The theme of my week has been community. What is community? Is it important? How do you build community? How does my community reach out to the lonely? What is it I do to build and nurture my community? And what is it I should not do to build community?
When a person passes through a rite of passage in a ritualistic way by leaving their community, going out alone into a threshold experience and reintegrating their new learning back into community, it is this final stage that is so essential and so neglected in modern society. We need to be witnessed and seen in our newness. We learn not just for ourselves, but in order to share our gifts with others. That is what connects us all together in this web of life. That is what makes us one living consciousness constantly coming into being.
With this in mind check out the beauty of the sounds contained in this song and allow your imagination to drift off to wherever it needs to go.
First we develop ourselves, our souls. Then we build our society by tending to our communities contained within our society. Finally we nourish and regenerate our Mother Earth, Pachamama and all her ecosystems contained within of which we are also a part.
Similarly, first we build our home, then we build the home of another and before you know it a community is born.
As within, so without. As below, so above.
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