these are very good at communicating them to the rest and so on… creators, conduits, amplifiers, distractors, wisdom-depth holders, social circle gatekeeper… and so on. nothing bad about it – natural this is i guess (might be super-interesting to explore this pathways (=playlists) algorithmically as i wrote yesterday about).

screenshot of a program Markus Kollotzek wrote. field forces around electrons and protons.

it can easily become a trap though and the system gets blind to other potential pathways or signals that are not gaining momentum on the pathways that people were used to and built (blind) trust in.

keeping leadership-pathways fluid and meaningful is certainly more possible in fields where the entities (people, ideas, conditions…) are not gated by ego-barriers or the need to keep a brand-identity on the market for instance. nodes in the net have the energetic gravity they naturally have and form the landscape of this field with the other players. the meaningful travels along this landscape (mathematical derivative landscapes are a rich metaphor for this) ARE the leadership-pathways :)

service – besides the many emotional or philosophical things that can be explored around that i want to share an exercise that i had in mind since a while (and might have shared somewhere else earlier?). if it can’t be put into practice at the moment (i haven’t done/facilitated it yet) – it also serves well as a game in imagination that ideally sparks other ideas for exercise that can train the muscle for what serving a system to flourish means and feels like.

let’s say we have a group of 10 people. for one full day the individuals in this group are NOT allowed to talk in groups of 3 or more – meaning that all communication needs to happen in 1&1 space. now you give this group simple and later complex tasks that involves agreements between 5 or all 10 people for instance. let’s say they need to find 6 people to make dinner for the rest. what i imagine happening is that it gets very messy and uncomfortable in the beginning but over time these 45 (!) unique 1&1 units start to behave, organize and share information more hive-like… leaning towards meaningful pathways. and what i think will one of the possibly many learning-reflections is that it works best if you and all the 1&1 units you move in, dedicate their information-processing towards the highest potential of the whole! in the moment you bend or filter information to get out of it what you alone want, flow might not happen – people may or may not be able to track you back for ‘causing’ this distortion but the point beyond guilt is that (i assume) the system flourishes the most if all their units are committed to the highest potential of the whole – and yes, that doesn’t mean blindly passing on, it can also mean radical opposing… an inner energetic alignment of being in service of the whole doesn’t need to look all the time peaceful and happy on the outside.

Here’s to continue sharing from the math/programming/process/spiritual-space in me that peaked for the time being in the POOL / ALGO concept paper from mid may. i feel approaching a higher level of synergy on the blueprint between the two sides…. and in the spirit of this blog – i am sharing in the middle of my own process to challenge myself in formulating it. if you can’t follow me, don’t worry… i can’t follow myself on this ;) I am not an educated mathematician nor a programmer so people who know that stuff might find parts of it obvious or weird to look at it this way. So this is me pulling stuff together across the various fields that are alive in me… i am not sure if it’s ripe already – both in me and outside. but now that i started writing i guess it wants to come out :)

CONTEXT

I had the wonderful chance to be in Rob Hopkins (founder of the Transition movement) workshop last weekend on the Transition Town Conference in Liverpool (resources from the harvesting team here & here) when he introduced for the first time the new “ingredient-cards” (photo from Rob’s blog) he created along with his coming book “The Transition Companion“.

And on another end of the global net of emerging goodness i am hearing from the group around Tree Bressen in Oregon that their work on the Group Pattern Language has come to a stage where they have a set of 91 patterns ready that cover the various patterns they observed can occur or can be created in group-fields.

Here is an example of a Listening Card set (via @tomatlee) and in that light all angel card sets or other inspiration- or meaning-creation-through-intuitively-choosing-pools become interesting for this algorithmic explorations. And here more PLs-ish: Reliable Prosperity, Public Sphere Project and a whole list on the grouppatternlanguage.org-wiki.

And there are more fields that have already or are mapping their stories out in patterns – watch out for it :) and it’s a fun experiment to spend a few hours just noting down social patterns in public space as you walk through it and then cluster it afterwards!

If you haven’t heard the term ‘pattern language‘ – the architect Christopher Alexander coined it. he has meanwhile written four amazing books on the ‘The Nature Of Order‘.

Jascha Rohr‘s genius thoughts and an explorative workshop with him around a software for working with pattern language put me initially on that track.

The basic idea of a pool of content and then re-combinating these into playlists and clusters you find all over the place meanwhile. iTunes, iPhoto and the AdressBook for instance work like that.

THIS

let me start with describing the experimental process i did with my KaosPilot team earlier this year. i asked people to stand in a circle in the room and then the first person goes into the middle and calls out a few (3-5ish) other names from the team that she would like to be in group with (the purpose of that desired subgroup is irrelevant for now to describe the process). the people she names will come physically into the center of the circle and remain there for a few seconds experiencing each other as a subgroup – honoring that this is one possible subgroup out of million possible ones that could be formed with 33 people. but this one is special because one person called this specific subgroup in – so there was real social intelligence and meaning involved in the choosing. then this subgroup melts back into the whole group-circle and the next person goes in the middle to call in their preferred subgroup.

while that physical process is going on i am also collecting these subgroups in a little program i wrote (in Processing). it looks like this…

… and i can just drag a subgroup of people into the little circle and press enter to save the names of these people in a subgroup. if everyone creates one subgroup that gives me 33 subgroups. these then get split into around 1000 sub-subgroups to lay out all combinations of 2 or 3 that are present in a group of 4 for instance (don’t worry if you just got lost). then the algorithm counts this all through and prints a ranking of sub-subgroups. in other words, this shows the constellational gravity in the social field. in the ranking below the group of 4 for instance that appeared 4 times in different subgroups is quite stable for instance…

