Mastering Leadership

Chapter 13 Unity: Journey's End, Development Turned Upside Down

We have explicated a Universal Model of Leadership Development, a consciousness-based model grounded in experience, theory, research, and psychometrics. However, any complete description of human development would be inadequate if not inclusive of, and grounded in, the Wisdom Traditions that describe the highest reaches of human consciousness.

Unity Consciousness is the highest level of consciousness in human experience. We do not consider it a Stage of Development, since from the Unitive perspective there are no stages. This paradox turns the development world upside down. The mind is unable to wrap itself around the unknowable—that which is prior to mind altogether.

This chapter will be brief for four good reasons: 1) it could be an entire book; 2) it seems wrong to write a lot of words about oneness; 3) we know very little about it; and 4) the vast majority of us are not living in Unity—we operate at other consciousness levels.

Hence, we can claim no authority about what we write here. We can only report from those who live from a Unity Consciousness and from our glimpses into that Unity—what can be seen, known, and experienced in these short tastes of the One Taste.

Moreover, we will make little attempt to relate Unity Consciousness to leadership, effectiveness, or mastery. We will provide no statistics or research. Honestly, we have no way of knowing how Unity Consciousness relates to leadership in practical ...