The dance between the great and sacred pairs of opposites has happened since the beginnings of time.
Each of us contains within us the masculine and the feminine, the seer and the seen, the witness and the experience, the darkness and the light, the sun and the moon, the yin and the yang, the Shiva and the Shakti, the internal and the external, the center and the circumference, the inward and the outward, the particle and the wave, the lover and the beloved.
The human spirit is so much greater than the small and tribal definitions that we increasingly have come to define ourselves by in this declining civilization. We can recognize and honor our lineages of trauma and pain without absolutely identifying ourselves with these categories, for we are much greater than our pain. Pain - after all - is an integral part of living. Suffering is impossible to escape, just as the presence of full joy is also inevitable.
These experiences reflect the sacred dance of polarity, of which we are a part. Some would even say that the digestion of such suffering gives a fertile ground for the upward evolutionary spiral of the life of the soul - so that one might actually truly begin to embark upon the Individuation and maturation process. Without such experiences, we remain stunted and weak.
Increasingly within this culture, human beings are operating from this stunted state of being where they unequivocally reject the dance of the great pairs of opposites, just as countess individuals reject the notion that they alone must digest and assimilate their own ancestral and cultural trauma. No one - no other human soul - can do this work for us. We can blame the whole world for our undying suffering, but until we enter into a harmonic relationship with the experience of our own sacred polarity and the dance of life, we remain a victim of our own inability to empower ourselves.
This is the great work, and if this work is rejected, if responsibility is thwarted, than one increasingly chains themself to an adolescent existence. In this adolescent existence - blame is placed everywhere but in our own sacred center - and we increasingly live in a world where we identify with ever smaller aspects of our personality. The spirit is largely banished, eventually, because these things cannot live side by side in harmony.
Hence, today, there are a trillion tiny and tribal sub-categories that people can chain themselves to, while never engaging the true maturation process, and the great work of a lifetime. Through this, one engages a downward evolutionary spiral. We have a choice to spiral up, or down.
How many have become total slaves to these definitions, incapable of seeing a world that could be inhabited outside of it?
The human spirit exists far beyond the domain of the small self, beyond names and forms, and beyond space and time itself. Spirit exists as the substrata of all in this world, oscillating endlessly through it”s sacred and swinging dance, through the agony which pours us back into the ecstasy - through the Yin which transforms us back into the Yang, through the lover which moves us back into the deep embrace of the beloved.
Our very first step along this sacred path of evolutionary maturation is the ability to identify ourselves with the greater aspects of our soul and spirit, and ultimately to feel our integral relationship with the cosmos. When we are graced with this profound experience - the life of the human spirit takes flight, as it should. For we we were born, above all - like the great eagle - to soar. We are the only ones that hold ourselves back from this flight.
