Out Beyond, Yet Active Right NowHere
Dynamically Alive Action from the Field Within US and A New Politics
I have some deep loves, they are One love, one we’re all given to have, but in this system of conscious aliveness, the ones that run deep are ultimately Love for what Is beyond yet within the surface appearances; Love of Truth, and of my wHoly Family of abundant Life, Being about the Family Business; and of a potential form of wHoly Self-governance called democracy.
I’ve hung out lots in the Great Space beyond/within lots. It’s been challenging at times to live, and has been my great unlearning growing into wHoly Human Being, as the Holy Fool. My friends and I laugh often about my conundrums with living in the world. It’s been quite vexing at times to live in such a bardo of the unknown, dying/birthing living.
Recently, I was driving this one stretch of road in a glorious Colorado clear blue sky brilliant sunny day that is tall tree lined, many nice spruce trees. With the sun so low in the southern sky, the shadows were long and dark. The light/dark flashed as I drove along. It was strobe-like in intensity. I was reflecting on how that is like life for we travelers on the spiritual super-highway of transformation. Some days we oscillate rapidly — like me driving through at 60 miles an hour! I laughed with the perspective while putting my hand up on the side of my face so I could see without the distracting flashing. Oh US!
This morning I came across “Charles Eisenstein, author” — his new facebook page that I’m already a badge holder on — however that happened! I just signed up for it yesterday. Anyway, my facebook feed afforded me two different videos of his that I reposted on my personal facebook page. Felt to share one here.
Offering the Real Good News alive and well in our world is a great JOB, Joy of Being. Am so deLighted that I get to share stuff that moves me, like our world in such turmoil in its bardo state, dying to the old ways, not yet birthing the new, in the unknown.
speaks to this in the following video that’s 7.5 minutes long. (pause the voiceover recording here to listen)Charles Eisenstein on New Politics
Here’s a link to my facebook post — my immediate responses to the topic, plus I said more in comments as well.
(I love conversation, feel free to comment:)
First off in the podcast, on the discussion of the movies Avatar 1 & 2, I have to agree. In the first movie, the spectacular effects and the mythology was enough to get me through the timeworn plots and battles of good vs evil. In addition, the notion that such a horrific dire situation is what allows us, demands of us to have to go beyond to triumph. That included all the sound effects I put hands over my ears for, etc. The second film had me deeply disappointed in James Cameron. All the resources, time effort and money and it was just the same old same old story taken to a greater degree. I found it neither entertaining nor particularly inventive, even the water mythology. I thought he might have found Rumi’s field, and told the story from there. But no such luck.
One of the best things Eisenstein says in this podcast is that much of our suffering is a form of protest. As an old protest marcher, engaging in civil disobedience — which is the evidence that all is not well with us — his acknowledging a deeper sensibility of protest is a great perspective. It’s a sign, he says,
“OUR BEING IS NOT UNIFIED IN ITS EXPRESSION.”
Whoo-hoo!!! I’d like to testify to the truth of that statement! It’s true in so many ways and dimensions of our beings. How profoundly that affects everything about our living, and our difficulties, challenges, dissatisfaction, disharmony, and all the forms of our internal separations that play out in all our relationships. If we can’t find our way internally, and intimately how can the nation called United States find its way?! or the world? Our human being of world citizenry is not unified in its expression as a whole sacred living system of Life that includes Its infinite diversity. One example might be all agreeing that all life is sacred, even if we have very different ideas of how to live that truth.
Our inner renewal will bring about the new politics and the new world, new earth we want. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. When the whole system, heart, mind, belly, energetic subtle bodies come out of dualism and separation into a coherent unified whole, centered and expanded in the light of the real, we are transformed. Thus how we live is also completely different, a reversal of the norm.
The judging protective surviving-oriented conditioned identified mind gets illuminated by the unconditioned non-conceptual Mind of LightHearted Being. They are not two, there is only One Mind, Omniscient, and One Body of Being. Nothing can be separated. Our true nature is indivisible.
This field Rumi points to is the abiding place of our Spirit, our Real Self, our illuminated Soul. As our consciousness is renewed and our beings are transformed, we find ourselves abiding there and the indwelling Presence abiding within us. Abide in Me and I shall abide in Thee. It’s actually a law.
The unified field implies a place, it can seem other worldly, elsewhere, but it’s actually the spaciousness that is around and within us. It’s the space right within our atoms that informs the winky-blinky hearticle particles —collapsing wavicles into the world we see and live in right before our eyes. What are we making real?
