CONNECTING AND COMMUNICATING: PIERCING THE VEIL OF SUFFERING

Version 1.1 2010.10.23

Raw Rumblings

When we experience the visceral knowing that we are individual cells of a vast and profoundly complex living organism, we begin to hold these insights as aspects of our Wholeness. These experiences reveal the mystery of unknowable deeper truths that are not comprehensible through our personal mind. We open our core and access the vibratory space of our deeper self that resonates with the Oneness of all of life's flows.

As two and more of us collectively tap into the mystery to share and incorporate into our disciplines and our visions, these glimpses and knowings become the food and fuel for our evolutionary journey. We begin to build, rehearse and activate pathways for spirit to flow, for vitality and awareness to coalesce and concentrate. As we learn to live from this depth, we learn to let go of behaviors and strategies that insulate us from life; we give ourselves the gift of not chasing the surface drama of life, expending all our energies defending a frightened self image.

From my vantage point, the more we can accelerate and reinforce diving and learning to make new depths our home, the better prepared we are to call upon our intuition to navigate the vast sea of change that can seem so threatening. I am finding that my own balance in uncovering my depth of being occurs when I work to be intimate with all of life, especially in loving relationships and extended community / (family) naturally bring forward the external frictions of rubbing up close in intimacy with others. It is in relationship and community where we are challenged to adapt our personal cultures, revealing our inner anxieties, our hiding-from-life patterns and our unprocessed fears. There is considerable projection to work through, as we learn to reveal the scary and sad masks that we still carry, and how deeply our masks are still manipulating our behavior and short-circuiting our deeper authenticity to feel safe with others and to encourage others to feel safe when a debilitating mask from the past will not come off.

When we see the outcomes of our unprocessed fear affecting others so deeply, we have this rare opportunity to truly see what we are holding within. Facing this feedback and truth allows us to relax and begin the process to contain-refrain-dissolve-transmute the accumulated fear and beliefs and pains associated with the separation, which we use we use to condemn and sentence ourselves and others.

We point to the caterpillar-cocoon-butterfly as an example of the miracle of transformation of life living beyond the singularity of a single form.

The inner transformational work we are capable of doing is no less startling and transformational. And, our evolutionary transformation begins to accelerate as we learn how to see ourselves in truth, and stay present long enough to not run or hide in our masks.

We need encouragement to do all this, as we have suffocated ourselves under what has the appearances of a comfortable blanket of ignorance and missed-understandings. We are born into this world as incredibly vulnerable individually centered aspects of consciousness. Our natural vulnerability is this seemingly physical and fragile membrane of our physical body, which we, in all certainty know, ceases to function and ends with our death. This is the natural order of all things that become filled with spirit that animates form. Even the rocks and mountains, in their geologic consciousness, are susceptible to these immutable laws. There is the eternal breathing in (birth and movement into vital living) and the breathing out ( maturation of vital living and then towards death).

What is surprising / frightening / joyful is the uncontrollable nature of all the experiences that will flow, moment by moment, into our environment. May we be blessed with more than just a tolerance or just a willingness to accept the weirdness and pain we create by judging any or all of these and be graced with the openness to celebrate all the feelings of being human and humane in a world that has become clouded by the dysfunctions rising out of fear, dominance (power over) and the calcified patterns of patriarchy that have, until now, created a level of confusion that should only be able to blind children.

So, we as children growing up, are learning to step on the evolutionary escalator, which we believe should be an upward spiral toward something divine and heavenly and rewarding. This may be so, and yet, to pierce through what we as humanity have cumulatively manifested, requires a patience and a compassion that will encourage even the glacial sleepwalkers to awaken on their own accord, so that they do not pre-open and become spoiled, like trying to force open the rose ...

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