"... the core
capacity needed to access the field of the future is presence. We first
thought of presence as being fully conscious and aware in the present
moment. Then we began to appreciate presence as deep listening, of being
open beyond one's preconceptions and historical ways of making sense.
We came to see the importance of letting go of old identities and the
need to control and... making choices to serve the evolution of
life...Virtually all indigenous or native cultures have regarded nature
or the universe or Mother Earth as the ultimate teacher. At few points
in history has the need to rediscover this teacher been greater."
Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski & Betty Sue Flowers