Loved-Out or Revved-Up?

Can you be too forgiving? Can you be so highly conscious that you lose track of the outside world while perfecting your relationship to the inner (and higher) one?

I think so.

Two days ago I was a guest on a radio show. It was a vital and interesting discussion for the host and for me so he asked me to join a round table with other hosts on the show a couple of hours later. I was happy to do it.

The other hosts on the show were highly articulate people with a deep connection to truth and change. They spoke deeply about their own inner journeys and the need to correct the inner issues before we could be effective at correcting the outer ones. They concurred that old patterning first molds and then holds us.

I agree. Emphatically.

I added to the discussion, however, the idea that while we need to do our inner work, that is not enough. We must find solutions to the outer problems, the globalization, the depopulation, the injustice, the mandatory vaccination, the Chemtrails.

I know as well as a few, and more than most, the power of intentionality, the power of conviction and the power of determination.

I also know very well that, whether its principles are right or wrong, the fatalism of the New Age philosophy was seized upon, and funded, by the same forces that want us bemused, befuddled and bewildered, sapped of our vitality and change agency by belief and bonds of all sorts.

Acquiescence and apathy , whether induced by fluoride or gurus, serve the would-be controllers and keep us in our place, whether we feel a sense of inner liberation or not.

Understand, please, that I have a personal practice based on my own spiritual beliefs and experiences and it is very precious to me, defining the core of my life. But, at least for me, to be engrossed with following the inner path without seeing, and acting on, the outer reality is to cut off an essential part of our humanity, our responsibility not just to our own welfare and energetic structures, but to our fellow humans.

We are, after all, all connected and if I am free but you are still a slave, then I am not really free at all, am I?

In short, for me, at least, inner clarity unconnected to outer reality is not worth very much. But, then again, correcting outer reality without inner clarity is only worth slightly more since at least it can help others even if it cannot help oneself very profoundly.

So while it is beguiling to become blissed, staying there without a commitment to blissing the world, too, is ultimately as selfish as not caring at all about anything except your own creature comforts.

We have been warned of this “falling short of the mark” by philosophers for millennia. In the Buddhist tradition, for example, there are the Bodhisattvas, the enlightened, who return to the life of the world pledging to remain in service until all beings attain enlightenment. In another tradition, Faith without Works is seen as essentially tragic.

Certainly, “Follow your bliss!”

But, remember, the whole world needs healing.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

www.HealthKeepersOath.org