Something like the Y2K bug has people everywhere talking about how the future is totally unpredictable, and many of them are hearing the teaching of moving towards what scares us, of not being afraid of unpredictability. In fact, unpre-dictability is the norm, and as you say, it becomes a higher value than security. It's fascinating to me that the times are such that people's belief systems are actually changing. People are thinking bigger. Unpredictability and interdependence are two truths that people are more and more able to hear.
Hearts are more open to the fact that life is an unending surprise.
You're either going to become more fundamentalist and try to hold things together, or you're going to forsake the old ambitions and goals and live life as an experiment, making it up as you go along. My question is how organizations can lead us not toward some predictable goal, but toward a greater and greater capac-ity to handle unpredictability, and with it, a greater capacity to love and care about other people. Many of us within large organizations are awakening to the awareness that life is uncertain and that we do make it up as we go along. There are very powerful forces that have no interest in this kind of awakening. I believe that's part of the gift of being alive right now.