(A different version of this article was originally published in Raw Attraction Magazine.)
That’s what it is to be a human being.
Every one of us is perfection within imperfection.
Non-physical within physical.
Oneness within differentiation.
We share an essence, but yet we are each exquisitely unique in every way.
We experience existence as individuals — meaning we exist entirely in RELATION-ship to one another — and yet we are, by nature, powerfully drawn to each other by means of a shared animating force, which goes by many names.
“Love” is one of them.
Lately I’ve been playing with the idea that what we call “love” is the manifestation of Source within the realm of duality. The manifestation of Source on Earth. It functions as a sort of connective tissue. And a superbly beautiful one at that.
I once heard the teacher Jack Kornfield muse that perhaps love and gravity are just different forms of the same energy — the invisible force that pulls things and beings together, and connects them.
Scientists have been able to tell us what gravity does, and have given us equations for how it works, but they don’t actually know what it IS, do they? Maybe it’s love in another form.
If there’s no denying how deeply drawn human beings are to each other, why do we continuously separate ourselves — except from a select few we call “family” or “friend” or “lover”?
Why do we pretend that we can’t deeply feel even a stranger’s emotions, a.k.a. energy-in-motion? We can.
And why are we so shy about seeing each other’s bodies? Is there something to be ashamed of? Protected from harm?
During certain journeys with the sacred plant ayahuasca these questions left me in profound awe. I experienced such a powerful, visceral connection with my fellow journeyers that I felt I could read all of their thoughts and they could read mine. I felt that they were deeply aware of the cascade of emotions pulsing through my heart. I felt that they could physically sense what I was sensing. I felt that they could really SEE me. And you know what? I believe that they truly could . . . at least in terms of potential.
When we are at the fullness of our innate power as humans, we can feel and see all those things.
It’s all energy.
There are many born here on Earth with heightened sensory capabilities who perceive energy as a normal human function.
And many of us “ordinary” people have experienced such perception of the non-physical when in altered states of consciousness.
So, beautiful reader, how about this?
If the truth is that we have the capacity to feel each other’s energy, then let’s give ourselves permission to feel.
If, in fact, we have the potential to see each other deeply, let’s allow ourselves to see.
If the nature of reality is that we’re all connected, then let us prevent fear from distancing us. We are not in this alone. We are family in the truest sense.
If we deeply know that love is drawing us all together, all the time, in a wondrous earthly dance, then let’s share love freely.
As we individually set these conscious intentions in our heart to live according to our true sexual, emotional, creative, loving, HUMAN potential . . . eventually our collective reality will catch up. It’s just a matter of time.
We are not just bodies. We are bodies of Source, existing and experiencing in relation to one another.
Body of Source, let me see you.