INSPIRATION
We are not only mental
beings; we are whole
human beings with physical,
emotional, intuitive, and
spiritual aspects.
The sad fact is that we moderns spend so much
time thinking that we ignore life’s beauty and vibrancy. And, even sadder, our thinking processes have wrapped us so much in knots that we
have come to believe that our thoughts are all
there is, and that the rest of the world is dead.
Let me put it starkly. The sum total of the modern paradigm is a belief that human beings are
separate, superior, rational, and alone in our
consciousness on a dead planet, without purpose. We have all inherited a worldview that is
bereft of soul and stripped of life, cut off from
our spiritual roots.
This would be exceedingly depressing if it were
true. But, thankfully, it is not. The truth, as I have
come to see it, is that we humans are not superior; we only think we are. We are just different.
The planet is not “dead” or a mere machine; it
is all alive. And we are never separate or alone
in our consciousness, no matter what we might
imagine. Some part of us has always known
this. The very word “consciousness” originally
meant knowing with, from the Latin conscientia, or shared knowledge. The fact of consciousness is a radical expression of interconnectedness; everything that exists contributes in some
way to the consciousness of the whole.
It is not that rationality—as we have come to
define it in the modern word—is unimportant.
It is important. But it is only one expression of
our humanness, one part of our full potential. It
does not, should not, define humanity. We are
not only mental beings; we are whole human
beings with physical, emotional, intuitive, and
spiritual aspects. We know this, and yet most
of us still favor rational thought, even if unconsciously. We do this when we compartmentalize
our lives, itself an act of rational thinking. Our
spirituality, for instance, may b R&V