… (and it’s much longer than this screenshot). so, what to do with this? i don’t really know, but i am deeply intrigued by it. KNOWING how impossible it is to ever calculate the complexity of social dynamics – i find so much juice at the threshold to mathematical space. so… just looking at it for now :) an interesting question now is how to calculate optimal subgroups based on this sub-subgroup ranking! and i am about to learn that with the help of programming-friends that i am very grateful to be in touch with!

here is a quick’n'dirty quadrant-thingy of what i’d imagine the algorithms in that field needs to be able to do – Rob’s ingredient cards for instance are sensitive to the order in which they are put down while in forming groups of people the togetherness as such is relevant and not their order.

besides forming group this can be applied in endless situations. in my paper from may i show how it can be used in structuring websites or to explore the constellational gravity-field inprocess-tools.

another fun application would be to take a map of 1000 yoga positions [@astama ;) ] in a particular tradition and then record the different concrete playlists a yoga teacher creates from this in his day-to-day teaching (for instance the 8 postures we do today and the 7 we do tomorrow – order is very important here) and map the meaningful list fragments (@goonth) / the constellational gravity-field there :)

now… talking about conscious manipulation or to bridge large systemic interdependencies into my immediate sphere of emotional impact that i derive my actions from here and now (see my post on spheres) – or the art that can create the ‘compassion of nearness that brings this things so close to you as if an eyelid touches your cheek’ (Jay Griffiths in her beautiful speech at the Transition Conference) – what if the CURATOR utilizes constellational gravity-map to create bundles of art pieces that are likely to address the full human spectrum? this add’s this flavor and this and that other flavor’s – together it will amplify the emotional impact in you and maybe move you to action – i know this sounds so manipulative… and yes, i guess that’s what it is – but i guess this is what the ad industry is doing all the time anyway :) penetrating the consumer with various vectors of desired impact to get him buy that thing? so let’s hack these mechanism for “the good” ;-p

i guess this whole thing is another twist to the space in me that i called realogies, parallelophors, consistency of shape (Andreas Weber), fractal fluid organism (@gavinkeech) and various expressions of the same process creatures (inspired by @jascharohr) earlier… inspired through the Social Sculpture field that i am in right now in Oxford…

so… here is an abstract to-do list to create constellational gravity maps :)

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overview/context-soaked-person in a field creates first bulk of meaningful patterns/alphabet that map out the possible bricks of what’s going on in the field (especially in movements where generic patterns occur that contextualize in locality). have the rest of the pattern-alphabet continued to be crowd-sourced and refined by the community and overview-person.

use these patterns to map stories, processes, clusters or journeys that are happening within that field. continue to refine the set of extracted patterns as you re-apply them in your field in that way.

take these pattern-lists/stories from the field and run analyzing-algorithms to scan for meaningful-list-fragments /constellational-gravity amongst the patterns either with order as a meaningful criteria or not. display these gravity/clustering-/ordering-intelligence to the community and be sensitive to the responses and swirls this creates in the social field.

curate meta-constellation-creation of impact vectors to amplify and strive for wholeness, based on 1) pure curator intuition or 2) a system of overview that allows to create holistic bundle of impact-vectors that together addresses their core from all possible angles. the full emotional spectrum for instance.

go for a beer.

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or shorter: 

name patterns in your field  >  map stories from the field as playlist of patterns  >  process these playlists for meaningful list fragments

anyway… watch that space of pattern languages and what’s possible if we map fields of constellational gravity… and especially as amazing minds build meta-pattern-systems (like Gavin’s @entpm & Dylan’s @uzazu) that may allow that kind of analyzing and synergizing across completely ‘different’ fields! not to self: this is when the POOL and the ALGO part become one ;)

so here is how this looks like: (these are students from an american sign language choir college!) :

now what i find so fascinated by this is when seeing it from an angle of possible abilities/patterns to pull into the social space to build new evolutionary capacities, as i was pointing to in the last graphic of my previous post.

thinking about nonverbal conversations in sign language that turn into a dance! so well trained and often done that the bodies dance-impulses can find their way into expressions that are interpretable in sign language…

language shapes so much our ability and horizon to think… what new horizons open if you learn to let the body speak… and not “just” (knowing that it already speaks so incredibly much on many levels) on the levels we do so far but ALSO on the very cognitive/intellectual/linguistic level!

what if you learn sign language so well that your body taps into these patterns in a mode of dancing? would it be possible to do a decision-making-dance in a group – completely nonverbal?

when you speak or write like i do here – i put all this little containers of meaning (=words) into playlists of sentences. i do this following rules of grammar. you understand me because we both learned these rules and all the meanings of this little meaning-containers. we are so well trained in this game that we’re just doing it – our thoughts have taken the shape of language… our intuitive impulses find expression in language because we internalized the rules and meaning-containers so much. and it seems to be the system that humanity evolved that allows most complexity to be expressed! how would i make a gesture that tells you about something i thought last month? you would not understand my gestures if we wouldn’t agree beforehand on at least some building-blocks of meaning-making. as you might know from being in countries where you don’t speak the main language we can get very good at making these gestures and also at reading the nonverbal space…

so if language mirrors our mental opportunities… what if that can include the body in a highly nuanced way of intellectual complexity?

… and also besides sign language – the inquiry here is to find ways to complexify any kind of agreements between sender and receiver to a level to process maximum complexity of information.

