What’s in The Delphi Book?

Discover

Human possibilities beyond the grid

Three forces which rule our lives

Three dimensions beyond the grid available to us

Explore

The Way of the Warrior, the Way of the Prince, the Way of the King

Twelve steps to dealing with Negativity

Twelve stages of Seeing

Study

Principles of Polarity and Power

Principles of Self-transformation

Significance of Individual and Universal Consciousness

Follow practical guidance on

How to move in the Polarity Grid

How to move beyond the Polarity Grid

How to change yourself, your work, and your world

We are born into the Grid, we live our life in the Grid, and we are supposed to remain in the Grid. In a direct challenge and invitation, we are urged to go beyond our Grid. This is the individual revolution – an essential step for bringing change into our life and work. Although the rhetoric of change dominates political and organisational discourse, we are struggling to respond to global challenges. We face important choices about how we live; we know we need to change, but we do not know how to change. This original and powerful book explores the nature of the change required.

A conversation with the author

What contribution might this book make to changing things? What is the purpose of the book?

The book emphasises the need for humanity to attain a new level of consciousness in life. It shows how we might progress from our current evolutionary state towards a higher spiritual reality and locates this progression in a historical context suggesting that the ‘spiritualisation of life and the spiritualisation of mind’ is a natural culmination of the evolutionary emergence of life on earth.

So, in discussing the possibility of change, what does all this tell us?

That real change comes from beyond the Grid, for there is no lasting change available in the Grid.

But nothing changes if we don’t change?

Nothing changes because we don’t change.

You are saying to change the world, change yourself.

Yes, I think that captures the essence of it – and only if there is that conscious breakthrough into a dimension beyond the grid can we change ourselves. Adopting this approach would then mean that we could look to the enlightened politician to change the nature and practice of governance, a new generation of businessmen and bankers to change the reality of organisational life and the financial system, doctors and teachers to change the health service and our schools. Perhaps most important, parents could change relationships with their children and a new generation will emerge capable of rising to meet the perennial challenge: the transformation of humanity and society.

At the beginning, The Delphi Book describes how we attempt to shape life through our relationship with power and polarity. Our relationship with this duality is mainly unconscious – we are not aware of it – and that allows these obscure forces to drive our life experiences. That which energises and attracts or repels us determines not only our personal life experiences but also creates, at the global level, the complex political, economic and social hierarchy which is life on earth. Global capitalism, climate change, the existence and distribution of inequality, poverty and disease, the Olympic movement, great art, the world’s religions and the havens of personal life and family are all products of this duality

And this book will help with all that?

Certainly. The book is as practical as a lock gate on a canal or an elevator in a building. Someone encountering the book, reading it and seeing it through to the end – even with many pauses and hesitations, doubts and recapitulations – will emerge changed.

Now, can we use this to help ourselves? To help humanity through what seems like a crisis, but which is actually a necessary transition?

In observing the cycles of our life in the horizontal and in the spiralling vertical, we are brought to the realisation that without aspiration and devotion to the highest and a constant reiteration of this, an individual life enters into decline. So this realisation of the possibility of change in consciousness is an invitation to experience the fullness of life and attain the highest resolution of the life challenge. It is our life task and our lifelong task. It is our human path.

About the author

Peter Coen graduated in Management Sciences at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and became a lecturer in marketing research and international business. He founded The European Business School in London with partners in Paris and Frankfurt. Initially based at The City University, he established EBS in Regent’s Park as a founding institute of Regent’s College which later became Regent’s University. He lived and worked in Brussels and Rome and joined the United Nations where he initiated a UN-wide project to create a fresh blueprint for management development and cultural change. Increasingly convinced that there was a need for fundamental change, he established The Delphi Project to explore fresh thinking and new approaches to individual and organisational growth. He is married with three children.

Further publications including a second edition of Consciousness: from transition to transcendence will be available in the autumn*