The Stickiness of Negativity

Another wonderful Monday (it’s pouring down rain here in Chicago) another chance to be alive and meditate publicly on the nature of god as manifested through our economy.

Another e-mail with Pam Brill and some more wonderful thoughts about the “stickiness” of negativity and drama, sugar and caffeine, crack and vodka, television and dysfunctional relationships.

My basic viewpoint is that we are all 100% pure content providers streaming the highest quality creative and spiritual content in real time. And at least three dimensions (probably more like 14 if the world’s smartest physicists are right).

Only very few of us know this. And even fewer have the guts to organize their lives as if it were true.

So, from the experience of the material world, which we have chosen to place above the spiritual world due to our limited understanding of our existence in worlds other than our immediate one here on earth, we believe ourselves fragile, needy, and in the process of dying. (You don’t have to believe in reincarnation or life after death to think this—just the scientific fact that all energy doesn’t degrade but rather changes form (first law of thermodynamics). And that the body loses about 21 grams of weight at the moment of death.)

Because of our immediate experience, we believe that we are primarily consumers. That we are running down and need food, sleep, coffee, love, attention, dope shoes, etc. to survive. And I certainly wouldn’t try to go long without the first two. This misgiving has been reinforced and institutionalized by every major religion and most forms of government. It shows up prominently in both our for-profit, non-profit, and pro-prophet institutions and systems of thought.

But we aren’t primarily consumers, we are primarily creators. Whatever else we are, we are alive, alive, alive. That is what we are. Alive and growing! Thriving! We are alive first, second and third (at least). And creating and re-creating our world all around us every moment is something we do as easily as breathing. Both through what we choose to create and by what we choose to consume. If we create and consume unconsciously then we get an unconscious world. If we do so deliberately and consciously—if we create the one thing we are willing to live and/or die for—then we get the world we have always dreamed of.

Only problem: most people aren’t willing to live or die for what they create and consume. They are (living and dying for what they do and who they are). But they don’t take responsibility for it on an essential level.

If you’ve ever seen something killed you will realize that life is sturdy, determined and robust. It wants to live. And health is always its preferred form of existence. Expression always its primary form of expression.

So let it out. I saw you dancing in your car to that Al Green song. What happened to that spirit in the meeting? When you went to write the next great American Novel?

As we learn to believe this streaming feed of ourselves and give it appropriate weight in our life (it is our most primary source after all), we tend to become less interested in the car crashes that pepper the world. In a very real sense—drama has become so prevalent that we no longer even learn anything from it. There’s only one other thing to do—let it go. We’ll still be able to respond to it if we so choose, but it will play a much more relaxed part in our life in my opinion.

The most important aspect of this realization of self is that we understand that we have the power and responsibility to create the world we want. Not without regard to the laws of the material world. But a whole hell of a lot more essentially than most of us have ever even thought. Our standards are ridiculously low. You really think you’re a mid-level manager on a soul level (and you very well may be—but not if you can’t feel it)?

If you won’t do what you want for yourself then do it for your children. They are going to face the exact same fears and hurdles unless you overcome them. As we stand on each other’s shoulders in a very real way we can start no farther than where our parents left off. There’s lots of growth potential right now, though. The whole world is in massive transition. Come on board!

And the positive—real love—is ridiculous in its comparison to drama. It blows it away every time. And, as the transition makes us strong, we are actually capable of having what we really, really want without flying into the flame like a moth.

Our task on this planet, as I see it, is to express ourselves essentially and joyfully enough that we bounce out of bed at 6 after spending the night with the woman of our dreams. (Translate genders, etc. for yourself, I’m a man and can only speak for myself.)

The stickiness of drama is nothing compared to the epiphany of true love and life! This every religion and spiritual thinker guarantees.

So be careful what you spend your whole life dedicated to! You will become it!

Onward and Upward!

Lots of love,

Eben