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    Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

    ~Chinese Proverb

What would you do, whether through accident or providence, stumbled on a way to radically accelerate your personal and spiritual evolution and could show others how to do the same?  Would you tell the world, scream it from the rooftops, go on a lecture circuit, etc? OR would you keep it to yourself and spend that valuable time applying what you know to your own life to see if it actually works, then through example show others how to do the same?  To me this is not an easy question.  The reason is that now more than ever people need answers - practical, no-nonsense solutions to improve their condition. This is especially paramount today as the problems of the world continue to mount with no clear way out.  The question of our age is will we as a species survive our technological adolescence long enough to lay a clear pathway for humanity long-term survival in the future.  But not just survival, but learning to live in harmony with each other and the Earth and in turn spread out into the cosmos and fulfill the hopes of Utopian dreamers everywhere.

I am reminded again of one of my favorite Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes called Transfigurations. where a beautiful and tender man with emerging and extraordinary abilities is rescued by the Enterprise crew. Initially he suffers from amnesia from a shipwreck in which the others traveling with him were killed.  Later we discover they were fleeing their home planet because their government wants to execute them because it fears their new abilities.  It turns out the survivor is the first of his kind to transcend to the next evolutionary phase of their species - an immortal being of light.  It's definitely worth watching, especially it's allegorical treatment of current society's fears around similar themes.

So back to my original question.  What would you do?  If you decide on the first option you will join a loud and growing course of others saying the same thing, most of whom are making such claims in an effort to secure a fast buck in the spiritual marketplace. If you check out this "spiritual" bazaar you'll find it absolutely saturated with every imaginable huckster, motivational speaker, and guru offering their own special technique that when followed will bring you instant riches and spiritual enlightenment.  It continues to astound me how the same old message gets rehashed every few years by a new person on the scene, where the public is all too willing to embrace them as if finally someone will tell them "The Secret" to it all.

But, if you indeed do have something truly valuable and that has worked miracles so far, thousands, perhaps millions of people would benefit if they knew what you knew.  And time is wasting every minute you hold on to your little secret.  But then you just happened on this little formula for rapid evolution.  You're not sure if it will keep working.  More importantly after using your new found knowledge for a few years you discover in the long run it doesn't produce the results you thought it did. You're smart enough to know there are no short cuts, but you do have a way now to take the only road their is through the thick of it, but do it in a way that is vastly superior (faster) than anything that's come before it..or so you think so far based on your experiments.

What would you do?  Tell the world now and possibly save the world from its misery, or keep it to yourself and see if it really works?  Then if it does you can show people by your example, risking perhaps a lot of unnecessary misery in the world that could have been prevented had you spoken up sooner.

Personally I'm taking the middle ground - staying mum on any grandiose claims until I've had enough time to see the long-term results, while sharing what I know with those sincere and courageous seekers willing to do it for themselves.

 

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What if the world embodied its highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, this video contemplates a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our civilization. In this beautifully shot 25-minute retrospective, it asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves--and to listen more closely to what is being asked of us at this time of unprecedented global transformation.

Via KarmaTube:

It is not often I share a personal story on this blog.  In the last 8 years I have experienced a great deal of tragedy.  In this time I lost my house and all of my belongings to a house fire.  I lost my father two months later to a rapid onset of pancreatic cancer.  In 2006 I experienced a series of tragedies and unfortunate events.  As part of this ongoing stressI contracted a very painful, serious and for many months, undiagnosed illness, which among other things resulted in having my gallbladder being removed in December.  This didn't fix the problem, but it was their best guess at the time. Did I mention pain?  Yes, chronic pain that completely debilitated me, resulting in a total loss of income, and a half-dozen visits to the emergency room bent over in total agony. I am only now recovering, thanks in part to adopting a very healthy diet and lifestyle, and a exercising a profound level of acceptance and love for myself and those around me.

The story below is for those who need to hear that profound personal transformation is possible for anyone, right now if you are willing to open your heart.

I came across this story a few weeks ago in a book I was reading while deeply detoxing in a far-infrared sauna at my local acupuncturist's office.  It touched me so deeply, that I wept quietly but deeply amidst the profuse and cleansing sweat while in the sauna. The story is from The New Holistic Health Handbook, and it's a passage from a chapter by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross titled, Death Does Not Exist.

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