We Cannot Wake Up Alone

We cannot wake up alone because we cannot take ourselves out of control. We cannot press our own buttons and we do not know who we are within the finite limitations of control.

Knowing who we are is a process of discovery that we make on the edges of identity, where we could have no idea how we would respond no matter what we told ourselves until we were there. But beyond this, we cannot know who we are alone, because alone is not real. Who we are at every point is not a static self, but a process of mutually-influencing reciprocity.

In fact, we tap into the truth of who we are when we are able to connect in with other nervous systems, extending consciousness into progressively further and further reaches. It is through this process that the highest order information gathered from each system can be exchanged for the furtherance of the bigger system and the individuals involved. If the truth of this life is interconnection — and it is — there is simply no way to maintain the illusion that one can awaken without another. In fact, from this vantage point, the next master or world teacher will be the singular experience of a collective coming into connection.

The teacher will be connection itself, what lies in between us, the place of promise will be the abundance we experience as well as the safety and love when connected into this whole.

It will be here that we learn the mechanics and pronouncements of connection — that the whole exists as a form to protect the uniqueness of each. That this be the unifying vision that has it be that each individual is called evermore to be fully who they are, while being dedicated to honoring, supporting and fostering their individual realization according to its distinct requirements. Until together we find ourselves awake and home. If we each endeavor toward this end, we discover that this process of interdependence and reliance organically draws forth the best in us and curbs the excesses, not in order to be good people, but because we have each placed our well-being in a collective pod. And as such, we are both responsible and are given the resources to realize who we are. Our thank you for this is to put back into the pot with care and attention, but also to demonstrate the outcome of the investment in ourselves. It is a virtuous cycle where growth begets growth. It is also pragmatic in that it pushes us against things we would otherwise avoid. And for the care of the whole, demands that we release personal entitlement and preference, which ultimately benefits us. This is not done out of altruism but out of placing desire into a deeper, truer place. When we relate, tending first to what lies between us, all three are taken care of necessarily. Because if we are not doing well as an individual, we are not doing well collectively either. If the relationship is not doing well, neither person is doing well. Wellbeing becomes not something we do for someone else or do as a sacrifice. We cannot sacrifice our needs in the process either. All must grow and be tended to as needed.