June 10th 2010, Rose Diamond
On Saturday 27th December, 2008 we held our first local meeting of A Whole New World. It was New Moon in Capricorn, a potent time for planting seeds, and we met to create New Moon Magic. I am re-cycling this article now as I get ready to launch A Whole New World into its next level of development.
Sitting in our heart sharing circle, we talked of many things. Most of the people in the group defined themselves as creative. An important aspect of the vision for A Whole New World is to build a world in which everyone is free to develop and express their creativity and to live their passion. I’m convinced when each of us is free to be authentic and to offer our unique gifts, the whole will work perfectly together. Each of us carries a fragment of a Grand Design, and when we bring our fragments together we reveal the whole picture. The fragmented picture is full of stresses and strains; when the whole comes together there is a beautiful flow and luminosity.
We are a long way from achieving this vision. Most of us who have chosen to follow our creativity get by on a wing and a prayer. A creative state is open, expansive and focused, it is the realm of possibility and it demands all one’s attention. It is easy to get lost in this state and forget that the bills need to be paid. Then suddenly, yikes, it’s rent day! If we don’t stop and take a breath, it’s easy to contract into survival mode, a state of fear and lack.
Most people who are living their passion and creating their own sacred enterprise, know both states of expansion and contraction very well, since the evolution of creative enterprise is a process of experimentation that takes time and can’t be rushed. It can take years of mostly unpaid work where the only thing you have to hold onto is the intuitive knowing this is what you have to do. The creative benefits are huge yet the economic hardship is stressful at times. Of course the majority of people in the world live in economic stress far worse than anything a creative entrepreneur in the Western world will ever experience and it is a huge privilege to be in a position to live one’s passion. Consciously accepting the financial limitation of these early stages has brought me a little bit closer to understanding and being compassionate towards the struggles of others. It is challenging to be fully creative and expansive from survival mode. Fear is a contraction on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. It cuts us off from Source energy and creates the illusion we are separate and struggling alone, it is the great controller of the human spirit.
As the meltdown of the old world deepens more and more people are pitched into living on less. Yet there are many hidden blessings in this because it jettisons us out of the consumer society and into the necessity to create a new culture based on authentic values. We are resourceful. We can learn how to live a different way. We can learn to share more, to be more compassionate to each other’s struggles, to live without material luxuries, to find our satisfaction from within and through building community together. We can learn to drop the prideful egoic beliefs that have been instilled in us as part of our western conditioning: that we have to do it alone, that we can’t show each other our vulnerability, that success comes dressed in a corporate suit. We can learn to live more simply, more sustainably, more deeply, more authentically. We can learn to build co-creative businesses with heart to sustain many people.
We are in the transition right now, from the old to the new. Some of us are standing on the edge of a crumbling cliff with the new on the other side of the chasm; others have made the quantum leap and are taking our first steps into the unknown. How will we build a bridge to take us across? Perhaps, like the spider spinning the silken threads from her own body to build, we will build a web which is strong and mostly invisible, creating something out of nothing, just because it is in our nature to do so.
One of the prime intentions of A Whole New World is to bring together people who are awakening to the new consciousness, to the realization of our essential interconnectedness, and our collective need to start living in a different way. We are building a local, national and global community of people who want to support each other through this transitional time, to share or experiences, to learn new skills, and to co-create. We are gathering and sharing examples of all the diverse people and projects creating the New right now. Together we can create more of that expansive, creative, loving energy, latent with possibility. We can support each other to be Love-in-action; to walk the talk.
Each one us makes a difference and together we can do what seems impossible.
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