According to the poll, moms care most that
they’re remembered
their special day. A reassuring 46% said that anything their
kids give them is a "good gift."
So there you have it.
This morning we continue our series on The Merry Month of May
with Mother Mirth. I picked this title because of Mother’s
Day, of course, and to continue our work with Joy, that aspect
of Consciousness, or God, that really is the highest on the scale
if you look at the works of the Abraham teachings or of David
Hawkins and others.
But I also am wanting to look at not only Mother Mirth, but
Mother Earth, as well. There’s such a direct link between the
concept of mother and Earth, especially metaphysically speaking.
I want to share with you some thoughts from Barbara Marx Hubbard,
who herself is the mother of 5. She has an essay in Healing
Our Planet, Healing Our Selves, in which she talks about the
fact
that “The universe works in spirals,” beginning with “the
void, the mind of God, and the field of all possibilities. The
first turn on the spiral is the Big Bang, the formation of the
universe.” On the 2nd turn matter appears, and then Earth.
On the 3rd turn we find life, which on the 4th turn is in the
form of animals, and by the 5th turn has formed humans.
But here’s the really interesting part. She says that on
the 6th turn will be “the formation of a universal human
life.” Now exactly what will the universal human life look
like? She says, they’re “humans connected through
the heart to the whole of life, humans awakening from within
to the impulse of self and social evolution. . .”
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Humans connected through the heart to the whole of life. . .” Connected.
So how did we get disconnected to start with? Well, Dr. Hubbard
says it started about 40 thousand years ago when we began to
individuate and separate ourselves from nature. We left the Garden
when we began to be self-conscious.”
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Since then we’ve been hard at work developing civilization.
But in 1945,” she says, “ something very significant
happened when we dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. We suddenly
realized that “if we continue in the illusion of separation
from nature, from each other, and from the deeper patterns of
creation, we are capable of destroying our planetary life-support
systems, and killing the human species altogether.”
The 6th turn on the spiral had begun.
Now she also talks about the spiral having two parts—the
outer and the inner. “The outer ring is planetary evolution.
The inner ring is personal evolution.” So what we have
is this spiral with an outer ring that’s moving at a certain
speed and an inner ring, if you will, that’s moving at
a certain speed. What happens if they’re not moving at
the same speed?
This is exactly what Barbara Hubbard says is the problem. She
says, “Starting around the year 2000, the acceleration
of social and planetary change increased. We entered what Ervin
Laszo calls a ‘macro shift,’ in which the whole civilization
is under stress.” And I’d be willing to bet that
every person in this room has felt the effects of this stress.
It’s what I hear people talk about all the time—myself
included—not enough time, confusion, frustration, too much
to do.
At the same time “the process of individual self-evolution
began accelerating rapidly. But individual psycho-spiritual evolution
is proceeding much faster than social evolution.” Our social
institutions–educational, political, economic [and I would
add religions]—have not caught up, they have not changed.
And this “is producing an entire civilization and environment
tilted out of balance.”
And it’s accelerating. And many people are experiencing
it as “confusion, desperation, frustration, or alienation
[and depression]. But for some, it is awakening the Spirit within
to a great desire “to participate in the process of creation,
to restore the Earth, to heal the terrible inequities we see,
to free people to be themselves, and to explore the universe.”
And I love the way Dr. Hubbard puts it. She says, “Gradually
we find that we are no longer a local personality seeing the
divine. Rather we become an incarnation of the divine, educating
the local personality. . . the shift from ego to essence.”
But there’s also a 3rd ring she talks about that’s
between the inner ring of self-evolution and the outer ring of
social evolution. And that’s what she refers to as vocational
evolution, that the vocations we’re now beginning to choose
are more like callings and they’re often hybrids. In other
words, they’re specialized and don’t necessarily
fit the present occupational titles.
These callings fill us with the ”desire to give our best
within the social whole.” And they take on the attitude
of being “we-responsible” rather than you-responsible—some
god outside of us. In other words, the creator is us, God within,
as us, not some outside person or being.
There is Something Within us that wants to create a better
world. Who here wants a better world? We all feel this.
But to do this we must put so much attention on the inner Self,
the deep Self, the Higher Self, that when our other personalities
are distressed or anxious or fearful, they will turn willingly,
automatically, to that God-Self, the essential Self for healing.
And once we have that firmly in place, it’s our modus operandi,
what we have is a recognition of the power within us to heal
not only ourselves but the world around us.
We are now ”in a global crisis, an emergency filled with
terrible and dangerous symptoms: violence, environmental destruction,
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, dire poverty and
the suffering of billions.” Many are predicting doom and
gloom. But it can also be a “crisis of birth—a beginning
rather than an end.” But this birth will require of the
human race to identify its divinity.
So, how does this actually show up in our lives? As we continually
operate from within, from our hearts, from our intuition, from
the Wisdom within us,
we are rewarded with peace and fulfillment. We’re Self-rewarded as we
simply express our deeper Self.
But there’s something very subtle here that we need to understand. Because
otherwise, when our intuition and inner guidance is leading us, our good little
egos can take off in trying to make it happen in the outer world. And what
Dr. Hubbard discovered was, “following the commands of my essential self,
but separated from it, I was always late, I was always behind, I was always
incomplete. So I tried harder to follow the higher guidance—the ego is
insatiable. Yet it cannot succeed when in a state of separation from the source
of its being. . . The ego is never fulfilled, even if you achieve great things.
The next day, it requires a new goal.”
What she finally had to do was to stop all her efforts and
come into alignment with the feeling of the guidance, which was
peace, joy, wholeness, oneness
and wisdom. She says, “I started to put my attention each day on the
feeling of receiving guidance, not on the specific guidance itself.” And
by doing this, approaching it this way, the life purpose within the essential
self begins to flow with ease and grace. Do you hear what I’m saying?
The ego must merge with the Higher Self, not feel separate from It.
And remember last week how I was talking about the importance of spiritual
community? Listen to what she says, “When you join in co-creation with
other people who are also tapping into the inner self, you experience a feeling
of joy and ease and rightness as those shared codes unfold gracefully and effortlessly.
You get over your own self-consciousness; you get past the boundaries of your
egoic self, exhausted by its efforts to act separate from the greater flow.
As the ego comes to rest in the vibrational field of the higher self, it loses
its illusion of separation, which is the source of most human problems.”
It’s happening right now. Those of you who have taken Foundations class
know what I’m talking about. It’s that experience of not being
able to go back to your old ways of thinking and being. The new you is birthed.
You can’t return to the womb. Eventually “the ego realizes it can’t
tolerate being separate from source anymore.”
And as we do this, a change is made at the cellular level within us, as we
know from the research of cellular biologist Bruce Lipton.
Dr. Hubbard says, “Nature has been forming whole systems for billions
of years, and is pressing through us to form a whole system out of us, instead
of contending parts. So when we identify with the inner self and reside in
there, and let the biochemical shift occur that makes this our natural state,
then our outer expression begins to conform to that organic pattern.”
We are all mothers giving birth to a universal human within
ourselves. So happy Mothering Day to you all. This is the birth
of mirth.
(Quotes are by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Healing Our Planet,
Healing Ourselves, pp. 9-17)
