This photo is old. The new paradigm or the new narrative, as I like to refer to it, is already here. People all over the world (and no I don’t have hardcore evidence, research or stats to back it up) are creating a new way to live on the planet. If you are only getting your information from main stream sources then you probably don’t know this. But there is a plethora of alternative news sources that are informing us that the people of the earth are awakening: we are discovering our power as creators, and we are discovering that the old narrative that we’ve been living on this planet is a “choice.” We can continue down the road of work, misery, suffering, but it need not be. Many of us are choosing a different path, and we’re creating a new narrative.
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report, 2014, revealed that only 13% of employees globally are engaged at work! Now maybe that doesn’t mean a whole lot to you, but to me it says that the unprecedented shift in consciousness that has been the subject of indigenous prophesies, the shift that has been promised by holy texts, and yes, The Course in Miracles and A Course in Love is unfolding, and all in divine order. The people are returning slowly, but surely, to their individual, unique roles and reasons for inhabiting this planet.
There was a time that I would not have put this so explicitly, but it is becoming commonplace to hear these words in some form or another. When people say that they live by the guidance of their inner voice, it is living in unity and relationship with the Universe of which they speak. Those who are moving to living in the present moment are moving to living in unity and relationship with the Universe. We have different ways of saying the same thing, and this difference of sameness is what is revealed to us in unity and relationship.
It is in unity and relationship that I would like to share some of the ideas given to me about the new narrative, and the beliefs from the old narrative that reveal the spiritual logic and appropriateness of the new.
Shifting from working to creating. This belief that we are workers and must work for a living is probably one of those beliefs that has been ingrained in everyone, regardless of who we are. I remember in elementary school how my father would tell me and my sisters and brother how important it was to get a good education. He terminated his schooling after the 8th grade, but he believed that education was the key to getting a good job, to working and earning a living. Of course, my father was not privy to the current buzz that we are the creators of our lives or of our human experience, and I am not at all certain that he would have altogether ignored it if he, or my mother, heard it.
However, it is difficult to ignore this buzz. Some may not agree with it; some may not even like it, but they cannot say that they’ve never heard these words. In other words, our true identity is being revealed to us: we are creators! With the revelation comes ways for us to discover our creative power. When we do realize and observe that there is a relationship between what we think, what we feel and what manifests in our lives, we realize that we are not workers and we are not here to work. We are creators and have the power to shift the way that we live on this planet.
The discovery does not necessarily mean that one does what I am doing, calling for a shift or a transformation (or the elimination of work as we know it), but it does mean that with your true identity revealed, an identity that you carry with you on a daily basis, there cannot but be a shift in your life experience, a shift in how you choose to use your creative energy, how you choose to live out the days of your life on the earth. Knowing and accepting who you are does in fact initiate the new narrative, shifts life on the planet, as no one is separate from the whole, from the earth or the Universe. The separation does not exist.
Ending the commute and gathering locally to fulfill the needs of the community and to create local economies based on those needs. The belief in working, as we know it, directs creative energy to the maintenance of the belief in the bottom line, and bottom line jobs do not benefit us, our families or our communities. The new narrative proposes that we are the creators of the “fulfillment” of our needs and the needs of our families and communities. Yes, many businesses and some corporations say that they are concerned about their employees, their families and their communities, but we all know that it’s only talk.
Here’s another aspect of the old narrative that is being addressed: leaving the community to work! Once we begin to understand the structures that we have allowed to guide our experience (imprison would be a better word and would not be too strong) and how those structures do not just fall out of the sky, but are created from our beliefs, the new idea of creating local creative centers and economies will become apparent. The belief in working for a living takes us out of our houses and communities; the knowing that we are here to create for life directs our energy first in the re-creation of our own lives and then to the re-creation, with needs addressed, of our families and our communities. There is a reason why we live around the people that we do. In any given community, there is enough talent to satisfy the needs of everyone in that community, no matter the need.
The job market. As it exists now, the job market is structured to address the maintenance and expansion of the bottom line (that’s another way of saying profits). Shifting to the new narrative and living in unity and relationship, we can see how the talents or the accomplishments that each and every one of us brings to the planet is the Universe’s plan for addressing and fulfilling every need on the planet, including the needs of the planet. Talents or accomplishments are the subject of the term “follow your bliss.” Your bliss is the way to discover your talents and accomplishments. This discovery can only take place in unity and relationship and cannot be learned in the education system that we have made on this planet. While we may require some guidance in becoming aware of them, we cannot be taught our talents and accomplishments.
The job market as we know it today is where positions are announced that will serve functions other than the fulfillment of the needs of live on the planet. It would be fair to say that most of these jobs are life-degenerating (this in part accounts for the 80% global workplace disengagement), while the practice of talents and accomplishments serve a regenerative function. They are life giving. It is important to understand something else about talents and accomplishments: they are meant to be given away; they are meant to be shared.
I will be sharing more of my ideas about the new narrative. Transmuting the energy of earning to sharing and gifting, the commute to gathering locally to create local economics based on the fulfillment of the needs of families and communities and the earth is an idea that is expanding at an accelerated rate. There is not a day that goes by that I do not receive some elaboration on these ideas.
This is the joy of creating in unity and relationship. It disallows for any creative endeavor that does not take the highest good of all life on the planet into account, unlike the systems that we have created in separation, like the American workplace, that are failing us miserably. There is not one system that we’ve created on this planet that is life giving.
Not one.
And so must your part in the creation of the new narrative begin.
