In late 2012, I was on assignment working on a permaculture project in South America. Exactly one year ago to the near minute during the Diwali celebration in Georgetown, Guyana I found myself being brutally murdered by a band of angry young robbers. Theyd attacked the entire crowd in an ugly mass-mugging and suddenly targeted me to become a victim of violent aggression. Under a furious hail of punches, kicks, broken bottles, insults, and 500 years of pent-up oppression and hatred, I became an inhuman object, a lump of flesh to maim and beat. Terrifying sorrowful chaos doesnt come close to describing that reality. With divine aid I was able to elude death that night, barely.. and now believe in miracles. When they pursued my beaten and bleeding body through the dark and panic-stricken streets, and were just about on top of me where I had thrown myself to hiding, I experienced the voice of God in me. In those moments of profound lucidity I had asked myself Ryan you have 20 seconds left on the planet in this body... how do you want them to be?... and the answer came in a voice like no other I have ever heard, deep, penetrating, honest, and powerful: Dignity, Calmness, and Love. In that instant a blast of energy radiated from my core, my heart, sending the message of these three words to loved ones back home: I am ok, goodbye, and I am Dignity, Calmness, and Love. But the assailants literally got blasted backwards by the force too! I believe that a quantum field of dignity, calmness, and love had been created around me, an aura within which their brutal race-slaying simply could not occur... A life-altering event, to say the least, a year later I find myself here studying spiritual psychology at CIIS in San Francisco. I am curious and committed to learn about how manifest fields of belief in our finest human values and aspirations - things such as Dignity, Calmness, and Love - might be cultivable at will, even when not threatened by imminent demise. At this tenuous social and ecological threshold its a pertinent inquiry for each of us, and our entire humanity: While we still have health and the free will to choose, what will we? So Id love to hear about what anyone is doing to cultivate their highest human values. Id love to hear about the good we are all doing. xo
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 07:14:48 +0000
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