Framework for Change
Pursuing one's truth on the path to a timeless existence
I’m introducing the graphic below as part of the next Together We Can-Expanded Edition draft.
It centers on human intelligence — the consequence of genetics, biochemistry, and experience — and our unique position in the animal kingdom by having sentience and sapience. These qualities place us astraddle in physical and spiritual worlds simultaneously until, as for each of us, the survival of our bodies ends, and our spirits begin a timeless existence.
We apply our intelligence to survival, safety, and security issues during our lifetime. In so doing, we pursue our truth — derive inspiration from sacred or sublime sources — show our work, and share the results such that our lives become a matter of record.
As our individual lives get documented, so do our collective efforts as societies. Throughout recorded history, tribes, city-states, empires, and nations have, each in turn, adapted to organizing principles that govern the physical world — oneness, interconnectedness, and cause and effect — to their unique circumstances and developed amazingly complex systems with sophisticated processes and tools to meet the challenges life presents.
Those organizing principles of the physical world mirror those that rule in the spiritual world — unity, love, and justice. Of course, history also illustrates how those civilizations rise and fall. Ongoing research about likely reasons why they became great, only to be brought down, suggests that alignment with those overarching spiritual organizing principles or the lack thereof is the primary cause.
However, staying true to principles inherent in the spiritual world is challenging in a physical world earmarked by constant change. Even though we know that change is inevitable, we have difficulty accepting it. Often, we try to stop it or force it to happen in ways that favor some but deny access to the basic needs of others and threaten their lives — a complete departure from the dictates of a higher nature to which we’re called.
In subsequent posts and notes over the next few weeks, I will flesh out this framework for change in more detail, offer examples of how it applies to the development of human intelligence, and refer to the excellent work of other Substack writers in this area. Along the way, I hope to gain ground on explaining the concept of “Together We Can” for the benefit of whomever it may. Thanks in advance for accompanying me in this next stage of my journey.