Transition and the Nurtured Entrepreneur
Dear Nurtured Entrepreneur,
In the final season of a BBC television drama, one of my favorite characters, an entrepreneurial beekeeper with a definite spiritual bent, looks off into the distance across the bright wheat fields of her English hamlet and sees the spectral smokestacks of industry rising, pollution billowing into the pellucid blue sky. It’s the late 1800s and “the future” is coming.
Fast forward to this week when I come across an article about the ” Transition Movement”. Transitioners typically see the current collapse of our world as we’ve known it as The Great Opportunity, a chance to build a better world. It’s the early 2000s and “the future” is coming.
The Transition Movement is about personally and collectively moving away from fossil fuels and consumerism toward greener living, local living, sharing, and collaboration (see references below).
I think it’s also about an awareness — an awesome awareness — that a Big Pendulum has reached its full arc to one side and has started its swing back in the opposite direction.
The episode and article made me think about the spiral nature of time, or as a modern day thrift store puts it, “everything old is new again.” About how we are perhaps ready to re-embrace some aspects of the way of life lived by the bee-keeping woman of the late 1800s.
How do visionary, mindful, creative, and nurtured entrepreneurs fit into this powering down of power-over? How might it be playing out now in our business planning and practices, client interactions, the tending of our dreams as spiritual entrepreneurs?
Until next time …
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