I think embedded in every human being is a transcendent “nerve,” you’ve got to pluck. We are, after all, the result of nature's capacity to transcend its own limits.
TBH - Or we wouldn't be here.
Barbara - We definitely would not be here. So now we are at a certain limit in consciousness and growth. Our capacity to transcend that is innate, and it's coming to the level of consciousness as what I'm calling evolutionary spirituality based on evolutionary consciousness which is threefold. The substrate goes within and accesses the non-dual pure awareness of the great mystics. It experiences cosmo-genesis and the whole story of creation in pure eternal awareness. Secondly, there is evolutionary consciousness over 14 billion years which is developmental. The third part of evolutionary consciousness is your own passionate desire to participate by becoming a co-creator with the process of creation.
If you add non-dual consciousness, evolutionary awareness of the whole story, with your own desire to be a co-creator within that story, you've got a new form of consciousness. And it's arriving. It's not the church, It's not an organization. It's a person that's coming into being as the crisis deepens and our collective awareness of this crisis grows.
TBH – So, in a way, there’s nothing you can do. It’s a birthing within that is, as you say, innate. It has its own time and we can align with it as best we can. And yet there's nothing you can quite grasp and manipulate into being.
Barbara - This is so true. Yet for me what has made a huge difference is having the right “meme,” [thought] the right memetic environment of ideas that supports your emergence and your process of emergence. When I was trying to go through this in my early years I tried to be an existentialist.
I was 18 years old in Paris during a year abroad. I had the beret and the Galois cigarettes and the red wine, and I was trying very hard to believe the universe was meaningless and that it was going down to its inevitable death. I alone had to make it meaningful. Well, you can imagine I was rather depressed.
TBH - And depressing!
Barbara – Yes, that too. But that was the whole culture in Paris at that time. And for good reason, because the world seemed to have totally failed. It’s a long story. I got married to an artist and had five children. But then I found the meme [thought] in Teilhard de Chardin, and Sri Aurobindo, and Buckminster Fuller, whose idea systems made me realize that, first of all, the universe is not going down to an inevitable death, it seems to be rising in greater consciousness and complexity. Secondly it seems to be going towards a quantum jump. Suddenly the passion in me was reinforced. Next > 1 2 3 4 5 6
