Are you ready?
A wise man once explained to me that there are only two things which trigger you in life. The first is not getting what you want. The second, and arguably more terrifying, is getting what you want. This week a lot of pieces of the puzzle fell into place and as I pondered the possibilities a long forgotten feeling of panic gripped me. I triggered as it appears that I may be getting what I want.
Like so many playing in this arena I have spent years trying to complete a jigsaw without the guide of a picture. Those years have given a deeper experiential appreciation of humility, grace, and most of all faith. Blind alleys and lengthy detours, mixed with a healthy dose of failure and disappointment have failed to extinguish my curiosity, which has been encouraged, fed and nurtured by a remarkable collection of fellow explorers.
What excited me this week could be explained by the potential I saw in some of the emerging technologies, but to present my shift in terms of practical solutions to existing problems is, to some extent, missing the point. Technologies will appear to match our evolving consciousness and to that extent the only limit to our potential is our imagination. So far we have imagined a very restrictive reality based on many dependencies. That is changing and changing fast, and that became very obvious to me this week.
The challenge we face now is how to expand our thinking to match the possibilities these advances offer. Whilst we will learn more of those possibilities in addressing current "problems" the real stretch is how to adjust to life without these problems? How much of our energy is spent individually and collectively on simply surviving? Whether it is earning money to feed ourselves or earning love to be accepted so much of our motivation comes from survival. Take away the distraction of survival and where do we then direct commit our energy and attention?
Away from survival there emerges a requirement to know ourselves at a new level as the motivating force in our lives becomes love. We have to become familiar with what we love as opposed to avoiding what we fear. We will play and create in new levels of love. Love is the technology.
Perhaps what triggered me this week was the realisation that the unconditional really is here and now. What for so long for so many, myself included, has been fleeting, conceptual and unstable is at last being grounded as an experiential reality. With that comes the knowledge that everything has changed.
No doubt we will have to acclimatise to this new dimensional environment and like a toddler learning to walk we may stumble and fall occassionally. In the same way we can't explain to the toddler how to walk, there is no rule book to explain what comes next. We will have to find our own way, making it all up as we go along.
One thing that will become obvious is what worked in the old world will not serve in the new. Co-dependency, manipulation, and all of the conditional games of survival will be as irrelevant as they are unnecessary, although we may find ourselves tripping up or into the conditional through habit. But this will fade. Our history, personal and collective will have little relevance as we operate within new frameworks of time and space, the governing rules (scientific and societal) which so restricted our development will become irrelevant.
Amazing times, are you ready?
Love
Bill