Jana Dixon
The creative principle IS The Principle of Life itself! We all have genius. It is just that on every level it is beaten out of usfrom the soil, from chemical agriculture, from a cooked diet, from dysfunctional family, from rote education, from unsoulful community and from self-destructive industrialization. Until a re-gene-rative transpersonal civilization is achieved we live in a de-gene-rative anti-genius world. Rather than the conventional use of the term genius as the outstanding achievements of freaks of nature...I am using the word genius as it was originally intended, as the wave front of the genesis of soul...The Christ Spirit...which is timeless and spaceless...and ultimately compassionate for All life in time and space...that is beyond de-gene-racy.
"Plato and the Greeks called it daimon, the Romans genius, the Christians guardian angel; today we use terms such as heart, spirit, and soul." The surety of our genius comes from our infinite depths, not from our surface camouflage. We must leave the womb of comfort and complacency to discover our wild aboriginal corethe ever present-eternal flux of Spirit. We are learning that in the absence of our genius all we are left with is neurosis, defense, contraction, second nature, second guessing, fear, shadow and hesitation...that is we have fallen out of sync with the Life Flux. Until others are similarly entrained in the Spirit flux, they are taking and sucking in fear and dependency. Only between individuals shining with a similar spiritual radiance (genius), could there be anything resembling a re-gene-rative love. Until we begin to follow the path of our own personal genius we just want to kill, fuck or eat the world. At this stage in our development the exploitation of our genius is synonymous with the consistently exploitive nature of our pre-global, pre-transpersonal mind-set. Exploitation of the inner and the outer world and up and down the Great Chain of Being. Because of the exploitive nature of human evolution thus far, the soul/genius of the individual has been codependently usurped by the collective. When members of society have low-self-esteem from thousands of years of conditioning and subservience to an OUTSIDE authority, then the inner daimon or the genius of each individual is not even explored, let alone tapped. True community is a community of geniuses. If not then human culture remains counter to life, evolution and ecological sustainability. Creativity (genius-genesis) needs protection from the shadow in ourselves and others. That is neurosis, shadow and Narcissus must be consciously addressed with compassion. For if we submit to doubt, nay saying and negativity nothing new would ever be created. We would just cyclically regurgitate the same thought and behavior forever...translation ad infinitum. Transformation, the new comes with the faithful bravery of riding the spontaneous ever-new flux of Spirit. Genius is the en-lightenment from suffering, and it takes suffering to become enlightened. Awakening may mean suffering to understand the causes within us, but even suffering itself must be let go of.
"Suffering should neither be denied awareness, avoided, despised, nor glorified, clung to, dramatized. The emergence of suffering is not so much good as it is a good sign, an indications that one is starting to realize that life lived outside unity consciousness is ultimately painful, distressing and sorrowful. The life of boundaries is a life of battlesof fear, anxiety, pain and finally death. It is only through all manner of numbing compensations, distractions, and enchantments that we agree not to question our illusory boundaries, the root cause of the endless wheel of agony. But sooner or later, if we are not rendered totally insensitive, our defensive compensations begin to suffer in one way or another because our awareness is finally directed toward the conflict ridden nature of our false boundaries and the fragmented life supported by them." The general physics of our relationship with the Kosmos is the archetypal response of the psyche...the physics of relation. Transcendence of bodymind allows us to descend more "deeply" into this world and the body, through calming of the automatic retreat chemistry of our primitive fear structures of consciousness.
