This lady's son is a truther; we had a nice chat outside the Harvard Science Center yesterday...

On the other hand it has occured to me to wonder why anybody should lift a finger for social change. If everything is really working out as it should, why should I do anything other than eat, sleep, and be merry? Or perhaps read books on spirituality, meditate, and feel peaceful? When I asked that question of the Holy Spirit, I was told that asking that question reveals that I have forgotten that I am one aspect of the universal process that is working according to plan. The process will not be aborted if I fail to do my part in it, but in some infinitesimal way the process will be changed--and above all, I will miss out on the blessing of playing my position on a team in a universal game in which everybody wins. Among other things, I was told,

Some people may be passive thoughts in my mind, and it is not your place to judge them or my way of being within them. But you are an active thought in my mind and it is in your nature to work for the social change that is already in the process of happening, (You can move mountains as Jesus said [Mat. 17:20], precisely because the mountains are already on the move.) It is for this reason that you can work in a relaxed and joyous way. All you have to supply is the willingness to channel my energetic love and justice into the world, and I will work through you to bring about what I am already bringing about.

 

A great shift to consciousness is occuring in the world and you are part of that shift....I work in different people in different ways, and despite your passionate commitment to an activist way, you must allow other people to respond to you in ways that feel right to their natures, for thus the whole pattern is made perfect...

 

To phrase all this another way, it is your privilege to be an agent of the social changes that are occuring. With you or without you, what should occur will occur. If you feel an impulse toward activism, you would be denying your own nature if you became privatistic and passive; so in that sense, it is essential for you to cooperate by being one of my activist channels into the world. On the other hand, it is impossible for you to make a mistake because even your apparent errors will be learning opportunities for yourself and others.

 
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In the chapters to come, I will explore some specific applications of the interaction between activism and wise passivity and their implications for people whose spirituality is of the sensuous kind. The ability to confront the sufferings and systems of this world with a tough-minded realism, and yet to remain willing to be shown some lovely possibilities beneath, beyond, and within those realities, possibilities that may not be apparent on the surface: this is what I mean by sensuous spirituality. And in my experience, it is the best antidote for burn-out. (P. 24-26)