So, how ‘bout them politics lately? Without getting into specifics, all I know is whatever “direction” things go, it’s all about helping our evolution. It may not look that way, but sometimes, in fact all the time, it takes the worst possible experience to be the best, most powerful wake up call. So, as the cliché says, it’s all good!
Let me explain.
A few decades ago, I heard this true story titled The Hundredth Monkey Theory.
When I first heard about it, it sounded esoteric, like some complicated formula you’d be forced to study in grad school anthropology. When I got past my hesitancy (science was not my forte), and took the time to listen to the details, it made perfect sense. It chronicled in an easy-to-understand way how energy connects everything.
The Theory sounds like a fable or even a metaphor, but it’s based on a actual event. It goes like this: On a deserted island with a large population of monkeys, one contrary primate decided to stroll over to the river and wash his food before eating it. Something that had never happened previously. Suddenly, the entire monkey population on a distant neighboring island started washing their food. Spontaneously.
The moral of the story: When one gets it, others do; when one shifts, others do; when enough of us evolve, we all evolve.
As you may have noticed, humanity, as a species, is in dire need of evolving. It will take more than one of us monkeys washing our food to bring an end to systemic, fear-based consciousness. It will need a slew of monkeys to change how we’ve been living, believing the notion that war and violence solves things; that our ego is who we are; that external things are what make us happy and secure.
We will need a troop of monkeys, err humans, to pull up the roots of our primal nature to shift the world.
Having worked for over four decades helping people do that, I can attest that it’s tricky to change one’s consciousness. It’s the nucleus of our primitive, survival-based nature to react angrily and violently when fear is triggered. We believe we must do that, and nothing will convince us otherwise. After all, our primary purpose is personal survival at all costs.
The Hidden Nature of Fear
We’ve been living with the crush-anything-that-triggers-fear school of life since we were hiding out in caves. Our need to do that runs us subconsciously, like a computer program going on in the background. But honestly, it’s more like an open tab slowing us down, messing with us and crashing our hard drive. Is it any wonder that we continue to justify violence?
Back to those wise monkeys.
I believe that when enough of us know that anger is just fear, everything can be dealt with differently. We will be able to understand that war never has and never will solve anything, so war will finally end. When many of us decide it’s not acceptable to destroy the environment, the planet will again flourish. When we realize that there is enough to go around, we will willingly share. That when the majority does not support the egos of the world’s tyrants, they will have no power. When we finally realize that joy and security come from within, possessiveness and territoriality will vanish.
Then all us Hundredth Monkeys will join hands and sing Kumbaya along with the others who allowed our evolved energy to reach them and bring peace to their neighboring island.
Getting There
Getting there requires profound shifts. Trying to change the world from our current, fear-based level of consciousness is like putting a layer of rubber cement hoping to repair a leaking roof. It will take evolving into a completely different kind of human, a radical shift from fear to love.
That will require more than a handful of us trailblazing monkeys choosing to wash our food. Or, more accurately, choosing to recognize the deceptive face of fear and not react in anger.
That sounds nice, very higher consciousness and all, but living from fear is etched on our personal hard drive. Add to that, parental and social conditioning, everything is perceived through a fear-based, reactive lens. We’ve learned ways to cover up our fear, never admit we’re afraid, terrified that if anyone saw us shaking in our boots, we would be vulnerable and then cave-less.
Consider the Alternative
Alright, back to those monkeys, err, humans. Whether you know it consciously or not, you want to evolve. You chose to be here during these challenging times to progress past your primitive, fear-based, survival consciousness.
Remaining firmly rooted in primal programming is certainly not working. Maybe it worked centuries ago, but it will never work for the world that we want to create, or for the world we are creating.
Being part of this evolutionary process means waking up from a primitive definition of self and transforming your entire internal definition of life. Easy peasy, right?
The most crucial aspect of becoming that Hundredth Monkey is being willing to face all the ways you are personally participating in what’s causing the world’s problems. It means looking within to see how your own behavior and thoughts are being driven by the same fear-based impulses at the ancient core of human cruelty and domination.
Einstein said energy cannot be destroyed, only transmuted. As I always say, if you are pushing down the energy of fear, like a seesaw, it must come up somewhere. Others and life become an accurate reflection of what you are trying to deny and suppress within.
By observing what’s being reflected (I call this “Mirroring”), recognizing your denial showing up, and then digging up its roots, shift happens. In you and in those other monkeys.
The simple way to do that is by noticing whenever a button is pushed, choosing to look within and locate the denied fear that was triggered. Then, determine what’s being reflected about yourself. (To find the origins of those fears, what’s being mirrored, reach out to me for core inner work)
Admittedly, that takes bold commitment, but it’s a powerful tool to alter the first layer of your primitive programing. Most importantly, it allows you to choose Option Two: Love rather than reacting in fear.
The Goal
It bears repeating: Our planetary goal is to evolve from fear to love. From resistance to acceptance. From victim to responsible. As John Lennon wisely said, it starts by imagining your life like that, a world like that.
You are part of the human condition; we are all in this together. Evolution starts with that one monkey: That be you. Be driven by a different set of motivations, free from the influence of what’s been moving humans since the beginning of time – fear.
Not by resisting it. Rather by looking it straight in the eye and seeing what it’s really about: FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real).
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