When coaches are fulfilling the role of a lost community
Musings on the transition into Aquarian Power
As I was floating in the salt pools yesterday, gazing up at the renaissance inspired artwork at the local spa in Harlem, The Netherlands, I was reflecting on the changing nature of collective power, and how it is going to affect the way we exchange information, in the coming and near future.
Well, actually, it is already here.
And it will not only drastically change our interpersonal relationships, but it is also going to radically change the Coaching industry, as we currently know it.
Because right now, the coaching industry is flooded.
And people are tired of being cold pitched and sold advice that is scripted from some New Age textbook or passed down as a Chinese whisper from one supposed coach to another.
Yesterday, this topic passed through my awareness after a conversation with a friend, whereby we were speaking about boundaries within friendships and where to draw the line between offering friends advice vs. when our support warrants payment.
During this conversation, I found myself thinking: “I hate this. I hate that in this day and age, where there is overemphasis on “honouring our time and worth” that we have to commodify friendships and create lines in the sand, when wisdom accumulation should be freely exchanged.”
It made me think about AI and the question that has arisen here, around the notion of Intellectual Property.
AI supersedes traditional law in many ways, as it cannot be sued for breaching IP and the copywrite of writers.
I have had a situation occur before, where I have seen someone post an AI written post that directly drew from my own words from my website. I was furious. AND there was nothing that I could do.
Someone posed a question to me to reflect on, about Open Source - and stated that they believe we should all have access to the wisdom of consciousness. Moreover, that we cannot trademark the wisdom of consciousness - even if it comes through our individual channel.
This topic of conversation is enthralling to me.
Because I see it as bifold.
On one hand, I agree- wisdom should be accessible and open to all.
AND, if this was to be the case, we also need to reflect on the possibility of this destroying healthy diversification of wisdom streams.
We are gifted with very unique constitutional perspectives on the world which is shaped by our life experience and our own digestion of these experiences.
If we supplement this wisdom stream of experience for a source of wisdom that comes through AI or other technological streams - we are confronted by the possibility of our own unique genius being weakened and diminished.
That is not to say that this absolutely needs to be the case. If there is enough discernment when utilising AI open sources of knowledge and wisdom, then we can simply use it to reinforce and diversify our own unique view on reality.
But it should not become a replacement.
In order to share more of my inner musings around the nature of this collective power shift and how it will impact us relationally, as well as how it will impact the “Coaching Industry”, I want to share a passage from a friend of mine, Jon Eden Khan, who is the founder of AVATARA and Singularity Party
“For the last 2000 years, which have been conditioned by the 6th ray of devotion and idealism as well as the sign of Pisces, our models of power have been solar. They have been about one being at the centre – normally a male – who in the healthiest forms is realised their own inner light enough that they can be a source of it to those around them. In the unhealthy forms, this has been the basis of our corrupt political models, our guru problems, our toxic educational systems, patriarchy, and so much more.
Currently we are transitioning out of the 6th ray Piscean age and into a new 2500-year period conditioned by the 7th ray of sacred embodiment, ritual, and ceremony, and the sign Aquarius, with some esoteric astrologers pointing to 2025 as significant in this transition.
After the aspiration to find divinity in the heights that was the focus of the 6th ray age, the 7th ray brings us back to earth, to the sacred ground, to the body, to the feminine, rhythmic grace, and the remembrance of the sacred in embodiment and matter than has always been here.
After the focus on solar power – with one sun in the centre of a system and orbited by planets – Aquarius opens us to a galactic model of power, where now those who have realised their own inner light and become suns realise that together they are circling a supermassive black hole – a dark tear in space and time to the pulsing will and purpose of the infinite.
Of course, the galactic model still has space for planets who are circling suns and moons that are circling planets. Everyone goes on a path of growth that has them go through these stages. But what it adds is the possibility of groups being brought online by the current of Life, producing a pulse of self-organization through their field so they start to operate in unison, like a flock of birds in the sky. Aquarius opens the space for groups to self-realise as expressions of the one dark Life that is present at the core of them all, and source their power there in a way that allows them to come online as agents of that mystery.
The shift from the 6th ray Piscean to the 7th ray Aquarian approaches is paradigmatic. This cannot be understated. The 6th ray Piscean involves individuals learning to connect to their inner light and sacrifice themselves to the One to then serve it in the evolution of the world. Their leadership is visionary and prophetic.
The 7th ray Aquarian starts with seeing every individual as an expression of the one group that is humanity and the one divine Life at the core of all creation, with each being a vehicle for that Life to be celebrated as it expresses through sacred embodiment. Leadership here is through response to Life and its living current of will. Power can be shared across as many beings who can together resonate with the dark centre. And purpose is revealed through them being courageous and vulnerable enough to let the current live them, rather than being the known reason for action in the first place.” - Jon Eden Khan
And so, with all of this in mind, I want to ask this question: has the “Coaching Industry” been born from a culture that centres Individualism, Capitalism and that has lost the notion of The Village.
In The Village, wisdom streams are normally exchanged freely and where we learn through collaboration and connection.
Now have to pay someone for the advice that we would have received from one another living in close proximity in community.
I believe that as a part of our transition from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian age, our way of receiving information and value exchange from others will change.
Instead of needing to pay someone for advice, we learn it through our connections within community. Wisdom transmissions are less commodified, power dynamics shift and even the way we view the nature of “money” and the economy changes radically.
Our economy moves from a space of value being placed on financial exchange through “paid service exchange” and instead, we seek knowledge through our community.
Yes Ive been living in this question for a while now after relocation to "the woods" where community has been minimal or online...
Omg! I have been talking about this endlessly!!!! 😭 — thank you for writing!