Taking up the Work of Joining in the Ongoing, Upward Unfolding, Eternalizing of Life on and through the Earth
Now is the Time of Potential… This writing emerges from recent and ongoing dialoguing regarding the change of era now before us – the emerging era of potential. Present within this dialoguing has been some serious seeking regarding the teaching and practicing of chemistry at this time… this time of potential… a time of taking up the work of realizing our potential to be and become an intentional people of earth… a time requiring our taking on and coming from a perspective of intent – the path changing perspective of intent…
It is through our taking on an intentional perspective that work, our work as living human beings, enters into our processing…
It is through our taking up our called work that spirit enters, is manifested; becoming available forever to all of life…
And when all-inclusive love enters through us into the working of the world, it becomes possible for us to become fully and truly human; an intentional people of earth.
The Perspective of Intent… There is a creative force – an inseparable life/love force, a will led here and unfolding now intentionality actively present, stirring within more and more of us…
A calling to join in the work and ways of intentional processes… processes organized by the ongoing, upward unfolding, eternalizing of life on and through the earth… processes inspirited by the upward unfolding – the ever more whole, ever more inclusive, upward spiraling of life and love…
A calling for us to willfully, yesfully respond… to respond in spirit manifesting, potential realizing ways… to respond in ways that reflect our being created as free will, conscious choice beings… ways that reflect the intended ways of working of life and love on this earth… ways that bring into the world the all-inclusive love of the Source – the love of the Source that is calling us to move towards wholeness – wholeness within ourselves, wholeness within life…
A calling towards ways that reflect the whole of the truth… the truth of our being intentionally created as living human beings; the truth of our coming from a common Source; the truth of our sharing a common home with the whole of life; the truth of our being one people of earth – each and all having within a particular intentionality, an essence pattern of intent to bring into, to manifest within, the ongoing, upward unfolding, eternalizing of life on and through this earth…
A calling to embrace reality… embrace the reality that we, like all of life’s creatures, have work and role… work and role with regard to the ongoing vitality and viability of the life processes of earth… work and role recognizing that at this time of potential, community is the smallest whole.
We, through the intuitive processes of prayerful questioning and intentional dialoguing, have come to see and understand a truth, a common reality regarding how we, as living human beings, work. A reality that, through reflective processing, is experientially validate-able. That truth being…
THE PERSPECTIVE WE HOLD, WHERE WE START OUR THINKING FROM, DETERMINES THE PATH WE TAKE, WHAT WE MOVE TOWARDS, WHAT WE MOVE AWAY FROM; AND ULTIMATELY WHAT WE CREATE, BRING INTO EXISTENCE.
The perspective we hold creates within, an orientation and a particular focus – a guiding star, so to speak… a guiding star providing light and direction for the path of our taking; for our processes and pursuits along that path. And too, especially critical at this time, is having an understanding of the working of perspective – a necessary grounding for making conscious choice, a free will conscious choice… a choice free of the predetermined, externally defined impulses of an existence based culture… an exercising of free will conscious choice as a person, and especially as a community – community being the smallest whole at this time. At the core of this change of era, central to an authentic yes on our part is the free will conscious choice regarding our coming from above – coming from essence, taking on the path changing perspective of intent, moving towards the world of intent – or coming from below – coming from existence, the current path of the world of our making, the world of our experience.
Within the Perspective of Intent… Further seeing and understanding coming to us through reflective intuitive processing has made visible both the process – the upward progression towards intentionality, that which we are being drawn towards – and the systemic relatedness of the particular perspectives present within the larger whole of intent. Within the perspective of intent we can see the focus on, the centrality of work… our having work; and there being intended ways of working of life and ourselves on this earth. And within the whole of intent we can see the virtue present within the systemic perspectives, and the depth and completeness they bring to our understanding… and thus to our becoming – to the potential realizing processes and pursuits of our becoming an intentional people of earth. Within the life of the whole perspective we embrace the truth of livingness… the truth of our not being separate from, existing outside of, life and its intended ways of working; but rather our being members in the larger community of life. Our human centered perspective shifts us towards the essential virtue of our humanness – the intended way of our working, that being free will, conscious choice; developing ableness as a person and especially as a community with regard to that, being critical at this time. Within our coming from essence, the perspective of potential, of realizing potential, what comes to light is compassion, in particular the compassion of equality being called for now… compassion being the essence, the very heart of our humanness. All of these systemic perspectives acting systemically to shift the realities of existence as we currently know them through the world of our making… a shift from our current notions to making life real… a shift towards our ways being a reflection of the intended ways of working of life, of ourselves on this earth at this time… a reflection of intended ways and a means for love, the all-inclusive love of the Source, entering into the working of the world… ultimately, a shift from the artificial world of our making, to and towards to the world of intent, original intent.
Ordering and Organizing Heart and Mind for the Work… Taking up the work of joining in the ongoing, upward unfolding, eternalizing of life on this earth not only requires the orientation, focus, and understanding of the working of perspectives; but also calls for a way of ordering and organizing heart and mind for the work. For this we need philosophy, and at this time a philosophy that is whole enough, complete enough, and practice-able for the work of now. The living philosophy of potential is emerging as such a philosophy… a wisdom led, essence based, work organized philosophy, that looks to the process mind of the intuition of wholeness for accessing the wisdom of intent… a philosophy that itself is in an ongoing process of development through our intuitively seeing of intent and intended ways of working of life and love.
