You were born for such a time as this.I ask you to look at your world, in fact I beseech you not to live in denial. Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power. With intellect, with heart, with spiritual intelligence, decipher the hour, the moment in evolutionary time that calls you to be a witness. Indeed you are called, whether you are young or old, otherwise you wouldn't be here now, in this defining epoch of earth's story, and of the human story itself.
You were born for such a time as this. I know that you must feel challenged, because we are all challenged, the air we breath is challenged, The oceans are challenged, the great forests, the birds, the fish, the frogs, the butterflies and thousands of species of earth's great masterpiece of life are challenged in every way. Heroic efforts are being made everywhere to raise the alarm and bare witness to ecological destruction, disease, poverty, genocide, violent conflict and hostile aggression.
The scale of humanities challenges can seem overwhelming. As I ask you not to live in denial, I also ask you not to become disillusioned, to throw your hands up in despair or to become numbed, for we know that this is the time for an awakened consciousness. For alertness, for a heightened focus and clarity about the nature of our challenges. An awakened consciousness is fundamentally different than one that is distracted, anxiety ridden, or preoccupied with blame. An awakened consciousness is radically open to transformation at all levels, from you the individual to the collective. It knows that zealous crusades are a part of the old way of doing business along with converts, captured territories and strategies for global domination.
We know that transformation is also more than mental formulas and good ideas. It touches something very deep, something so essential that it effects both heart and mind. Of course there is no single type of transformation, no singular modality where one recipe works for all, nor is it linear sequential. Transformation may be preceded and followed by steadfast effort, the summoning of will, the continuity of practice but it has its own mystery. It can bring a subtle shift which reveals an entirely new perspective or it can bring a jolt, or flash of insight which has the power to reorganize our lives or it can provide the impetus for a great leap of faith. More than anything, transformation requires courage, the courage to face the truth that your own being has great depth. Yes, that within you, consciousness can flow from separate little islands of thought and conditioned response to a seemingly oceanic sense of receptivity, connectivity and coherence. You live in a time when mystical and metaphysical based on thousands of years of experiential work are in dialogue with contemporary secular, scientific modalities.
If you were looking for confirmation of depth, interconnectedness, expanded human capacities, the evidence is there. If you were looking for the evidence of trans formative power of love and forgiveness, gratefulness and altruism, the evidence is there. if you were looking at the role consciousness plays in healing, in physical, emotional, psychological, and social healing, the evidence is there. So if you have decided to face the stark reality of the world as it is in this moment knowing fully that our Eco system is threatened as never before in the history of this planet, that the very basis of international law and civility is being dangerously eroded. That fear, hatred, and disillusionment are on the rise everywhere. That humiliation is fueling bitter resentment and incendiary violence, that hypocrisy and half truths hold onto the great levers of power and that media conglomerates act as surrogate messengers for the maintenance of the status qou…..but you were born for such a time as this.
if you have the courage to face whatever it is you consider the most accurate reflection of the threat and peril earth and all life now faces, then I believe you must also have the courage to face that in the midst of disillusion, dysfunctional hierarchies, dying powers, wars over beliefs and resources in the midst of systemic breakdown and the collapse of sustainable behaviors and world views, there is something stirring that offers hope, that offers the possibility of personal, social and even global transformation. This stirring within consciousness itself heralds a clear understanding that once we see the damage being done to the whole we can no longer aggressively pursue the limited self interest of the parts.
When the parts are at war with each other then the whole suffers. This is true in the health of an individual, as it is in a family, as it is so for a society and as we now see for the earth in its entirety. Holistic health inevitably addresses whole systems. An individual can not truly be healthy in a sick society. We see a new breed of economists, psychologist's, scientists and spiritual activists who not only appreciate this truth, they have begun to embody it in a new science of healing, a new science of interdependence in a movement that lays out the vision and practice of economic and ecological sustainability. We see that consciousness is itself an almost limitless resource of creativity and compassion. It is a movement that seeks to protect biodiversity and that honors human diversity and cultural plurality. We are not designed to be clones. Being, itself expresses uniqueness, a uniqueness that seeks to fulfill its own particular destiny. This is the essence of the transformation that lies ahead.
In honoring uniqueness and diversity in the context of interdependence, in revealing the profound resources of consciousness itself and its fundamentally relational and healing aspects, we have begun to glimpse as never before a world that works for all. Integral medicine, which combines the inner and the outer systems, although in its early days has far outpaced integral education, yet we have begun to see that an educational system that starves the inner life of children, that fails to nurture emotional intelligence, that does not speak to the soul, simply will not serve us for the mighty task ahead.
It takes courage to heal. It takes courage to speak on behalf of the whole. To be a voice, a full expression for the earth and for its diverse species, for all human life, for a consciousness that knows that peace is our inheritance and that our responsibility is to reveal our interdependence. It takes courage for science and spirituality to dialogue and illuminate new possibilities for human kind. It takes courage to reach toward the manifestation of a vision that transforms enemies into allies and disillusionment into hope, But you were born for such a time as this.
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