Love is the Answer

If you watch the news it looks like violence, power struggles and judgment of others is getting the upper hand. Before you fall down the rabbit hole of fear, I want to share with you a way to frame what is happening in a way that brings more heart, more spaciousness, and even more trust into the process. To do this, it is helpful to stand back from what is happening right now and see that life is an evolving process. Our planet was once just a ball of gas and dust, made out of atoms that were once a part of other stars. Over the eons, the creativity of life took this stardust and made everything you see now – oceans, mountains, flowers, giraffes, icebergs, and you.

Over and over again, in the unfolding of life on this planet, it went through phases where there was chaos as one phase was ending, and a new one was being born. I believe we are in the middle of the chaos of a shift of evolution.

The best way to understand this is through the story of the caterpillar becoming a butterfly told by Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist, Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD. The caterpillar is a necessary part of life, creating ideal habitats for beneficial insects, recycling nutrients and providing food for many species. But it has a limited view of life.

Eventually, this leaf eating machine wraps itself in a cocoon and becomes goo, and out of this goo begins to appear what are called imaginal cells. They are the beginning of what is to become the butterfly. But the goo always kills the first wave of imaginal cells! The old in any evolutionary shift always fights to stay in control! But this causes the imaginal cells in the cocoon to come together into a community of cells. Then the urge of the new becomes stronger than the pull of the old and out comes this magnificent creature, the butterfly.

Whereas caterpillars can strip entire forests of their vegetation, the butterfly is a different kind of being. It pollinates and gives beauty to the world. It also has a bigger view of life than the caterpillar who lives mainly on a few trees. Monarch butterflies travel from Canada to Mexico and back every year! These truly amazing creatures were once caterpillars!

Elisabet sees that humanity is now in a shift as the old, cocooned mind that has caused so much heartache on this planet is fighting for its survival while a new kind of mind is emerging, one that sees there is no ‘them and us’.  We are all kin, living on a beautiful planet we all home.

If you watch this old kind of mind carefully you will see that it feels I am better than you because of the color of my skin, or my religion or my ethnicity, or my political orientation, or my gender. And because of that I can judge you, dominate you, hurt you, take from you, destroy your home, and even kill you. This kind of mind has brought forth untold suffering on this planet through violence, domination, and endless wars. And that is what you see on the news.

But you are reading this blog because you are a human being maturing into adulthood. What is calling you is a new kind of mind, the kind of mind that includes, cares, listens, and values our sameness and our differences. For this new kind of mind, it is impossible to cause harm to yourself, your loved ones, all the sentient beings who live on this planet and the planet itself because it sees the sacredness of absolutely everything.

You are a part of humanity maturing out of a fear-based mind (the caterpillar) to the awesome healing of the heart mind (the butterfly).

Yes, the old kind of mind is very seductive. It likes to be right and make others wrong. But over and over again you have a choice. You can choose to be with what is going on with the old kind of mind (fear, anger, despair, and judgment) or you can choose to relate to it through your heart (compassion, forgiveness, trust, care, kindness). Every time you recognize and unhook from the old mind inside of you without judging it, and every time you come back to your true home in your heart, your presence in the world makes a difference. As Mother Teresa once said, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

So, I invite you to consider that in this time of things breaking down it is also a time of major breakthroughs for humanity. Hold with me that the heart of the world is being awakened. If more and more of us can live from a place beyond fear and hatred, our planet will be healed.

If this resonates with you, invite you to listen to my upcoming radio show on Dreamvisions 7 Radio: The Peace that is Always Here. It will air on Thursday, March 27th at 5am and 5pm HERE. After the 27th, it will be available on demand, along with every other radio show I’ve ever done HERE. Please feel free to explore my catalog and listen to topics that call to you.

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Free Live Call with Mary:

Thank you for another amazing and intense free live call. I’m excited to share the details of the next event! It will be called: The Field of Joy that is Our Birthright! We will be meeting, on Tuesday, May 6th at 5:30 pm PST for an hour and a half. We will continue to meet every two months, so keep an eye out for future events!

Here is a snippet of what we will be talking about:

We are living in a time that is superfood for our struggling minds, fostering fear, divisiveness and judgment. No matter how big the struggles of your life are right now, there is a field of ease and peace that is always with you. Join Mary in discovering how to unhook from the struggles in your mind enough that you can rest in the joy that is your birthright.

Don’t forget if you can’t make it on the day, you can still participate by sending your questions and enjoying the recording after the call at your convenience. I hope to see you there!

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