Global Spirituality Overview

As our consciousness evolves our perspective gets larger. As our circle of awareness expands our circle of concern generally expands with it, up to a point. In biblical language we might ask, who do we truly experience as our neighbor? One way to conceptualize this process is as a growth in perspective. At each stage in the process our perspective gets larger. We can imagine our boundaries expanding. As we live into expressing Christ Consciousness, our sense of self (or identity) begins to embody universal love and our circle of concern grows to include the whole world. If we look at this process in a different way we can imagine our boundaries dissolving, we become empty of any sense of separateness and embrace the entire cosmos as ourselves (empty of any sense of a separate self) as we live out the bodhisattva vow. Whether we conceptualize this experience with a more western (universal love) or eastern (emptiness) orientation, the experience is that the sense of us versus them thins to the point where I and you become One.

This sort of integral development creates the inner capacity to respond to difficult circumstances with both wisdom and compassion and to welcome the learning such situations present with equanimity. It allows us the flexibility to take larger perspectives that see life more as a both/and than an either /or. This calls us to develop a mix of our intelligences beyond the threshold that keeps us tethered to a single point of view, even when that point of view fails to adequately address the diverse world we are confronted with today. Individuals with this foundation can encourage those they serve to develop a Global or World Spirituality that gracefully flows through multiple ways of seeing, supports a meaningful interior life and a capacity to live with others in sustainable ways.

Individuals who develop a Global Evolutionary Perspective develop a clearer sense of purpose and a deeper understanding of their relationship to the Divine Presence in their lives. They see God, Source or Essence in a different light. Whether they remain rooted in a single tradition (be it the Christianity or Judaism of their birth or the Buddhism or Yoga that they came to later in life) or have created a personal spirituality grounded in two or more sources of wisdom; they develop a more nuanced view of life and a more inclusive view of God.

As this process unfolds who we are becomes more expansive, and that begins to show up in different ways in all aspects of our life. This quality of embodied presence and all that it implies when rooted in our character, becomes the foundation for our life in the increasingly fast paced, interconnected and diverse world of the 21st century. The time is now for us to become more conscious and to re-create our society on a new foundation, one that incorporates the ancient teachings and that creates a sustainable world for our children and our grandchildren, a world that works for all of us.

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