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Posted on 25 Feb 2010 by Jon

February 2010 Message

Greetings,

You may find that you are increasingly experiencing what I call "tastes of home." These are glimpses and even small journeys through the door between the reality we have become accustomed to over the last several thousand years, and the reality that is more of our longer term nature, our true home. This home reality seems new and unusual to most people who are conscious enough to recognize the difference in the first place. This home-like experience is referred to in many different ways, but commonly, Heaven on Earth, The Garden of Eden, Nirvana, Siddha Loka, 5th world, and many others. It is what is on the other side of what is commonly referred to now as the Shift, Rapture, Pachakuti, 2012 and many others. You may recognize these tastes of home in connections with other people, moments alone, or really anywhere. These experiences have little or nothing to do with the form that brings them, and much more to do with getting used to being back home again, and the response of your asking for the experience in general. So please enjoy your little jaunts through the Garden when they find you, even if you have to come back to your current reality and responsibilities. There is no other decision or analysis required, for if the prophecies are correct, it won't be long before the experience of our true home is the norm.

And please remember to fully express yourself when the current reality annoys you... it will help keep you healthy.

Posted on 25 Feb 2010 by Jon

January 2010 Message

Greetings,

These changes in years and decades are a profound part of our psyche and mythology, and therefore provide an opportunity to shift things around a bit. Remember to let time work for you. It may take some days or weeks to experience the effects of changes. The helpful theme right now seems to be self-acceptance. Ambition, drive, motivation are all great, but some levels of expectation can do more harm than good. Lately we are bombarded with books, lectures, talk shows, friends, and experts all talking about perfect health, relationships, lifestyle, and so on. I think this phenomenom is what happens when what used to be fringe becomes mainstream and the pendulum over swings. It's as if with all the information available now, there is no excuse for not being as fit as an elite athelete, or as happy as an enlightened guru, or as green as Al Gore's closest friends.

Discipline is great, and proven to improve quality of life, but self-punishment is problematic. It's a fine line, and not a fixed line either. Cycles are a part of Nature, and so are we, so your fine-line is wiggling around. When you fall to either side of it, do you giggle and eventually get back on? That would be self-acceptance. Try it; go find something narrow and curvy to walk or dance across, set your goal to do it gracefully, and see if you laugh when you fail once, twice, three times. Watch children do it. Now recognize those lines in your life.

Posted on 15 Feb 2010 by Jon

What's Happening, A Year of Observation Shared

Observations over the last year from Equinox 2008 to Equinox 2009 from shaman work and personal life.

To say the last 12 months was eventful is of course the understatement of all time. I've often been slow to fully acknowledge and/or act on the obvious in my personal life, and I let go of shaman sessions as soon as they are finished, so it has taken until now to make some sense out of this last year and the new paradigm it has ushered in. Maybe, like many of you, this is because I'm innately visionary - looking at the very broad picture in space and time and giving too little notice of the nitty gritty - and/or my innately high level of endurance keeps me blind to a contrasting situation that needs addressing. As a great friend and mentor would often say, "we've all got a hitch in our giddy-up." As a personal example, for several years I pushed my amount of massage work well beyond what I could sustain comfortably physically and emotionally. And finally towards the end of last year I recognized the several ways in which the overworked situation wasn't serving, and finally chose to take a break for a time, and focus mostly on my shamanism practice - possibly my greater gift and service to the world. In any case, now that I've finally pieced much of what's been happening together and brought it to light in myself, I feel that it is worth sharing.

I've observed two major themes in my client work and personal life that seem critical for all of us to understand and adjust to going forward through this shift.

1) We can no longer get away with being out of integrity with our core personal truths. For example, if someone's core gift and service for the world is teaching, and instead they are working as a banker, the difficulties in succeeding in that profession will have grown. It used to be much easier to get away with working at something that is not on your greatest destiny path and make a living, or even a killing. And although it was easier or doable, there were often side effects of being out of integrity that caused difficulties in other areas of our lives, i.e. physical and emotional health, relationships, and etc.. Kind of like squeezing a balloon in one part, and having it pop out somewhere else. But over the last year, it seems to have grown to not only cause side effects, but to be nearly impossible to get away with at all. Another example is if someone's core personality and role is to be big, strong, and forceful in their expression, and instead they are trying to be mild-mannered and meek, its creating physical, psycho-spiritual, and relationship collapse.

