COSMOS/SPIRIT
A More Enduring Shift in Perspective
After take-off on a long flight from New York to London, you might look out the cabin window to visually confirm that the plane has lifted off the ground and is now on a trajectory of ascent above the clouds. But as the flight drags on, you acclimate to the reality of being airborne. Your inner awareness of being high above the clouds doesn't require constant visual confirmation by glancing out the cabin window. As the flight continues, the awareness of being airborne is just always there, in the back of your mind. So too, in the future we'll develop more of a 'constant inner sensing' of our Cosmic presence always playing in the back of our minds even when we're not doing the inner work. It's a more detached vantage point that places our human lives 'in context' in a totally new way.
Saints and mystics have always sought this type of almost ethereal detachment from the hustle and bustle of the world around them. Whether they lived as nuns in a Buddhist monastery high atop a Himalayan peak... as yogi hermits meditating deep within a cave.... or as Irish monks in stone huts perched on cliffs high over the Atlantic Ocean... saints and mystics everywhere know the spiritual benefits that come from attuning oneself to the timeless eternity that exists beyond the fleeting transience of our human affairs, that place in which we most truly dwell as Souls.
'Relativizing' the Absolute and Visa Versa
This subtle, but constant steady-state sensing of our Planetary/Cosmic presence will accelerate our spiritual development in a similar manner. Under the current paradigm, we regard our spiritual nature as 'relative' or secondary in importance to our physical lives, while the physical lifetime we've incarnated into is regarded as 'primary', or the absolute of meaningful existence... Our Soul, or spiritual nature, is largely viewed as extra-spatial and extra-temporal - an aspect of our nature that will take on greater meaning only after death.
But a more constant attunement to our Cosmic presence will begin to reverse this perspective. Through it, we'll come to regard our present physical lifetime as 'relative' to the 'absolute' constant of our true Self - our eternal Soul - and not the other way around... It's broader perspective 'relativizes' the sense we now have of our physical life as the 'end all, be all' of meaningful existence ... At the same time, it will 'absolutize' our spiritual nature, or Soul, making it the most meaningful and enduring constant of our existence - whether we're experiencing a lifetime on this material plane, or not.
"Once again, in the cosmogenesis system, we find that the prospects for the future are vastly different and vastly more interesting...a world of the convergent type cannot be conceived without some anticipated peak of maturing and consummation: a paroxysmal' peak."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Activation of Energy
This constant background attunement to our Cosmic presence will become the 'higher ground' from which we'll reflect back on our human Earthly lives - both on the personal level, and collectively as a species. It marks the next stage of self-reflection evolution has in store for us. But it won't require that we evolve an additional mass of brain tissue to bestow upon us even greater cognitive abilities. No further brain evolution is required... This future period of 'self-reflection' will be accomplished by our reflecting back on our Earthly human lives from the 'Soul's eye view' of our Cosmic presence... The evolutionary purpose of this future period of self-reflection will not be to shed archaic instincts from an earlier state of animalicity - our present evolutionary task - but to learn to 'wear more lightly' upon our Soul our temporary human experience.
Like Water Etching Through Rock
Over centuries, a gently flowing stream can etch its way through solid rock. Likewise, this shift in perspective to a Cosmic vantage point, over time, will find its ultimate completion when we finally learn to self-identify as the spiritual beings we most authentically are. Under the present paradigm, any number of distractions in our busy lives misdirects our attention away our Soul's purpose or whatever our Soul's mission was in coming here in the first place... Or think of war...In the future, how many recruits are likely to sign up for something that's so obviously antithetical to our interests, objectives, and well-being; once we begin to self-idenfify as Souls?
"The man who devotes his life to the acknowledgement and practice of the truth revealed to him unites himself with the source of universal life and accomplishes not personal, individual acts that depend on the condition of time and space... but acts (that) have an endless and unlimited significance."
Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God is Within You