Before around the year 1400, the word “conspire” simply meant to “Breathe Together.”
There was no link to evil or wrong.
To breathe together is to be in communion, shoulder to shoulder. To see each other below the level of everyday beliefs and language.
When we choose to do this, we can use others to help us see our deeper behavioural patterns and narratives. We can support each other in our blind spots, call each other out on self-limiting behaviour and as a collective, reach a new level of potential.
To show up in this way is difficult, it’s a conscious choice.
It is an agreement.
In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks talks about this agreement between two or more people as a “no upper limits “conspiracy.””
Of course, there are a number of ways we can go, and we can call it anything we like. It might be between you and two friends, a coach, a mentor or a small group of people.
Either way, while introspection is helpful, with practice and understanding, a process of outrospection with others can be even more powerful for those involved.
