by Marilyn Muir, LPMAFA
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Frequently, metaphysical growth and progress are described as climbing a spiritual mountain. This is your own personal mountain of growth and evolution. If you wish, you could call it Mount _____ (fill in your own name). I will guarantee you that it is a very tall mountain and will take a great deal of your personal effort to master the climb to the top. The top of this personal mountain may be crystal clear to your view or it could be shrouded in fog or clouds, mysterious yet beckoning. As inviting as this personal spiritual mountain might be to you at this moment, we need to back up for a moment to see a wider perspective.
Think of a different tall mountain with an extremely broad base: the mountain of humanity itself. In a previous article, I described humanity as a primordial sea of human potential. That sea of human potential that exists is comprised of all the nearly seven billion humans currently in incarnation as the actual base of this humanity mountain. Because the base of this mountain is a metaphor for human potential in its collective form, it is undifferentiated at this point. At this level, humanity is deep asleep in matter and confined to a collective concrete reality. At some point, the universe gives this undefined mass a nudge and a few sleepers start to emerge from the cocoon of unrealized being-ness, slowly, one nudge at a time until they are sufficiently awake to see beyond the concrete reality in which they have been trapped.
As they perk up their heads and rub their disbelieving eyes, they begin to see the possibility of more. A few of these awakening sleepers rise to their feet, look around, and begin to move. This process is continual, a little nudge, a slight awareness, which grows as universal nudges push those sleeping minds to awaken. Those few become more over time, all in various stages of awareness; and now the breadth of that humanity mountain gives way to become tall as the humans emerging into awareness climb out of the base and start up the mountain. The few grow in number, and the mountain grows in stature. Now reaching upward is an internal drive and not just a nudge from the universe. Falling back into the primordial, undifferentiated sea of humanity is no longer desirable for those climbing that mountain of emerging awareness.
This surging cadre of climbers exhibit their emerging awareness at various levels, some as individuals or groups who have climbed higher up the humanity mountain than others, yet all are in the process of awakening. Occasionally, one will reach back to aid another in their climb. Occasionally a teacher, a leader, or an avatar will light the way up that mountain for humanity. We as a collective are making that climb for the evolution of humanity itself. But the story doesn’t end there.
That humanity mountain starts to change shape as a group or an individual moves far enough into their emerging awareness to support a mini-mountain of their very own. As these mini-mountains develop and multiply, the humanity mountain becomes a range of mountains all connected to the base or core of the humanity mountain. As you climb your own personal mountain, you contribute to the all-ness that is humanity. As others climb their personal mountains, they contribute into that same all-ness and we all benefit and grow. You are completely and totally responsible for your climb and your mountain. But you are not isolated in your experience. You influence the collective, which in turn influences you. Those who are awakening are all climbing personal mountains, a tremendous feat by itself. But we are universal in nature, not separate. We are in this together. We influence one another. We learn and grow from one another. As you climb your own personal spiritual mountain, know that you are also building and climbing the humanity spiritual mountain as well.
Published on EZine online March, 2010, republished with slight editing.
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