Outside the War Zone
Two ideologies have been warring across multiple unknowable planes of consciousness. You may recognize them in today’s political and religious conflicts, but this battle runs deeper than any current debate.
One vision says the sacred is found by rising above our messy human nature. To reach what’s holy or ultimate, we must show mastery over what is weak, flawed, and earthbound. We touch the divine when we’ve transcended the dirt of ordinary existence.
The other vision finds the sacred already present in every being and moment. It says the holy is destroyed when we try to violently override the natural rhythms of what is inherently worthy. The sacred is honored by recognizing its infinite expressions right here, right now.
Both approaches involve people asserting what they see as most important. Both approaches, taken to extremes, create real problems. The first can lead to a harsh rejection of the natural world and anything deemed unworthy. It kills the indwelling, imminent sacred, causing much grief and loss. The second can become passive, avoiding the transformative engagement that helps life’s potential actually unfold. This kills the moment’s potential revelation and presencing of the beauty that’s ripe to emerge.
Both of these incomplete visions must be honored and integrated.
When we try to force reality to match some ideal, overriding what’s actually present because of abstract principles, we miss the sacred that’s available right now. We kill the opportunity to meet what’s holy in this moment.
When we refuse to engage with what wants to grow and evolve in the present moment, we deny life’s creative energy a chance to express its fuller possibilities, which itself is a type of violence.
Outside of this opposition, there is a vision of learning to transform in service of what wants to emerge rather than to escape what is. It’s developing the discernment to sense what in each moment is asking to be honored as it is, and what is asking to be refined or expressed more fully.
This requires tremendous skill and presence - real attunement to the intelligence that moves through each situation. When we connect there, the whole war dissolves. We stop fighting strawmen versions of each other and start recognizing that we’re all trying to serve life, just from different angles.
Don’t let anyone profit from keeping you trapped in false battles. The people stoking these divisions often benefit from the conflict itself - the attention, engagement, and energy that endless warfare generates.
End the war. See and serve what’s sacred in every present moment.
