Divine Intervention by Andrew Cohen

[Guest guest]

Issue 33 / June–August 2006

God's Next Move

Exploring the Next Spiritual Revolution

 

Divine Intervention

by Andrew Cohen

 

If we want to change the world in a significant way, if we're serious

about creating a better future for us all, then we have to face the

fact that the only way it's going to happen is the only way it's ever

happened: through the evolution of consciousness itself. And for the

universe to evolve at the level of consciousness, you and I have to

be the ones to make sure it happens. We have to be the ones to create

the future. What does that mean? Well, it means first of all that we

have to wake up to the fact that there's no one else who is going to

save us. Even in the twenty-first century, some of us still cling to

the hope that there is someone " up there " or " out there, " a kind of

divine principle, higher power, or Godhead that is directing the

process and is going to intervene and make sure that everything will

turn out all right in the end. Of course, many of us have long since

outgrown such beliefs, and it may seem utterly obvious to us that we

need to save ourselves from self-annihilation. But I wonder how much

we have considered the deepest and most profound implications of

accepting ultimate responsibility for the future.

 

To accept responsibility for the future means we know without a doubt

that it is on our own shoulders—each and every one of us—to create

that future right now. And now means NOW. Those of us at the leading

edge have to stop waiting, stop hiding, and stop pretending. We have

to be the ones to take this leap—because there literally isn't anyone

else to do it. Yes, it is going to take divine intervention, but we

have to be the divine interveners. We literally have to choose to be

God—which I define as the creative or evolutionary impulse itself.

Billions of years ago, something exploded out of nothing. And who but

God could have made such an audacious choice—to create an entire

universe? That powerful urge to become is now actually beginning to

wake up, through the unique capacity for self-reflective awareness

that is our human birthright. Through us, God, or the energy and

intelligence that is driving this whole process, is just beginning to

awaken to itself. So becoming God in an evolving universe means we

have to be the ones to carry this process forward at the deepest and

highest level, to consciously evolve in the biggest way possible for

our collective salvation and transformation.

 

Spiritually, the enormous challenge for each and every one of us is

to look directly into what it actually means to be the one who is

going to do this. From the absolute or nondual perspective that

emerges in spiritual revelation, there is only ONE. There literally

is no other; there is only one without a second. To truly understand

conscious evolution, we have to grapple with the profound

implications of that absolute fact. I believe we can only consciously

evolve to the degree that we have actually realized at the deepest

level of our being that we are that one without a second. Facing into

the truth of nonduality—that the many is the one and that the one is

ultimately who we always are—in an evolutionary context forces a

confrontation with any relationship to the life process that is less

than whole, complete, and fully committed. To consciously evolve is

to surrender unconditionally to the truth that there is no other and

at the same time to accept responsibility for what that means in an

evolving universe—a cosmos that is slowly but surely becoming aware

of itself through you and me. That one without a second is

simultaneously awakening to itself as it develops, as it evolves, and

it is that one, as you and me, alone, that can now begin to take

responsibility for endeavoring to consciously create its own future.

That is enlightenment in an evolutionary context: the profound

recognition that God is that singular energy and intelligence that

initiated the creative process and is just now awakening to itself as

we awaken to it. In that revelation, there literally is no other. And

therefore, the only question is: Do we have the courage, audacity,

and boldness of spirit to be that one without a second, right now, in

this world? Our future literally depends on it.

 

Divine Intervention by Andrew Cohen

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