A Collective Blooming

An Introduction: This Book In A Nutshell

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 17, 20201 min read

An Introduction: This Book In A Nutshell

This is a bitesized book about rediscovering each other. It explores how cultivating new types of community can bring untold fulfilment...

1. The Age Of Alienation: Becoming Hyper-Individuals

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 16, 20202 min read

1. The Age Of Alienation: Becoming Hyper-Individuals

‘All of us are pretty good at carrying the secret of our own loneliness’ Carl Rogers Somewhere along the way, we lost touch with each...

2. And Then It Collapsed: Civilisation As The Ultimate Pyramid Scheme

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 15, 20202 min read

2. And Then It Collapsed: Civilisation As The Ultimate Pyramid Scheme

There is a growing consensus in academia that unless we make rapid, radical and far reaching changes to our way of life, then there’s a...

3. The Grandest Tale: Our One True Superpower

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 14, 20203 min read

3. The Grandest Tale: Our One True Superpower

Superman has X ray vision. The Hulk, uncanny strength. And Humans, well, we have stories. And while that may sound slightly unimpressive...

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 13, 20202 min read

4. The Last Gasps Of Neoliberalism

For over thirty years Neoliberalism has been the dominant cultural narrative of modern society. In theory, it’s a story that places a...

5. Flirting With The F Word: The Radical Populist Resurgence

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 13, 20202 min read

5. Flirting With The F Word: The Radical Populist Resurgence

Suddenly the politicians were yelling again. A new wave of ‘strong men’ had emerged and sensing weakness in the Neoliberal world order...

6. What Lies Beneath: The Hungry Ghosts Of Hollow Materialism

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 12, 20204 min read

6. What Lies Beneath: The Hungry Ghosts Of Hollow Materialism

While there are a vast range of competing narratives currently playing out across human society, it appears to me that the most pervasive...

7. The Age Of Algorithms: A Transhumanist's Dream

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 11, 20202 min read

7. The Age Of Algorithms: A Transhumanist's Dream

The Age of Algorithms is upon us. A time of artificial intelligence, automated industry and driverless vehicles. A world in which data is...

8. A Time Of Togetherness: An Emergent Consensus

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 10, 20202 min read

8. A Time Of Togetherness: An Emergent Consensus

There is an alternative consensus emerging with many philosophers, economists and social theorists all appear to be arriving at a very...

9. A Collective Blooming: Towards The Compassionate Global Village

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 9, 20203 min read

9. A Collective Blooming: Towards The Compassionate Global Village

A Collective Blooming is a narrative that revolves around the cultivation of community. It envisions a planet wide network of peaceful,...

10. The Story Of Us: A Thought Experiment

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 7, 20205 min read

10. The Story Of Us: A Thought Experiment

Imagine we’re part of a small group of five people who don’t yet know one another, but are about become a very important part of each...

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 6, 20206 min read

11. Find The Others: Start A Collective

Conscious Change Collectives (which I’ll just refer to as Collectives from here on in) are a new form of mutual aid community, made up of...

12. Coming Home: The Many Benefits Of Getting Collective

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 5, 20203 min read

12. Coming Home: The Many Benefits Of Getting Collective

There are many benefits to participating in ‘true community’, which the author M. Scott Peck defined as being ‘a group of individuals who...

13. The 2020’s: The Perfect Storm For Collective Emergence

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 4, 20202 min read

13. The 2020’s: The Perfect Storm For Collective Emergence

From our time together in hunter gatherer tribes, to our more contemporary experiments in establishing Citizens Assemblies, Communes and...

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 3, 20205 min read

14. The Who: Not Just For Millennials

My Generation Collectives tend to attract people of all ages, with each generation being drawn towards the experience for slightly...

15. Where It Can Take Us: Collective Dreams Of Tomorrow

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 2, 20205 min read

15. Where It Can Take Us: Collective Dreams Of Tomorrow

Let’s return now to our imagined Collective from Chapter 10, The Story Of Us. But this time we rejoin the group five years into the...

16. Tawai: Modernities Missing Secret Sauce

Joe Lightfoot

Oct 1, 20203 min read

16. Tawai: Modernities Missing Secret Sauce

For hundreds of thousands of years our species evolved to live in the wilderness, wandering the land with a close tribe of highly...

17. The Ultimate Petri Dish: Create Your Own Culture

Joe Lightfoot

Sep 30, 20203 min read

17. The Ultimate Petri Dish: Create Your Own Culture

One of the major benefits of forming Collectives is that it gives us an opportunity to co-create our very own micro cultures. After all,...

18. Mirrored & Seen: The Wisdom Of 100 Eyes

Joe Lightfoot

Sep 29, 20203 min read

18. Mirrored & Seen: The Wisdom Of 100 Eyes

One of the many quirks of being human is that each one of us appears to come fully equipped with our very own psychological blind spots....

19. Enter The Dojo: Becoming A Community Creature

Joe Lightfoot

Sep 28, 20205 min read

19. Enter The Dojo: Becoming A Community Creature

In order for us to collectively step into a new societal narrative, we’ll first have to identify and evolve beyond the outdated...