Are You Here To Be A Teacher? 213am part of this one mind, that is all actually ONE integrated
comprehensive whole.
Recently, I had a moment of clarity around our oneness. I was
turning a street corner in my car, and at that same moment a man fell off
of his bicycle. It was a moment of violence, and it was kind of sudden
and shocking as those things can be. Although the man wasn’t hurt, he
was definitely shaken up, but he got up and dusted himself off and rode
away. Here is what was curious to me...I know I am a creative being,
and I know that I co-create the things that I experience in my life. In that
moment I wondered, “Did I make this guy fall?”
I wanted to explore this a little bit further, so I pulled the car over
and I took a look inside myself. What I saw inside of my mind was
violence; it was kind of like this part of my limbic brain that appreciated
violence. And as I looked deeper, I witnessed the larger scale violence in
the world and this notion that we are all one. I saw that the same energy
of violence within me is also projected outside of myself. I felt this deep
level of oneness with the group agreement regarding violence, and again
I saw myself as part of that.
I knew intellectually that, by my thoughts, I actually have a hand
in creating the violence that’s in the world. I realized more clearly in the
moment that what comes into my radar, within my purview, is an even
more personal creation. As I looked within, I could see the energy within
me, that can be creative, and the belief system within me, that can create
violent incidents in the outside world. In that moment as I looked inside,
I actually saw what my projected violence might look like, and it was
shown to me kind of like a painting.
What I saw was a little string of my belief in violence. I saw this
string coming out of me and attaching to the war in Iraq. That was my
piece of the manifestation of violence. Then I saw other strings from all
over the world attaching to war. The image was kind of like a Seurat
painting in which all the individual dots together form a picture. And I
realized that all the strings of our beliefs together, in aggregate, create
reality. Whatever our belief system is inside can create itself externally.
So, did I make him fall? Not exactly, yet I was a witness to it, so I could
explore my feelings of violence and, in turn, share this with you. In fact,
you are now part of this creative process. You might even ask... did I
create this?
So, who do I think I am? I believe that I am a creative being that
is a piece of this whole puzzle, and I create the wonders that are in my
world and the challenges that are in my world as well. I also recognize