A few weeks ago i was listening to a speech by Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán in TEDxCeiba in Bogotá on corruption. He showed a video of an old man getting robbed on the streets and the compassion was tangible in the room – then he showed a document with a lot of text and a number with many zeros at the bottom and explained to us that this was a recent case of corruption where this amount of money got stolen, which had a very bad effect on the lives of millions of people in Colombia. There were judging voices but no compassion tangible in the room. And that was his point… we don’t have the capacity to comprehend this kind of information emotionally! Even so this corruption-case affected millions of lives negatively we feel far more immediate compassion with seeing the old man getting robbed. This are our mirror neurons copying the other in us – we literally suffer their pain in us… biologically a very important function. However, as we’ve reached scales on many levels long ago that are far beyond any access for our biological compassion-system it’s more than timely to investigate ways of comprehending this kind of information with our bodies.

Another example on that line is the movie “Das Rad”, i blogged about it earlier. This short amusing animation-movie scales an enormously huge time-context into a format where we can feel direct touch. At least i remember feeling a strong sense of anger and urgency about humans on earth when watching it.

Metaphors do that – they scale a large context into a format that we can overlook and relate to emotionally.

From context-depth comes informed intuition…

The personal capacity to derive your actions and decisions here and now with respect to the bigger waves… honoring your immediate affection but developing listening skills to derive meaningful contractions based on weak signals and rivers – before the shift hits the fan :)

So, let’s sphere it :)

Pieces of art like “Das Rad” can build a bridge into your sphere of immediate transformational impact… but it might not be strong enough for it to cause a behavior change in you. Often when several bridges come together we pull a circle closer to our intimate sphere. Conscious evolutionary manipulation i would call the art form of creating spaces where this bridges can happen in form of media, group dynamics, personal experience, stories and so on… how to make it matter.

Pull the system into the body. Our intuitive intelligences are SO capable… they just need to be fed, trusted and put into their playground. As our body IS this highly interdependent self-organized hypercomplex system we are the best living metaphor to comprehend complex systems out there. Having said that there is also a statement to make about the ‘danger’ of scaling up metaphors – it’s fine to scale the universe into the nutshell… but if you then make new insights in the nutshell it’s tricky to interpret that back into the universe as there are a few more dynamics to consider. Also often we use the metaphor of a person to describe the group spirit… it is understandable that we tend to do that – just to say that there is complete new dynamics at play. Are we learning to really name, describe and utilize emerging group beings beyond treating them as people?

An ancient way to bridge that gap is story. it has always been the tool to pull together pieces from all over into a coherent stream.

Systemic change needs a group of people to lean into the opportunity for it to happen… for example a local community that start their own currency system!

Let’s take a bold look at group capacities on the evolutionary horizon, in my eyes:

you’re welcome to share how this stuff finds you :)

download “Ami – Child of the Stars” in english (originally in spanish) as 65pages-pdf here

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also as audio-version [36:33], download 35MB-mp3 or listen here:

Jim – Child of the Earth | by Benjamin Aaron Degenhart

It was one year after my adventure with Ami, the child from the stars. I was on vacation again with my grandma in the small and quit town on the California coast.
Many things have happened in my life since Ami opened my eyes widely to the wonders of this earth and our universe – in the last weeks though i felt this longing growing in me to be with Ami again. Something in me felt ready for a new level of initiation. I felt so much energy in me that has been awakened and wants to move somewhere. And for some reason i knew that i would meet Ami again this vacation.
But as i indeed heard his voice in the first night crystal-clear in my mind i was so surprised and felt a huge wave of euphoria and excitement – i even had to hold my mouth with both hands to not scream of excitement, which would wake up my grandma.

Without big introduction Ami started talking to me inside my head: “Hi Jim, i send you greetings from many many galaxies far away. I am reaching out to you tonight because the supercomputer has registered that your love measures have reached the next level after they have been continuously increasing since we last met. I want to thank you deeply for really listening to the message i brought to you – you started seeing the world through new eyes and that allowed a whole new wave of learning for your mind and soul. Thank you for being who you are Jim.”

I was so incredible happy and proud to hear this from Ami that i could feel how this energy was about to pump up my ego to the sky and beyond… so after i had a little moment of feeling like the king of the world and then judging myself for that thought i decided to not block this wave from happening right now but to surrender to its flow with the momentum… i started visualizing how my ego is just a helpful skin that holds the integrity around the embodiment of my soul – so i saw on my inner eye how this mental layer of who i think i am, grew vastly into the cosmos, and then… just faded away! And in the moment i was completely accepting that this was happening i felt how this beautiful energy was pouring right from my heart into the universe… a huge river of love and light flowing from my heart.

Then i realized that i was also able to direct this energy to the people close to me and send waves of love into their hearts. I could feel the love growing the more i share and finally i saw on my inner eye how my love was holding the whole planet earth in a glowing light… then i wasn’t sure anymore if it was flowing out of my heart and into the earth or from the earth into my heart… and it didn’t matter as i felt it was the same. Oh yes, i could feel how i was so so ready for this and it felt there was no doubt this would happen, but i needed Ami to trigger it.

Wow… i was lying profoundly joyful in my bed and found myself laughing about the thought of calling this experience a “cosmic orgasm”. I heard Ami joining my laughter in my mind with his beautiful crystal-voice. In the rhythm of his laughter i noticed how different it is from any laughter i heard on planet earth and i was wondering if i could learn to laugh like that or if laughing is something that comes with birth.

