Synarchy

S Y N A R C H Y

Synarchy is a word that I was introduced to through the Gene Keys, which had me at hello. Historically it means “joint rule,” or to "rule jointly,” an idea who’s time came and went with democracy, it seems. But as Richard Rudd uses it in the Gene Keys, it has come to transmit a much larger meaning and potential.  I cannot claim to be able to articulate his transmission, as he is a genius and master wordsmith, but I want to articulate and transmit what I have gleaned from this word, and from experiences with other souls interested in this type of crazy thing.

I have so many amazingly cool and brilliant friends. It’s deeply enriching to have conversations and experiences with minds and hearts that are experimenting and playing with other possible ways of thinking, knowing and experiencing. And one of the coolest things about it is a new and emerging relationship with our minds. Our poor minds have gotten such a bad rap as the perpetrators of all our suffering. And while that’s kinda true, I am having more and more experiences of how gloriously ALIVE and NEW these minds can be! How we can not only create new neural pathways, but actually, maybe even evolve the structure itself…. or something like that.

Let me just be totally forthright here and say I know very little about what I am talking about in any scientific or physiological sense. But experientially, intuitively and physically, I have a strong sense of what I am talking about, so I’m gonna go ahead and talk about it. Feel free to stop reading if you think I’m a woo woo dip head. If not, if you’ve felt a glimmer of what I am circling around trying to articulate and you’re curious too, then read on and add your knowledge and experience. Add the science if you know it. I think this is the edge of evolution right now.

One more disclaimer: I am throwing around a lot of terms, each of which we could spend hours on defining and discussing, but in service to expressing what wants to be expressed, I am just using them. My mind is wide and spacious; it loves the biggest picture, the broadest strokes. So, take a ride with me if you’re interested. And please add definition and specificity as you will - it’s just not my jam. But all jams are important and add to the understanding!

So. For me, synarchy is about the the emerging potential Field of Consciousness that is created between deep connecting humans. Some of us might be familiar with the term “we space” that some relational thinkers have used for some time. I love this term, and love what it refers to as this kind of third entity that gets created in deep connection. Like, there’s the me, there’s the you and then there’s what we create together, which somehow, magically takes on a life of its own. Beautiful! And much more can be said about this space, but for now, go with me one step further. What if, on a real level, this space has an intelligence? That, as it emerges, it can actually turn itself back toward the individual bodies and teach us what none of us knew previously? And what if, for example, we could give the Field of Consciousness a math puzzle, and then, without “solving” this problem with our collective intellect, it gets solved? Not because we figured it out, but because the field itself naturally moves toward the solution, just by us putting our (deep) attention on it. The Field is always moving toward cohesion and unity: evolution. It sounds wild, right? And yet, maybe you’ve experienced something like this in those remarkable, mysterious moments when we deeply connect to each other, feeling the resonance, not understanding what is happening, but watching as a greater intelligence seems to guide us, sometimes even revealing miracles we cannot explain.

Many of us have had the experience of aligning with our own lives or experience to such an extent that miracles and synchronicities begin to happen at an amazing rate. Much of the time this happens in concert with other deeply connected humans. I’m thinking here of large experiences like Burning Man, or a particularly synchronistic plant medicine journey, or a simple profoundly moving interaction with someone(s) that completely changes your life. There is a lot of research going on about synchronicity, flow state and consciousness “hacking” techniques. My feeling is that all of this research and these experiences are pointing to various flavors of a new intelligence that is emerging out of our deepest presence. Like, we know how powerful our presence is in basic ways, like the science behind meditation, how good it feels when we are deeply seen and heard, etc., but some of us are having glimpses of a new form of intelligence, communication and solution finding that may mean that our presence is a THING in itself, which creates its own reality in every moment. It’s like an interdependent communication loop between our Beingness and the Universe. It is just out of our reach to really define or know what this is, and yet, enough of us are experiencing it to confirm my own experience that this is a trajectory that cannot be denied.

One of the reasons I LOVE the work I do in the world is that I get to frequently touch this space, if even just for a moment, with another human. It’s how I know I actually know NOTHING. I am the vessel through which The Field is expressing itself, and so are you. Together we create a We Space, and, if we’re lucky, that space becomes the Field of Consciousness, and creates us right back.