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Deep listening is an inner-science technology that connects us to the mystery of life. Practicing listening aligns us with life and cultivates faith or trust in unseen worlds — the organic intelligence of oneness that exists behind our conditioned human awareness. As a deeper dimension awakens in our nervous system, we relate to the complex entanglement of our human wounds with remarkable simplicity and generosity. Thomas Keating has described this inside-out form of healing as divine therapy. Though not fully understood by our minds, it serves as mind medicine; listening to the divine cadence calms our thoughts, fostering a contemplative connection and allowing the nervous system to rest. For a time, we feel free from fear-based separation patterns.
It is a remarkable privilege to be alive during these times of profound change. Many of us feel called to serve — to be present in ways we have not been trained for or ever dreamed possible. Such is the nature of our human inner development amid times of change. For instance, in 2018, after eight years of silence practice facilitation, I received a powerful sixth chakra download of a Merkaba symbol. Despite having no Jewish heritage, I continue to facilitate an inner-science technology based on the integrative intelligence of this sacred ancient symbol. For me, facilitation arises from an intrinsic relational depth rather than an external technique.
Our soul’s true calling is timeless. It resides in the depths of non-duality — a state of knowing through unknowing. Most human suffering arises from our investment in the unconscious divisive patterns we inherit or accumulate within ourselves and our relationships with life. Divine restoration occurs as we enter a vast field of non-duality that brings life to the framented cracks. The resulting spaciousness allows the breath of understanding to touch our human wounding with compassion and grace.
As divisive wounded patterns have intensified globally, they have also led to a collective crisis where the structures built upon our wounds are no longer sustainable. As these outdated and unethical frameworks dissolve, a profound restorative intelligence becomes accessible to our hearts, bodies, minds, and psyches. We uncover an inner wholeness that does not oppose life but listens to its restorative flow. When we trust life enough to embrace our personal, ancestral, and collective wounds, a new relationship with life informs our nervous system. We may feel an ecstatic sense of coming home for the first time.
However, experiences of ecstatic union transcend this world. Therefore, we must remain grounded and present during this profound existential shift in our human potential. As Teilhard de Chardin said, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. “ Perhaps another way to convey the primacy of spirit is to suggest that we are light beings remembering our home while embodied.