...make assisting the Great Turning my
priority over everything else.
Over the past few weeks I've been
making a list of what I imagine are essential tasks humanity must
take on to heal, evolve, and to restore our planet. This is my way of
even beginning to discern how to move through the uncertainty and
complexity of our world today. I wanted something around which I
could set my personal intentions for how to be and what to do, and
then let everything else go. My bottom-line essential task, which
encompasses all the others I've come up with so far, is to make
assisting the Great Turning my priority over everything else.
What else makes sense?
Everything from Nobel Prize winning
scientists to indigenous prophecy to our own deepest knowing tells us
that we are being called to a hero's journey of epic proportions.
Refusal of that call is not an option yet we all do it to some
measure, and some far more than others. Despite our best efforts, and
for many reasons, no one I know of is completely free from the
gravitational pull of the old paradigm. We live between two worlds
and I keep asking myself: what WILL free us – what will free ME -
to follow the call as if all life depended on it which, of course, it
does.
How do we begin to make assisting the
Great Turning our priority over everything else? My bottom line: we
have to grow up. Or, as Bill Plotkin puts it in his brilliant book
“Nature and the Human Soul,” we need to become authentic,
initiated adults and (re)create authentic, initiated cultures with
respect for the already quite authentic Earth. Duane Elgin conducted
a survey where an overwhelming amount of responses placed the
developmental age of our human race at adolescence, and a
dysfunctional adolescence at that. I think this is an apt analogy in
many, many ways.
And how do we begin to grow up? We
heed the call and step over the threshold. Imagining what that might
look like is what BeingChange is about and I will be exploring all
this and more. Every person's journey is unique of course and I want to hear all about yours. Here's a preview of some of what is on my “road
of
trials” -
the series
of
tests,
tasks,
or
ordeals
that
the
person
must
undergo
to
begin
the
transformation:
Healing my addictions.
Doing the despair and empowerment work,
learning to keep my heart open under any circumstances.
Making the descent into soul.
Placing myself within the larger
contexts of nature and cosmos.
Practicing spiritual activism.
Discovering and doing my “true work”
in the world.
What can you imagine are some of yours?
