Today I celebrate Sunflower Day.
It is a day to celebrate the launch of this website, exactly five years ago.
It is a day dedicated to human flourishing and diversity.
In the last five years this website and the Gamma Tao itself have continued to evolve. Its pace, however, has been rather slow, much slower than I intended at the beginning. Back then I even had missionary ideas on how the Gamma Tao could bring more unity to our divided human world.
In recent years the focus has gradually shifted from this external mission to my own personal growth.
External mission
The external mission is still alive. More than ever than ever humanity needs to find common ground to face the huge challenges of this age. While technology is connecting us more and more, we seem to become hopelessly divided. Strong opinions matter more than open mindedness. The willingness to listen to each other’s point of view is fading.
This website is not a place to make strong statements or affirm personal opinions. It is strictly dedicated to the Gamma Tao, a dynamic model or symbol, a wisdom compass based on universal principles. Nothing more and nothing less.
Personal growth
I would love to have more time and means to build a better, more sophisticated platform for the Gamma Tao, but even then I already have enough work to do to fully integrate its fundamental principles into the practice of my own daily personal life.
Next to this, I spend a lot of time transcending the Gamma Tao by freely exploring all wisdom traditions. The Gamma Tao is an excellent starting point for such explorations. It offers a solid common ground to stand on. It is like a spiritual safety belt.
The Gamma Tao helps me to get a better understanding of wisdom traditions. These days it is leading me towards a new appreciation of the Christian Trinity.
I am becoming ever more interested in debates on the nature of human consciousness. It will probably take some time before I get my head around the hard problems that are often discussed at the quantum level. I would love to write about this here one day.
Events around the world
One of the best things the Gamma Tao has brought into my life in the last five years is the discovery of many interesting events that take place around the world.
Due to the Corona Pandemic many of these events have moved to the digital domain. In the last months I have been able to attend several online events like Wisdom in Times of Crisis by Science and Nonduality (SAND), HowTheLightGetsIn and the Rebel Wisdom Festival.
Thanks to the non local quality of the internet, you can now be in different places at the same time!
This week I am following the World Unity Week.
If the Gamma Tao had developed into a community or organisation, it would probably be a partner now. This initiative expresses exactly the external mission I had in mind five years ago.
The fact that Sunflower Day coincides with World Unity Week is for me an extra reason for celebration.
Happy Sunflower Day!