Is it really possible that a new human species is emerging? A man I recently dated kept commenting how “different” I was. We did not last very long, because it did seem like we were a different species. This is a man that only a few short years ago would have been a dream come true for me. In all of the ways that we culturally measure merit and worth, he was a 10. But… that little word….but, he had not developed himself spiritually. So as we would communicate and be with each other there seemed to be vast worlds and experiences I wanted to share with him and but had no framework to even begin to understand. It was Greek to him as they say. It made me realize that the great gift of spiritual maturity and years of committed practice bring a kind of alone-ness that may be unanticipated. Of course, there is the Oneness with everything, the moments or days or weeks of samadhi, the sense of Grace of living an expanded reality… and, that small word, and… as one progresses the field both broadens in that one can feel compassion and deep oneness with all people and things, the very nature of Life in its stark and soft Beingness, and…. and… the field of incarnated beings who know, not in theory, but in daily lived experience, know this vastness of being, way of being becomes smaller and smaller. This is where spiritual leadership comes in. By being so fully this expanded human and acting in the world with intention, in the spirit of Universal Service, we make it easier for others to emerge through the chrysalis anew. That way, we have more people to play with.
I am convinced that it is like the 4 minute mile. Before Roger Bannister broke the elusive barrier in 1954 , folklore has it that it was impossible for the human body to move that fast. But as soon as he did, it fell like a house of cards and suddenly many could. British biologist Rupert Sheldrake calls it morphogenetic resonance. That is, once an energy field is created, it becomes easier for others to then tap into it to achieve the same results. Skeptics usually raise and eyebrow or two, but it has been tested and replicated in experiments all over the world.
So I say, emerge… trust, another little word, trust what is emerging through you and as you, even if others view you as “different”. They will thank you later.
Last night, I sat down to meditate, to contemplate. It had been a full day. It felt good to have some time to myself. Listening to the old George Micheal CD… the song “Jesus to a Child” started playing. It sounded so tender to me, “what a sweet notion,” I thought to myself. Then, felt something tug in my heart. I started crying, not even knowing why at first… but the tears kept coming and I felt myself crying out and releasing moments when racism or what I may have perceived as injustice touched my life. All those incidences, the tears that turned to anger, frustration, disappointment or disgust too quickly to be released. And believe me, there were many of them.. far too numerous to count. They arose like bubbles floating up to the surface of a pond and as I stayed present and surrendered to the moment, they were released in a barrage of tears that were neither self-pitying, nor angry. I cried for myself; for my mother and grandmothers; for Black Americans; for Native Americans; for White Americans who have yet see how they too are limited by the unhealed wounds of slavery, injustice and privilage we share. I cried for our sense of separation and for the children dying of starvation in Africa and India; for women being sold into sex slavery all over the world; for the unneccessary and brutal barbarism of war.
indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.”
She is re-awakening in the hearts and minds of women and men the world over, weary from the over-heated values of annihilating masculine drive. We see her as we re-examine what is truly real and important for us in our lives. As we reach out beyond our old tribal comfort zones to consider the life of a child on the other side of the world as just as worthy as our own. We see her peaking out when fathers choose to take time off for maternity leave to support and nurture their families; and when people join together to build parks or plant trees to benefit the entire community. She has the power to feed and nourish us in deep and profound ways. Working in tandem with a healthy and integrated masculine, she supports our creating and succeeding in ways far beyond what our linear, left-brain, analytical mind ever thought possible. In tune with her, our lives take on a healthy rhythm of their own, and we begin to remember our essential connection to all life… the pulse of life.
