Wrong, Bad and Selfish

Ann K Gryczan

Have you ever done anything wrong, that later you realized was wrong and you changed your ways?

Like, have you ever taken advantage of someone? Lied? Taken something not yours? Pushed your way to the front to get more or be first? Insisted you were right just because you didn’t want to be wrong?

So have I!

Welcome to the Evolution of Consciousness

This is what we are all doing – learning that we are not the ego/mind and how not to be its mean, bad, selfish behavior. We are all in the process of finding out what we really are, and that means we are finding out what life is.

Because we are Life – all of it, eternally and infinitely.

Maybe you have had a clue of this – a glimpse, a sense, like when you were in the garden being with the task at hand: the plants, the soil, the sun. And you saw the way the light touched each leaf and each grain of soil. You saw the miniature world under your hands, heard the sounds, felt the sun on your back. Everything was alive, it was all one and you were too. Like that. Or like painting something – a picture or a house – or cooking, dancing, meditating and you lost yourself and entered the timeless flow of everything.

All of that is transcending the ego/mind. The ego is what we all think we are (yes we do). But sometimes we expand beyond it and experience life and our true selves for a moment. And this changes us. Life is always giving us the opportunity to know it. It is always asking, What is life?

That is always the question.

Group Projects
 
​Life is always giving us this question as a group project too – and we have to work it out together.

To work on our project we have big, huge struggles that take hundreds of years – revolutions, wars, uprisings, subjugation. We evolve, collectively, out of these things. Sometimes we take giant steps backward (it seems), but truth rises up eventually. It rises up because truth is what we are. We just have to struggle through the ego’s hold on us and then the light breaks in. We get it! We were blind but now we see.

Slavery was one of those struggles and we got it, finally. But this was later. At the time, what we were doing seemed perfectly normal.

What is life?

Guess what? Life has not stopped asking the question. There are things we are doing right now that our descendants will see as wrong, bad and selfish. But right now, these things are not even on our radar. They are normal.

In the meantime, we can hope our descendants will be kinder to us than we are to our ancestors. We can hope they will recognize and acknowledge the evolution of consciousness of which they are still a part. We hope they will not shun or condemn us, tear us limb from limb, destroy our memory. If they can hold us in their regard, as pathfinders, getting as far as we could, then we know they will follow and take us all a step further into awareness and the light.

Maybe we can learn something from our (hopefully) wiser descendants. Instead of thinking we are enlightened, awake and evolved already, maybe we can realize that we don’t have a clue about what we don’t yet know.

Then we can work on our projects and find our way into the next great awakening. Then we have a chance! And so do our ancestors.