The Transcendent
We are currently undergoing a major revolution. I’m not only talking about the elections and politics of this country; I am talking about planetary changes. No doubt if you are a healer, you’ve heard over and over again about the “big” transformation awaiting us all. There are those who say that as we approach 2012, we are evolving into homo luminous. Perhaps those of us who are taking and risking a journey into another stage, another level, are actually evolutionary mystics.
When I see workshops advertised to help find your “purpose in life,” or to answer the question “why are we here”, I always turn to the words of Andrew Harvey: “We are here to embody the transcendent.”
These are powerful words. We are here not to only “know” about our life. Not to only align with our life’s purpose. Not to only experience life in small pieces. We are here for the simple purpose of allowing our soul to embody the transcendent.
Ahhhh, but what does that mean? The word “Embody” means to bring the light down to us, down to our body. And yet, most spiritual teachers talk about going UP to the light and losing one’s body in the light. Perhaps if we really explore the concept of embodying transcendence, we would realize that we need to bring the light down to us. We need to bring the laws and the radiance and the brilliance of the transcendent down to our emotions and our thoughts. And as we bring the transcendent down to us, we do so not just to light our heart and our soul, but to actually bring it into the very fiber of our being, to live with the transcendent in every single cell of our body.
In that way, we become a living instrument of the transcendent.
Have you ever had the gift of being in the presence of the Dalai Lama? His aura is huge, his presence can be felt way before he actually even enters a room! If you watch the Dalai Lama, he lives and embodies the essential life of the awakened human being. At every single moment, whether talking with someone or addressing a crowd, he is wholly and completely present. His attention is directed at the person with whom he is talking, to the total exclusion of everything else around him. He has surrendered to the moment and so time and space disappear as he enraptures us with his presence.
Once one has allowed the transcendent to be in one’s physical being, one is ready to become its ACTION in the world. It is impossible to mindful of the transcendent and not wish to become a voice for its consciousness. There is a Sufi prayer that suggests that the “journey to God was over. The journey with God was now.”
The enlightenment field is a quantum field that is ever growing. Are you ready to become a rebel of Divine Love? Are you ready to become a spiritual activist, embracing not knowledge nor illumined knowledge, but the transcendent?