Ami spoke to me: “Haha, you are the first i hear reflecting about extraterrestrial laughing-rhythms, let’s explore that some other day! Hey, great Jim, you passed the threshold of ego, you transcended it by accepting it!
Now we can continue – i am sensing a readiness in you. That’s why i cam coming to you tonight in your dreams. The supercomputer knows that you earthlings are getting closer to an evolutionary leap and that for us extraterrestrials the next step is to support the process of connecting the emerging cells of awakening around the planet and especially empower those who are already manifesting the new ground. Everything you need is already on this planet, it’s a matter of connecting and sharing what really matters, stepping onto new ground boldly and lightly together. How is that for you to hear?”
“Oh Ami” i said, “i am so happy you are with me again – i am feeling exactly what you are telling me, i have all this energy that wants to move, grow and explore. So let’s go!! Tell me – to which galaxy are we flying now?”

Ami laughed his unique laughter and i could feel how much i had been missing him – he continued: “Jim, as i said, everything is already on planet earth, we don’t need to travel beyond at this time – let me take you tonight to Colombia, i want to introduce you to two beautiful young women. And another night i might introduce you to earthlings in other countries…”

“yeah, sounds fantastic Ami, i am more than ready! I heard amazing things about women in Latin America.”

Ami laughed: “haha Jim, i noticed this new energy in you earlier too with the ‘cosmic orgasm’ – you are getting into your teenager-years. It’s a powerful and beautiful energy that is growing in this age – i invite you to experience it very consciously and look for the inner beauty besides the outer beauty… but i know that you are doing that already, so i am not worried. Another time we can talk about new forms of love and sexuality that transcend the contraction of jealousy… ways of loving and being intimate in alignment with the Fundamental Law of the Universe.
But let’s go now. Jim, i want you to play this song “Devi Prayer – Hymn to the Divine Mother“ on your computer – it has been made by very conscious human beings and will bring your brain waves into wider frequencies – and then think about everything you know about Colombia, that will support me in initiating the dream-jump for us to go there.”

“Ehm…” i responded very amused by the fact that Ami asks me to put on a song on youtube – but sure, why not. So i did it… as the beautiful music puts me back into a half-dream state and i said to Ami: “well, besides beautiful women… oh wait, hah, i remember having tasted this raw sugar they call Panela a while ago and i liked it so much!”.

“haha, ok, that will work Jim, you think about beautiful women and Panela and i’ll get us over there.”

A few seconds later i was completely lulled into the magic of this music.
I saw how Ami and me were zooming away from California and flying high over America to take course on Colombia and fly down towards Bakata (Ami whispered to me that this is the real name of this city, not Bogotá) – it was like the effect in google earth when you type a new address and it fly’s you there – with the difference that it was me in person flying there, or at least my dream-self? i don’t know, i was in Ami-world. Well, was i? I found myself thinking that i’d like to learn this ways of telepathy and dream-travelling myself, so that i don’t need Ami for doing it. He whispered to me: “I am so glad that you found that exact thirst in you. I was about to invite you to that attitude but it’s so much better that it comes from within you!”.

We were getting closer to the city and were flying towards a house – for a moment i was worried if the landing will hurt but as we got to the roof we were simply gliding through it and landed smoothly on two couches. Amused by my own worries i thought; of course, how else would you land in a dream-travel.

In front of us on the floor of this living room was a young beautiful woman sitting with her eyes closed and playing a drum – actually in a similar rhythm to Ami’s laughter i noticed. On the drum there was a rainbow circle and the web of life in it (i knew that because my grandma showed it to me recently). On top of the web and the rainbow circle was a flying humming-bird.
There was a yellow glow around this woman. I got shy as my eyes were wandering over her body and i felt her beauty as a heat-wave through my whole body. Now she stopped playing the drum and slowly opened her eyes and looked at me. A wonderful smile was spreading its wings in her face as she looked to Ami and back to me. I was so fascinated that i couldn’t imagine ever using simple words again to describe something. The woman said: “Hello you two! My name is Luna. Thank you for bringing Jim here, Ami. I knew that this is happening tonight so i was playing the drum for you to find me easier. Jim, Ami has taken me on a journey like he did with you many years ago. This initiation allowed me to play the game of the adults but keep my inner child bright and curious. Ok, let me share some of what’s alive here these days.”

What followed was a truly amazing and rich story that Luna told us about this woman ‘Regina’ that is said to have initiated the global peace movements 1968 by sending her prayers from Mexico and giving her life to awaken the sacred volcano there, one of many nostrils of planet earth. All of them will wake up in different times, and each opens a new portal of consciousness for humanity she said.
I thought to myself that the reason must be some change in the frequency of the earth turning through the change in mass-proportion inside and outside the earth-crust through the eruption that will then have an effect on the magnetic field and so on… but with thinking that it might also be ok to not find a scientific solution right away, i closed this thread of thoughts.
Luna told us that the message that Colombias nostril brings is the prayer of the goddess (i had to think of the beautiful song that Ami asked me to put on and that i could still hear in the background of our shared dream here and now) and of healing our internal and external waters, Colombia is the water-country she said.

Then Luna invited us to sit with her on the floor and started drawing on the big map that she was sitting on while telling about the web of life and how we people are like cells of one global brain that is waiting to awakening to it’s consciousness. And she told us about the condor, the eagle and the hummingbird and how this relates to all different kinds of myths, children stories and indigenous wisdom. Just as i was about to get dizzy in my head and wanted to ask her for the way to the toilet just to get a break, i heard Ami saying in mind: “Listen Jim, not only to the story, don’t worry about all the details – listen to what she is doing on an energetic level. Your mind is trying to make sense of all immediately and that is making it difficult for your whole body to listen.”.
Ok, not really knowing what Ami meant with ‘listening on an energetic level’ i was following his advice to turn down my intellectual teeth that were chewing on the served meal to swallow it quickly instead of exploring the taste – i was really happy about this metaphor by the way and i heard Ami giggling.

