Storytelling as a sense of wonder

Storytelling as a sense of wonder

Question: How to be in the world?

Many of us, when we were growing up, were asked the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Maybe we didn’t really know what we wanted to do. We might have said we wanted to be a fireman or a ballerina.

Note that the question is asking, “What are you going to do?” The reply is returned as “I am going to be.” The reply is not “I am going to do.” This is not simply an issue about the correct use of grammar. It is a fundamental way of understanding why you are here in the world of time, space and form.

Most of us are focused and are encouraged to focus on the do-do of our life. We are focused on the dance of the do-do, which is taking us as a collective called humanity, toward the experience of the Dodo – a flightless bird that became extinct. When we focus purely on the do-do of our lives then we are not only flightless, we never get to soar.

The do-do of our lives creates the culture of more and more doing. We follow the focus of affluence, which turns into affluenza and meltdown. At the heart of such focus is the dynamic of fear. We fear that if we don’t get on the treadmill of the do-do bird we will lose out.

What is the primary source of value that exists in this world today? It is the holy measure called GDP – Gross Domestic Product. It has one primary direction. It has to go up. When it falls there is what is called recession. The result is panic.

This GDP is driven by ROCE – Return on Capital Employed. It is really ROCE that is our focus of worship. It is what drives the world stock exchanges. It is what drives multinational corporations. It is what drives our need for early retirement. Profit is not the primary measure of the success of a business. ROCE is. It, in turn, determines whether the share prices go up or down.

The success of a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a multinational company, or any company, is determined by the value of the shares based on ROCE. The bigger percentage ROCE, the better. If this means you pull down a rain forest in order to earn a higher percentage rate of return on capital employed, you do it. If you, as CEO don’t do it, then your share value will fall and you are likely out of job. What drives this dynamic is that fear of losing out.

In order to get a return on capital employed you have to have capital. The primary capital in this world of time and space and form is a piece of capital called the Earth. Accountants will tell you (and I have worked as an accountant most of my adult life) that no business can develop when it erodes its capital base.

This erosion of the capital base is fundamentally undermining the very value system worshipped by the capitalist system. It is no longer working. It goes against the law of nature. Communism did not work because it also goes against the law of nature.

What is aligned with the law of nature is being. When you move action from a state of being the capital base is not depleted but expanded. It expands forever because it is created to expand forever. Individual life forms evolve but they are not designed to expand forever. Form arises out of being and the greatest action arises out of non-action, which does not mean doing nothing but means doing arising out from nothing.

Creation created you to be an experience of joy in being creative. This is its intention. It is more than capable of ensuring this happens in your life. You have to allow it.

At this point of time only a few people have ever learned to live in this way. The present global crisis offers more of us the opportunity to ask fundamental questions. Is it going to be more of the same only with a little more controls in place that those with the power will manipulate for their own interest. No one can do this for you. You have, as Mahatma Gandhi said, to become the change you want to see.

The capital of your life is your connection to being. You have forgotten this connection. It requires that you connect to your heart song, your heart story and your heart blessing. This is not the story of your nation, your tribe, or your family. It is the living experience of your connection to the source of creative life. You do not earn this by the sweat of your brow. You melt into it by trusting in its power to celebrate its life through you.

For the most part we are a faithless lot. I include myself in this. We think that if we don’t do it, it won’t get done. Many of us spend our whole lives working to an end that ends. We work and we work. We follow the sound of the drummer playing the collective and psychotic rhythm of ever increased GDP and ever-increased ROCE. The higher the ROCE, the bigger the bonuses. If the system were subjected to an analysis it would be certified as a mental illness. As the mystic Eckhart Tolle says in The Power of Now, “This is exactly what it is.”

You can’t learn how to be. You have to undo the learning of distance from being. To that extent this storyteller has written the eCourse Ready to Radiate.

Are you ready to radiate the being you are? Are you ready to be one who says enough of this collective insanity that is taking this dance of the sound of God (humans and other species) to the experience of the Dodo via the do-do?

If you say you do not have time, you will not have time. The time only ever comes now. It is the now from which awareness of being arises. Without this awareness much of what you will achieve called success is simply more do-do.

Right now gift yourself some sanity not only for your own sake but for the sake of others and in service to the one creative life that serves all life and which you are not apart from, the one infinite being.

© Tony Cuckson 2009

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