Spring Seeds

There are many books that speak of the beginning and ending of civilisations. In Peter Kingsley's allegory called 'A Story Waiting To Pierce You' he puts forward the premise that the purpose of Western Civilisation is to remember it's own divinity. I'm interpreting that to mean this culture and civilisation I am a part needs to seek it's own spiritual meaning. Peter Kingsley traces this back to Pythagoras, suggesting he was witnessed and seen as a divine spirit by a Mongolian emissary called Abaris Skywalker. On seeing Pythagoras Abaris gave up his arrowhead and passed it on to acknowledge and anoint Pythagoras.

Towards the end of 'A Story Waiting To Pierce You' Peter writes about where those of us living in Western civilisation find ourselves now; "In our unconsciousness we take credit where no credit is due, oblivious to the real source of everything we pretend is ours - the sacred origin not just of religion but also of everything else, of science and technology, education and law, of medicine, logic, architecture, ordinary daily life, the cry of longing, the excruciating ache of the awakening love of wisdom.

And then there are those who quietly go about doing whatever is needed. The ones who wait in a state of ecstasy to help bring new civilisations into being, the ones without whom nothing is possible.

But not only are these people needed to bring new worlds into existence. They even are needed to bring them to an end so as to help make way for the new" (Kingsley, 2010, p.80-81).

This reminds me that doing what we know we need to do comes from a place without desire or expectation for recognition or acknowledgement. We do simply because we can. It is done for the benefit and in service of others. Read the Ben Okri quote from Astonishing The Gods . To paraphrase him he says 'when we create from the vast unknown places within us, we create from beyond and make the undiscovered places and infinities in them our friends. We live on the invisible fields of our hidden genius. Our most extraordinary achievements are unseen, invisible, and therefore cannot be destroyed. This endures forever. Such is the dream and reality of this land.'

To me Peter Kinglsey and Ben Okri appear to be saying the similar things, that there is a source of oneness which we are all capable of connecting with, tapping into, creating from - and when we do this such things come forth that are beyond our imaginations. I sense Peter is suggesting we need to remember this act of divinity and not seek to take individual credit.

What if our education system taught us of this oneness we all belong to and are yearning for? 

What if we woke up to our wholeness, the source of our oneness?

What then?

What seeds would we plant?