Luna continued talking about symbols, colors and how specific names mean this and that in relation to other stories and star constellations.
I found myself thinking that this is an intense version of an esoteric, spiritual and symbolic merry-go-round. And i was impressed how much she know about her roots and the stories that were present on this land since thousands of years – i decided that i want to learn more about my own roots and got a bit angry actually that i haven’t been told more about this things, i am sure we have our own myths and stories in my land – why do they not tell us?
Luna asked me about my birthday to find out its meaning in the Maja-calendar and suddenly i was in the middle of this story and she constructed all this connections around me and why it’s important to meet this person, read this book or go to that place. Then Luna asked me a question were i thought i should answer by referring to something she said earlier – ashamed i told her that i don’t know what she meant and expected her to be disappointed. Instead she smiled so beautifully at me that my heart was jumping and she said to me looking so deep into my eyes that i was sure she was looking right into my soul: “you are a sleeping beauty, but i know you will understand”.
I got a bit provoked by being called ‘sleeping beauty’ – i mean indeed i was meeting her in a dream but i understood that she meant something else with that. Didn’t Ami just tell me about my high love measures, oh yeah, i was almost enlightened! Oha, there we were again, my ego was claiming its ground and i started laughing – both Luna and Ami joined in and we had a joyful bonding moment through that.

Luna continued talking about this net that we are weaving together and explained me who contributed to this map of people and symbols that we were sitting around and what their place in the net is. I asked her how much time it took to plan all of this and who thought about this huge synthesis of so many threads – Luna put her golden smile on and told me that she had no clue about what she was inviting her friends into in the beginning. She was following a path that has been laid out for her in a ceremony with sacred plants and her whole life prepared her for this she said. So she just knew that we had to do this. As they went along things made more and more sense. And she told me about some very concrete projects that are meanwhile ready to get started or started already, coming from this very core. I was so impressed and started to see more of what Ami must have meant with the energetic level. This was almost like a collaborative piece of art that takes bits and pieces from so many different lineages and traditions, weaving it together into a big symphony that is relevant here and now.

While Luna drew some new connections in different colors that she seemed to have realized while talking to us i heard Ami thinking to me: “Exactly, this is her gift, she has the energy of the hummingbird and the rainbow – pulling many threads together from different pools of knowledge, not caring to much about the correctness of every single connection or symbol-patchwork as this nodes can still be corrected later. This will be the task of the eagles and condors, to stay with the mythic symbols that are present here in Latin America. The eagle will construct the rational, technological and scientific part in all the details and arguments with his sharp eyes and hunter-energy. Then the condor comes with it’s slow and deep wing flaps and weaves the new into the roots of the old and makes sure that knowledge is connected to wisdom to build a strong platform for life to take place.
Luna is uniting the diversity of many human roots into a new coherent story – or at least the blueprint of the story is getting more and more shape. But it had to start with pure energy and no concrete direction since something that can go in all directions starts to grow in the centre. Luna has such a free spirit that she can jump between world views, mental models, stories, myths and cultures in grace and beauty. She can drive adults completely crazy while doing that because they are so concerned about the integrity of each cultural branch and spiritual pathway. Which is also important to keep the diversity, but it’s more than timely to weave new horizontal connecting threads into all the vertical silos that humans created, too fascinated by the power of their minds. So what Luna does is that she breaks the silos gracefully in her wild dance of meaning-making. People who are touched by her energy-winds can get very provoked or irritated but if they listen with their inner child they will get profoundly inspired and will join this or their own weaving (which is not important as it’s carried by the same frequency and intention) sooner or later.
You know Jim – every society that evolves to a level where their minds create this abundance of information and belief-systems, reaches a point where it’s just too much and people start feeling lost in all this and are seeking nothing more than hints of what to do and where to go in this painfully huge freedom while they are at the same time tied to the system in the belief that they have to make money to survive – this is another important topic to learn about some other night; how communities are starting their own local sustainable economies to stop being dependent on the big dysfunctional global system.
So what Luna does energetically, besides the very concrete relevance and beauty of the story she’s weaving, is helping to discover and train the inner muscle of making sense in abundance of scattered pieces – by arranging them, at least temporarily, around symbols and intuitive pathways. Which is a crucial update to install in consciousness at this stage of evolution.”

Now i was certainly dizzy and thought to Ami: “Ohh, this was quite something. I think i understand what Luna is doing energetically – but can you please explain how that relates to the evolution of humans? and what do you mean with installing an update in consciousness??”

Ami responded: “No worries Jim, i got a bit carried away there in my flow here, maybe Luna’s vibration affected me, haha. I will explain it to you again for sure, maybe i can take you some other night to an earthling that can tell you more about data and sense-making. If you look at the steep learning curve humans have been taking with online communication it seems to me like a playground where you are calling forth the next level of face to face and group communication – much more subtle and able to process more information elegantly and meaningful than you do practise now. The next level of collective intelligence when you put the computers out of the way again and start implementing their lessons directly between you people. That’s why i was using a metaphor from that field.”

Luna finished the new connections in the map and told me that this new connections were made because of me. I was between shocked and surprised and said to her: “What? but how? I hardly told you anything about me?”. Luna laughed beautifully and responded saying: “That’s not important – your pure presence has showed me many new connections – the clarity of your being has inspired new clarity in parts of the net – i am grateful for your contribution!”. “Wow, that’s great, you are most welcome.” i told her in my most charming voice.

