I’m no true movie buff, but one of my favorite movies, of all time, is The Matrix. I’m compelled, not just by the action sequences, the intense swells and falls, the exploration of human potential, or the futuristic edge to the movie; more importantly, it’s the powerful idea being conveyed that magnetically draws me to it.
I experience it like a clarion call to arms, an alarm to my conscious and subconscious mind. It resonates with me in ways that provoke me to physical and emotional responses that seem unreasonably placed. It’s just a movie right?
However, for me, it feels like more than a mere movie, more than a cinematic presentation for the vain entertainment of bored, curious, paying souls. You see, I see myself in this Neo character; not because of some delusion of grandeur, and not because I think I’m so special. I simply relate to his knowing, to the burr in the mind that just won’t subside or leave you alone. I don’t know how I know what I know, I just do. And what I know isn’t particular to me, or one culture, or one ethnicity, or one socio-economic demographic; it’s particular to us all on a deeply spiritual level.
What I know is that all of this, our collective experience in this world, is but mere illusion. We live in a world of vain fantasies, intricate arrays of fictional sets, and costumes, and characters. There is a veil over our eyes. Many of us see through filters without our knowing. All we hold so dear in this plane of tangibility is but the fabrication of our sometimes, selfish longings, the results of our collective lusts for power, importance, dominance, and often excessive material gain.
The universe is framed upon abundance. There is no shortage of anything, in truth. However, there are some things I perceive are excessive and therefore influencing, with a heavy hand, the world we all must share.
As I see it, there is enough pain, strife, and misery in the world. There’s enough greed, crime, and exploitation. There’s enough pettiness, competition, and selfish ambition. There’s enough prejudice, bigotry, hurtful criticism and blame. There’s enough poverty, and oppression, which are two of the most egregious forms of violence. There’s enough hatred, physical violence, and malice. There’s enough superficiality, debauchery, and carelessness. There’s enough divisiveness, injustice, separatism, and classism. There’s enough!
Abundance is all around us, and the universe continues to thrive at all times. This is not to be argued or debated; it is what it is. But some of our intentions are manifesting after the kind that proves harmful to the whole of humanity. Some of what we’ve created is irresponsible and shapes our shared destinies in a most negative and destructive manner. Abundance is to be appreciated, but when we slide into excess, in those things that translate to our demise, we must, at the least, take a closer look at our desires, intentions, and behaviors.
I’m certainly aware of the usefulness of our desire for more. It is this growing desire that has lead, and will lead to continued advancement in technology, business, medicine, and innovation and creativity on a whole. However, there appears to be a slow, but steady, deadening of our senses to the inherent truth that there comes a point when we personally have enough.
I hope to be clear on this point. I’m not insinuating any one of us leaves off from being productive, from creating more and more value, from extending and increasing the benefits we provide the world. That would be unproductive and irresponsible. I’m not saying wealth creators cease from creating wealth, or inventors cease from inventing useful tools or innovations. The world needs us to be wholly who we are and to fully express and exercise ourselves in that which we are most productive and contributive. What I am saying is there comes a time when this desire, capacity and/or ability to create abundance can become corrupt and destructive, in its superfluity, and therefore, counter-productive. This is especially true when sects of society intend or attempt to thwart the natural access, of all, to the same measures of abundance they know and enjoy.
So, abundance has its place and there is surely enough to go around more than once. On the other hand, we could benefit from an increased consciousness and awareness regarding those higher thoughts, desires, intentions and behaviors that we know to be in mankind’s best interests. We could be more deliberate in our attention to be more loving and accepting. We could stand to be more generous, accommodating, and complimentary. We could be more gentle, kind, and patient. We could certainly be more unselfish, edifying, and encouraging. We could choose to be more forgiving, understanding, and emotionally transparent. We could be more considerate, present, thoughtful, and gracious. We could choose to be absolutely and totally free, and in choosing so, we might be more inclined to support, uphold, and allow the freedoms of others.
So, take a few moments to consider if you’re a contributor to the over-abundance of the attitudes, dispositions, outlooks, desires and intentions that plagues us, or if you’re a contributor to ensuring the world becomes more conscious and aware of the attitudes, dispositions, outlooks, desires and intentions that could empower us to co-create heaven on earth. Even if the latter is lesser than the former, I’m certain of this; there’s enough.
