Not Fully Surrendering 🔍

This theme of we-space ethics has been coming up in a few conversations this week, so I’m touching on it again. “What Hides in Surrender” is a blog post I wrote for advanced training last year that I now want to share more widely. I would retitle it “Not Fully Surrendering”, because I think that’s a better characterization of what’s going on. Here’s a ChatGPT summary.

The text discusses the concept of 'surrender' in the context of spiritual growth and 'Circling'. It cautions about potential misuses:

1. Power Games: Leaders may misuse 'surrender' to disown responsibility and subtly assert control. The most disagreeable individuals may unintentionally control outcomes.
2. False Empathy & Ownership: Leaders might pretend to empathize or accept responsibility without genuinely embracing feedback or changing behavior.
3. Avoiding Responsibility: Surrender' can be misused as an excuse to dodge responsibility, with leaders dismissing intellectual understanding or structured teaching in favor of chaos.
4. Ego-based Surrender: Beware of surrendering to your ego, or an ideology, instead of to love, higher purpose, or the truth.
5. Discrediting Other Practices: Leaders could diminish other spiritual practices to enhance their own, claiming they can judge other methodologies' worth.
   
   

These patterns often originate from personal insecurities and pain. The author advocates love and a firm 'no' as a response to these harmful behaviors.

With love, Jordan