Transcendental Leadership

... For too long we have recycled through millennia of endemic patterns of forgetfulness, perpetuating the karma from reincarnation to reincarnation, preparing a context for birth that welcomes successive distorted iterations of ourselves by enfolding and compressing love into misogyny, colonizing, entitlement, racism and domination, pride and wealth-divide. ... For this to occur we need to realize that each intention and act is a birth which is imbued with Soul (love) or imbued by a forgetting of Soul. ...Not to despair...awareness is freedom. ...Implied in our forgetfulness is our evolutionary imperative in which we have tried to replicate paradise on earth. At our core is an incessant drive to actualize the will of God which is that love will have its way. Over lifetimes we build resilience and push through any specter of negativity at birth, which enables us to enter the world relatively unscathed by the temptation from false choice and forgetfulness, and some births receive us as the one who brings love with love...with truth and wisdom enabling us to meet the challenges of life in this world. When we walk in nature, we remember we came to bring love...we easily become aware that there is an animating spirit. In this way we are more like the All Parent and made in the "image and likeness of the All Parent." The All Parent is the Gnostic concept of the Father/Mother God. The Gnostic Lord's Prayer references the All Parent in lieu of the "Our Father...." Transcendental Leaders embody the love of the All Parent and pay it forward into the progeny of each breath, touch, thing made, art expressed, relationship embraced, organization formed...life caressed. ... The I bring love identity continues to seek incarnation throughout our lifespan. There may be numerous instances throughout the lifespan in which we are met with love or met with adversity in which we identify with the adversity and forget Soul. We adapt our sense and belief of self to the claims of life and the authority of a reflected external reality, continually trading our center for the safety, security, nurture, esteem and power as promised by the politics of external authority, resulting in submission to opportunistic identities and the abdication of love. Our belief in spirituality may become enshrined in icons, statues, objects, edifices and dogma as our Soul-light dims and slumbers within. In each instance of forgetting we can return to the moment of choosing false identity and forgetting Soul. In that moment of forgetting, we can remember that we are the ones that bring love, thereby reawakening to love, transforming our beliefs and circumstances. As Soul we take the long view...we are reborn. The love that we bring is whole and unconditional yet meets life in active and assertive ways. The love we bring meets negative and positive challenges as opportunities to bring love, to transform our selves, situations, and circumstances into loving. In this way, we enable the transformation of the planet into loving to take place. Our love responds with delicate sensitivity and with firm response to challenges. Love uses yes and no to formulate ethics, character, good works and service. In this way the Transcendental Leader is a spiritual warrior that brings compassion to human need and speaks truth to power...brings the power of love to mediate the power of againstsness. ...The sign of the times (zeitgeist) that appeared as the Covid 19 pandemic shook many of the reference points we used to know ourselves, have a place in the world and find our way. This is disorienting at first because these reference points are the underpinnings of our false self. As a teacher once said, whatever can be shaken within you is not you. A measure I used to evaluate the pandemic was the dance between two ancient Greek archetypes (Gods) of nemesis and hubris. The pandemic was nemesis seeking out and shaking any element that was false (hubris), that reflected our arrogance (arrogance being our forgetting and basing our importance of false identity) saying that this was a time of remembrance, that the true zeitgeist was remembrance. Our choice is in how we respond to the disillusionment of the structures that sponsor and reinforce the false self. As the illusory grip of the false self on remembrance loosened, we, as Transcendental Leaders, seized the moment and took back our remembrance that who we are is...the one who came to bring love. We Are the Promise As Transcendental Leaders, we speak truth to ourselves. We translate the ancient wisdom of our Souls' Journey through metaphoric stories. Our "fall from paradise" and the "journey of the prodigal daughter" are such metaphors that tell us that through our participation in life, we are intended to learn the creative power of Soul by embarking on a journey of forgetfulness and remembrance as a means of doing so. All wars, injustice, psychological issues, entitlement, domination, privilege and poverty, etc., originate in forgetfulness. Therefore the solution, and the charge of the Transcendental Leader is to remember...to create, promote and allow activities of remembrance that who we are, each of us, is I bring Love. As Transcendental Leaders we bring love to fear, abandonment, shame, lust, greed, hate or the cold absence of love that is materiality. The firmament upon which we stand is Soul and the measuring criteria for evaluating all things is written in our hearts. As well, integral to our sacred heart resides the compass that gives us direction and orientation. As said in the prophecy of old, we are the promise. As we remember our true self, our lives transform as if we had not forgotten, with the added benefit of the wisdom gained through the forgetting. As Soul, our creativity is synchronous: by changing the seed, we change the harvest. Remember that we are the ones that came to bring love. Let us join hearts and hands and remember that we are the ones who bring love.