Responsibly exercising our right of conscience is not a product of our knowing, of our knowledge – no, not that… but rather a wisdoming process… a process of seeking wisdom, of seeing and understanding the wisdom of intent – not so much in terms of what was, but in terms of what is now before us – and through that seeing and understanding, having the wisdom of intent entering into our ways… our ways of living and working. It is a wisdoming, intentional dialoguing – two or more community – process requiring the presence of work, requiring real work being present in our processing. Real work, work that reflects the whole of the truth of the Source… truth accessible not through structure, not through hierarchy, but rather through process – grassroots process, intentional community processing -, the nature of processing that makes possible the seeing of the truth in the presence of the work… the work of now, which itself is present within the reality of now, the here and unfolding now – that which is before us; before the whole of life…
This right of conscience being that which is inherently, intentionally present within our humanness, that which is the called for source of hope, hope in that no matter how far we have wandered away from intent, away from the wholeness of truth, there is a path, a process not of our making, but rather intentionally accessible to us: the process of our responsibly exercising our right of conscience.
Our right of conscience is being awakened, stirred from dormancy, inspirited and brought to life through a growing recognition – a clarity and conviction of heart and mind – that “It is not working”… our current ways, patterns and pursuits are not working. They are not advancing our humanness; they are not nourishing the life processes of earth; they are not creating a better world, a better, more real, more meaningful future for our children, all of our children; nor are they a reflection of our enabling the ongoingness, the eternalizing, of life on and through the earth. And too, there is a deepening understanding, an embracing of the reality that “It is not working” is not a problem to solve, a fixing of that which is broken, not that; but rather that which requires of us the realizing of our potential to consciously and conscientiously move towards becoming an intentional people of life, of earth.
Responsibly exercising our right of conscience requires that we turn our hearts and minds away from false pride, away from pursuits of power – power over, manipulative power, away from that; and towards the real… real work, not unlike that of the purposeful, intentional work of making life whole, making life real, making life fruitful, making life wise. Real work that both reflects and embraces the wholeness and intentional ways of life, and our being created, intentionally created, as living human beings, members in the larger community of life – and as such, have work and role within the life processes of earth.
And now at this time of potential, a time for embracing the whole of the truth of the Source – the truths of life, the truths of love… a time for coming from essence patterns of intent, the essence of the works and the word… the essence of the works being life; the upward unfolding, eternalizing of life on and through earth… the essence of the word being love; the all-inclusive love of the Source entering into the working of the world. At this time the all-inclusive love of the Source entering into the working of the world is to our here and unfolding now, essence based, willful process of becoming; as grace, the unearnable grace of the Source, has been to our hereafter, existence based, motivational process of salvation. A time for realizing potential, potential that is inherently, intentionally present within our humanness… a realizing of potential Christ made possible through the completion of his work – the work of reconnecting us, reestablishing us with the Source. A realizing of potential that calls for our accessing and developing our ableness with regard to responsibly exercising our right of conscience. It is through our becoming, becoming an intentional people, that we return to the path of intent – original intent… original intent, that which preceded original sin. And now, at this time of potential, we are being called to become an intentional people of earth… called to being authentic – wisdom entering our processes; called to become truly human – the all-inclusive love of the Source entering through us into the working of the world… called to fulfill the image, the intentional image, held by the Creator.
Terry P. Anderson, Philosopher of Living Potential
