Everything that appears, erupting out of the stars, the
muddy earth, and the oceans… out of crystalline essence of the moon, out of the
very center of your raw beating heart…
All the conflict, the struggle, the emotions, the symptoms,
and the heartbreak… the crushed longing, the dying dreams, the reorganization
of the way you thought it was all going to turn out…
This is the rich material you have to work with. While it
may seem that the aliveness you long for will be found in the eradication
of the dark, it is filled with spirit, magic, and meaning. Just behind the
veil, underneath the exhaustion of a life of becoming, resurrection awaits.
This resurrection is uncaused. It is of the same substance
as the cells of your heart, the synapses in your brain, and buried inside the
pathways of your sacred nervous system. It is already here, unborn and undying,
and awaiting discovery. Please do not postpone participation in what you already
are.
The alchemists referred to this essential substance as this
prima materia, the creative energies that you are asked to encounter and
transmute as you journey with your fellow travelers along the way. The signs,
the symbols, and the messages are emerging in the most unexpected places,
inviting you into the core of the tender, the vulnerable, and the raw, raging
life within you.
You need not transcend your life, your symptoms, or your
problems to know this. It is pure and creative inside the symptom, but this
mystery is something our conventional world has lost contact with, tangled in
the spell of becoming and have lost contact with the enchantment of
imagination. But the modern day alchemists and journeyers of the heart – and
the unseen ones and the moon, the sun, and the stars – have come into form to
remind us…
“What about my passion,” Rumi asks God. God says, “Keep it
burning.”
“What about my heart?” pleads Rumi. God says, “Tell me what
you hold inside it.”
“Pain and sorrow,” says Rumi.
God says, “Stay with it. The wound is the place where the
Light enters you.”
It is up to you to keep these truths alive in the
collective and to catalyze an eruption of love here. Please don’t forget what
is most important to you.
