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."
I'm listening to a program sponsored at: http://womenontheedgeofevolution.com/
Lynn McTaggart is speaking about the science of intention, the power of thought. A group of people who are aligned in their intentions can affect the energy footprint of water, or the health of the person they are focusing on. This is like the cells in our bodies in communication. She's got books, and an ongoing experiment on her website.
Posted by: Nancy Montier | 10/18/2009 at 08:05 PM