Spiritual activation is when we live with integrity and loving, joyous service for the world without attaching to an outcome – even with all of this energy that’s passing through, with all this intensity in the world. It’s when we bring our mindfulness practice – just taking the time to be still, to notice with compassion and with love – and activate our love and care for the world in every moment of every day.
It’s when we bring ourselves off the cushion, off the mats, and out into the world, and be the living embodiment of the healing that our world is begging for, dying for, gasping for. It’s when we show up and be the embodiment of the vision we have for the world. This takes us out of the world of activism and into the realm of activation. This is what makes life rich and abundant. It makes life joyous, where every moment is something to harvest – even in the pain, even in the suffering, even in the struggle, even in the challenges and difficulties.
From Spiritual Activation with James Baraz, Insight Meditation Center of Berkeley, September 2010
That’s how I ride my bike.☺
Hello Julia, hope you are well.
I meet you at the Earth First table, when I had my Green Party table next to you at the Hog-Farm festival a long time ago. It was before you went up Luna, escaping much male pressure.
Many things have changed since then. Greens died three times since then, Earth first shrunk.
Right now my focus is for Mendocino County, building electric charging stations for electric cars. I have a 100% plug in and have to go to Ukiah to charge it up. Much of infrastructure is needed to reduce global warming.
To your question, ” what is spiritual activation”, my answer is. The word spiritual is a construct. It includes many qualities of divinity, morals, ethics, subtle understandings of life, and essential functioning of a peaceful coexistence on earth. Like the mind it is the 5th dimension.
The word activation relating to motivation or activation is for humanity to use the mind and be active in the interest of the whole, the planet, nature or earth. It is also a construct of the 5th dimension. Not everyone has a functional mind and can think of how to engage the mental strength for the benefit and welfare of all. Actions have to be meaningful not stupid.
Blessings, only real knowledge based of facts and data, can protect the values of the earth.
Ike