Isn’t it about time we ended the violence?
Revelation: the Uncaused Cause has been revealing itself to us continuously. We have evidence in the cave drawings of what can well be said to be revelation of The Source because they are graphical representations of our curiosity about the Mystery. They go back 30,000 years. It was not until about 2,500 years ago that we developed writing, relying on the comments of a campfire to tell the stories of the tribe including its mystery stories. And let’s be clear about this: the Judeo–Christian–Islamic Bible is full of mystery stories… and that is just great.
I consider it to be tragically naïve to assume that The Source stopped revealing Itself to us humans 2 1/2 centuries ago. Why in the name of all that is holy would such a behavior take place? Might it just be that we human beings – at least the children of Abraham – believe that revelation stopped when we stole the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge from The Source. To my way of thinking – today – I cannot believe that The Source would deny Its holy children anything of Itself. Rather, I believe that revelation is essential to the evolution of The Source, Itself! For me, therefore, Albert Einstein’s fascinating theories of relativity, Beethoven’s fifth Symphony, and the Hubble telescope are all a part of the ongoing revelation necessary for the evolution.
We have only been able to understand that the whole universe has been evolving since the first spectrographs of stars came into the hands of Edwin Hubble in 1929. Albert Einstein saw in his general theory of relativity that the universe was not static and it stunned him so he modified it so the universe would be static. Hubble called him out and Einstein admitted to “the greatest blunder” he ever made in his life. What are the implications of this discovery? This has occupied the minds of brilliant people the world over ever since… not just a few, but millions of brilliant people – people who have access to the creativity of human minds as manifest in measuring equipment that can chase down the implications of Hubble’s 1929 discovery. The greatest implication here is that evolution is a fundamental quality and function of the whole universe!
With what we know now, our solar system is 4 billion years old. Moreover, our universe – and who knows how many other universes there might be – has shown us that it is something short of 14 billion years old! In other words, the evolution of the universe took ten billion years to create our solar system. It took one or two billion years to create the first bacterium, and we did not come on the scene in any form until a million years ago, and it would take 800,000 years before the first modern humans walked. Consider this… The universe has evolved itself into us! Consider this… in early 1933 it evolved itself into the first strand of my DNA. Consider this, too… I have been evolving ever since… and so have you.
And none of this is a random, accidental process…. It is a process that arises out of a field of consciousness that has no dimensions and comes to know itself by manifesting itself in a physical form: you, me, my children, that apple tree, the ocean, the fish in it, the Earth, the moon, the solar system, the galaxy, the galactic cluster – all of it, and the more it creates, the better it gets to know itself.
So consider the tremendous variety in human life… it’s not a mistake… we’re all here together… and the Universe needs us to help it evolve; so let us voluntarily put an end to the violence by getting involved in peaceful, compassionate, caring, and respectful non-violent creative dialogue. After all, we have known for centuries that “we become what we think about most”.
(A note about that quote: it came as the first part of a three-part “gift” from Earl Nightingale in the 1990’s that comprised a Formula, a Goldmine, and a Word. What I quoted above was the Formula. Earl said it was common to all spiritual traditions. The Goldmine was the mind that does the thinking. The Word was attitude, the key that opened the doors to the rooms of the mind. Nightingale taught me that attitudes are always chosen, and the attitude that I am using today gets reflected back at me by the universe – a “law of correspondence” – and I can change it in the blink of an eye.)
My motive? H.O.P.E. work is to help people acknowledge the presence of our dark side so we can learn vital creative lessons from it. A person comes to a H.O.P.E. Group meeting because of the dark side, and acquires the ability to learn a meaningful way for their own life through “attitudinal healing” as I learned it from Earl Nightingale before I was introduced to A Course in Miracles.