Part 3.
Organization of the Cultural Creatives
Let’s speak globally for a second...
“The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.”
— Dalai Lama
“We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.”
— Mikhail Gorbachev (Former Soviet Union Leader)
“Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.”
— Pope Francis
“I feel we all have the obligation, myself. I want to live in a more humane, civilized society, and I feel like the only way we're going to achieve that is if we all take it upon ourselves. I just wish we could be a more caring society.”
— Singer/Songwriter Natalie Merchant
“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.”
— Anthropologist Margaret Mead
And these caring people currently do exist today. Right now. And let’s refer to them as “Cultural Creatives.”
“Cultural creatives are defined by a set of values, a new lifestyle, and worldview. Feeling that we are all members of one planet, they are concerned about the environment and social-economic justice. They have a different notion of relationship—one that is less hierarchical. They are interested in holistic health and are extending women’s concerns into the public domain. Their emphasis is on consciousness raising in all aspects of our lives—personal, social, and planetary. Cultural creatives are social idealists, concerned not so much with political and economic power as those in the old movement were, but rather with seeking to change our image of the world, our sense of identity.”
— Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution
Which means...
“Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.”
— Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard
And these cultural creatives are self-actualizing people...
“Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.”
— Psychologist Abraham Maslow
And what does the “another world” look like?
“New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism extreme nationalism culture."
— Deepak Chopra
Sounds nice. Anyone else?
“Consider the profound impact a critical mass of people could have by embracing and embodying the true energy of unconditional love. It doesn’t require a great stretch of imagination to envision a population committed to loving, serving, and empowering everyone equally would completely transform life on Earth."
— John Rainey,“Finding God, Losing God, Becoming God”
And pertaining to the OCA movement...
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.”
— Jesuit Priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Okay, “cultural creatives” exist right now, today. And they do currently have good intentions, but we must remember one thing about good intentions.
“You cannot earn your way to heaven or to God with your effort of good intentions. You prefer to think a good deed here, a bit of charity there is more important. You prefer to give up on yourself and to help others, without realizing that you can help no others until you have helped yourself. You prefer selflessness to self because this is your chosen way to abolish ego and to please God.”
— Mari Perron, A Course of Love
However...
“Your good intentions neither please nor displease God. God simply waits for your return to heaven, for your acceptance of your birthright, for you to be who you are.”
— Mari Perron, A Course of Love
Therefore...
“Your good intentions will not overcome the world and bring an end to hell. In all the history of the world, many have done good, heroic, and at time miraculous deeds without the world changing from a place of misery and despair. What is more arrogant? To believe you alone can do what millions of others have not been able to do? Or to believe that you, in union with God, can? What makes more sense? To choose to try again what others have tried and failed to accomplish? Or to choose to leave behind the old and choose a new way, a way in which you become the accomplished, and in your accomplishment bring in new into being?”
— Mari Perron, A Course of Love
Thus...
“It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.”
— Meister Eckhart
Which means...
“ If you ignore your inner purpose, no matter what you do, even if it looks spiritual, the ego will creep into how you do it, and so the means will corrupt the end. The common saying “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” points to this truth. “ In other words, not your aims or your actions are primary, but the state of consciousness out of which they come.”
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
So, with that cautionary tale, of good intentions, what now?
“Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking, 'What can I get from the world that exists,' to asking, 'What can I offer to the world that is awakening?' The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next."
— Author Gregg Braden
And let’s remember...
“This is our finest hour. We live in a unique time, perhaps as significant as when the first humans arose in self-consciousness in an animal world. Millions of us are rising in a more universal, holistic, or cosmic consciousness in a self-centered world. We are being called forth in every field and discipline to fulfill our potential through joining together in creative action.”
— Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution
And just...
“Perhaps…the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.”
— Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
Which means...
“If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.”
— Dalai Lama
Furthermore...
“Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.”
— Psychologist Abraham Maslow
So, these so-called “cultural creatives” exist right now. Today. And in my humble opinion, they all must be organized (i.e. OCA Movement) to create the conscious evolution (i.e. Heaven on Earth) we all desire.
But not in the way that you think. They don’t need to be organized for more protests, marches, and rallies, but with loving sacred circles and participation in organized spiritual practices so as to bring more unmanifested consciousness (love) into the manifested.
You see, Albert Einstein said, “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” And unfortunately, “cultural creatives,” currently, are dropping their collective consciousness to the level of the problem itself—with protests and marches and fighting against others for what they believe in—and not elevating their own collective consciousness to the level necessary to solve the problem.
Have protests, marches, and rallies solved the problems of the world today so far? Of course not. But collectively bringing more unmanifested consciousness (Heaven) into the manifested (Earth) will.
And with good intentions, these so-called “cultural creatives” have been trying to change the world to be more loving, holistic, and connected since the ’60s, and where has it got us? There could be an argument that the world is worse off today. Which only reinforces the quote by Henry G. Bohn: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
So, let’s try something new. Let’s put protests and marches and rallies aside for a moment and work on raising our own consciousness by participating in sacred circles and the spiritual practices of love, compassion, forgiveness, and service—which is the OCA Movement.
And all our global problems will be solved by the cultural creatives (i.e. the meek) who elevated their consciousness to the level of Christ consciousness (i.e. Second Coming) through their participation in the OCA Movement and its spiritual practices.
And “now” works for me. How about you?