When I was growing up there had been a developing sense among younger people that the established western social/economic system was not working very well for the people living in/by/under it. The response was a rejection of “the system”, a “dropping out” in some form. Perhaps a trip to India, or work in a developing country, living on a communal farm, substances, meditation, or music.
Over time much was learned in this way, and some of it was brought back to the larger society. Some of it has been incubated in communities, or in the heart. In spite of what people sometimes think, many things have changed. Perhaps not as dramatically as had been envisioned, but slowly and subtly. A conversation that takes place on a topic that would not have happened before, a possibility that is present for young people that wasn’t before, a sense of Spirit at large in the world that is taken as given.
My yoga teacher used to say that its great to go find God in a cave in the mountains, but the real challenge is to hold onto Spirit in the middle of the market place. Much of the searching was spiritual, some of this was brought back, but there has still been a feeling that people needed to separate to find it, to get “off the grid” in one way or another. If you came back to the system, you would loose it or “sell out”.
These days there is a whole new generation coming of age. A generation that has had the chance to grow up with ideas that were revolutionary “back in the day”. More importantly a generation which seems to have a different frame of mind. They are finding Spirit, or it is finding them. They don’t worry as much about “inside” and “ouside”; they simply go where they need to be. More and more they are finding their calling inside “the system”, and are committed to bringing Spirit “inside”. Bringing an ongoing awareness of Spirit into not only the healing arts, but computer programming; not just in teaching our children, but in managing the board room.
Have you ever received an email from a loved one, and felt that love. Energy and Spirit can move through technology along with the electrons. It is all Spirit, there is no division unless we choose to think it.
How do we weave the spiritual into the system and transform it from the inside out? This is already being done, one step at a time, one person at a time. By bringing your full awareness of Spirit and your spiritual self with you in all areas of your life. Many of us have been “in the wilderness”, others are finding a more direct path. We are all “bringing it back home”, to where we live everyday, weaving it into how we work together, how we use technology, how we do business. Spirit is everywhere, all we need to do is recognize that, every day, all the time. Search it out, bring it into your awareness, out of the background. Recognizing it and appreciating it, especially in each other takes us all “out of the box”, creates space for the form to more fully reflect the underlying reality.
Notice how you are carrying your understanding of spirit, of yourself as a spiritual being into your life. Perhaps your light is carried under a basket, perhaps you don’t always speak to it in others, or perhaps it is out and shining, reflecting off those around you. Just don’t hide it in a closet, or leave it in the wilderness. Create the space to carry it with you, always, and things are changing. Time to find your brothers and sisters and begin the weave.
(© 6/2010)
