A World View -- The last article of the Millennium

Finding Your Way

Back in 1998 I did Phase 3 at The Haven, with Ben & Jock.. The Phase is an integration of theory and practice, and looks at therapy and therapists, quantum physics, string theory, acupuncture and Bodywork, existentialism, chaos theory and stages of human development, in an attempt to present a flexible working model for life. (Boy, that was a long sentence.)

At the end of the Phase, we were asked to compose, in any media, a description of who we were, and how we saw "the big picture" -- ourselves, life. In an impetuous moment, I decided to take three minutes to describe the existence of everything. Somewhat tongue in cheek, of course. I thought I’d share the piece with you as a little holiday present.

 Many blessings, as the Millennium runs down!

(Note: Last week I used the term Dynamic Ground -- which refers to the energy of the Universe - that which makes up all things - chi, ki, prana, spirit, "the flow," and from an essentialist perspective, God.)

In the beginning, the Ground of ALL Being – was. Simply was.

Because all was formless and void, the ALL was nothing, and no/thing was ALL.

Soon, (which was actually forever,) void folding into void, the ALL became aware. And the first sound was of one eye – opening.

A yawn in the void and the intention of a stretch and a movement in space and time. Pretty hard, the ALL thought, to be in space and time when there was no space and time.

However, the thought had been thought. And potential move potentially over the face of the void – and in a flash – it MATTERED.

The ALL smiled.

And the energy that had been potential expanded outward in space and time and the ALL became ALL That Is. And the ALL said, "Cool!"

And it did. Cool, that is. And crystallize and form and collect and separate and spin and glow and explode and die and live again. And the ALL said, "Hmm. Me. Not me. Yet all me." And ALL that there is, was boundaries. ALL, meeting all. And the ALL said, "Way cool!"

In the blink of the ALL’s other eye, which would have seemed like forever, had anyone owned a watch, the creation became ordered. Balanced. 

Between light and dark – and all their gray children, balance.

And the ALL was moved to say, "Chi. Far out."

Yet, in all that swirling matter, there was no life. The ALL thought about all that wasn’t and decided to make playmates. Playmates that moved and touched and gave voice to the song the ALL sang. The solo act would become a chorus.

And so, on many of the marbles that populated the universe – the ALL breathed – wind and spirit – and brought forth life, filled to the brim with the energy of the ALL that is.

And now, my friends, we turn to us, here on the blue/green marble we call the centre of the universe, but which, in truth, is located in a low rent district of a small suburb.

Out of the primordial sludge we crept, full of water, full of chi. Aware, yet not self aware.

Another endless blink in time and up we stood, on our hind legs. Brain built upon brain, built upon brain.

And the first man and the first woman looked up and said, "Awesome!" And then, the man looked down, at himself, and in that moment became ... self-conscious. He said, "Phooey! Too small." And the woman looked down and said, "He’s right." And he replied, manfully, "Come here often?" and she replied, "Not tonight, I have a headache," and the ALL that was enfleshed also became objectified -- object versus object. Thing versus thing. And the ALL said, "Damn! I knew I shouldn’t have taken a day off."

From that point of self-awareness and judgment has come all of the divisions, opposites, wars, disagreements -- and also feminine hygiene commercials.

People simply shut off, cut off, ran off. Flexible boundaries became barriers. People went their own way – hid behind walls of their own making – not all, but most.

The majority chose to be gray, bleak and boring. They found uses, boxes and labels for everything and everyone. And the ALL said, "Cute, but stupid."

Many made themselves sick, with worry, with symptoms, with diseases real and imagined. And, with their words and deeds, they infected others. And the ALL said, "Physician, heal yourself."

Others blamed and in their desperate escape chose to be victims. And the ALL said, "Get over it."

Still other flitted to and fro, bouncing into others’ walls, rebounding, sticking to another wall – like gum to a shoe. And the ALL said, "Get a life."

And occasionally, one of the many would awaken as if from a fog, and would open one eye. And would become aware. The Universe would resonate with the sound of this eye-opening experience.

That person’s head would emerge from its shoulder prison and look around. Amid the mass of the living dead, the newly aware being would find other aware beings -- eye would meet eye, across the room – the city – the land. There would be a smile of re-cognition. And the ALL said, "Another playmate."

And chi would resonate and flow and dance. A touch at boundary, dissolving walls. Two would be one, yet two, yet one.

The hope of the world. The dance of ALL there is. In the contact – at the boundary. Where ALL is. All there is. That’s all.

And the ALL said, 

"Welcome home. Welcome back. 
What, in the name of all that’s holy, 
has taken you so long?"