ABOUT THIS EPISODE
A podcast about inner meditative work to help the world.
This is a recording of a talk I gave in 2022 in Avebury, about the ins and outs of inner-working with crises, wars and acute situations around the world. Places such as Iran may seem a long way away, but it is on the same planet as we, and crises happening elsewhere are very much a part of our own lives.
On the inner planes there is no distance at all - only the psycho-social distance, the uncloseness that we create ourselves. Those people over there are just like us.
So this is about world work. There is lightworking - working with light beings to bathe our planet in healing vibes - and there is world work, which is about getting inside critical situations to work more surgically, bringing whatever is needed to a situation to help it resolve itself constructively.
I've done quite a lot of this over the years, in groups large and small, and on my own. In this talk I share experiences of what can happen when we apply ourselves to this kind of thing.
If you are vexed by events unfolding around the world, this is one way to be involved. Ever thought of flying alongside a missile and tipping it so that it lands in a harmless place? Ever thought of ministering empathically to the needs of souls devastated by floods or bombing? Or standing alongside a mother who has just watched her family die?
Ever thought of sitting alongside a fighter to try to understand what drives him and how he feels about life? And then to witness a woman fighter (Kurdish or Burmese, perhaps) and what drives her?
In retrospect this is one of the most meaningful activities of all that I've done in my life. You can do it wherever you are. This is one of the key things I do during the Sunday meditations - working consistently and regularly with the issues of the time. I've learned so much from beavering away at this. Paradoxically, since becoming semi-disabled as a result of cancer, I've got better at it - as physical capacities have declined, inner capacities seem to have grown.
I'm reminded of George Harrison's song, 'The Inner Light', adapted from the teachings of Lao Tzu. "Without going out of your door, you can know all things on Earth. Without looking out of your window, you can know the Ways of Heaven. The farther one travels, the less one knows, the less one really knows...".
