Emergence: Part III – For Humans

Homecoming

For humans, Emergence is first of all something that happens on the inside of us. The crux of Emergence, is a change so transformational that it is actually something brand new. And the kind I’m speaking of here, finds its center at the core of the human heart.

In What to Remember When Waking David Whyte describes our internal truth as it comes into union with our external life as a homecoming. I believe that this, at least in part, is about allowing the essence of who we are to emerge into every realm of the world with which we have to do. Like a fountain, our internal truth has the potential to spring up as a purified aquifer.

Referring to the folly of mass mindedness, Barbara Hannah quotes Jung in her book The Animus saying people become “infected with the leprosy of collective thinking.” The purity I speak of rises as an authentic expression, untainted by mass speak, and bringing our internal truth to light from the core of our essence.

In some of the first stanzas of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” his focus is on origins and inception. His invitation is to pause with him, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems…” He extols the virtues of “now” as almost ineffable saying there “will never be any more perfection than there is now…” And then comes the lines that, for me, epitomize Emergence.

Urge and urge and urge,

Always the procreant urge of the world.

The “procreant urge of the world” has its origin with the individual who stops to take in the inception of the very seed, which brings a poem into being. The world Emerges into its new and necessary form of being as individuals find origin in their own pause of reflection. We reflect on something we are discovering anew, something so pure and beautiful, something so authentically real that it merely springs forth.

This is not to say that every human thought is pure and beautiful…we know better. It is to say that those conceptions bound up in the blueprint of original intent, those liberated from the “leprosy of collective thinking” are indeed in possession of a powerful potential for beauty, one so convincing it may bring change to our circle of influence. It may, in its Emergence, precipitate something emergent in the external world.

Our greatest contribution to our evolving culture may very well be our own homecoming, the Emergence of our internal truth into the “one external life” we’ve been given.

How might you cooperate with the Emergence of your core essence?

Writing Prompt for the Week: Coming Home to Myself