We Unfold Through Work

Think of our planet, after time, after humans have given all of themselves. When the whole physical planet begins treating itself, directing it’s own weather, curing itself, communicating within itself, growing the crops, harvesting them, processing and cooking them, and transporting them to your dinner table. All the clocks in the world striking at the same second with out error, directed by a global intelligent hub, itself spread all over the planet. This network decides when the season is right to plant the cotton, when to pick it, make the clothes to express every individual’s deepest feeling of how they should look. You don’t have to work then; everything will be provided, and it will be as you like it. You will read all the books in the world from the comfort of your couch, see all the world from the back porch, eat the kind of food that is to the minutest detail designed for your individual well-being and pleasure. This is not too futuristic. On a rudimentary level we are witnessing the infancy levels of this to come phenomenon.
That will be the time when you will have all the time in the world to look inwards into yourself, be content enough to be silent enough and listen. The we will have all our lives to discover ourselves and unite with the divine that we are in and which is in us, which is we. That day will see a truly grown human species, a world full of prophets and priestesses and holy witches and blessed wizards. We won't preach each other then, we will be too busy becoming ourselves and loving each other. Humans will be born and will die being true humans. What the biblical King David writes about in Psalms 82:6 will then come true-- "I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.' We shall then be born gods and die greater gods. It is only for this purpose that we have to work, for the human species and this planet to reach equilibrium with each other. To reach the balance of growth and compatibility so that the world and all of the humans in it become as one entity, feeling each other’s need, and living through each other. As we work we are contributing to that better tomorrow, and one couldn’t but hope, that when one comes reincarnated in that blissful living world, one shall remember this day and, truly then give praise to the divine in humanity and in all. Whatever it is that you do, you are contributing to a much bigger dream than that which inspired you to do something in the first place. Have all there is to get; power, money, fame, …without work nothing means anything in our lives. When you cook, do laundry, water the garden, design a bridge, write a blog, lay bricks, act in a play or help the disabled you are contributing to that great cycle of work which will one day make this planet a practically living home for all mankind. The world we live in today is the result of billions of years of nature working within itself to bring itself to life. Finally, it also brought us into existence. It evolved us into intelligence, emotion and spirit. Day by day existence is realizing itself more through us as we are too, being a part of it. For the past dozen millennia humans have been working to come out of their mammalian ignorance and grow towards understanding the true language of the world, albeit uncountable misunderstandings which we still witness today. But we seem to be coming of age now. We are beginning to worry about overusing it, over warming it or causing desertification, and that looks good for a start, but it is still going to take time. The world is becoming more and more organic by the day. All over the world we share the same news, watch the same movies, discuss Iraq or Palestine or Global Warming, we read each other’s blogs, we chat real time from over many time zones. We are beginning to discover that our actions have ripples that affect others on a far wider circle than we ever thought.
But think about what it took the world to reach here, all the thinkers, physicists, politicians, prophets, farmers, writers. All the Ghandis, the Einsteins, the nameless contributors. All the Egyptian engineers, the Mesopotamian ironsmiths, the Indian prophets, the Arab Alchemists, the European inventors, all the fathers and mothers that tended their progeny all through the millennia, …the list is endless. Through contributing even only this much, the planet grows a lot because the effect of your efforts grows on an exponential scale. One man discovers fire; the other cooks with it, yet another melts ore with the fire. The ironsmith makes a wheel and another a chariot, and Alexander the Great rides it to conquer the world. What ever it is that is easier and more meaningful for you to do--just do it. All worship, philosophy, meditation, thinking, and all the physical work people do will one day change this planet into a living conscious paradise for mankind.