Embracing Change
Rediscovering Meaning and Humanity
This session explores a period of profound inner and outer transformation, emphasizing the shift from seeking security and material comfort to pursuing deeper meaning, connection, and authenticity. The discussion highlights the growing awareness of personal and collective patterns, the desire to return to nature and simplicity, and the importance of embracing both light and shadow within ourselves. Through themes of vulnerability, acceptance, and the courage to live fully, the conversation invites participants to reflect on what it truly means to be human in a changing world.
Transcript
Truly, this is a time of change, of deep change within ourselves, change in external circumstances, the way we relate to each other and, in fact, the very nature with which we relating to ourselves.
You may find people on this path are growing their awareness of patterns they have participated in, of discordant patterns, —it’s like they’re becoming louder, coming up harder— so this isn’t to punish one, but rather to lead one forward, instruct one on how one can change both within this world, and in the outer world —around the world— the spiritual dimension of things.
Indeed, the vibrations around us are changing and the intensity of the inner work, the inner awakenings are increasing. There is a strong desire to return to nature, and return to the womb, —earth’s womb— so that we can reset and reform how things have been done on this planet.
This gets into the work we are seeing with people’s deepest, innermost intentions. What is our motivation for living here? What is our motivation for living at all? What is the purpose of children, of parents, of community, of friends?
Some may say we striving for simplicity here, but we must think of it as striving for —they’re saying— meaning. That we have discovered that gadgets and accoutrements do not bring full meaning to the surface and that the deeper satisfactions of loving, —loving truly— And witnessing how people are —not accepting, really is the word— but seeing what’s in front of you, loving it, even if there’s also a recognition that there needs to be change. That this act is simply deeply satisfying and cannot be eclipsed by security.
I’m saying, what? Why are you talking about security? Well, we’re seeing humans turn away from security and this idea of survival. In favor of depth, connection, and meaning. The priorities in general on all the earth are shifting to which we celebrate the uniqueness and the unique journey of existence, rather than just merely getting to the next day.
We care less about making it to the next day, fully recognizing that the days are bigger than the nights. I’m like, what does that mean? The light of joy and love is greater than the darkest shadow of destruction. And, in fact, we would rather be destroyed by placing our lives at risk for the deep satisfaction and meaning on this earth.
We are, in fact, looking for a new meaning, you see many turning away from the nine-to-six job, in which you are guaranteed security. And instead, —looks like one person going into a sailboat— embarking out on one’s own to find a new way, even if the way includes poverty, struggle, sometimes starving, sometimes feasting. Even just the erraticism of that brings a sense of joy in living that many have not experienced. And generations have not experienced in quite some time.
But we could say it’s getting back to nature, but it’s much bigger than that. It’s getting back to the very essence of the human soul, one in which we understand the circles of life and death and the importance of the depth of existence. We’re understanding that one does not want to leave one’s body from a life unlived. Or simply a life in which one sat in an office chair and said, Okay.
People are striving for more words, different words. What does it mean to say that one is not okay? To stretch the bounds of morality, reason, to taste fruit when one doesn’t know what it tastes like, one wasn’t even sure there was fruit there.
There’s a time of deep change and inner reflection. Don’t be afraid of your own shadow. When you free yourself, your shadow dances more freely, not because it controls you, but because it can move with you. It can dance with you through difficult times, in fact, one can find a great sense of play, laughing at oneself in the mirror. They’re saying the shadow self is just another version of self in which you can fully see and accept all flaws and allow them into your realm of knowing. Historically people have kept this, —like it’s bad, it’s wrong— so we keep it in the fridge, locked, tight, I can’t smell it.
Versus, I’m going to dance my journey on this earth with this piece of full humanity. It’s an essential part of being human. We’re remembering that. Not just what it means to be alive, but what it means to be human. With the thinking, feeling, knowing essence that goes far beyond the complexity of which we can understand. And we can commune with animals and other living things and know and articulate and build and feel and sense and kill and destroy and rain and play and dance in the rain and celebrate and sorrow.
Meaningful Quotes
“There is a strong desire to return to nature, and return to the womb, earth’s womb, so we can reset and reform how things have been done on this planet.”
"What is our motivation for living here? What is our motivation for living at all? What is the purpose of children, of parents, of community, of friends?"
"We must think of it as striving for meaning, that we have discovered that gadgets and accoutrements do not bring full meaning to the surface."
"We’re seeing humans turn away from security and this idea of survival in favor of depth, connection, and meaning."
"Don’t be afraid of your own shadow, when you free yourself, your shadow dances more freely, not because it controls you, but because it can move with you."