“Ok you two beautiful angels,” Luna said after a break in which we were both doing nothing but enjoying the circulation of energy between the two of us, “i am tired now and will go to sleep – thank you so much for your visit, i love you.
And Jim, i could hear in your thoughts that you felt a bit lost on the way, so to satisfy your hungry mind a bit – i am working on different forms of manifesting this through stories, maybe a theatre play and let’s see what other forms come up.”.
“Ohh, could you read my thoughts too??” i asked. Luna said: “Only small parts of it, the main ideas. I am learning telepathy – or better to say, i am unlearning the noise that blocks me from hearing this subtle frequencies. But that’s another chapter – and i think Ami will take you now to a dear friend of me that can share more with you about that”. Again amazed i told her “wow, wonderful – well, it will be an honor and pleasure for me to learn more about your colorful story Luna. Let’s meet again in our dreams, maybe next time i can do it without Ami.”

We hugged each other for a long time, but i could have gone on for much longer. Then Ami and me were floating up from the living-room floor waving to Luna and then flew through the roof into the sky above Bakata.

Wow, there was so much to talk about – but before i could start talking to Ami he thought to me: “… yes, and if there is so much to talk about it’s good sometimes to be silent together – let me bring you to our second and last visit tonight.”.

We were flying slowly above Bakata and i couldn’t believe how huge this city was, no end visible. Now we were already going down again, towards a row house. Effortlessly we moved through the roof and some walls to land sitting on a couch. And there was – on the other side of us and a little table – a beautiful young woman sitting, looking at us with a warm smile were i could clearly read that she wasn’t surprised either to welcome us in her mother’s home. And i don’t knew how i came to know that fact that this was her mother’s home, i just knew. I noticed that i had much more information available – if i just accept that i know, without questioning why i know.

“Hello Jim, hello Ami” she said, “my name is Sofía, i have been calling you here with my thoughts, i am so glad you came.”.

I got confused; wasn’t Ami the one planning this trip with me at night? How come both Luna and Sofía were expecting us and Sofía was even saying that she was the one that invited us? “A beautiful confusion you arrived in Jim,” Ami thought to me, “i can tell you that things sometimes are not going from one planning-end to one accepting-end, sometimes it meets in the middle. I did not plan to bring you to these two women, i just knew. So both intentions – from the supercomputer telling me to connect you to other awakening people on your planet and these two women inviting us somehow met in the middle and we are creating reality around that right now. “. “Ok, great.” i said, not knowing what else to say but feeling so impressed with everything and even more impressed that i could accept it all as it is.

For some reason exactly knowing when our thought-conversation was over Sofía continued talking: “You are here Jim that i can share this game with you that came to me recently in a dream. Let me explain to you.
Here is a bowl that represents ‘emptiness’. And here we have a stick that represents ‘presence’. Here on top of this paper i am drawing four basic shapes – a circle, a triangle, a cross and a drop. Now you will start by taking the presence-stick and silently choose one of these four shapes. Without talking you will send this shape to me with your thoughts since i am the emptiness to receive it – once i feel i received it i will take this pen and draw the centre of the mandala using the shape you sent me. If the shape i drew was the actual shape you sent to me you can keep the presence-stick and we repeat the round with a new shape you choose. If the shape i drew was different than the one you sent me, we will switch presence and emptiness and it will be my turn to send you a shape with my thoughts. Then i would send you one of the four shapes with my thoughts and you draw the one you received from me into the mandala. Do you understand these rules Jim?” “Oh yes, i think i got it.” i replied very curious how this will go and already slightly worried about not getting the messages right.

So we started and Sofía got the circle i sent to her and drew a circle into the middle of our emerging mandala. In the next round i sent her the triangle shape and also that one she got right, so she drew four triangles around the circle in the middle. My turn again, i was sending the triangle again but Sofía drew four drops between the triangles in the mandala. I could feel how i got a feeling of having done something wrong because i wasn’t clear enough in my thought-message – Sofía however was just smiling at me with so much love that my self-judgement melted away. We swapped presence and emptiness and i concentrated on receiving a shape from Sofiá’s thoughts. And to my great surprise and also pride i received the cross and it turned out to be right.
We continued this process for quite a while – we had things right, things wrong, back and forth. And at some point i was enjoying the growing mandala more than focusing on right or wrong, it didn’t really matter anymore because eventually every shape will contribute to the mandala and it looks beautiful anyway. Very fascinating i thought, how the telepathy-mandala allows us to build together, where both right or wrong shapes are an equal part of the creation. It brings so much peace and acceptance to not contract everytime we do something wrong. I started to love this exercise very much. At some point Sofiá introduced two more symbols, a spiral and a dot. I loved the possibilities this shapes gave to our lovely mandala, in every round it was growing in complexity and beauty somehow.
A bit later we both came to a point where we felt the mandala was complete and i looked at in with a warm feeling of accomplishment – somehow this mandala is a living map of all thought-messages that have been sent and received between us – i looked at is as the only one that could possibly have emerged between the two of us right here right now. All the ‘wrongs’ were just ‘rights’ in different clothes somehow.
I asked her in what way she visualized the messages to me and was fascinated to hear how she sends them into me and imagine them blossoming inside of me while i was more filling the whole room outside of her with the symbol when i was sending it to her.

I bowed to Sofía as i felt this was an essential teaching she gave me. Not knowing what will come from this but something big shifted in me.

