“We’re at a stage now where we are collectively finding out that the myths we were functioning under are not functional. Because the myth was, if you had enough, you would be happy. And we have enough, and we’re not happy. And we are the culture that has the most, really. We in the Western world have the most. And we’re not happy. And so, in a way, that myth is dying. And that’s where one of the major transitions is. Whether it gets violent at that point or just matures in an evolutionary sense, that’s something for all of us to work on, to help it become a smooth evolutionary sense, where people, instead of grabbing for more, start to become more.”

– Ram Dass ‘The Questline’ radio interview, 1985

Two things, already: ‘Whether that transition gets violent or just matures in an evolutionary way’ really struck me. At the last ‘IntentionalYOU’ retreat, we did an obstacles identification exercise that led me to this statement — I, M / K / B, do hereby Release the need for self-revelation to be a violent act.

In the moment it formed itself, I felt an expansion out into all the places this was true for me. It grew, like wildfire, into a whirling mass of instances and especially pointed itself to how I am in pain all the time. Something about this mantra frees up space between the threads of what-is.

That it matures has also been played out. I used that same wording in a KWS event broadcast recently. During a conversation on how my embodiment experience was not happening for me as usual, I wondered, on the call (out loud), if it was a matter of maturity. That I might be coming to another revelation about the work and my commitment to it, in it, being not yet mature enough to hold in all those places I was struggling to see embodiment happening in my experience.

Turns out that embodiment has just been happening differently, and needed to be re-cognised. Still working on that. Or letting that work on me, is probably more accurate.

Secondly, ‘where people, instead of grabbing for more, start to become more’ has some kind of hold over me, too. Becoming more reflects that sense of an enlightenment process, one of Allowing and Being (rather than bringing into fruition by force of any kind, including through choice/s).

I know this sounds reminiscent of the inside-outside dichotomy but I am reluctant to go there. It doesn’t feel… authentic. It feels like I’m going off the road onto some sideways idea. Becoming more seems to me to be about a rearrangement of self, of wholeness, into more complexity that simplifies. The way knowing all the notes on a piano makes composing music easier.

“Reincarnation is within the dance of forms… Some systems focus on reincarnation to help relieve you of your exclusive identification with this incarnation.”

– Ram Dass ‘The Questline’ radio interview, 1985