. This applies to the subject of synergism. The word synergism is no longer a “never-heard” word to many English-speaking and English-reading intellectuals. But having heard of this word or having used it once or twice in conversation is still very far off from having a working comprehension of the very potent principle this word refers to. Oftentimes this word is dismissed as hi-fallutin’ gobbledygook good only for purely academic discourse one doesn’t usually have the luxury of time to engage in.
. This is unfortunate because synergism refers to a very powerful tool that has always been available but has remained largely unused or, at best, underused in human endeavors. Many times, the very people most needing and most expected to work in close and strong teamwork don’t seem to get their act together for periods lasting months, or lasting even years. But just a whiff of fragrance of this principle can make us seek to see more of the beautiful wholeness and consistency of the principle where every small nuance is a very important, nay indispensable, particle of the entire synergy of nuances, which is the principle itself.
. People can relate to the principle of synergism any which way they want to, preferably in an act of choosing among a wide range of options that are known to them, with a wide range of degrees of intellectual comprehension and articulation.
. The range in the degrees of comprehension is so wide. So is the personally chosen approach in sharing it.
. At one end are persons who would not even have any use for the word synergism or for any word whatsoever, and yet really live it in their lives that they become it, and people around them can clearly appreciate it with only the term itself missing from the picture. Many of these people are just smiling in silence, enjoying the universe “unfolding as it should.”
Others choose to become part of that unfolding, in various ways, including wordless ways: live and be your message; unified consciousness of a critical mass (“square root of 1 percent”?) etc. etc.
. Some who are discerning midwife roles for them to play in the hastening of that unfolding, and are ever zealous but ever patient, because any pace of change they may be actively involved in might necessitate periods of time longer than one would tend to expect or wish for. In his Conversations With God trilogy, Neale Donald Walsch keeps close to the theme of doing everything we can in pursuit of a desire, as a “statement of who we are,” but without any emotional attachment to the result.
. At the other end are the people who choose to work in the arena of the academe and intellectualization and apply the stringent rigors to decisively convince the intellectual apologists of separative ego and human divisiveness that fragmentation and high walls do not define the essence of the human. The long-delayed writing of this book, is an attempt in the latter end. It originally came forth in the form of a paper for presentation at the Conference on Synergism in Total Human Development conducted by the mainly-Academe-based Lambat-Liwanag (a Filipino term for “network of light”) Network of Centers of about a dozen school-based centers of research and advocacy for paradigms shifts toward human empowerment, real development and harmony.
thanks so much!
ding reyes, in subic, zambales
(prof. ed aurelio c. reyes, iame-makati)
dingreyes@yahoo.com
09109420250
ding reyes, in subic, zambales
(prof. ed aurelio c. reyes, iame-makati)
dingreyes@yahoo.com
09109420250
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