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Jiddu Krishnamurti

We now understand that our survival is a collective issue. We are now looking for ways to be more intelligent, more creative and more efficient together. We should ask ourselves about the true nature of human relationship.

« Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection. »
Krishnamurti - statement made in 1929

Follow up:

Yes. Truth is to be found through the mirror of relationship.
When planning and designing human collective intelligence systems, let’s not forget about that Truth. There is something mysterious and deep about collective intelligence. Something irrational, tribal, definitely post-modern.

Rich interactive media and high-tech on-line interfaces enable new social networking behaviors. New virtual communities emerge from the cyberspace and create real life local gathering. The village is glocal. We’ve started to meet each other again.

Guy Debord ‘Société du Spectacle’ implodes, explodes, consumes itself,
and on its smoking ashes
we who think collectively
chose to re-discover our inner self and spiritual origins
through the mirror of relationship.