The global financial turmoil is but one way that many are being forced to deeply examine their true gifts and service in the world. Listening to the teachings of a gentleman named Robert Ayres recently, he emphasizes the difference between work versus service, and making a killing versus making a living. The wording alone seems so obvious, I don't even feel that I need to elaborate. I will allow you to find that one, and how it relates to your life, on your own. It is a worthy and ultimately actionable contemplation. I've seen plenty of examples in regards to finances as well, where we may actually already be aware of our true gifts and service, but don't think that we can or should make a living with them. So instead, we try to make as much money as we can doing another kind of work, so that we can then do our service for free, or just as hobby, or after we retire. I think it is worth asking the universe for the experience of doing what we love to do, our true gift, our true service, and be able to make a living with it. And likewise in other areas in our life, ask for the ability to express our true gifts and roles in a way that we feel great about it, and others around us support it. I feel that this is the sustainable trend that this shift is bringing us anyway.

Whenever teachers or preachers would speak of "integrity", it came across to me as simply "doing what you say you are going to do, or telling the truth". But I realized that it is much broader and deeper than that. It is that, and knowing and following your deep inner truths and desired experiences. How can one speak their truth, or "the truth", when they aren't entirely sure exactly what it is in the first place? I find in my work that it takes quite a bit to dig down to what is our true desire. We tend to get caught up in the manifestations or mechanisms or ways in which we can accomplish a goal that we think is what we want, instead of determining the core experience that we want, and allowing the way and the manifestation to come in any form, and ideally that form that comes with the greatest ease and grace.

So are we first able to know our true desired experiences, and then speak them to others and act on them. This is what we are being called, and even forced in many ways to examine. This is the way of putting the feminine first, the inner journey and "know thyself" first, and all the great wisdom teachings, the yin taking the lead over the yang, the head following the heart, or the gut. This is the shift that my Q'ero teachers call the Pachakuti.

2) We have been, and continue to be, also called to become integral in another way: namely, embracing shadow. Equinox is a perfect time for shadow work and integration of all aspects of our personality. Shadow work requires a complete suspending of judgment internally first, then externally by default. It is a full embracing and appreciation/love of all contrast: light and dark, pain and pleasure, nice and mean, enlightened and ignorant, easy and difficult, and etc... Of course, most people have a propensity, and are encouraged, to lean toward the light, nice, pleasure, enlightened, easy, and etc. side of life. And I would want that to be 99.9% of my life and yours as well. The trick is that in order to keep the .1% of contrast at a minimum, we have to love it, not judge it as bad, not hate it or do battle with it, or try to kill it, both as manifested internally or personally, as well as externally or interpersonally in our relationship to everyone else in the world. It is a paradox, and often not easy to stop pushing against and instead embrace something that we want to experience less of; but, it is the only way to really get it done.

And it works in the other direction as well. Plenty of people have the propensity and encouragement to create more dark, pain, mean, ignorant, difficult, and etc. in their lives because of beliefs around worthiness, redemption, karma, and so on. They believe that they deserve more of the punishing side of contrast for one reason or many others. So there we have to actually embrace, love, not judge, do battle with or try to kill that part of our personality, or its external forms. This for example is when we put someone on a pedestal, and think that we can never reach or exceed their level. We have to see and love that positive shadow in us as well.

It is time to put down our judgment and internal weapons and get on with life. By default, our external judgments and battles will cease as well, and in every way making a living will replace making a killing (or being on the other end of that). Letting go of the old habits and ways in which we have gotten away without examining and honoring our integrity, or doing our shadow work can obviously be very challenging, so we can simply do the best that we can and hang in there.

An integral approach to healing, such as the shaman work that I and many others do, is proving to be extremely helpful in being able to come into our integrity and embrace our shadow. It is a perfect time to focus on this work as the external world and influences continue to shift through to the end of the year, and some say to the beginning of 2013. I hope that my observations, personal example, and sharing have been helpful to you, and that my service will continue to be helpful to you.

