I have spent almost a year now pointing to “Let’s Go Wild”. I often coach the details as a return to real wealth. It is also very clear, I hope, that I don’t expect technology to save us from ourselves. Not just that tech as its tentacles grasp onto our souls through distraction, isolation, demoralization and separation; but also tech because it poisons Nature, our minds, and most importantly, our relationships with Self and other.
But I paused when I came across the words above, “…to go forward to how it should be.” For me, that means to be real, authentic, whole, integral, present, and most of all, loving. Quantum Physics teaches me that looking outward and upward for Spirit is what got us here, to this dysfunction and destruction. If I want to live and care and grow wise, I must reverse that and go inside. No separation, nothing nonlocal, human birth as an experience of the sacred and divine; all of these point the way to Soul. Becoming aware is not about learning how others see the world. It is learning how my experiences and stories about us all are what shape my world, our world.
One aspect of Modern is that we act based on incomplete, and often inaccurate, information. The US went to war in Ukraine with the Russia we imagined, not the real Russia. We accepted social distancing and mandates to be medicated because of a virus when we imagined (or were told) it was deadly, not a real illness. And we pride ourselves on being civilized, and ‘advanced’, when many in the world are just as real, just as connected, and literally just as happy without the trappings of a western lifestyle. The parents and their five year old, with only this (below) as their transportation and most expensive ‘possession’, do not feel deprived or poor in any meaningful sense…they are family after all, and they are embedded in Nature and community which support them and provide.
When pondering what might be possible, what world do I want to birth as we become aware and conscious? What is Possible? Let me share the model I use for my own business. It is a service business. I work with a few hundred clients, and the model is the same for everyone. I have no price list, and here’s the reason why…
“This comes from a deep, spiritual place inside of me where I feel we are all connected. This modern culture and economy traumatizes everyone; some more than others, I get that. But we all bear scars from this idea of scarcity; we don’t have enough, and we must fight others to get what we need. I don’t feel like we evolved this way as humans; I feel we lived with a sense of abundance, not scarcity. I don’t mean a cornucopia; I mean a deep grasp of enough, and only taking what we need. If anyone in our tribe was hungry we were all hungry; if anyone was full, we were all full. We lived from abundance and took care of each other.
“It boggles my mind that today, even in the mindset of scarcity, we are born and need to be taken care of for a couple of decades; we get sick and need to be taken care of; we get old and need to be taken care of. A large portion of our lives is spent needing others to be generous with us and take care of us, not fight us over scarce resources or demand we take care of ourselves no matter what is happening.
“I’ve been generous with many people in my life; I’ve always had what I needed, even if not all that I wanted. But what came into my life to see I had enough did not usually came back to me from the people I was generous with in the first place. This is allowing me to let go of the transactional model that says, I do something for you, and here’s what you owe me. It doesn’t mean that what I do is free; I ask that you pay attention to the value I provide, and your ability (resources) to reciprocate with a gift and that you do that. But I might be the only person doing an actual business in America who says that gift does not have to come back to me. I will provide my service as long as you will have me, even if nothing comes back to me from you. I have expenses and ways to accept money, but it’s not required. I trust you have integrity and will something with my gift; help a neighbor pay rent because they were sick this month, for example. If you identify as a healer, work with a patient who can’t afford you; tell them ‘this is a gift, and it can’t stop with you. Find a way to keep it moving.’
“I do this because anytime you help someone else out of love and care; you help to heal them just a little bit from the trauma of scarcity. And circling back to where I started, when anyone is healed we are all better off, because we are all connected.”
I have this conversation a lot in my work. Often the reaction involves tears. Often it resonates with the listener, and I hear stories about how this is already an active principle in their life. My invitation is this: talk about this more. Deep down most people resonate with this, but once more, our culture doesn’t want us to even share this little insight because it destroys the model scarcity has built, sometimes in a blinding flash of realization that there is more to life than fiat currency or owning toys. This is how we begin to manifest the world that could be, that should be. A world of love and creativity and sharing, compassion and care is available, here and now. We just embrace it, connect with its myriad details, act from it, and celebrate it. Notice the unspoken: enlightenment is not permanent and total bliss, rather it is wholeness, our complete and total acceptance/understanding of All that Is. There’s a strong taste of acceptance, without judgment of ‘good’ or ‘bad’, because every moment is perfect, meaning it cannot be any other way because that is what the energy is in this single moment. How could it be wrong? This is the profound truth, a truth so difficult to voice and understand, that gives the peace of wisdom and vision. Experience matters, relationships matter, matter doesn’t matter. Our story will be different, you and I, and therein lies the perfection of knowing oneself deeply. Let’s leave the dominator paradigm behind, that we call ‘civilized’ precisely because it is not. Instead let’s embrace the Wild, where dreams come true and that which is immaterial is all that matters. Let’s Go Wild my friends.