Be-Causal

When Barbara was preparing to move to New York City in pursuit of her life’s calling as a futurist, she asked her 9 year-old son, Wade, if he was willing to go with her. In his wisdom and love, Wade responded, “Mom, you’re doing what mothers are supposed to do. You’re trying to create a better future for your children. I want to come with you.”

Barbara Marx Hubbard did not just move to move, she moved be-cause of her commitment to the vision of humanity’s Conscious Evolution.

When I look at the places I have moved while following my life’s purpose, I see a 5 year-old walking into a Sunday school class, hearing a song and knowing Jesus loves ME.

At sixteen years of age, I moved to become a wife and a mother.

My move to being an ordained minister was first in the United Methodist Church, and then as an Interfaith Minister of Reunion in 1997.

I moved to create Holistic Alliance – the first holistic entity granted tax-exempt status by the federal government – and I moved with others to disband the organization in 2005.

Paul Loeb writes in Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time, “Working toward sometimes difficult dreams of social justice requires hope. At times we gain it from seeing tangible results from our efforts or the efforts of others. More often, it’s a way of viewing the world that can be strengthened and refined through experience, helping us persevere despite all the obstacles.”

I admire the move Barbara Marx Hubbard made. I greatly admire the move of her young son, Wade.

We are all being asked to move again. Moving means we know how to be-causal. What are your thoughts causing? What results do your words cause? What reactions are caused by your actions?

This is not the first time we have been divided fifty-fifty. The previous time the citizens of these United States of America were so divided on an issue was during the Civil War, where brother fought brother over the idea, “Is it OK for some people to own other people?”

I asked John which side he thought he might have been on, had he been alive during that time. He said, “Probably the North.”

He went on to say that he is in favor of freedom, he believes an individual should be allowed to make his or her own choice.

I asked about an individual’s choice to go camping in the high hills and have a camp fire.

What if it is in dry season?

What if the winds catch that individual’s camp fire and the sparks take on a life of their own and destroy hundreds of homes, cost millions of dollars, and destroy lives? Be-cause of an individual’s right?

Only as humans raise our individual consciousness does true freedom and an individual’s right mean harm to none. It is time we move.

Would you steal if you knew you could get away with it? I have. But I would not now, because now I know the truth: I cannot harm another without also harming myself.

We are be-causal.

In “The Genius of Second Maturity” Jean Huston says: For many of us, our years are being extended as our options and opportunities are being increased. We now have the time to become who we are; no longer men and women working a few short years in search of subsistence, we now are gaining a life span that allows us to become sages, richly actualized human beings able to transcend the particularities of our local selves, able to deal wisely and creatively with the enormous personal and planetary complexities of our time.

We are be-causal. What are your highest intentions? When Dr. Mary Jo Bullbrook led a ceremony of intentions on December 16, 2012, I wrote the following be-cause writing intentions helps bring desires into the physical realm.