If you look at the structures out of which we’re functioning and habitually moving, as if there’s just me and everything I collect around me for my particular enhancement, you see that, collectively and socially, the structures are tired out.
They’re not working. Look at the world and the way it’s configuring itself. It’s consuming itself in the individual search for security.
That is expressing itself in the form of thought arising all the time, trying to collect security for each individual as if each individual can have security when the person next to them doesn’t. On whatever level you want to view it, what’s happening is the exhaustion of the manifest form that we’ve collectively and individually taken on.
If that’s exhausting itself and fear arises – if terror arises – I say that energy is the creativity we’re looking for. But what we call creativity is often a code word for feeling good – feeling the flow, or feeling like I’m doing something that’s valued by myself or society.
I’m saying creativity is everything that expresses itself, not just what feels good. When fear and terror starts coming up, that’s it too. It means you’re touching into the space that we’re trying to explore and we can actually begin to explore it. We have all heard the advice on what to do with fear -breathe into it and so on. I have no idea what to do with it. I know what the habit is: pull back from fear and try to protect myself. But what I’m protecting myself from is energy, the creative force.
The exformation is always going to be overwhelming. It’s always going to be experienced by this information as fear, because it’s always going to be vastly greater than the information.
We could say that fear is a portal to the exformation, the vastness, which is washing downriver and pushing. And what we tend to do, what the thought structure does, is try to cover our heads and hold back the flow. We’ve all gotten quite enamored of energetically cool spaces. We’ve become very comfortable in awareness and silence.
But they’ve become spaces; they’ve become experiences that we practice. The nature of life is that it breaks down all experience, because experience is always inaccurate.
The crush of exformation is always pushing in against the information, and that’s transformation. That’s how change happens. Otherwise we would just have our information, it would repeat itself endlessly, and that would be that. It would be a static universe. But obviously it’s a dynamic universe and change is occurring.
How does change occur? Well originally we were in agitated states and we found peace. Okay, that’s a change. Now that we’ve found peace and it’s really nice, we can sit around and talk about it and know what we’re talking about.
We can create it, and special people have it – everything we call spirituality follows from that. What we feel as a push is agitation, whether we call it an internal or external push, whether I’m manifesting that push and it’s irritating you because you don’t like to be pushed, or you are irritating me because I don’t like someone telling me that I’m pushing them. It’s all the agitation of change.
It’s destroying something and creating something. I have to make myself available to that even if it means that my persona – well-developed and well-positioned as it is – will be destroyed. Because the hunger is for the creative movement that comes through that destruction; and it’s not two things, it’s really one.
Can we destroy ourselves and create ourselves? Are we here for that movement? And can we live like that? Maybe a better question is, will we live like that?
Steven Harrison is a US author and international speaker on consciousness, relationships and alternative education. Excerpted from the ‘The Love of Uncertainty.’
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