Algunas arquitecturas son directamente accesibles a traves de nuestros sentidos (construcciones, ocupación de espacios). Otras solamente se pueden percibir de forma parcial (dinero, lenguaje, convenciones sociales, tiempo). En el primer caso hablamos de arquitecturas visibles y en el segundo de arquitecturas invisibles. Cuando usamos la palabra arquitecturas en plural nos referimos al concepto que engloba a ambas.
Invisible Architectures
Invisible architectures are more challenging
to grasp because they operate mostly in
worlds that are not directly perceivable to our
biological senses. The role of invisible
architectures is as important—even more
Most spiritual traditions have developed
important in many cases—than visible archi-
strict disciplines to help individuals reach
tectures. Examples of invisible architectures
higher consciousness and then to attain wis-
are language, money, social codes, time,
Architectures are structured spaces in which
dom, liberation and enlightenment. Wisdom
cultural beliefs and the law. Let's take a quick
we evolve individually and collectively. They
in this context is not a set of ethical and
look at the first three of these in order to
provide initiatory contexts of constraints and
moral propositions, but rather a specific state
become more familiar with them.
freedom for consciousness to confront itself,
of consciousness experienced by individuals
generate creative energy, and overcome lim-
and groups when inner guidance is received
Language is generative as well as descriptive.
its through quantum leaps and thus take pos-
or spoken through them.
Words and grammar can expand conscious-
session of new, wider spaces. More
ness or leave it trapped in disempowering
experience and mastery will certainly be
Most people have this experience at one time
realized within new architectures. spaces. When Michelle says, “What Allan
or another whether or not they have a spiri-
said hurts me,” the grammatical structure
tual practice. It usually happens in extreme
Some architectures are directly accessible to suggests the words pronounced by Allan
conditions when the person is facing him-
our senses (building architecture, space oc- have an intrinsic property that can create
self/herself in the absolute. The automatic
cupation). Others are only partially perceived pain. Ordinary language does not invite
pilot of ordinary life is turned off; all beliefs
(language, money, social conventions, time). Michelle to step into sovereignty by becom-
and past experiences have become irrelevant.
In the first case we will refer to visible ing accountable for her own pain. Ordinary
At this point something unusual happens—
architectures and in the second to invisible language keeps Michelle trapped in the ordi-
guidance is felt inside as if coming from an
architectures. We will use architectures in nary consciousness of the society in which
external, transcendent source. Although the
the plural to refer to this broadest sense that she lives, thus producing conditioned out-
context might be traumatic in its external
includes both. comes. When it is time for Michelle to shift to
aspect, internally the anticipated fear is re-
stages of consciousness, beyond that of her
placed with a sense of clarity, a feeling of
Physical Architecture society, she will experience difficulties with
being in the right place at the right moment,
The easiest, most intuitive and pragmatic way ordinary language. It takes some practice to
making the right decisions in harmony with
to understand how architectures work is via say “I have created some pain for myself after
the universal order.
architecture itself. Physical architecture (for Allan said these words.” She will need to
buildings) and space occupation is the sci- build a new language architecture to express
Do we have to wait for extreme situations in
her new reality.
ence of designing three dimensional spaces
order to realize a state of wisdom? The Spir-
and relational configurations among people
itual traditions would say no. They have fo-
Money is probably the trickiest and most
for specific individual and collective out-
cused on individual practices leading to
powerful invisible architecture because it is
comes, liberating certain possibilities and
individuation and the self-control necessary
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pervasive and planetary. Although money Agreement 6. Invite silence. Any participant
center. Participants offer time to themselves
has taken digital form, its fundamental can ask for silence at any moment. Conver-
to journal their inner processes. What
dynamic has remained the same since the sation gets immediately suspended and
has just been said is deeply listened to
Victorian age. Its built-in architecture is everyone enters into silence for one minute.
and ‘breathed in.’ Participants move from
based on artificial scarcity and centralization It offers the space to explore the current
reaction (responding, taking the floor) to
and works like a seed from which wealth and context at a deeper level, enter the experience
creation (inviting creativity through emer-
power concentration, ownership, usury, and into a journal, explore emotions, needs, sense
gence). Interestingly, each time one speaks
secrecy unfold. The emerging planetary con- of emergence in the group, etc. Once the
right after someone else, leaving no space for
sciousness, observable through the arising of minute is over the person who asked for the
breathing and creativity, the lower self is
the free/open source economy, is about to silence is given space to explain why. It is
taking control.
invent its own appropriate new monetary perfectly acceptable not to explain. Conver-
systems that will support its body structure. sation can then resume—often with a new
Agreement 2. Speak to the center. The center
In the coming years, anyone will be able to dimension.
is the physical center of a group in circle, or
create currencies. There will be millions of the experienced center in a global collective.
them. Money is about to follow the path of Time for Collective Bodhisattvas
Speaking to the center rather than to a par-
distributed networks. How many organizations do we see in the
ticular person allows the emergence of the
world today, composed of well-intentioned
whole. Participants are asked not to engage
Social codes have emerged through genera- and awakened persons that keep facing the
in sub-group conversations in the midst of
tions of social interactions. They have be- same limitations at the collective level? The
the collective process.
sum of individual wisdom doesn't necessar-
come so natural and deeply embodied that
ily generate collective wisdom.
we are, for the most part, unaware of them.
They serve practical purposes for a given so-
ciety in a given culture at a given time. Just
like language and other invisible architec-
tures, the architecture of social codes can be
redesigned in order to attract wisdom. Let us
review a practical example by examining
conversations in which any group may
engage in order to attract wisdom.
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