Loved all of this Renée! This is a call to a "Great Work." I love what you said around human becoming is not about human betterment. For what does "betterment" mean anyways. And who gets to define that. Human becoming is agreeing and surrendering to our potential. What is truly calling from deep within. Call it the song of the soul, spirit purpose, reason for being here... It does not matter. We all need to find that out for ourselves. And there is the key, it is a solo journey. Not dictated by law, belief, or dogma. Each one finding our own place in the mycelial network of this world we are all a part of.
You toss something into the mix here: "agreeing and surrendering to our potential," in effect, saying that we must acknowledge that we come into life on the bedrock of potentia, and part of the journey is recognizing that this is so, saying yes, and surrendering. That willing participation is agreement and surrender enfolded into a quality of presence to life. And in the "mycelial network of this world," the inside unfolds a lifeworld of one and many. Thank you for this.
The light you shine gets ever brighter, revealing the space in which "the willing participation in the transmutation of human being" becomes possible, through "The heart—real not figurative—...the portal through which we become." Your words light fires within, increasing the light. Profound appreciation is as close as I can get to describing the love that wells within as I read them. Thank you, Dear Renée.
What comes to me as I read your words is that when we experience words through the portal of the heart, as we are exploring here, we enter the domain of Logos. Neither is the writer singularly writer nor the reader singularly reader, but words themselves are the agent calling us into the sacred domain of Being. They surface from the great Silence we have been exploring in the monthly gatherings, and they invoke our presence.
Profound appreciation is mutual, dear Becky, for your heartfelt participation in these words. To echo Jacob above, Blessed Be.
This is a beautiful message and a necessary call to faith that I appreciate. I am so glad you got to hold that beautiful baby Renee! Nothing speaks to our soul like a baby.
It feels like we've stepped over the threshold in awe of all that we are capable of if we participate. To integrate everything we have been shown takes a monumental effort to confirm that it's going to be ok. For it will as we will it to be. Thank you for your beautiful and powerful witiness to these events, which invites us in to a new adventure of creation.
Thank you for your reflective insights. It is incredibly daunting to imagine that we have such a profound role in the unfolding. Science, ironically, does not indicate this, still hanging on to the notion of evolution as random mutations. There is a certain radicality in the recognition that the human is now so important. The danger in the recognition is that we could continue to barrel ahead as overinflated. How to recognize our role and humbly participate seems "a new adventure of creation."
Your words are a light for all of us, quickening the transmutation of this body of humanity. Your distinction between betterment and becoming is exquisite. Betterment entirely misses the returning to our essential nature, the “untouched goodness” you felt when the infant rested herself into you. What a beautiful moment, I feel uplifted just reading it, imagining each human cell of this body of humanity remembering itself into our becoming.
Kimberly, I'm so glad this beautiful moment with the infant was uplifting to you, too.
I thought of you as I wrote the section on becoming, appreciating you and your reflections.
I have saved a recent "In Defense of. . .", which I always look forward to reading. It seems to me that the very idea of the series touches at returning to the essential nature of all things . . . and ourselves.
Indeed! I can’t help but notice you and I both use “un” a lot, even making up new “un” words. I’d like to think that this process of unning ourselves is at the heart of our becoming. We’re the Unsisters!
Dear Unsister, it is unimaginably rich to be in your company! I echo you that 'unning' ourselves is at the heart of our becoming. Otherwise, every moment is a yestermoment.
I hate to be a harbinger - yet the phrase "the willing participation in the transmutation of human being." - key work *willing*. I know that most of us here are those willing participants mentioned, or at the least distract themselves from the events... sublimation? - yet. I witness that most of the world falls into despair and uncertainty - especially now with the domineering aspects of climate and politics - outside of our very-hands-control. At least - for myself - I need to know what acts to take physically in order to understand any level of change in this world.
I can speak to this, and not to boast, yet - I felt that determinate, albeit forceful - Transmutation that coasted the air - I feel now more determined to be in my Community. To accomplish that which 'descends' into my knowing - my own will of creation, to be centered in the creations that be from me - as I know most of what I do is for the connection with others (I am in a state of distraction when I am with myself, if only to await the next moment where I can be with another - I don't know what to do with myself if I am not 'concerned' with the presence of another.)
Thank you Renée for your continual spaces of awakening and Beholding for Us - and on behalf of this great fated Becoming we face.
Your reflections always give me pause. Thank you. What I gather from you here is that you yourself could fall into despair and uncertainty, given the uncertainty of these times, without connection with others. That your concerns about the state of the world are responded to by being present with and caring for your community. Your outward-facing heart is much needed in these times, Jacob, "on behalf of the great fated Becoming."
Loved all of this Renée! This is a call to a "Great Work." I love what you said around human becoming is not about human betterment. For what does "betterment" mean anyways. And who gets to define that. Human becoming is agreeing and surrendering to our potential. What is truly calling from deep within. Call it the song of the soul, spirit purpose, reason for being here... It does not matter. We all need to find that out for ourselves. And there is the key, it is a solo journey. Not dictated by law, belief, or dogma. Each one finding our own place in the mycelial network of this world we are all a part of.