She smiled like an angel to me and gave me an amazingly beautiful warm and long hug – i felt there was so so much information exchanging in that moment. Since we practiced the exchange between our minds it seems our bodies also have to tell a whole library of stories to each other. I was so touched by the hugs of Luna and Sofía and i thought that nothing smaller than the energy of the shining sun would be the appropriate metaphor for what i imagine happening when the two of them hug each other. As Ami whispers in my mind in that moment “her son is called ‘angel of the sun’” i felt the water rising in my eyes and as in that moment her little son came walking from another room and stood next to Sofía with one hand on her knee, looking at me with a glowing innocent smile and eyes that knew everything and had no doubt – some beautiful and joyful drops of tears were flowing down my face…

“I am so glad we had this time together Jim” Sofía said, “you know, i am just starting to experiment with this – so i’d like you to keep that in mind if you want to try that with your friends. It’s very young for me too, let’s refine the methodology. And it is an entry into a field – so i invite you to go ahead and explore this and other forms and ways too, free you mind to invent this helpful structures and let’s be in learning relationship around this. Its the time now to be playful and inventive with these tools as we are reaching for a new field that these tools are pointing us towards.”

“Sounds wonderful to me – and i’ll make sure to hold the integrity around this and only share it when the conditions are there for it to be heard.” i said to her while my presence was still in the deep and never-ending tunnel of wisdom that ‘angel of the sun’ was holding for me with his eyes. I had the grateful feeling of having been invited into something amazing at the start of it and knowing that there is already a new generation of shining children on their way that have and will develop amazing skills effortlessly.

Without more words we said goodbye to each other and flew outside of this room and into the sky above Bakata. Higher and higher above Colombia and then took course towards my home in California – i had a moment of wondering about ‘home’ and what that word means to me.
As we were flying Ami told me: “I could hear in your reflections during the game that you were already understanding the essence of it – it is indeed a genius way of luring the judging-mind that you humans have into a piece of co-created art in form of the mandala and thereby melt the pressure of right and wrong that is dictating so much of your thoughts and actions. You know – you could do or be absolutely anything right now if you would stop doubting! But doubt and judgement creates the gap between you and your divine self. That’s why i love Sofía so much for this exercise and to be honest – we didn’t even think about that twist yet in our “aid plan” for humanity – it’s so fantastic because it opens a whole new portal into accepting the human assets of ego and judgement and taking them gently into a piece of art so that their energy is respected but put into a different playground so that your soul has space to learn – or better to say it in Luna’s words, to unlearn the noise that’s separating us from divine connection to the whole field information in the universe.”

“Well said Ami” i responded, “i reflected indeed along these lines but your words hit the nail, as usual, haha. And yes, i can feel how this opens opportunities for subtle learning and necessary unlearning…”
Meanwhile we reached the little village on the coast and were flying into my bedroom, after a little detour of checking grandmas sleep. It was weird to see my own body laying in my bed and sleeping – and i had a moment of painfully longing to be back in there and immersing myself fully into the physical bodily experience of being a human on earth!
“Wonderful, that’s a beautiful feeling you have there Jim,” Ami shared with me, “and no worries, you’ll be back in there in just a minute and wake up a few hours later fresh and ready for an amazing day on this planet.
This was our journey for tonight – maybe i can take you somewhere else another night. And i invite you to look out for the gifts in people, there are many more doing amazing ground-work for the new consciousness that humanities deeper soul is getting ready to reach.
And… just in case you want to stay in touch – i added Sofía’s and Luna’s email to your address book on your computer, hehe.”

“Haha Ami” i laughed, “why am i not surprised that you can use my computer without typing on it.
Oh my friend, thank you so so much for this dream-journey, i love you! And in a few hours when i wake up i will write this story down while my memory is still fresh.”

“Fantastic, thank you Jim, you are wonderful. Be well my friend, we’ll meet again…”

“Ciao Ami, you rock!”

THE END (for now – meanwhile it’s your turn)

If you are an average person born in the year 1980 your parents were born in 1955 (average generation = 25 years) and your four grandparents were born in 1930. Going further back your 8 direct ancestors (parents of parents of parents…) were born in 1905.  yes, it’s *2 every 25 years ;)

Now – if there would be no ancestral interdependence that makes it 256 direct ancestors in 1805 and 8192 in 1680. As we know from the story with the rice-corns on the chessboard this growths exponentially. That means if there would be no ancestral interdependence that you have over one million direct ancestors in the beginning of the 16th century (and probably more since the average generation was lower then 25 years in earlier times).

As we go further back and take a look at the curve of the world population we can notice that if there would be no ancestral interdependence that in the early 14th century over half of humanity were your direct ancestors (full was 511 million at that time).

Ok – but if we go one generation further back, into the year 1280, our math tells us that if there would be no ancestral interdependence that there were more direct ancestors of you alive at that time than people on earth at that time!?

interesting, interesting…

well, maybe you can ask your 2.2 trillion direct ancestors in the year 1000 – or maybe your 604 sextillion (a 6 with 23 zeros) around the year zero what they think about ancestral interdependence of human beings on this planet :)

and then it might be interesting to notice that there is ONE straight line of men going into your past behind you – from your father to your grandfather, your grandfather’s father and so on. And at the same time there is ONE straight line of women going into your past behind you… and… where do this lines go? And isn’t it funny to think that your mum has the same straight line of women behind her than you but has a different ONE-liner of men behind her than you? do they ever intersect as they go into the past? what are the weavings between them and the pathways back and forth in the humongous tree of life from there?…. how would we know? we don’t know… we have it in our biology and it’s impossible to reconstruct it on paper :)

Think about what would have happened if just one of this millions and trillions of your ancestors would have died because of war, a disease or a natural distaster before they passed on their genetical code? Only one and the whole branch going forth from them would never have come into existence – you would never have come into existence! well, maybe a weird perspective – however, it makes me humble and grateful to be a leaf on the tree of life at this time on earth…

