July 4 2010, Rose Diamond
As with any soul adventure, when I began the work which metamorphosed into A Whole New World I had no idea where it would lead me.
I’ve just completed a course in Integral Enlightenment in which we focused on understanding the evolutionary impulse and becoming more aware of all the faces of ego so we can free ourselves from these limited stories. Creating a whole new world is definitely the work of the evolutionary impulse, the drive in us to create the highest we can imagine.
It is the parlous condition of the unholy havoc being wreaked on nature and culture, which calls out the impulse towards wholeness; a means of balancing the energy towards equilibrium and homeostasis. I see each one of us as being involved consciously or unconsciously in this balancing.
I can look upon the task of balancing the world from the point of view of one individual soul, one drop in the ocean, or I can look at it from the point of view of the ocean, the interconnected waters of the world.
So let’s contemplate for one moment the ocean of intelligence, you and I, as conscious individuals, are part of.
First we are part of the intelligence of nature and nature’s been around a long, long time and has survived many earth and climate changes. The intelligence of nature is awe inspiring when you stop to consider the perfection of a flower; the way the human body keeps on going according to its own plan without us having to give it a thought; and the intricately finely balanced web of life in which everything in the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms is recycled and interdependent. This is an intelligence we would do well to befriend.
And then there’s the intelligence of the cosmos, a great vastness of finely balanced atomic particles, planetary bodies, black holes and mystery, all held together and kept in motion by universal laws. Surely, it is from this vast mystery the evolutionary impulse emerges.?
Are we wounded and imperfect humans a growing tip of the Universe? Are we the rainbow bridge stretching from Heaven to Earth and from Earth to Heaven?
And then we have the intelligence of the heart as part of our ocean: our feeling for each other, our compassion for human frailty and suffering, our ability to empathize and feel with and for each other; to love each other despite our faults and failures.
Another part of our ocean of the Good, the True and the Beautiful are the enlightened souls who have gone before us, or who walk in the world with us as examples that it is possible to transcend the limitations of ego, to find wholeness and holiness and dissolve forever the imagined boundaries between self and other, self and world.
The evolutionary impulse is urging us toward unity consciousness; the knowledge that we are each a drop in this vast ocean of intelligence, energy, flow, the natural laws of homeostasis, balance and chaos.
And yes, there are those who are plundering the ocean but life is self renewing, self healing, infinitely experimental and perservering.
One drop in the ocean has the power to effect all the other drops. Water is responsive and communicative, it carries and conveys vibrational messages and feelings.
What message is your drop communicating today? Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?
The problem is that we see ourselves as separate, competing, ailing. The solution is to know we are one global organism, moving in many different dimensions with multiple streams of intelligence available to us at all times.
When we move beyond our skin encapsulated egos and stories of me, into the ocean of collective intelligence, we are powerful indeed.
Rose Diamond
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