The first few posts of this blog will combine to give a bare-bones outline. Subsequent posts will then be expansions on the ideas presented in the outline (with a few sidelines thrown in for comic relief). Thank you, in advance, for taking the time to read this blog.
If one steps back, mentally, from looking at the world from a standpoint of being controlled by outside forces such as money/scarcity, social isolation, fear (of not having enough to cover our basic needs; of being judged by others and found wanting; of violence – be it physical, mental, emotional, spiritual; of exposure, etc.) then the world suddenly is a totally different place with unlimited potential.
The thing that makes each of us valuable within creation is the unique mixture of qualities and interests that define us as individual, thinking, emotional beings. Each individual’s particular mix of qualities, interests and capabilities - which they contribute to humanity as a whole - enriches the whole, and thus the world. Mass media and current economic policies perpetuate and disseminate the paradigm of value coming from outside the individual instead of from the only place it can truly come from – the inside – and by doing so serves, to maximum capacity, to separate us from each other and completely dulls the mind and emotions to the shining allure of spiritual/emotional growth and connection with each other and our environment.
We are so busy, as a species, running around in circles chasing self-worth from without that we don’t have the time, energy or desire to fully know ourselves and find our true value – who we are and what we have to offer to the world to enrich the fabric of all life. We no longer have the time, energy and resources to raise our children with the time together to explore and share the fullness of our love, compassion, and understanding. We no longer allow ourselves the time to appreciate the wisdom and value of the elderly and treat them with the respect and reverence they deserve. We deny ourselves the spiritual freedom to explore who we truly are and, therefore, often cannot truly interact with others in a deeply meaningful way. The current socio-economic paradigm demands that we let everything truly important fall by the wayside, just to survive.
We live in a world of abundance, yet there are countless people homeless, starving and isolated. We are so busy running around trying to keep up in this world that we don’t realize that we are all bankrupt – disconnected from true meaning and value, and consuming natural resources without regard for the impact of this behaviour on the ecosphere. We substitute sex for true intimacy; commitment and loyalty for love; possessions and/or celebrity for personal value. I am not saying that there is anything intrinsically wrong with any of those things. We actually devalue them by trying to make them more than they are – just a few of the unlimited experiences available in the larger concept of creation. Nor am I inferring that there is no intimacy, love or personal value expressed in the current global paradigm, but I believe that it is critical that humanity, as a species, explores how deeply or shallowly we allow ourselves to experience these.
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