{"id":1815,"date":"2018-08-11T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2018-08-30T07:47:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T07:47:38","slug":"spiritual-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/open-leadership\/spiritual-leadership","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enthus<\/u>iasm: theos = \u2018god\u2019. | Inspirat<\/u>ion: spirit = \u2018deeper mind\u2019. \u2018Spiritual leadership\u2019 is what leadership has always been about.<\/h3>\n

Consciousness unexplained<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since ages, people have sought explanations for that what comes from their deeper self into consciousness \u2013 what one is consciously aware of \u2013 . No mental conscious content (thought, feeling, emotion\u2026) originates in consciousness. So, it comes from \u2018somewhere else, outside.\u2019 An error that has been made time and again is that \u2018from outside\u2019 also straightforwardly means \u2018from outside of the total person.\u2019<\/p>\n

People had little idea that \u2018outside\u2019 can also mean \u2018inside,\u2019 a part of the mind that one is by default<\/em> not<\/em> consciously aware of.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today we know better, scientifically and \u2013 let me repeat \u2013 post-Freudian. The non-conscious part of human mind is where all motivation comes from, and also inspiration, enthusiasm etc. In short, everything related to the \u2018spiritual\u2019 realm comes from deep inside.<\/p>\n

By itself, this of course says nothing about whether this deeper self is where the bucket ends (or starts, depending on one\u2019s viewpoint). In other words: materialistic reductionism of any kind finds no ally in such insight. To reach some appropriate answers to questions concerning \u2018the existence of God\u2019 etc., one needs \u2013 and can \u2013 think further than this. It just ain\u2019t that simple.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in place of God-fearing concept-based religions, \u2018Open Religion\u2019 [see: \u2018What is Open Religion?<\/a>\u2019] is about re-ligare: to connect your deeper self, or if you like it better: to connect to<\/u><\/em> your deeper self.<\/p>\n

We can without religion still be \u2018re-ligious\u2019 in this sense.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope this will lead to true leadership, not pointed solely to profits and shareholders, but to the very final aim of human being, namely, straightforwardly: being human, as much and deep and nice and beautiful as possible.<\/p>\n

In any case, this insight is hugely important to leadership<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

since motivation, inspiration and enthusiasm are things that leaders want to lead their followers towards. Broadly seen (and I acknowledge: present-day leadership isn\u2019t always illuminating in this regard) it\u2019s their primordial reason for being a leader in the first place.<\/p>\n

This means that even to adherents of \u2018spiritual leadership\u2019, the re-ligious direction<\/em> better be inwards, not outwards.<\/p>\n

Mystics have always known this, though frequently thinking and speaking about it merely in the most mystifying terms. This is no longer needed.<\/p>\n

Spiritually, we can go poetic<\/em> and we can also go scientific<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have the choice. Even more: both ways can understand each other very well, on condition that they respect the borders: one shouldn\u2019t confuse scientific talk for poetic talk and vice versa.<\/p>\n

This has the following huge advantage:<\/p>\n

We can openly investigate \u2018spiritual leadership\u2019 on scientific grounds and make this knowledge practically useful.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We don\u2019t need for this any religious talk towards the non-religious.<\/p>\n

Religious and non-religious people can travel together on the same road until almost the end. Maybe even until the end were it not that both need to stop somewhere right before that. Not because of the not-knowing but because the questions themselves \u2013 this is: every<\/em> term used to frame them \u2013 get meaningless.<\/p>\n

So, don\u2019t be shy to talk about \u2018spiritual leadership\u2019.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Within the leadership domain, this may be one of the most important things to do.<\/p>\n

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