I’ll meet you Here, in the open vibrant alive field, the heart of living truth, lightheartedly. It’s what the I that is We naturally does when it’s at Home Here. Its activity is naturally for us to stand up in the actuality of Being as what is, confidently, serenely, sanely, compassionately, with aplomb. We are inwardly assured and reassuring in our very real and potent Love for our neighbor: whomever is nigh us in our global instantaneous information system, as our Self. There is no distance Here. There’s not a soul that’s not our neighbor.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures … beside the still waters … he restoreth my soul… Thou prepareth a table before me in the presence of mine enemies … taken from Psalm 23:2
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Rumi.
There’s so much in these two statement that overlap, and draw us into an exploration of what is possible here for us right where we live as we are.
In this inner abidance, in the greening of the soul at rest in peace RIP, in stillness, and in the face of the “other” inner and outer enemies of Peace, of abundant Life, we are feasted. In other words, there is a smorgasbord of offerings from the Innermost in the face of what is starving for nourishment. It’s too full to talk about, it has no words and there’s so much!
It overflows us, we’ve more than enough to share that is the love that pierces the shell of the defended helpless frightened benighted self. Cupid’s arrow is on target.
The Real Good News is that we are on target in these conversations about what it will take for us to make this radical shift in consciousness such that it manifests as our human world.
It’s the act of Love that sees the Innermost: the Beauty, Brilliancy and Essence shining in even the darkest places in our consciousness. It’s always working to arise and come forth out of its incarceration in the dungeons of our denial, repression and projections. It’s time to release the imprisoned splendor encapsulated inside the damning formations of separation, disconnection, dread, depression, etc.
It sparks the inner spark of Life that comes from divinity, igniting the possiblity that even I am this true nature, this divinity. Even I can be forgiven all my mistakes and faults, be restored and renewed, and in this, also be a conveyor. If it’s possible for a miscreant like me, is possible for anyone to be an emissary of resounding LoveLight. It’s what we’re designed to be.
My co-workers would laugh when they’d ask me something, and often my answer was, “I am not-knowing.” Hospice workers have wry senses of humor sometimes. I took it as an invitation to investigate. I’ve never been content to just be an agnostic. I needed to look into the matter, whatever it is. It’s a divinely scientific way to live.
We have within us all the potential to go beyond the known, to open in this field that begins with a not-knowing faith in the infinite indivisible invisible. We begin with a sense of encouragement and assurance that comes from so many all around the world throughout time who’ve found their way.
In our renewal, I have found a sense of coming alive at levels I didn’t know were possible — even yesterday let alone years ago. I experience a joyousness in the potentials revealing our possibilities to be transformed in the light of what is Real. It’s in the inherent mastery of the Self-expressive assertion of the Real right within and becoming increasingly active in and through us. It is simple as telling the truth with a bold vulnerability that is receptive, open and confident, even when uncertain, willing to stay open, investigative in quietness.
As we face these dismaying dastardly situations in our human world that come into our fields in some way every day, we also find our Innermost of limitless blessings that has set this table of nourishing fruitions. We find that we share what fruit drops in ripeness from the tree of life in the moment. We are not the doers of this grace. It comes right through us as we abide in the field out beyond the known human world, not knowing about all that content anymore, where we meet One another in the heart of living truth. From within Here we address the content directly as none other, in the powerful silence of the omnipresent all-pervasive heart.
We are profoundly aware of what Is right NowHere, awake, arisen, active and alive within us, imbuing our every thought, feeling, word and deed with Its Presence. It all comes from within, flowing, our inner mutual abidance of Love’s power to unify all that seems disparate. It’s like magic! Now you see the enemy, now you don’t. There is only This Love incarnating, no matter what.
I have a dear friend who said a few years ago, “I hang out with people where the walls are dripping with context, but the content remains untouched.” Since then, Life has brought him face to face with content big time, so he has said, and so it is. Life will do that. It brings us face to face with what needs to be met in us, and in our projected reified realities, which includes those of our loves, those around us.
Standing in This, as Such, in the face of the someone or the something, of the object of dichotomized mind, held as other, as enemy, (and even also holding us as enemy instead of Self, reflecting our inner state), is powerful medicine for ailing humanity. It’s the love potion needed for the discontent within us that drives us to seek something beyond the pale, beyond the veil.
It’s what is needed. It’s what is natural. It’s within our purview.
Isn’t that Good News?
P.S. A prayer spontaneously came up when I was doing the voiceover. There are a couple of comments in it too, along with laughter. The joy and playfulness, the humor that may not come through clearly in the written word, is in the voiceover.