Further Developing our Seeing and Understanding… Holding in mind that which is at work – actively present within our inner stirring, within our serious seeking – and with the particular emphasis on teaching and practicing chemistry from an intentional perspective, has brought forth some new imagery and further development of our seeing and understanding.
We have come to see the inseparability of life and love manifesting in integrating ways as the intentional Source of our beingness… our living human beingness… the beingness required for the work of now. And to seeing the integrating of life and love coming about through reconciling, run up, work – the called work of now – as the process of our being and becoming fully and truly human. It is through beingness that we advance our humanness. It is through beingness that we move towards the world of intent. Whereas, in the world of our experience, we have looked to human functioning, to advanced doing as the existence based measure of progression – upward progression, a measure of evolutionary progress; at this time of potential, it is beingness, the advancing of our humanness, our moving towards being and becoming an intentional people of earth, that emerges as the essence based measure of progression – our upward progression towards and along the path of intent.
Once again, we are reminded of the limitations of existence led separation and segmentation. Previously we have seen, through a life of the whole perspective, the truth of our livingness, of our being living creatures, members in the larger community of life… the truth of our not being separate from life – outside of life – nor our being separate from, observers/ managers of the so called natural world… no, not separate from, but rather members of the larger community of life. In reality there is only the intentional world… one common Source, an intentional creative force behind the whole of life, our selves included… an intentionality that we are now being called to join with – to join in the work, to join in the process of. And, as before, we can see the inseparability, the wholistic inseparability of life/love; yet we are able to see and engage a systemic relatedness that allows us to focus on the one, while holding in heart and mind the other. Thus we are able to turn our intentional processing towards life, and particularly towards a common field of endeavor of chemistry, an intentional turning towards and seeing of life – its intended ways of working – while keeping the intended ways of love present within our processing.
Whereas love is a spirit awakening, humanness advancing process; life is a spirit manifesting, potential realizing, upward unfolding, run up process that seeks to sustain its ongoingness through regenerative cycles… cyclical processes that work to create nourishing, upward enabling structuring and structures… the life nourishing structuring required for sustaining intentionality, for realizing potential… for sustaining the intentional purpose of the systemic whole within which the potential realizing process operates. And too, there is the reciprocally nourishing structuring requirement between systemic wholes.
Life is a dynamic, upward unfolding, systemic process… a process that holds within a pattern of structuring at interfaces – not in isolated segments, but rather at wholistic, systemic interfaces…. points and places of interaction within the processes of systemic wholes. Interactions that are required to sustain the integrity – the intentional work and way of working – of the particular systems, systemic wholes involved. All of which share the common work and purpose of nourishing and enabling the ongoing, upward unfolding, eternalizing of life on and through this earth. We have come to see within this purposeful work serving pattern, the systemic relatedness of three essential processes – intentionalizing, purposing and structuring – and within those these work images: itentionalizing – seeking to create and sustain the presence of intent; purposing – dynamically sustaining or establishing systemic purpose with regard to particular work (e.g. healing process); and structuring – generating particular life nourishing structuring and structures. This seeing brings to mind the more familiar investigative approach of chemistry and a pattern within that: the systemic functional relationships of cause, effect and structure… an existence led observing and seeking of change making knowledge – the how and why of particular structures and structuring… an approach most often carried out in segmenting – focusing on a particular segment, issue – ways, while holding a perspective of problem.
Contrasting the existence led and essence based approaches lifts up quite a shift between the familiar, the common, and what is being called for now: Our shifting from an “existence led observer seeking change making knowledge” to an “essence led, authentic participant – a free will conscious choice participant – joining in the ongoing, upward unfolding, eternalizing of life on and through the earth”, is indeed a significant shift – a change of path, a change of process and pursuits – the nature of shift now being called for… a shift that follows the pattern of the truths of the previous being enfolded within intended unfolding; emerging as more whole, more complete, deeper expressions of truth.
At this time, the work aim of intentional practice (intentional practicing of chemistry, for example) is to have our ways be in harmonious congruence with the intended ways of working of life and of love… to have our ways be a mirror image of intentional ways, a true reflection of “as above, so below”… an aim that is beginning to coalesce in the creation of virtue sourced, essence based, reciprocally nourishing, run up processes… processes that have cyclical regenerative processes working within them… run up processes grounded in, anchored by the virtue of the land – the life energy field we are operating within – and the free will conscious choice virtue of our humanness… processes that reflect our working in life nourishing, advancing humanness ways… our working in ethical – between and among ourselves – ways; and intentionally ethical ways – ways that are right for humanity, good for the whole of life. It is in our working in ethical, intentionally ethical ways, that makes visible, in manifest-able, practice-able ways, the integrating of life and love… makes possible the seeing, the experiencing of the active presence of the compassion of equality, and the all-inclusive love of the Source – the Source of all, of ourselves, of the whole of life. If we, as a person, as a community have an aim of loving the Source, it is through ethics – the honoring of intended ways – that we can manifest this love.
And so, whereas we have been privileged to see a bit of the new, and are grateful for the continued development of our practice-able understanding; what has and continues to be constant is the necessity for our having faith in intent… putting our faith in that… a necessary faith for love to enter into our processes.
Humbly in Service, Terry P. Anderson, A Developer of the Living Philosophy of Potential
