I've fallen in love with a book that launched last week, a seminal work that I am
rejoicing in and want to introduce to
everyone I know.
Spontaneous
Evolution: Our Positive
Future
and a Way to Get There from Here provides
a scientific context
for Relational Presence while telling an
irresistible story about the evolution of
humanity into a cooperative organism of which
we are the cells.
The book is by
Bruce Lipton, scientist, and Steve Bhaerman,
cosmic humorist you may know as Swami
Beyondananda. Read
the 11 pages of the Preface, Introduction,
and Preamble included in this link to see
if it
calls to you like it calls to me.
Or stay with me while I rave, first with a
quote from
Gregg Braden, New York Times best-selling
author of The Divine Matrix and
Fractal Time:
"Spontaneous Evolution is the
life-map
we've all been waiting for! With just the
right blend of spiritual humor and rock-solid
science, Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman cast
a holistic new light on an emerging new
civilization. They lead us beyond collapsing
economies and religious extremes to show us
that such chaos is a natural step in an
unfolding process, rather than the tragic end
to a broken planet. Once we recognize the big
picture, the choices to a better life and a
better world become obvious. The guiding role
of Spontaneous Evolution is where our
teachings of life, history, and civilization
should begin."
The authors will excuse me for simplifying
the science they spend 350 beautiful pages
developing, but.....
Each of us is a community of 50 trillion
cells living in harmony and peace, each with
its own nervous, digestive, respiratory,
musculoskeleton, reproductive, and immune
systems. The irrepressible course of
evolution brings us to the stage where
humanity itself is evolving into a
cooperative organism in which each of us is a
cell. To get there, all systems and
institutions based on separation,
materialism, and other false beliefs must
crumble. Have you noticed this is happening?
The crisis is like that within a growing
caterpillar where the system is failing
and doom is impending.
"From within the dying population
[within the caterpillar], a
new breed of cells begins to emerge, called
imaginal cells. Clustering in community, they
devise a plan to create something entirely
new from the wreckage. Out of the decay
arises a great flying machine--a
butterfly..... Here is the amazing thing: the
caterpillar and the butterfly have the exact
same DNA. they are the same organism but are
receiving and responding to a different
organizing signal." [From the Introduction]
The authors do not promise or even
forecast a happy ending, but they know that
when a critical mass of humans receive,
believe, tell each other, and know this
story in their cells, spontaneous
evolution is plausible.
Hearing and sharing in our own words the
meta-story of spontaneous evolution is where
the alchemy arises and where my attention is. As
humanity evolves into a cooperative organism
of which we are the cells, an approach to
communication is evolving undistracted by the
illusion of separation. Relational Presence
is ultimately about absolute cooperation with
our listeners; speaking within the Oneness of
the organism we are we emit a steady
signal of inclusion, belonging, pleasure and
ease underneath our words and silences.
After all, speaking and listening from the
illusion of separation is the cause of
anxiety, inauthenticity, contraction.
Dissolving that false belief is a primary way of
playing an active role in the evolution of
humanity toward taking flight as a
cooperative organism.
I've barely scratched the surface of the
world opening up to me through Spontaneous
Evolution. For now I'll close with the
words of Rabbi Michael Lerner: "This book
charts a path for a global 'up-wising' that
could save us from planetary disaster."