Maturity

I think that one of our biggest problems on this planet is our lack of maturity; lack of vision and lack of selflessness.

I believe in reincarnation. I believe that death is not the end but life carries on. When my mother died I could feel her presence expand from her body out into the room. In those hours and days after her death – I knew with certainty that although her body was dead, her spirit was very much alive. I can’t tell where she is or what form she has taken now, but I know that I could feel her presence in the room days after she stopped breathing. It was an incredible peace greater than I have ever felt. While I always believed in reincarnation, this experience has lead me to the knowing that life continues after death and this means that in some form or another, it is likely that we are born again and again.

If we have been born and died countless times, Imagine the wisdom that our soul carries. The countless life experiences it has had, both good and bad. I think that it takes many years to really incarnate that being, perhaps it may not be possible to anchor it completely in this dimension. We can certainly find examples of beings who have incarnated that wisdom more than others.

We are conceived and then we are born. Throughout our childhood our brains and bodies are developing. While we may be able to incarnate certain aspects of who we are, and the purity and innocence of that grandeur can shine through, we don’t have the physical and mental skills to articulate that full potential.

We receive our education and hone some practical skills physically and mentally but emotionally we are still children. We are not blown around by our emotions as quickly as children but we are still blown away from our centre very often, perhaps we rarely find it. We succumb to fear however subtle and only live half lives. Many of us on this planet, including many of our leaders, live in this state, unaware of the true grandeur of our souls. Acting like children, not thinking long term, unable to see anyone but ourselves. Hence the predicament we are in now.

We need to challenge ourselves to rise up and live from the perspective that we are ancient souls with vast wisdom. Or that we stand at the end of a genetic line consisting of thousands of our ancestors. Our parents, their parents, their parents and so on deep into the past. The genetic wisdom that we ought to be able to access is vast. The great maturity held in our genetic material from the countless experiences passed from parent to child throughout the ages ought to be accessible. If the dysfunctions can be passed down from parent to child then it must be possible for the wisdom to also be passed down. Thinking we are the culmination of thousands of years of evolution ought to lift us up from our limited perspective of this little life and me.

If we believe in God, then we believe God is in everything, then it must also be within us. Can we access that space within us? Can we access that infinite wisdom? That deep knowing? That perspective? Not just looking out from these two eyes for myself, for my family, for my country but for my planet and ultimately for existence itself?

That wisdom is within us all, we can see this even if we don’t believe in God or reincarnation. Just from a point of view of genetics. How can we connect to that and start living from that space?

Perhaps this is the space the religions are pointing to. But they all tell us it is a long way away, only certain special beings can attain this state and we need them to mediate between us and the infinite. This is a method of control, nothing more. Each one of us has this within us, all we need to do is start to act from that place.

What ever model works for you: remind yourself; You stand at the end of a long line of your ancestors with vast life experience. Or god is in everything, god is in me and is infinitely wise. Or – How many times you must have incarnated since beginning less time throughout the infinite universes, how much wisdom and experience your soul must have.

And then start acting like that is true and start treating others like this also.

We need to set aside some time everyday to rewire our neural pathways and to reprogram our subconscious. Imagine we are this being with this depth of maturity, humility, depth of insight and wisdom, this immense compassion and understanding and then slowly but surly become that. If we can find examples of those people who, from our perspective, are living like that or lived like that, then we can try to emulate them. We can listen to them, read about them and put into practice what they are teaching us, never forgetting that this space is within us also.

We all have an image of who we are. When we close our eyes and imagine ourselves, the image we see of ourselves can change, it is not fixed. Some days we feel on top of the world and we feel like the world loves us, this inner being is confident and smiling. Other days we feel down and insecure, this inner being hangs his head low. We can see this when we look in the mirror, sometimes we love the way we look, other times we just see our faults, we are seeing the same physical object but we are projecting a different image onto it. This affects how we are, how we behave and what choices we make.

If we’ve just watched an action film, we might find ourselves identifying with the hero. Just after the film we feel heroic, we feel we can achieve anything, I just watched a film about a billionaire, after the film I felt like I was a billionaire, super confident and abundant, it didn’t last long though. In order to affect a lasting change, to rewire those neural networks, we need disciplined repetition.

What ever we admire, we become. If we can start to admire the qualities of infinite wisdom and compassion, we can start to become those. On the other hand if we admire, good looks and style we will become stylish and good looking, only to find out, when our bodies age, how fleeting these things are.

If, on a daily basis, we work to reprogram our mind’s image of it’s self, when we look in the mirror we will see an infinite being, shining out of those eyes, smiling with a deep smile of compassion. We will be long sighted, our decisions will change from those that satisfy our immediate personal desires to those that benefit all beings.

As we hold this image, we start to become more like it, and as we do, we treat others more like they are also infinite beings. Then they in turn start treating us differently, their image of us changes and we help each other to stay in this space.

Of course, old habits die hard, and this is a process, but with daily reminders we can reprogram ourselves to live like this. Imagine a world in which all humans lived like this, with this level of maturity. The cooperation, the harmony, the creativity, the beauty all around us. And as more people step into this consciousness, the easier it becomes. All of us lifting each other up, out of the fear, into the love.

Let’s hold this vision in our minds for the paradise that we could be living in and know that as more and more of us hold this, the easier it will become for everyone and eventually we will reach a tipping point and then the world will change forever.