When were thinking so much about the future, it affects our ability to

see, feel, and be in the present. Walking down the street with
somewhere to go
After the introduction
Time and separation
Origins (Crosby)
Expression in organizations
Disillusionment cold stone
A personal experience: My experience of pesticides. Separation
Greed as expression of narratives of separation
Greed is the fuel
I remember once rushing out of my house holding a glass mug given to
me by a friend for my birthday.
Time is abstract, but space is not. Time is How I am thinking about
time affects how I am experiencing my life. I was rushing to class the
other day.
What is the benefit of behaving that way? What do we get out of it?
Tremendous abundance? Absolutely. We make a great living. But how
great is that living, actually? We certainly have everything we need.
But the time we have to simply enjoy life is so sparse compared to
other cultures.
Most Americans have very little vacation time as compared to other
countries. We have very little time for maternal leave.
Our work serves to increase the financial and social disparity between
higher income and lower income people.
Thats the disillusionment aspect.
Income inequality.
Capitalism, in its effort to control every measurable, reducible aspect
of life, wants control of our time. In pursuit of endless growth and
increasing profits, corporations oppress their workers into a scarcity
mindset about everything in life.
Eisenstein scarcity.
The reality is that there has never been a time in which the abundance
of the earth has been more available to us.
This oppressive perspective of time is ultimately powered by greed.
The rushing-ness. Experiencing others as threats to my own goals. I
feel that I have been conned into experiencing my world that way

Therefore, reclaiming our time culture is a matter of rethinking and

replacing the industrial narratives that drive our society.
Emerging future: three divides
Understanding the effects of this in terms of trauma and other
health effects
Of parts and wholes (introduction of presence)
When you hold up a hand
WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE
Wholeness as a response to incessant othering:
Expressing at the level of individual, interpersonal, and communal
Understanding all of these as holistic organisms
The importance of interpersonal connection in Bhutan
Coming out of Bhutan made me feel that the most important thing in
my life was to connect with people. It didnt matter how that
happened, the logistics did not matter to me.
Something I was immediately struck by when I got to Bhutan was the
way that Bhutanese would communicate over social media.
I felt so out of my element when I was approached by friends online
because I wasnt sure why they wanted to talk to me. Was it really that
important for them to know if I had dinner or not?
By comparison, my social tendencies felt so contrived. I had never felt
so exposed. My way of relating with others had been conditioned by
the economics of my home culture. I had been conditioned to think of
my relationships in terms of how they are benefitting me whereas in
bhutan
The necessity of rational, transactional relationships on the
interpersonal level.
This way of relating seemed to be woven into the culture. Bhutanese
people seemed to understand and appreciate the facetime, the
presence of others that was is so important for life and health. It often
seemed that there was nothing more important to them.
And coming out of Bhutan, I felt the same way: that there was nothing
more I wanted than to connect with others. I wanted to give up relating
to people based on what I thought I was getting out of it, and instead
just care for those people. Because that was exactly what was shown
to me over and over in Bhutan.
The social activity of the Bhutanese people reflects a holistic world
view. As a culture, they are Buddhist. The basic idea is that the

happiness of others is also our happiness. The activities of leaders such

as the fourth king have preserved that culture in the form of the
government policies like GNH: Gross National Happiness.