I'm continuing to focus on the shaman work and making more aware of it. My wife and I have opened a small office here in Monterey to that purpose, and, I continue to travel monthly as well as doing shaman work at Cavallo Point, and shaman and a little massage work at the Post Ranch Inn and privately. I will soon create some recordings of my meditations, journeys, and lectures to make available for download from my website.

Posted on 24 Sep 2009 by Jon

Paul Hawken Speech, May 2009

~An Unforgettable Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009~

When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple short talk that was "direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering, startling, and graceful." Boy, no pressure there.

But let's begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind of a mind-boggling situation... but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the last thirty years can refute that statement. Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and we need it within a few decades.

This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air, and don't let the earth get overcrowded, and don't touch the thermostat have been broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and really good food, but all that is changing.

There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn't bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn't afford to send any recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take the hint. And here's the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not possible in the time required. Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. The poet Adrienne Rich wrote, "So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world." There could be no better description. Humanity is coalescing. It is reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms, jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refuge camps, deserts, fisheries, and slums.

You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change, poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen. Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers, children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists, government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers, weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us all in such a huge way.

There is a rabbinical teaching that says if the world is ending and the Messiah arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true. Inspiration is not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and reconsider. "One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice," is Mary Oliver's description of moving away from the profane toward a deep sense of connectedness to the living world.

Millions of people are working on behalf of strangers, even if the evening news is usually about the death of strangers. This kindness of strangers has religious, even mythic origins, and very specific eighteenth-century roots. Abolitionists were the first people to create a national and global movement to defend the rights of those they did not know. Until that time, no group had filed a grievance except on behalf of itself. The founders of this movement were largely unknown Granville Clark, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgwood and their goal was ridiculous on the face of it: at that time three out of four people in the world were enslaved. Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders, meddlers, and activists. They were told they would ruin the economy and drive England into poverty. But for the first time in history a group of people organized themselves to help people they would never know, from whom they would never receive direct or indirect benefit.. And today tens of millions of people do this every day. It is called the world of non-profits,civil society, schools, social entrepreneurship, and non-governmental organizations, of companies who place social and environmental justice at the top of their strategic goals. The scope and scale of this effort is unparalleled in history.

The living world is not "out there" somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the conditions that are conducive to life. I can think of no better motto for a future economy. We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but you can't print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich.

The first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. Literally you are breathing molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono. We are vastly interconnected. Our fates are inseparable. We are here because the dream of every cell is to become two cells. In each of you are one quadrillion cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. Your body is a community, and without those other microorganisms you would perish in hours. Each human cell has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of processes between trillions of atoms. The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it. In a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times more processes than there are stars in the universe exactly what Charles Darwin foretold when he said science would discover that each living creature was a "little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven."

So I have two questions for you all: First, can you feel your body?
Stop for a moment. Feel your body. One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when this speech will end. Second question: who is in charge of your body? Who is managing those molecules? Hopefully not a political party. Life is creating the conditions that are conducive to life inside you, just as in all of nature. What I want you to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a deep innate wisdom in coming together to heal the wounds and insults of the past. Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to the most amazing, challenging, stupefying challenge ever bequested to any generation. The generations before you failed. They didn't stay up all night. They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn't ask for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it.


--Paul Hawken is a renowned entrepreneur, visionary environmental activist, journalist and author of many books, most recently Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming. He was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by University president Father Bill Beauchamp, C.S.C., in May, when he delivered this superb speech.

http://www.paulhawken.com

Posted on 27 May 2009 by Jon

Thriving in a Post-Pachakuti World

For many years now, the Q’ero shamans among others have been sharing their wisdom about the times we are in right now. I too, as their student and shaman, have witnessed the unfolding of this great shift for over 10 years now and have advised thousands of clients in the direction that might help them to thrive under the influence of a new worldview relative to that of generations going back over 500 years. I wish to share my observations and advice now more broadly through this article as the wave that is known to the Q’ero as the Pachakuti appears to be cresting. This time of evolution requires our greatest and deepest fortitude not only to survive, but hopefully to thrive as the worldview turns right side up again.

