Create, love, re-generate

We’re six weeks into 2025 and the Earth seems to be spinning wildly through space, while life is more threatened every day by spectacularly inhumane announcements such as the take-over of Gaza and the abrupt pulling of US Aid from fragile communities worldwide. In the same week, I attended a meeting of apparently like-minded people, on the side of life, and witnessed a heart-breaking failure of cohesion there.

Last Sunday I held a community conversation exploring the theme of Being Whole in a Fragmented World and for the rest of the week I’ve been completing a guidebook to help people through stress and fear to creative empowerment.  I step back from time to time and question why I do the work I do? Do people who are already overwhelmed really need another blog post, another email, another opinion or piece of guidance? Does anybody read any more? Using AI, I could feed a few questions into Chat gpt and have a short book finished in an hour or so but instead I labour away for days on end finding the best words and the best order and flow of sentences and paragraphs. Each word carved lovingly out of my soul.

I do the work I do because I love it and because it’s the best expression of who I am and why I’m here. And because writing and sitting with people in a respectful space of discovery, connect me with my authentic truth and open my heart with others who are also trying to re-member the meaning and purpose in life. I do it because I need to feel I’m contributing in a positive way and to know that all the experience and wisdom I’ve gathered over a lifetime has not been for nought. I find the act of creating re-generative.

For me, the way to stay sane in such a crazy, heart-breaking mess of a world is to create, create, create.

I remember walking down Princes Street in Edinburgh in 1983, on the day nuclear missiles were being delivered to Scotland’s Faslane naval base on the west coast, and I was literally shaking in my boots. In those days many of us were terrified by the threat of nuclear war. And I remember thinking, if there was a sudden nuclear attack what would I choose to be doing at that moment? Making love came close but what I opted for was sitting at my desk working at what has meaning for me. And that decision set the tone for the rest of my life. So, even if no one ever opened my emails, or read my blog posts, or came to my conversation circles, I would still do it all. I intend to be sitting at my desk until the day I die carving out love from my heart and soul and defiantly facing into the chaos.

Making meaning, making art, finding beauty… these are ways of spreading more love into the world. I know some people think that focusing on love, peace and unity consciousness, is an avoidance of whatever important work they espouse, some kind of old-hippy-living-in the-clouds bypassing of reality. But I beg to differ. The human heart needs to be big and generous these days to take in the suffering, even to stop and witness a tiny piece of it all without drowning.

Join me for Conversation and Community

At 11am, next Sunday 16^th, I’m holding the last of three introductory conversations. This one is focused on Empowering Your Transformational Process. I’m particularly interested in exploring what the process of transformation is, what interrupts the flow of our creative energy as conscious healing practitioners, and how we can encourage that flow. Go here to register.   After that, I’m intending to launch a Tribe in Transition Transformational Learning Community in April and I’ll be inviting any of you who have attended one of these conversations to come and explore with me and let me know what you want and need, and how I can support you.

 

We Are Spiritual Beings Having a Human Experience

 

I’ll leave you today with a video I made a few months ago: We Are Spiritual Beings Having a Human Experience  If I was making this video today I might describe what’s going on in the world a bit differently but I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

The Being Whole in a Fragmented World Guidebook will be available soon.