Ask Dr. Julianne
Aloha Dear Ones,
There are many things I want to share with you, many ways of exploring our evolving capacity for deeper, mutual relationship. Â I also want to answer your practical questions about relationship issues most of us face.
A question came to me this week from someone who has read all my blog posts. They love my down-to-earth advice. Â They specially enjoy my attempts to bring humor and hope to relationship, whether for singles looking, or for couples looking for something more together. Â They are intrigued by the evolutionary perspective on relationship about which I’ve begun writing, but confessed to not feeling ready for it. Â “I’m willing to take responsibility for myself, and I want to be a better partner. Â The evolutionary stuff is very interesting, and I’d like to believe what I do makes a real difference in the world–but it kind of sounds like something for people who’ve got everyday problems handled. Â How can you expect regular people to feel responsible to everybody? Â Maybe down the road, I’ll be able to take that on.”
This is a valid question, and an honest response to the biggest picture world view I’ve ever encountered, evolutionary spirituality/ evolutionary relationship. Â I get that being asked to consider the greatest good, in everything from how we love, how we do business, to which thoughts we think, is overwhelming. Â Any sane human is humbled by the realization that, “God has no hands but ours.”
Yet, not only are we being called to realize our big picture responsibility, we are now actually being called to lean into the edge of our understanding of it. Â We are called to act boldly on behalf of the greatest good, even as we question what it is, what our relationship is to it, and what our relationship is to each other.
Perhaps the best known teacher of evolutionary spirituality is Andrew Cohen, with whom my current teacher, Craig Hamilton (IntegralEnlightenment.com), studied. Â Andrew’s new book, “Evolutionary Enlightenment,” is a wonderful explanation of the evolutionary perspective. Â I highly recommend it to you. Â Andrew also publishes an online magazine/ evolutionary network, EnlightenNext.org, in which he writes a, “Quote of the Week.” Â The quote I just received in my email speaks beautifully to the question of just how much consciousness we are ready to take on.
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