I write this article in the spirit of a shaman who has trained to be completely non-judging and who has dedicated his life and work to empowerment and freedom for all. On that note, as a personal preface, I would like to make clear that I fully support a completely free world and market as an ultimate ideal reality with the caveat that in order to function in a healthy way, it depends on being full of empowered individuals who are free of the wounds and fear of the past. Until people at large have healed to that extent, then laws, regulations, and guidance are a necessity to maintain balance and harmony. As a concrete example, take the recent financial crisis that resulted from the notion that people and corporations would “do the right thing”, self-regulate, and voluntarily “trickle down” their excess profits. Unfortunately, and to the surprise of folks like Alan Greenspan who was shocked to find out that the people running banks were not able to make the “right” choices even though it meant ultimately their own self-preservation, people proved to succumb to one of the aspects of fear we know as greed and hoarding. So as long as the underlying and often unconscious fear that leads to a tendency to hoard instead of to voluntarily distribute opportunities and capital is still dominant, then completely free markets, just like a lawless society, will tend to become acutely disfunctional and out of healthy balance.

All natural systems, of which humans are a part of regardless of our false sense of transcendence or superiority, seek balance and even distribution. What this means for modern societies, particularly the most recent on the scene, the United States of America, is that the worldview of greater and greater accumulation and concentration of physical and intellectual resources, collectively known as capital, as a measure of success is eminently unsustainable. In nature, which is all there is if you take into account all physical, mental, and quantum phenomena, any unsustainable accumulation, concentration, and resulting imbalance, tends to correct itself in much less time than it took to build up; hence, the analogy of a bursting bubble. This rapid change is all but unbearable for anyone without the ability to adapt rapidly in terms of external lifestyle, and internal belief systems, perceptions, or worldview.

Let us look at one specific example to illustrate the point. Take an upper middle class American family, perhaps second or third generation. Any profession for both the mother and father will do for the example. The predominant worldview that influences them has been building over a couple of generations and is often called the “American Dream.” The worldview suggests that if the family can continually accumulate capital, their quality of life will continue to improve even through generations to come. Some even take it so far as to work towards such a level of capital that their descendents will never have to “worry” about their capital and therefore their quality of life. In fact, with enough capital, you can even buy yourself out of any adverse physical or mental health events, as well as social upheavals. Accumulation of capital therefore theoretically not only promises happiness, but also safety. Inevitably, however, based on the tendency of nature, a tipping point is reached and exceeded, where the accumulation and belief in it, grows beyond its own sustainability, and eventually collapses back into balance.

In our example, this takes on the symptoms of stressors, which under normal balanced natural systems simply do not exist. So the family becomes obsessed with decisions like where to invest in their next property, how to not lose any capital, and which private school will ensure that their children have the greatest advantage of continuing the accumulation of the limited amount of available capital in competition with other children, even though they already have enough to sustain multiple generations. Living under these unnatural, artificially created stressors, is only temporarily mitigated through the addition of unnatural balancers like medications such as anti-depressants, sleeping pills, amphetamines, and so on. Everything that is necessary to make the unnatural and unsustainable condition seem natural and sustainable, at least until the bubble bursts. The human arrogance factor, both material and spiritual, leads us to believe that the bubble will never have to burst because either technology, or God, will come in and save the day. This entire cycle can actually be sustained for hundreds of years and multiple generations. There are mini-rebalancing effects along the way, but technology and God do seem to come in and get it back on track, thus deepening the worldview and beliefs and increasing the size of the bubble so to speak.

Ultimately there comes a time when the collapse is so devastating, that the whole worldview and related beliefs, systems, and lifestyles collapse with it, and from that a new worldview, beliefs, systems, and lifestyles are adopted. We are in such a time right now. I have seen it coming through direct observation, intuitive vision, and through my work with clients, as they too have sensed the change. You really cannot fool Mother Nature, at least not for very long. This shift, or natural evolution of our species, is known and explained by many different names, prophecies, spiritual, religious, and scientific theories. Evidence of this shift in all circles is now abundant as well. So how do you survive and thrive during and after this natural event, or set of events?

