Engagement

This was a travel week for me.  I flew to Houston to work with At Ease Technologies (livingatease.com), in production for a “Living At Ease” weekend course.  While sitting in O’Hare last Thursday I began to notice the oddity of being human.

All of us humanoid types walk around in unique self contained, independent, yet strangely interdependent, containers known as bodies.  Bodies equipped with their own computer, navigational system, communication network, ability to reproduce, self heal and create original thoughts, emotions, music and art.

These bodies are designed to maintain, heal and fuel indefinately using the ample supplies found in natural abundance on the planet…this rock…this third rock from the sun we call Earth.  Even more odd is that these humans are gifted with not only intelligence and emotion…but total free will…the choice to design their own existence.

It is with choice the path of the spiritual seeker begins.  Spiritual seekers have a need to know what comes next.  What is it all about.  The idea is to transcend this human experience and return to the state prior to birth….to the state we will all return to after death…when our time in this body is over.  This path can be life altering in the most positive of ways.  It has the potential to enhance this human experience by giving great perspective on what is really important…that it is relationships more than stuff…intention and connection more than the production of results…heart more than mind…people more than things…that matter most.

As great as this potential is, there is also the risk of minimizing the human experience as being trite and a bit beneath the transformed spirit…as though we have evolved beyond that.  Since we are entering an election year in the the country on Earth known as the United States of America, I will use politics as an example.  There is an oh-so-fine line between becoming fully conscious or ascending into a state of unconscious disengagement.

As the election process does it’s wind up, let us all engage.  Like it or not, we find ourselves citizens of the most powerful and influential nations on the planet.  Action taken or not taken by USA effects the world.  We have the choice…and with it the responsibility, to change or perpetuate the course of things.  If we choose to be apathetic, “above it all” and disengage, the absence of our voice will have it’s own impact.  We will have lost the opportunity to make a difference…to create a new way of being; the opportunity to create a path of empathy, compassion and stewardship.  The opportunity to create a new paradigm for the world to be fully awake and conscious with maybe a chance for change before the tipping point.

My request to us all is to keep seeking spiritually, but to not fast forward to life beyond this human earthly experience. Let us engage and do our work…correcting in ourselves and therefore the world what we know in our heart needs to be done.  Here and now.  In the present…with what is actual.