Julie,
[nodding my head and shoulders and body]
You toss something into the mix here: "agreeing and surrendering to our potential," in effect, saying that we must acknowledge that we come into life on the bedrock of potentia, and part of the journey is recognizing that this is so, saying yes, and surrendering. That willing participation is agreement and surrender enfolded into a quality of presence to life. And in the "mycelial network of this world," the inside unfolds a lifeworld of one and many. Thank you for this.
The light you shine gets ever brighter, revealing the space in which "the willing participation in the transmutation of human being" becomes possible, through "The heart—real not figurative—...the portal through which we become." Your words light fires within, increasing the light. Profound appreciation is as close as I can get to describing the love that wells within as I read them. Thank you, Dear Renée.
Becky,
What comes to me as I read your words is that when we experience words through the portal of the heart, as we are exploring here, we enter the domain of Logos. Neither is the writer singularly writer nor the reader singularly reader, but words themselves are the agent calling us into the sacred domain of Being. They surface from the great Silence we have been exploring in the monthly gatherings, and they invoke our presence.
Profound appreciation is mutual, dear Becky, for your heartfelt participation in these words. To echo Jacob above, Blessed Be.
"There is in you and me a light that no darkness can extinguish"
I really needed this. Thank you Renee :)
Scattered Scholar, thank you for sharing. I am heartened to know these words gave you a landing place (perhaps to return to in days ahead).
This is a beautiful message and a necessary call to faith that I appreciate. I am so glad you got to hold that beautiful baby Renee! Nothing speaks to our soul like a baby.
Be well my friend.
Donna, it is so true: "Nothing speaks to our soul like a baby." The timing of the moment does seem precious.
. . . a necessary call to faith.
Diaphanous writing. You mirror integral becoming in your sole/soul on the ground presence to the ontology of brokenheartedness.
If this is so, it is in no small part by mirroring/being present to what you have shown me of an ontology of brokenheartedness . . . [deep bow]
It feels like we've stepped over the threshold in awe of all that we are capable of if we participate. To integrate everything we have been shown takes a monumental effort to confirm that it's going to be ok. For it will as we will it to be. Thank you for your beautiful and powerful witiness to these events, which invites us in to a new adventure of creation.
Louise,
Thank you for your reflective insights. It is incredibly daunting to imagine that we have such a profound role in the unfolding. Science, ironically, does not indicate this, still hanging on to the notion of evolution as random mutations. There is a certain radicality in the recognition that the human is now so important. The danger in the recognition is that we could continue to barrel ahead as overinflated. How to recognize our role and humbly participate seems "a new adventure of creation."
Your words are a light for all of us, quickening the transmutation of this body of humanity. Your distinction between betterment and becoming is exquisite. Betterment entirely misses the returning to our essential nature, the “untouched goodness” you felt when the infant rested herself into you. What a beautiful moment, I feel uplifted just reading it, imagining each human cell of this body of humanity remembering itself into our becoming.
Kimberly, I'm so glad this beautiful moment with the infant was uplifting to you, too.
I thought of you as I wrote the section on becoming, appreciating you and your reflections.
I have saved a recent "In Defense of. . .", which I always look forward to reading. It seems to me that the very idea of the series touches at returning to the essential nature of all things . . . and ourselves.
Indeed! I can’t help but notice you and I both use “un” a lot, even making up new “un” words. I’d like to think that this process of unning ourselves is at the heart of our becoming. We’re the Unsisters!
Dear Unsister, it is unimaginably rich to be in your company! I echo you that 'unning' ourselves is at the heart of our becoming. Otherwise, every moment is a yestermoment.
I hate to be a harbinger - yet the phrase "the willing participation in the transmutation of human being." - key work *willing*. I know that most of us here are those willing participants mentioned, or at the least distract themselves from the events... sublimation? - yet. I witness that most of the world falls into despair and uncertainty - especially now with the domineering aspects of climate and politics - outside of our very-hands-control. At least - for myself - I need to know what acts to take physically in order to understand any level of change in this world.
I can speak to this, and not to boast, yet - I felt that determinate, albeit forceful - Transmutation that coasted the air - I feel now more determined to be in my Community. To accomplish that which 'descends' into my knowing - my own will of creation, to be centered in the creations that be from me - as I know most of what I do is for the connection with others (I am in a state of distraction when I am with myself, if only to await the next moment where I can be with another - I don't know what to do with myself if I am not 'concerned' with the presence of another.)
Thank you Renée for your continual spaces of awakening and Beholding for Us - and on behalf of this great fated Becoming we face.
Blessed Be (as always)
Jacob,
Your reflections always give me pause. Thank you. What I gather from you here is that you yourself could fall into despair and uncertainty, given the uncertainty of these times, without connection with others. That your concerns about the state of the world are responded to by being present with and caring for your community. Your outward-facing heart is much needed in these times, Jacob, "on behalf of the great fated Becoming."
"Willing" is key. Isn't it?
Thank you for sharing.
Blessed Be, dear friend.
So good Renée, your words travel right down to the bone of things.