Embedded Wisdom

We live inside a modern ideology: the propaganda of separateness—that we are beings separated from one another and from the natural world, and we, therefore, can demand that our separate needs can and must be met at the expense of all other beings. This is the world of egoic reality that drives the engines of contemporary culture. The truth is simply the opposite. We are embedded beings, webbed to multiple layers of reality, part of an extraordinary universe of interconnection. Wisdom means both to see and live by means of these deep connections of which we are already a part.

To begin, clearly the physical world all around us is a network of deep, ecological interconnectedness. To violate this is to destroy not only the beautiful web of creation, but to tear apart our own larger being in favor of so-called individual self interests. Wisdom would demand that we live in harmony with and embedded in the encompassing web that sustains us. Wisdom teaching would express how to do this by understanding the principles of co-inherent living. This, however, is only the first step. We also live webbed to unseen realities, and these are the ones that sustain our hearts and give meaning to the inner spaces of our lives. Without knowing our interconnection to the unseen world, the Divine Realm (what Yeshua called “the Kingdom of God”) we lose our way because we have no inner compass, not orientation to the axis of Being itself. It is this larger, unseen reality which sustains us, guides us, teaches us, and gives us the meaning and the means we need to live even on the physical plane. Only by learning this inner, embedded wisdom, therefore, can we sustain and grow in all our outer relationships. The inner and the outer are inextricably bound together and form a whole which is the matrix of embedded wisdom’s teaching.