This is what I have been sharing with my clients over the last 10 years, and with others for over 40 years. This advice comes from a place without personal agenda or even conscious recognition at that time of what I have written presently. In other words, I didn’t know why I was advising in this direction, other than it seemed to help my client most in the moment, which is all I have ever been interested in. In fact, the outer part of my consciousness has also been under the influence of what I will call now the old worldview, so to a certain extent I have needed some two-by-fours across the head to “wake up” to it.

1) Create the level of complexity in your life that you can handle physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Some would advise you to just simplify. However, I know that to over simplify would be wholly unsatisfying. So instead, find that tipping point where one more property, investment, or project would throw your life out of natural balance and become overly stressful, and keep your level of complexity just below that.

2) Live within your means financially, physically, energetically, and psychologically. This means recognizing that it is just not about what you can afford to buy or consume, but what is also sustainable from a local and global resource perspective over the long term. Think about “what if everyone did this?”

3) Think about the overall implications of increasing your complexity, and what is required to maintain it. Reduce clutter and distractions in and around your life. Lower maintenance means lower stress.

4) Find the core experience underneath the mechanisms and manifestations that you think you desire. For example, you may think that you want to become financially independent so that you can enjoy your favorite hobbies or work anytime you want. You may then embark on a series of complex plans, work, investment strategies, and prayers to try to become financially free. Instead, ask yourself what is the core experience that you get from your desired hobby or work, such as “I love contributing my wisdom or healing to a variety of interesting people who benefit most from them.” You may be surprised by the opportunities that come to you regardless of your financial position, that give you that core experience.

5) I believe that the fundamental reason for Creation is relationships. It is through our relationships that we experience the contrast and joy of Creation. Our most complex and satisfying relationships are with other humans, but relationship to all aspects of nature including our own bodies is equally important. If all other forms and experience of complexity are taken away, what we will always have left is our relationships. Therefore, the advice here is to always tend to your relationships as a priority. Create and be in the relationships that are most deeply fulfilling and joyful. Some would just say, “Love is the answer,” and this is what I am saying. Love is appreciation for that which you are relating to in the moment. Through our naturally loving and compassionate relationships, we are able to fulfill our basic needs that bring joy to our lives. I like to refer to the basic needs that Tony Robbins presents with my own slight modifications and commentary as follows:


Tony Robbins has identified six basic human needs and believes everyone is—or can be—motivated by their desire to fulfill these needs.

1. Certainty/Comfort. We all want comfort. And much of this comfort comes from certainty. Of course, there is no ABSOLUTE certainty, but we want certainty the car will start, the water will flow from the tap when we turn it on and the currency we use will hold its value.

Jon would add that great pleasure is also included here.

2. Variety. At the same time we want certainty, we also crave variety. Paradoxically, there needs to be enough UNcertainty to provide spice and adventure in our lives.

Jon refers to this often times as the contrast that is necessary to experience the joy of the drama this Creation offers. This includes painful experiences.

3. Significance. Deep down, we all want to be important. We want our life to have meaning and significance. I can imagine no worse a death than to think my life didn't matter.

Jon would say that this need might be strictly driven by the frontal lobe and its little ego’s need to justify its evolutionary existence. And that ultimately our only importance is that we are here in the theater creating and playing with each other, and that is the extent of our importance, simply to provide someone to play with and help fulfill the other needs and joy, some contrast for the drama. As the shamans say, to be ultimately free is to call off the search for meaning and just bring it to whatever you do.

4. Connection/Love. It would be hard to argue against the need for love. We want to feel part of a community. We want to be cared for and cared about.

Jon again emphasizes the opportunity for appreciation and allowing as we play together in the theater, or sandbox, like children.

5. Growth. There could be some people who say they don't want to grow, but I think they're simply fearful of doing so—or perhaps NOT doing so. To become better, to improve our skills, to stretch and excel may be more evident in some than others, but it's there.

Jon would call this the natural tendency of Creation to expand and seek greater complexity, possibilities, and beauty. This is not to be confused with the real purpose of life, which is joy. Growth is just a natural byproduct and not the motivation or purpose.

6. Contribution. The desire to contribute something of value—to help others, to make the world a better place than we found it is in all of us.

Jon would say that it can be as simple as recognizing our contribution as Creators coming into our power and freedom and inspiring others to do so by example. Any additional contribution is then a bonus.

Posted on 20 Nov 2008 by Jon