As we witness the elections going down across the globe to decide on new leaders of countries and native areas, it seems that there’s a highly effective tug-of-war happening in every single place between the perfect of democracy – the place ‘we the folks’ decide the longer term by consensus – and a powerful tendency in the direction of centralization of energy within the fingers of the few that ultimately manifests as dictatorship.
It might be helpful to pause and replicate on the true nature of politics and the moral necessities for anybody wishing to serve extra consciously in a management function. We may merely state that, “Politics is how we collectively select and conform to reside collectively and make the most of our inside sovereign energy to manipulate ourselves.”
In finding out the Perennial Philosophy, students are invited and inspired to journey from the common to the actual. In step with this time-honored strategy, enable me to border our exploration of Consciousness and Management inside a bigger context supplied by the Ageless Knowledge instructing earlier than diving into the theme itself.
What if we view the Story of Creation as a grand cosmic technique employed by the One Life to present kind and expression to a deep inside urge “to be” that lives and pulses on the coronary heart of Its Causeless Trigger.
We would observe and surmise that manifested life all through the universe reveals up as an limitless sequence of nested sentient methods – spheres of being contained by even higher states of consciousness that, in flip, maintain different methods inside their aware and caring embrace. This, in reality, is the infinite and unbounded image of lives-within-lives-within-lives described by the Greek Thinker Anaxagoras when he declared: “Every thing is contained in all the pieces.”
Every system of lives (particular person, group, world and so on.) ‘lives and strikes and has its being’ contained in the higher system that enfolds it and offers a deeper dimension of that means and belonging. We may postulate that evolution of consciousness comes about via a strategy of studying by direct expertise – leading to a private ‘aha’ second which provides beginning to an inside little one of knowledge and realizing. The increasing spiral dance of evolution seems to proceed via a progressive entry into higher and extra inclusive spheres and states of wholeness and identification.
The hallmark of a wholesome system is the free and unimpeded circulation of life power all through the complete organism. Thus, one key function of the soul-inspired management perform is to make sure that the system is aligned and infused with the energies of the higher system wherein it’s nested and that it subsequently nourishes the sub-systems of lives that kind its constituent elements. Management establishes and ensures an unbroken dwelling hyperlink within the Nice Chain of Being.
Allow us to evaluation some insights into the tasks and necessities for fulfilling the function of a pacesetter. Parker Palmer (creator, educator, and activist specializing in points in schooling, management, spirituality and social change) describes management on this manner:
“A frontrunner is an individual who has an uncommon diploma of energy to challenge on different folks his or her shadow or his or her mild. A frontrunner is an individual who has an uncommon diploma of energy to create the circumstances below which different folks should reside and transfer and have their being—circumstances that may both be as illuminating as heaven or as shadowy as hell. A frontrunner is an individual who should take particular accountability for what’s happening inside himself or herself, inside his or her consciousness, lest the act of management create extra hurt than good.
The issue is that folks rise to management in our society by an inclination in the direction of extroversion, which suggests an inclination to disregard what’s going on inside themselves. Leaders rise to energy in our society by working very competently and successfully within the exterior world, typically at the price of inside consciousness.
I’ve checked out some coaching applications for leaders. I’m discouraged by how usually they concentrate on the event of abilities to govern the exterior world moderately than the abilities essential to go inward and make the inside journey.”
Moral management is doing the ‘proper factor’ – dwelling a life in resonance with the next objective and the qualities of the Soul or Increased Self. The ‘moral stance of the chief’ entails the necessity for purity of intent, purity of coronary heart and purity of motion in order that they, in Parker Palmer’s phrases, don’t “create extra hurt than good”.
A contemporary chief has additionally been likened to the conductor of an orchestra – the one who ensures all devices are taking part in collectively in proper rhythm and concord and that everybody is studying from the identical musical rating. I wish to take this analogy one step additional and counsel that as an alternative of merely conducting an orchestra, the chief is, in reality, a ‘conductor of the electrical energy of Spirit’ inside the sector of on a regular basis life. On this manner, the management function capabilities as an ‘electrical lead’ that connects the varied parts and hyperlinks within the systemic chain and permits the group to be charged with the ‘electrical hearth’ of upper objective.
When the system is duly ‘charged’ with this larger intent, it then responds by discharging its tasks – thus taking part in a vital and very important half within the wellbeing of the higher scheme wherein it resides. As a substitute of being ‘in cost’ because the boss of a corporation, the chief is now charged with the facility to provoke and assist new potentialities be born. The chief, as a conduit, helps us conduct ourselves in new and potent methods so that every of us assumes management for our personal Ecosystem of Self as a stepping stone to taking over shared accountability for the welfare of the entire.
Due to this fact, the New Management we urgently search in these tumultuous instances will emerge naturally as folks assume accountability for one thing higher than their very own self-interests. One attribute of this new stage of consciousness is a capability to register and reply as a smart and compassionate steward to the next widespread objective and to a compelling imaginative and prescient of the longer term knocking on the door of the current because it seeks daring methods to satisfy its deep want.
Management will not be about private charisma – it’s about being magnetic and as we enhance our religious and psycho-energetic bandwidth, the extra we’re in a position to register and take accountability. That is how we present up as a potent ‘electrical lead’ within the etheric wiring and circuitry of the Sacred Eco-System of the Planet.
Management means standing inside a continuing and fiery stream of religious lightning in order that {the electrical} energy of the heavens can movement via our automobile and attain the planes of earth. This perform of management ‘grounds’ {the electrical} cost of objective and fiery imaginative and prescient via utilized motion. True ‘management’ connects the facility and potential of the inside realms with the dense fields of Earth in order that the longer term may be precipitated into the current and be made manifest.
Seen from a higher perspective, management connects and facilitates all communication and communion inside the system in addition to amongst different methods that make up the Nested Universe of Lives. Management requires each the Masculine and Female elements of our human nature to be working collectively in a dynamic and balanced relationship to ensure that life to movement into, round, via and from an organism or group subject. Management is how we obtain, register and reply to the Name of Life. It’s how we be sure that the psychic circumstances are conducive for the emergence and progress of the human spirit and that nothing of a adverse nature is current within the subject that might hinder or stymie its expression.
By performing on this clear, aware and decisive manner, every of us might step into a brand new and deeper dimension of management. At this time second, our human species is basically disconnected and unable to be totally engaged within the ecosystem of Earth as a functioning hyperlink within the Nice Chain of Being. Sadly, via a self-centered way of living now we have minimize ourselves off and have change into the lacking hyperlink within the world wiring that isn’t permitting the ‘planetary chi’ to freely movement and flow into its lifeblood all through the whole lot of the ecosystem.
Throughout this era of unprecedented turbulence in human affairs, we’re urgently referred to as to get up, form up and present up with a purpose to perform as co-creative brokers of Life – the very important and integral connective tissue that hyperlinks us with a Larger Life and types a coherent stream of loving objective – extending and flowing from the Coronary heart of the Cosmos into the every day lifetime of our beloved planet.
Might we present up on the planet because the soul-inspired leaders and exemplars of loving kindness so wanted in these crucial instances via all that we expect, say and do.
Michael Lindfield
Board President
Meditation Mount