"Failure to establish and maintain healthy boundaries results in a perpetual sense of threat, an uncertain sense of personal safety and well-being that in turn produces defense mechanisms. These defense mechanism help us ignore the self-destructive and abusive elements in our lives." One must be boundaried before being unboundaried. By integrity of the boundaries of the individual I am talking about engaging the world more dynamically through the full flow of spirit juice (genius), by making conscious and challenging with true compassion that which is subversive to our greatest well-being...that which is destructive to life. This is the way we grow. Idiot compassion would have us be passively beaten up, which serves neither us nor the violator...whom should be kindly helped to save his/her soul. No passive retreat here babe...proactive full frontal embrace of life all the way up and all the way down. Unexamined shadow leads to unexamined defenses which cloud the vibrancy of perception and contract our world into the separate-self-sense. Compassion for ourselves in proactively addressing boundary violations, allows us to drop the defenses which hold us back from unity consciousness. Thus ironically it is healthy boundaries which allow us to become unboundaried. Our energy is thereby channelled away from shadow and into the light of effervescent perception and the connectedness of All. True intimacy within ourselves and with others begins with healthy boundries...honoring the life of the individual...even our own. Boundary work is compassionately addressing that which diminishes the life we embody and sabotages our genius. In doing our boundary work we conserve our integrity of soul, defenses can be dropped and the doors of perception opened, consciousness is wiped clean, revived, anew...beginners mind. With opened energy circuits and increased consciousness our environment becomes ten times more vibrant, like on XTC. Shadow brought to light means a life without habitual unconscious fear and defense. Once we are over outright self-retreat and are self-compassionate enough to not just be passively alive, but actively upholding Self, energy can be taken from defense and put into creativity...This is why I say true community or soulful union is reliant on honoring the genius or soul of the individual...otherwise everyone is in repulsion with a mere facade of congeniality. The internal saboteur and the external saboteur are one, for any self sabotage creates a backlash of sabotage from the world. Yet if we are ultimately self-compassionate then any attack from the world does not affect us for we have transcended sabotage and do not resonate with it. Attack can then be met with compassion. The way we suffer in our archetypal reactivity is the seed of our awakening from the unconsciousness and shadow. The blind foreboding sense of the inevitable is the archetypal animal chemistry from which we have been programmed by our experience and past trauma. This fear of fate is the suffering that ignore-ance and unconsciousness has inflicted on us and shows up as a deep enduring sense of helplessness. Our ability to ride the tiger in faith through the dark labyrinth of despair, determines how quickly we learn to transcend our primary animal chemistry. To transform our automatic physics of relation with the metaphysics of spiritual choice through compassion. Our fight with the dragon is a game of rising above the obvious and the predetermined, by waking up to the trauma and insidious pathways of the separate-self-sense. Bliss-love-consciousness is the reward for a successful fight with the dragon. Remembering how to return home again and again...Our lives are an epic journey of the magnetism of Karma which is a Kosmic play of genes, environment, experience, conscious-cultivation, future sense and Soul. Some of us have differentiated from this exploitive culture out of sensitivity to the extreme pain that it causes. Once the liberating journey outside of the collective reality is taken it just snow balls. With our perception cleansed we can see where we have gone off track as an organism, and can begin a methodical integral overhaul of one´s ecology, biology, sociology, psychology and spirituality. This is not just a pop-revolution, this is waking up the reality of life in the Universe beyond what is spoon fed and enforced by culture...that is a trans-culture revolution. Transcending the suffering wraught by denial of genius and the resultant unconsciousness/ignore-ance. To transcend the unenlightened suffering of our culture is to awaken to our essential nature...to follow our Earthsoul...the guardian of the Lifeforce. The sacred texts of Life´s adaptability to environment is written in the genes. The genes are the Kosmic code of accumulated Life wisdom. Re-gene-ration or the preservation of this Kosmic code, is all that conserves and enhances the integrity of our matter (genes, cells, body, earth). Regeneration is synonymous with Genius. For that which enhances the integrity of physical life is also that which furthers the depth penetration of consciousness. Genius is thus the transpersonal voice of spiritual meaning and the purpose of life in the Universe. Christ Spirit or pro-life genius is the progressive understanding of how the re-gene-rative code operates in all aspects of the Human Kosmos, including technology. Anti-life genius is what I call dumb-genius or hubris. This is also useful in determining the re-gene-rative code due to the disastrous effects on life and the planet. However dumb-genius is extremely dangerous for it reduces sentience as it destroys life, thereby limiting the ability for humans to become consciously aware of the nature of their folly. The answer is not just more dumb-genius technology, but re-gene-rative technology...that which is pro-life, universally moral. Please don't assume that just because I am talking regeneration I am talking "back to Eden." We can't even conceive of the subtle technology of the future unless we regenerate ourselves through successive generations to reclaim our full Kosmic-Spiritual potential...our genius. In this way we learn how the Universe works beyond our anthropomorphic, hubric and exploitive projections. A benign creature at one with a benign Universe. Idiot compassion is linked with dumb-genius, however true compassion for life is pro-life genius. Compassion is the only way to grow without rebellion and compassion is that which allows us to melt deeply into the present moment in which all genesis-genius occurs.
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