Gratitude

     It's the day before Thanksgiving and there is a lot that I have to be thankful for.  In many ways, my life looks the same as it did last year at this time.  At least the outer circumstances of my life haven't changed much.  But, what has changed and what I am eternally grateful for, is the evolving and deepening perspective that I have on why I am here, where I am going, and how I shall live my life.  Fundamentally, I have answered those questions for myself through the study and practice of Evolutionary Enlightenment (see two minute video).  It began four years ago when I said in a retreat with Andrew Cohen, "Yes, I want to be free more than anything else,"  
     Since then, the ever-evolving challenge of life has become a matter of me living up to, moment to moment, to what I, in my heart know to be absolutely true.  It's a struggle that I am thankful for.  I feel blessed to have awoken to the opportunity to consciously participate in the evolutionary process; knowing how essential it is to the creative unfolding of the Kosmos.  And for someone like me, who at 56, still has a big ego, it's a blessing to feel the importance of my personal drama melt away,  in the light of the dawning realization that it is "up to us;" that it is through our hearts and mind that the Universe is starting to know itself and consciously evolve.
     I'm thankful to have Andrew Cohen as my teacher and to live a life, enriched by the joy of coming together with others from around the world; people who are creating a revolution in consciousness and culture, "for the sake of the whole."   Finally, teaching the Introduction to Evolutionary Enlightenment Course to a group of highly motivated participants is a gift.  It's a thrilling, humbling experience.   With each class, as the students respond from their interest in going further, it reaches a place where I no longer have answers.  It's as if the tethers that bind and hold me down to what I know begin to loosen. Leaving me on the edge of my own conscious evolution, passion awakened, being with them as a higher  "We," going into the unknown.   
     Happy Thanksgiving.