Around 10,000 years ago, societies began to transition from a hunter/gatherer approach to feeding their families and tribes to an agricultural one, where working the land allowed them a less nomadic existence than following the food supply through it’s seasonal migrations…
As a kid, I used to love playing the game of Life, where you start out with a car and a choice of two pathways – the college path, which takes a bit longer but can lead to a higher salary, or the working path, which gets you off to a faster start but can cost you later on in the game.
In the game of “Real Life”, I’ve noticed that there are three pathways we can take, each one of which leads to a completely different experience of and relationship with our circumstances, dreams, and goals…
I’ve been struggling to get my computer printer working this week, and finally decided I needed professional help. Given that I’d tried everything I could think of and every little tweak and addition to the system that the online forums had to offer, I was a bit disappointed when the professional’s help was so simple – he told me to click the button marked “Restore to factory default settings”. Sure enough, after a couple of minutes of clicking and whirring, my printer was back online and I was left reflecting on what the equivalent of clicking that button would be for us human beings…
I’ve been working on my new book for Hay House, The Inside-Out Revolution, and one of the lines I wrote last week really jumped out at me:
“If we are truly spiritual beings having a human experience, we ignore either of those facts at our peril.”
People who attempt to live purely in the material world and ignore the spiritual tend (in my experience) to ride the roller coaster of life’s ups and downs and arrive at the end of the ride feeling (accurately) like they haven’t actually gotten anywhere and wondering why those spiritual people seem so calm and peaceful…
One of my favorite things about sharing the principles behind the inside out understanding of the human experience is that even after all these years I still feel like a relative newcomer to the field. And each time I tell myself “Now I really get it”, I’m hit in the head by a new insight that makes me feel almost embarrassed about what seemed cutting edge to me yesterday…