Walk your Talk
“Now is the time to know that all that you do is sacred.
Now, why not consider a lasting truce with yourself and God.
Now is the time to understand that all your ideas of right and wrong
Were just a child's training wheels to be laid aside
When you finally live with veracity and love." (Hafiz)
Walking your talk is the full expression of a healthy adult EGO.
Now you recognise the Neurological Trance learned in your Childhood. You integrate and take care of your inner child and your Inner Adolescent. You have a humble acceptance and belonging to your ancestors. You have learned from your studies, work and relationships.
Now is the time to walk your talk. This is the Heroes Journey.
In this fully Adult state we negotiate responsibly with our own groups, with other groups, other species and the Earth. Like the aboriginal cultures – we take full conscious responsibility for our actions. We have to kill to live. We take a plant or an animal consciously and responsibly according to real need, thanking it, using it sanely and wasting nothing. Here there is no frivolous consumption to meet our infantile desires or adolescent fantasies ... or only in so much as they are an important part of a healthy learning process.
Now being an adult, it often does not feel as if I have much real freedom. Adulthood has a whole range of responsibilities …. but freedoms are harder to identify. Supposedly I am now truly free to choose what I eat, where and how I live, my love and sex lives, work and livelihood, …. but all of these are already predetermined in many ways by my childhood and culture. I seem to be offered an almost infinite range of products, culture, services, arts, options, politics, …... such apparent freedom. But I do not feel free. All the shops have the same rubbish: clothes and technology made in Pakistani or Chinese sweatshops, food grown by dubious means, energy companies exploiting the planet. The political options are just slight variations on the same limited cultural theme. If I am part of a small percentage of the population that have a high income in a Western culture, then I can afford to buy organic food, ensure that my clothes are made without exploitation, buy land to build an ecological dwelling with clean energy. But even in this case my high income will probably come from dubious and exploitative sources. So where is my freedom?
Walking our talk is about truly freeing ourselves, unplugging ourselves, our services and social support from the centralised machine and taking this back into our own hands. This cannot work in a simply technical sense without building and maintaining the trust and group support in local communities. Much of this might seem like 'Hippy fantasy' ideas. This is scary. What will happen to me if I get ill? … when I lose my job? … when I retire? Each time we find ourselves in crisis – it is an opportunity for either a growth or a reduction of awareness towards all this wider context within which we live. This is about liberating ourselves from addiction to comfort and materialism. Each crisis is also an opportunity to bring either love or blame to what we see.
The objectives and fruits of this cyclical process are that:
In your Heroes Journey, now is the time to develop your own practice.
Now is the time to walk your talk. This is the Heroes Journey.
In this fully Adult state we negotiate responsibly with our own groups, with other groups, other species and the Earth. Like the aboriginal cultures – we take full conscious responsibility for our actions. We have to kill to live. We take a plant or an animal consciously and responsibly according to real need, thanking it, using it sanely and wasting nothing. Here there is no frivolous consumption to meet our infantile desires or adolescent fantasies ... or only in so much as they are an important part of a healthy learning process.
Now being an adult, it often does not feel as if I have much real freedom. Adulthood has a whole range of responsibilities …. but freedoms are harder to identify. Supposedly I am now truly free to choose what I eat, where and how I live, my love and sex lives, work and livelihood, …. but all of these are already predetermined in many ways by my childhood and culture. I seem to be offered an almost infinite range of products, culture, services, arts, options, politics, …... such apparent freedom. But I do not feel free. All the shops have the same rubbish: clothes and technology made in Pakistani or Chinese sweatshops, food grown by dubious means, energy companies exploiting the planet. The political options are just slight variations on the same limited cultural theme. If I am part of a small percentage of the population that have a high income in a Western culture, then I can afford to buy organic food, ensure that my clothes are made without exploitation, buy land to build an ecological dwelling with clean energy. But even in this case my high income will probably come from dubious and exploitative sources. So where is my freedom?
Walking our talk is about truly freeing ourselves, unplugging ourselves, our services and social support from the centralised machine and taking this back into our own hands. This cannot work in a simply technical sense without building and maintaining the trust and group support in local communities. Much of this might seem like 'Hippy fantasy' ideas. This is scary. What will happen to me if I get ill? … when I lose my job? … when I retire? Each time we find ourselves in crisis – it is an opportunity for either a growth or a reduction of awareness towards all this wider context within which we live. This is about liberating ourselves from addiction to comfort and materialism. Each crisis is also an opportunity to bring either love or blame to what we see.
The objectives and fruits of this cyclical process are that:
- you become aware of your cultural and personal ways of separating yourself from the greater natural cycles and from your roots
- you find, learn and practice existing methods and strategies that help you to recover your healthy connection with your divine nature – celebrating and practising these in depth without becoming attached to any of them
- you then take full adult responsibility for your own direct connection with nature and the divine, developing your own holistic and dynamic models for life and death, without any arrogance or superiority, without having to justify your chosen map or path or process.
- you find, trust and use mentors, therapists, guides, supervisors, (elders)… who can help you
- you learn and expand your consciousness in the process – you learn to 'die to change'
- You set up your own creative projects. You work in your community to build sustainable ecological, social end economic systems.
- You become a parent.
- you begin to help others in this process – from a humble place
In your Heroes Journey, now is the time to develop your own practice.