Tipping Points

I learned something new a few weeks ago. I learned that it’s okay to ask. Your responses to “What I Want For My Birthday” were remarkable. I’m particularly grateful to Pamela DeRossitte, a woman of multiple talents who has volunteered to transform the COC mission statement into a short public relations video.

I’m planning to turn 60 again next year.  ;)

While trying to explain the Changing Our Consciousness vision to Pamela in a “sound bite” kind of way, I found myself thinking of that iconic Coke commercial, “I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…”

That’s it.  That’s my goal.  Maybe not perfect harmony, but something better than the cacophony that we’re experiencing now.

Think it’s impossible?  Stick with me and I’ll demonstrate that it isn’t.

How do you sing in harmony?

You start with Do Re Mi and EGBDF.  Then you study music theory and music history, practice the scales and songs of increasing difficulty, discover if you’re a soprano, alto, tenor, or bass and make efforts to harmonize with others, hit many sour notes and learn from your mistakes, choose the best conductor for the task, position yourself in ways that bring out the best in yourself and the voices around you, choose or write original, truthful and beautiful songs, and perform them in communion with your audience.

We read books starting with ABC.  We count change, do our taxes, and fly to the moon starting with 123.  We learn perspective and color theory when we make art. “Dancing With the Stars” begins with experts teaching amateurs the steps to specific dances, and practicing together for many hours. The language of computers is new, but we’re figuring out ways to teach it to our children because it’s essential that we do.

The problem with human understanding and discourse is not that we’re incapable; it’s that we don’t have a way to begin.  There’s no Do Re Mi.  There’s no “One; two; cha cha cha.” Changing Our Consciousness aims to discover and give structured notation to a methodology that we can teach to our children – a methodology that will enable them to learn, and perhaps one day master, the essential art of singing in harmony with the other.

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