On Growing up Consciously

  

Ernest Holmes, the founder of The Science of Mind, was particularly fond of the writings of the 13th Century Catholic clergyman, Meister Eckhart, and it is easy to see why. Eckhart wrote such expansive ideas as “the Father, without ceasing in eternity, is born today, within time, in human nature…,” which takes the divine exclusiveness away from just one wonderful son and finds a spiritual nature within all. This was big stuff in the 13th Century, and in some ways, it still is today. But such big ideas show up within certain individuals from time to time and always have surfaced in the writings and sayings of great thinkers. The human species has been growing up in fits and starts through its history, but perhaps now is the time for humanity to grow up all at once because of the technological power at its fingertips.

A global brain...

In his book, The Evolution of God, Robert Wright suggests that “the human species is becoming a global brain, gradually assuming conscious stewardship of the planet…” With all the power available to humankind to either decimate the earth or take it forward to the next steps, isn’t it time for us to recognize the brotherhood and sisterhood of human beings and our responsibilities as self-aware people? We are the only species who can ask the existential question: “Who am I?”, and in the asking of it also become conscious of how the wellbeing of the rest of life sits upon our shoulders.

Speak truth...spread love...

Today is a very good day to grow up, to practice the great spiritual values that the wise have given to us through the ages…to speak truth, to spread love and to value one another as we value ourselves. We are imaginative, but perhaps we have not opened our imaginations far enough. What if we could imagine a world where all had their needs met and had the chance to become all that their natures have dreamed. Would this not become a good, first step toward a vast growing up?


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