Our computers need software updates to function well. Human thinking is no different.
Our world is notifying us from all directions that our human perspectives are outdated, that we need to step into a new age. As a species, we are seriously overdue for a consciousness software update.
The interesting thing is that the human thinking update we need is less about adding complicating programming, and more about removing thought-viruses. It’s less about about downloading some new inventions of thought, more about reaching back into time-tested wisdom.
I think of spiritual learning and practice as a way to plug into the consciousness we need and to receive essential updates the come with it. Two of my upcoming offerings will be exploring these updates: First is my class that looks at living beyond overwhelm (starting 10/23/24). And then I’ll be launching a sacred journey group (starting 12/13/24). In both of these offerings, we’ll be exploring eternal wisdom, and debugging our spirituality of old illusions.
For example, here are some of the updates we’ll be working on in Living Well in Overwhelming (and Election) Times: 7 Grounding truths from the Tao Te Ching:
We fix the virus of anxious ruminations about the past or future with an update of dropping into the present moment.
We fix the virus of either/or thinking with the update of holding opposites.
We fix the virus of trying to control external realities (this requires multiple interventions!) with the updates of thinking and living flexibly and practicing the art of accepting.
We fix the virus of identifying with our personality with the update of seeing beneath our personality and into our true nature.
Each of these upgrades is grounded in a fundamental theme from the millennia-old Tao Te Ching. And we’ll be looking back just as far in our Sacred Journeys Group.
It’s no easy thing to break free from deeply engrained conventional thinking patters. It’s also no easy thing to stay tethered to ways of thinking that no longer work in the world in which we live. And when we embrace the needed consciousness update, our lives get better. The world gets better too.
I’d love for you to join me in this revolutionary work of thinking and living differently in our world that is groaning to become new.