METAMORPHOSIS

6.14.18

In describing the transition humanity is now experiencing, the example's been used of a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. Humankind as a species can be seen in chrysalis mode, locked within its earthly cocoon while it morphs into a more mature and magical creature.

When the caterpillar's cocoon is complete, its body dissolves into a jelly-like substance.  Within this state, imaginal cells emerge and begin subtly creating a new structure.  Unseen to the world, the body and wings of the butterfly-to-be are taking shape. But if judged by appearances, the miracle in progress would look like a puddle of jelly and a complete failure.

Humanity is at a similar point. The chaos we see all around us seems so senseless at times it's overwhelming.  It's hard to believe a miracle is in progress when what surrounds us feels incomprehensible and appears to be failing.  We despair that things will ever get better.

When we can't make intellectual sense of the chaos, it's good to remember that we don't need to understand it. What's taking place is an evolutionary leap, part of a design so vast it's not in the nature of creation that the human mind be able to understand it. 

The intelligence that crafted the Universe is at work here. Just as the galaxies have been so masterfully formed, just as the butterfly emerges when the transformation is complete, so too humanity will slowly emerge on the other side of this turmoil.  In the decades to come, a new grace will become evident in our lives as we begin to recall our place in the family of the cosmos. The current era will fade from memory as we lift on the wings of a new spirit and begin a journey of discovery.

COMPANIONS ACROSS THE AGES

7.14.12

Many of us carry an identity deep within ourselves as part of a cohort. It’s been carried deep, deep in the heart, at a soul level that’s not always been understood by the personality.  This deep sense of cohort has come into consciousness at times like a longing; an achingly deep longing for the group that one knows one belongs to. 

It is in the experience of waking up together that that longing will at last be answered.  It is our compass, pointing us to the work we have come to do and to one another as the body of humanity that will lead it.                                           

There’s an image that conveys this bond, one of companions across the ages. It speaks of a brotherhood of the heart carried forward from other times and other places. It's an experience of having fought side by side and back-to-back on the battlefield. We find ourselves bonded at an unseen level by a calling of honor, a standing for the greater good. 


The longing that we’ve felt for this calling, this cohort, is being fulfilled across the eons in the work of this astonishing lifetime.

A COMPANY OF STARS

7.12.12

When we feel troubled that the chaos around us makes no sense, and we are not given understanding of why it needs to be, it’s good to remember that we don’t need to understand.  What’s taking place is part of a design so vast it’s not in the nature of creation for the human mind to be able to understand. 

It’s not a small thing; it’s possibly the greatest leap our species has ever been required to make.  So it’s good to be patient with ourselves as the building blocks of consciousness within each of us shift, one by one or ten by ten.

To expect to make this leap from start to end in a single bound is a fantasy of the human ego.  Most of us have come into this life with an agreement to be embedded within the human organism.  Our evolutionary path will keep pace with that larger organism.  The service to be rendered is that of sharing the common experience and working from within it.  

There’s a quote about being “enlightened” that says it’s more valuable to be one of the many, traveling together, than to be a shooting star of enlightenment whom no one comprehends. 

There is a strong egoic desire to be a shooting star; yet the greater service of the many does not follow that path. As this transition progresses, we will unfold a deeply soul-satisfying companionship in our work together.

ROSEBUD

7.10.12

When I think of the transition our species is undergoing, I see the image of a pale yellow rosebud, not opened yet but just beginning to open, a very beautiful stage of the rose.  This rosebud is surrounded by a pool of soft, brilliant light, and the transmission behind the image is one of clarity and freshness; it speaks of the new life that's unfolding amid the vast cultural shift we’re all going through. 

The rosebud represents the deeper truth that most of us don’t see or perceive yet. We see the chaos and the confusion, and we see what feels like a lot of darkness in the outer events that surround us.  And yet the truth of what’s happening is this freshness and beauty we see in the rose, perfect potential that is just getting ready to start opening. It lives in the light and the warmth and benevolence of greater reality. 

The rosebud in its pool of light is a symbol of where we're at as a planetary organism in this transition.  We’re not a tight little green bud that hasn’t even begun to show petal color, we’re actually a fully formed bud that’s already begun to open into that welcoming light.

Sometimes it’s hard to believe there’s even a bud on the thorny bush of our manmade world, and yet in truth we’ve come all this way already.  It’s good to remember that just as the rosebud will follow the path of its destiny, in the same way we as a planetary organism will blossom in our fullness.

  

STEPPING STONES

REFLECTIONS FROM WITHIN

7.6.12

How do we navigate the intensity of life today?

As the world situation intensifies there will be more and more events of greater intensity presenting themselves for our attention, events that reach out to entangle the mind and the emotions.  Anchoring ourselves in our deepest values, and strengthening the alignment between the personality and the innate wisdom of the soul will help us live from a place of personal peace. As the next few years unfold, we’ll find it increasingly important to avoid being pulled off balance by outer events. A new world is taking form within us and around us, and it’s there that we want to center our attention.

Our path through this work is organic; it arises naturally as a progression of events – one follows another. While we have no map to follow, as we become more cognizant of the rhythms and patterns of this journey, we develop a path.  The ways we work in the world and our responses to the events of our lives arise in the context of the moment.  

Most of the time, we can only see the single stepping stone ahead of us.  We can’t see the progression itself, where it’s going.  And with experience, we become comfortable pausing on the stone where we stand, waiting until the next stone comes into view.  As we see the process unfold in this way, we come to trust the ground we’re standing on and our ability move to the next step.   

Because there is no map, we shift from an intellectual approach to an intuitive one based in trust. We trust the experience of being exactly where we are, comfortable or not, knowing we have the ability to take the next step when it moves us forward. 

When we move in this manner from one stepping stone to the next, there are many possibilities where the next stone could appear.  If we had a map of the stones laid out from beginning to end, there would be no choice but to follow that single path. The mapped sequence is static -- it only leads to one place. In this step-by-step organic process of movement, if factors shift while we’re standing on one stone, the next one may appear in a surprising – but newly appropriate – location. 

Going one step at a time and letting trust lead the way, we can end up exactly where life needs us to be.