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Circle
Letter
Dear Circle Friends:
Winter 2009
Globalization is
the end of exclusivity, a time when we consciously realize that all
nations, economies, and resources are inter-connected and inter-dependant.
As we realize that our individual well-being is inclusively interchangeable
and identical with the well-being of all others, global thinking moves
from theory into experience. Once our collective oneness is personally
experienced we will find that this world is
heaven after all.
SPIRITUAL GLOBALIZATION
History is marked
by significant and evolutionary social turning-points that have created
and defined the path to today. It is doubtful that all but a very few
of those who were alive during those transitional times had any idea
how the future would be impacted as the result of the shifts in consciousness
that were taking place at that time.
Until the conceptual dust has settled, it is unlikely that even a few
in today’s world consciously realize that something has just taken
place announcing a spiritual and material transformation that will reshape
life on earth in ways that are beyond and far more extensive than all
past changes put together. Also, despite the enormous affect this metamorphosis
will have on physical conditions, what has taken place now has a unique
spiritual implication as well.
In the past we have experienced national crises that have profoundly
altered our way of life, such as the Civil War and the 1929 Wall Street
collapse. Nevertheless, those incidents were mainly American happenings,
and the majority of the world’s population was only indirectly
affected by them, if at all. However, as a result, if not its cause,
when world- wide consumerism and greed had reached its pinnacle in September
2008, the American stock market took a dramatic plunge and every stock
market or financial institution in the whole world responded simultaneously
and in like kind. This undeniable public announcement has indisputably
proclaimed a new day- GLOBALIZATION, both spiritually and materially.
In irrevocable terms this world-wide collective response to Wall Street’s
down-slide announced that our national and even our private concerns
are connected to and involved with everyone else’s concerns in
the entire world. Having been so conditioned to believe that our personal,
spiritual, and national self-interests were separate from those of the
rest of the planet, it will be a long time for us to put what has happened
into perspective, and even more time to get it through our heads how
it affects our individual personal lives. Like it or not, we are now
both physically and spiritually connected to everyone on the globe,
and our individual well being depends on everyone else’s well
being as well, without any exceptions.
In the past, it was as though we believed that we could be indifferent
to what might be happening to one of our little toes, so to speak. It
existed way down at the bottom of our bodies, out of sight and mind.
Today we have to realize that each of our little toes is vital to our
well being and unless all are individually taken care of, the spiritual
and physical infection will eventually spread throughout our entire
bodies and bring about our total demise.
Ever since Magellan circumnavigated the planet the concept of a self-contained
global geological presence has been acknowledged. Today that initial
concept has eventually led to the alarm being set off by today’s
cutting edge environmentalists.
Spiritually speaking, years before it was realized that the world was
a self-contained unit, the philosopher mystic, Jesus, publically proposed
the necessity of our creating a global spiritual environment or consciousness
as well. In claiming that his oneness with the cause of creation, God
if you will, was the same as everyone else’s, he implied that
we are all one and interrelated.
Jesus’ parables were examples of global consciousness, such as
the one about the Good Samaritan’s helping a fellow man who was
not even of his household or religion. Another was how sharing a few
loaves and fishes inspired everyone present to stop fearful hoarding,
and thus all had their fill.
Personally, the seeds of ultimate globalization where planted in my
own consciousness
over fifty years ago. Sitting on the rim of the Haleakala Crater in
Hawaii I had what would qualify
as an epiphany that revealed what I now see as the key to spiritual
globalization.
At that moment I saw that the unappreciated or unrecognized secret hidden
in Jesus’ message was that he proposed the acceptance and reconciliation
of an apparent duality in order for us to achieve a true oneness.
I saw that Jesus’ instructions for us to equally love both the
invisible source of our creativity (God), and also it’s visible
material manifestation (neighbor and self), meant for us to equally
appreciate both cause and effect; and if we could love both it would
not only put an end to exclusivity and duality but would also reveal
that they were just different expressions of the same reality, two sides
of one coin.
When I had that revelation I had no idea that in my life-time Jesus’
seemingly simple instruction would relate to globalization and the biggest
collective transformation the world has ever experienced. Now, almost
sixty years later, I realize that Jesus’ two thousand year old
advice also included the solution to what is finally becoming undeniably
evident as the way to achieve both a spiritual and humanly harmonious
globalization.
Globalization is another word for oneness and in that respect spiritual
“sameness.” We can’t have a total anything and leave
something out. The truth is not either/or but both/and. All people on
earth have been cut from the same cloth.
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