META

yesterday here in Bogotá in the Transmileno-bus on the way to TEDxCeiba… thinking about earlier reflections around peoples character… touched by so much beauty and personality… love-waves rushing through my system – triggers cognitive reservoirs of ‘transparent bodies‘ and ‘public compassion’ and bleeds out into a coherent stream of notes as the emotional wave keeps flowing…
a new attractor called ‘dear stranger’ installs in my cognitive/emotional pool and invites pieces of thoughts to pour their nectar into this vibrating inner attention to synergize meaning into a new more coherent shape…

THIS

Dear stranger,

the physical body is the visible manifestation of you – how can i see your fully extended body? how can i build a better you in me? what contexts, fields, constellations and pattern sequences can i witness your depth and full responsive intelligence in…

how have you been all this years? how come it took us our lifetime till now to have this eye-contact?

i witness a second-long window into your life… i see your style of walking, i see your eye-brow going up as you seem to calculate your walking pathway through the upcoming bottleneck of crowded people… i have a quick shy admiring look at your breasts… i can hear a fragment of your breathing rhythm as you pass me and catch a breeze of your smell… i send a wave of light your way and sense how it’s bending and taking shape in your aura – where is it opening and where contracting… how it comes back to me… then you disappear in the crowd…

i close my eyes and i let the energy of your physical appearance and your movements draw patterns on my inner eye… i am extending the fragment i saw of you in me… i am giving you an inner platform to complete a gestalt-cycle of a universal breath manifesting through you here and now… i send you winds of love and good intentions – i wish you a beautiful life!
i am observing what ripples your energy is creating in me… i am extrapolating that experience-snippet and imagine how what i’ve seen from you is part of your life… if i’ve seen a tiny branch of the gigantic tree that you are… maybe i can climb a bit towards the trunk in my imagination, still tasting and holding your presence alive in me… sinking deeper into the beauty of this attraction…

should i run after you and say something? i decide to suffer that sweet pain of not knowing if i will ever see you again… i acknowledge this pain as an expression of life wanting to explore itself… following attraction, curiosity and symbols… circulating the outgoing energy of longing back in and send it around my energy body as medicine awakening me more and more to the wonder of this all… i see you so much for being uniquely you and at the same time i see the universe looking at itself through you… as one organ of a huge body just like me…

how would i be – having more of you in me? how would you be – having more of me in you? what immediate and long-term synergies might there be in our shared field? what obstacles and contractions would we encounter? who are you in intimate space? do you have wounds and contractions in your soul? how could i support you in the healing process? what are your eyes going to see in the next 12minutes, in the next 12 hours and the next 12 years? i hold you in your highest potential – without direction but in glowing energy. i honor the embodied symbol you are – for me and for the world. i know that i am you and you are me – just a different vehicle.

i look around in the bus… approximately 40 people here. that makes 780 different possible groups of 2 people within this bus – what a ressource pool… how many amazing connections are we not making right now? how many fantastic projects and even babies were knocking at the door of the bus but couldn’t get in because we stand and stare out of the window, are afraid of rejection and are to weak to cross the gap of not knowing…

what if we allow each other to see everything from each other… shame and judgement are not shadowing the interpersonal space anymore but are instead informing it with dynamic and colors. we allow all to be there… acknowledging the unique paths we’re on, making the experiences that we attract to grow… we are in this together, no?
can we learn to sense the sparks in the interpersonal space without talking? entering the wholeness of your sphere through different entries than words coming out of my mouth and you nicely responding to it. complexifying non-verbal communication…

can we learn to just be with the weirdness of misunderstandings and await emergence – our nonverbal space is more deep then we could reach with words, let’s source our encounter from there…

i see a rough young man, his eyes have seen much violence i sense… i wonder if he would rob me on the streets at night if we were alone? i wonder if he would kill me if i would resist? maybe… here in the safe zone it’s my chance to send him clear good intentions anyway. also he is me. if the building next to us breaks down and we are trapped in ruins with around one more minute to live – how would we look at each other?

i see a couple and sense into their third entity – how much they align their vibration and charge a shared container of meaning and behavioral patterns – synergizing and also polarizing…

what do you see?

•  in silence (with beautiful gentle music maybe) individually write on post-its “what you feel rejected for from this field” / “what parts of you you feel are not welcome here” / “which sides of your character you feel you need to hide here to be accepted” > then with eyes closed (anonymity to keep safe space) post them all on the wall – then everyone a step back and look for few minutes at it (maybe someone reading them loud) > start clustering-process to see what people have ‘in common’ in their shadow sides in this group. it will be most likely a lot in common and that ideally triggers a unity-wave and shadow-welcoming-energy :)

• partner up in groups of 2 and one starts telling something “extreme” of their thoughts, ideas or experience in a way where the other person ideally does not understand too much. instead of pushing to understand it the listener will ask questions to complexify it even more far beyond anything (s)he can understand. then swap, afterwards share how it was. the intention is to allow the characters to burst out into their extremes and be welcomed and held in that – transcending the need for forcing cognitive understanding. we are more together the more different we are – united diversity :)

may this find you well – it’s the leading edge of my thinking and sensing in this moment of time…

“A collective intelligence application framework.” – @goonth

“A cognitive fieldmap of collective intelligence, social interaction tools, process pattern sequences, field sensing and much more.” – @jascharohr, IPG

• here as a zoomable version using the gmaps engine (handle gently, it seems to stop working if handled roughly): http://beyondconsensus.de/synergizing.html
• based on feedback on readability i made a 13 A4-paper version 
• May 30th: version 1.5 as pdf, some small updates

coheartedly in the united diversity of one sounding resonance