Parakalein

I was in a training for Internal Family Systems (www.selfleadership.org) at one of the lead trainers was doing a demo of sculpting.  After the demo one of the students commented that it looked like she did not know what she was doing.  After some awkward laughter as he was not saying she did not know anything but rather something else.  Namely, that she trusted the energy and the process to go with the flow and not impose her "knowing, figuring out, interpreting or controlling parts".  All those parts would have simply interrupted the process and the energy.

We, as humans, like to know things, then appear knowledgeable then use that knowledge to control, figure out, and interpret the world from the lens of our knowing.  No one likes a "know it all" because they interpret and interrupt the flow of knowing.  So why do we think, "God is all knowing"?  Is that God in our image rather than looking at humanity and process through another lens.

So I mused that there are four kinds of knowing:
1) The knowing of facts or data that can inflate the ego
2) The knowing that imposes or controls from the seat of knowledge (I assume this one does what assume does) that can deflate the ego
3) The knowing that is an internal knowing, an intuitive knowing that without anxiousness and with authentic presence just trusts the process and the energy.  Maybe that is "All Knowing" as the attribute we give to God.

The lead trainers response was, no I did not know what was happening as it was happening but afterwards as I look back it makes perfect sense.  I simply trusted the process and the energy.

Amazing.  It is not what we know but our capacity to suspend what we think we know in favor of trusting the energy and process and let the discovery begin and the recovery unfold.  How is that for knowing?  Is that the creative God with compassion, courage, and calm letting the world unfold like  a flower unfolds to the energy that it needs and trusts.  God knows.