Evolution into Love
Recently I ran across one of my old social media posts from 8 or 9 years ago (as you do), and it made me smile to see it again. But I'm sharing it here, because a lot has changed surrounding it, and there's plenty more now to be said about this topic.
I can clearly remember where I was at, back when I first wrote it: Hopelessly drawn to divine Love, constantly seeking it, easily finding it...but never actually wanting what I’d found. It’s a frustrating stage that so many of us go through, in our spiritual evolutionary process.
Here’s the post, you might remember it:
Love is like a shop that only sells one thing.
The shelves are full of Love.
Love itself stands behind the counter, beaming at me.
I look around the store.
“You know what I could really go for right now? A kosher dill pickle.”
“Sorry,” Love says. “We only have Love.”
“Oh, ok. How about toilet bowl cleaner?”
Love smiles. “Nope. Just Love.”
“Just Love? Well that’s kind of a limited selection, isn’t it? What about patio furniture? What aisle is that in?”
“There is only Love here for you.”
“I guess you’re out of room deodorizers, too. When will you be getting more in?”
“Never. Love is all there is.”
“What kind of useless shop is this?” I roll my eyes and leave the building.
Ten minutes later I walk back in. “Party napkins?”
Love gazes at me sweetly. “Just Love.”
“Oh,” I say, disappointed. “What about dog treats? Those are almost like Love.”
“Why don’t you just try some Love?”
I eye the proprietor dubiously. “How much is it?”
“It’s free. Take as much as you want.”
I ponder briefly.
“Nah,” I mutter, and head outside to catch my bus. “But I’ll be back tomorrow for some gym socks.”
Love smiles and waves. “See you then.”
Sound familiar? It’s so understandable, isn’t it. We want Love to be what we want it to be, on our own terms. But Love never will be that. Not even a little bit. Real Love feels (to the personality self) like the loss of everything familiar, everything comfortable. Everything valuable and safe.
Speaking for myself, plenty has changed internally and externally since then. The world made of Love has taken root on this earth, and my interactions with it have grown far more comfortable. Far more purposeful. But even so, acceptance of Love is still an evolutionary process, always unfolding.
So, these days I shop with pleasure in that little store, eagerly collecting cans and boxes of Love as I make my way to the till. But some days, I pile them all into a shopping tote I’ve brought with me specially for this purpose...only to space out and forget the tote at the bus stop, making my way home without it. Damn.
But hey, it happens. And it’s nothing to beat oneself up for. This is how learning takes place, right? This is how mastery happens. Losing my tote teaches me how to pay more attention next time. And the time after that, and the time after that. And so it goes, until one day I turn around and find that it’s no longer a problem, remembering my groceries.
Onward, to the next phase of evolution.
This is an ongoing process for us all, and that process looks a little different for each one of us. Some of us take ages to even locate that shop in the first place; others find it right away. No matter. We all get there sooner or later, in perfect right timing.
Then, after we’ve found the shop, we slowly learn to recognize and value the divine Love for what it really is... and we teach ourselves to let go of what it really isn’t. And honestly, that’s just a maturation process. A development of trust. And over time, with practice, we all really do get better at it.
Until eventually, your shopping tote fills up to the brim with Love. After that, the next phase is just learning the discipline to stay clear, present and focused on prioritizing Love, for long enough to successfully bring those divine groceries home with you.
And then one day you do it. It happens.
Hooray! Mission accomplished. Right?
Aaand...onward, to the next phase of evolution.
Now all that’s left is the dauntingly new and completely unknown task of how to actually receive true nutrition from all that Love.
Oh. Um...okay.
Yep. We will be teaching our bodies, specifically, to recognize and metabolize divine Love, allowing its perfection to rewrite our cellular function. Letting it re-pattern our DNA, so the physical self becomes equipped to express divinity as form.
The separation of the physical from the mental/emotional and spiritual self is coming to an end, you see, as all parts of our being start to come together in holistic wholeness. Holistic holiness. So, all parts of the self will undergo these radical upgrades into knowing themselves as Love.
That’s what’s next.
Because the frequencies are rising higher into Love than ever before in history, causing us to embody more of our own true divine identity while still in human form than has ever been possible before. So all parts of the self will be having to learn a thoroughly new way of being.
The best description I’ve ever heard about this next part of the process, comes from Jacqueline Hobbs, AKA Oracle Girl. She says it’s like we’ve all been living at the bottom of a lake our whole lives. Deep blue water is all we know.
But (due to the rising frequencies on this planet) the water has been evaporating steadily. Now we find ourselves lying on the bottom of a mucky dried up lake bed. Ick. All kinds of unpleasant stuff is visible now, that used to be hidden in the depths.
Hey, how come my gills hardly work anymore? I’m gonna have to learn how to use these lungs, pronto. But I don’t know how, I’ve never done it. So I make it my spiritual practice to take in great big gulps of air once or twice a day. It doesn’t feel natural, it doesn’t feel good, and I despair that the breathing process is never gonna be automatic or easy for me. (Other people might get the hang of it, but I never will.)
Then because I have no choice, I get up and teach my rubbery legs to walk. Out of the lake bed, and onto dry land, where an entire world of dazzling beauty awaits me. I stumble a lot. At first I can’t imagine how I’ll ever manage this.
But somehow I do. And as I walk around, breathing air, looking at this spectacular landscape, only then does the amnesia of the ages slowly start to wear off...and I remember that I always was a land walker. In truth.
That’s what’s coming up very soon for us all. So hang in there. Despite what it looks like on the outside (in that mucky, dried up lake bed), we’re all living through an absolutely incredible time of transition into Love. And you can do it. You can remember yourself as a land walker...because Love is what you are.
New breathing meditation track
By popular request, I’ve created a short, simple meditation track for breathing Love and Light. There’s a certain amount of guided talking in it, but its main purpose is to allow you to follow along with the steady guided breath.