Unconsciously One

We have unconsciously created our true nature. . . 

To the best of our knowledge, a strange phenomenon has taken place in the last few decades.  Take all the greats of our known history, and put them together in a room.  Take Lincoln and Einstein, Jesus Christ and John Lennon, you know the people you always name when asked which dead people you'd like to have over for dinner, if you had the chance. . . 

Don't stop at one this time, invite a dozen of your favorite historical figures to dinner. Anyone, who died say, before 1980.  Let them gather together before dinner so they can get to know each other and mingle while you set the table.  

Now imagine, just as luck would have it, your best friend calls as you are about to sit down to eat.  Not wanting to be rude or, you quickly pull out your latest iphone or smartphone and politely tell them you're having Jesus over and you'll call them back.

The engaging chatter at the table comes to an abrupt silence. 

You look up to a table of stunned faces. 

Embarrassed, you try tucking the device away but you're met with a dozen objections.

Suddenly you just became the most fascinating person at your dinner table. 

Why, you ask? A modern person in the modern world in constant communication with not just everyone they care about, but everyone everywhere, would easily make you the person they would most like to talk to.  Throw in the fact that you have continuous access to a global database of information and data and even the reluctant scientist at your table would chat you up. If only to convince you to let them take a look inside the device to see how it works.

More likely than not, after the obvious questions, they would want to know how this ability affects you. What does it mean for your life? How has it impacted your relationships?  How has it changed the world? 

Living in the modern world today means you have access to something that, until the last few decades, has been elusive to even the greatest that have come before us.  For the curious and adventurous, this means more than the latest sports score or social media update.  With global communication comes a powerful new global awareness. 

This can be both a blessing and curse depending on which side of the storm you find yourself caught in, should this global awareness set its sight on you or worse, your mistake.  Our media is still caught up in the novelty of the sensational and salacious.  As we grow in our use of this awareness, so too will their programming, lest they become obsolete. 

For the person of means, today's world affords you not only a global awareness, but a global presence as well. Our corporations figured this out quickly and if money is no object, you're only a plane/boat/train ride away from the place you always dreamed, your long lost friend or your ancestral home. 

Which brings us back to dinner and the who's who of history at your table.

To them, seeing a world united, interconnected and interdependent would likely only confirm what they secretly felt in their time.  Validating what they could only dream of life when they took their risks, held their course or summoned the courage to try again.  

While there can never be one true measure of success, most will agree that at least one important factor in determining the greatest to ever walk among us, would be world impact.  For some, that would be the deciding factor.  There's no denying that we aspire or at least admire those among us who affect the whole.  The more altruistic the better, it seems. There are far more selfless heroes celebrated than honest thieves.   

From King to Gandhi down history's highway littered with the memories of every life spent or taken in service to their fellow man. All the way to Jesus who sits at the head of our moral high table. We at the least respect in our hearts a life spent in service, even if our lips say different.  We may not like to admit it, but deep down, buried in our collective unconscious, we know even if its just for this one brief flash of matter, we are part of a whole. 

Despite this age of 'self', every day more and more people are finding the personal evidence necessary to convince them of this fact.  As you become more aware of the synchronicity of life or the rhythms of nature at play only a fool would deny the wisdom of their own fifty trillion cells that comprise them, working as one.

What is more celebrated and utilized than our creations that bring us closer? Connecting and sharing in ways dinner guests never dreamed. We unite even if its just to proclaim how un-united we are. Relishing in our uniform uniqueness.      

Unconscious people create unconscious collectives and just as the blood pumps despite the fool's assessment, so too does our collective unconscious create all evidence necessary to reveal our true nature.