Separation and Return
The whole story, the plotline, the adventure of human experience and existence can be told in three words—separation and return.
Human beings, since their appearance, have been moving across this horizon on a journey that begins at its own ancient Source, in a state of unknowing and innocence from which there has been the inevitable and necessary separation, followed by the long story of the human adventure that, in the end, will lead to return.
Everything, all human history, every family, tribe, and nation, in fact, every single individual is caught up in and lives out the abundant details of this story—separation and return.
The question is, of course, why? The simple answer is that it is mirrored and explained in every child in each family that begins with birth, followed by the long slow growing up that will result in separation, but then make its way back to a larger and fuller participation in family affairs and the creation of a continued matrix for future generations. There, the story is repeated and replicated, but again, one must ask for a greater explanation.
Is it simply a never ending and even fruitless cycle, a merry-go-round from which we can never escape, or is some other purpose unfolding? The answers to these larger questions do not lie in the details, but in something that is truly cosmic. Three great answers arise out of and from within this story as seeds that eventually mature and bear fruit within the story itself.
The first is the answer of wisdom. Wisdom streams through this venture reproducing itself. There is no other way for wisdom to accumulate and mature than to flow through time with its struggles and contradictions producing wisdom.
The second is the sacred stories, myths, and legends that both hide and convey a greater Truth—larger than the individual soul and it stories bearing “news” of both our origins, purpose and destiny.
The third is personal embodiment and realization of this wisdom and these truths for every soul that lives in and through their own individual lives and stories.
These three: wisdom, sacred teaching through myth, and embodiment are the seeds and flowering of the adventure of living across this vast horizon called the Ages of Time and our own individual lifetimes within it. We are here to gain wisdom, learn truth, and embody what we learn through our own deep experience of separation and return.
Human beings, since their appearance, have been moving across this horizon on a journey that begins at its own ancient Source, in a state of unknowing and innocence from which there has been the inevitable and necessary separation, followed by the long story of the human adventure that, in the end, will lead to return.
Everything, all human history, every family, tribe, and nation, in fact, every single individual is caught up in and lives out the abundant details of this story—separation and return.
The question is, of course, why? The simple answer is that it is mirrored and explained in every child in each family that begins with birth, followed by the long slow growing up that will result in separation, but then make its way back to a larger and fuller participation in family affairs and the creation of a continued matrix for future generations. There, the story is repeated and replicated, but again, one must ask for a greater explanation.
Is it simply a never ending and even fruitless cycle, a merry-go-round from which we can never escape, or is some other purpose unfolding? The answers to these larger questions do not lie in the details, but in something that is truly cosmic. Three great answers arise out of and from within this story as seeds that eventually mature and bear fruit within the story itself.
The first is the answer of wisdom. Wisdom streams through this venture reproducing itself. There is no other way for wisdom to accumulate and mature than to flow through time with its struggles and contradictions producing wisdom.
The second is the sacred stories, myths, and legends that both hide and convey a greater Truth—larger than the individual soul and it stories bearing “news” of both our origins, purpose and destiny.
The third is personal embodiment and realization of this wisdom and these truths for every soul that lives in and through their own individual lives and stories.
These three: wisdom, sacred teaching through myth, and embodiment are the seeds and flowering of the adventure of living across this vast horizon called the Ages of Time and our own individual lifetimes within it. We are here to gain wisdom, learn truth, and embody what we learn through our own deep experience of separation and return.
posted by Lynn Bauman at 8:06 AM
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Excellent commentary!
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