006 — Reality is Intelligent and Alive, Encoded with a Direction Towards Higher Orders of Outrageous Love
This piece is a lightly edited transcript of a live talk [December 3, 2016] given by Dr. Marc Gafni and Barbara Marx Hubbard on the weekly broadcast One Mountain, Many Paths, founded by Gafni and his evolutionary partner Barbara Marx Hubbard. Thus, the style of the piece is spoken word and not a formal essay.
Edited by Mak Dizdar and Kristina Tahel Amelong. Prepared for publication by Jamie Long.
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It’s time for a new church
Dr. Marc Gafni
Oh my God, welcome everyone to Evolutionary Church!
It’s so good to be with everyone. It’s so good to be awake, alive, together, in this place with you.
This week, as Barbara is about to lead us into the resonant field of Evolutionary Church, I want to say we are going to be laying down tracks about a personal politics of Evolutionary Love.
About moving from a politics of rage, to a politics of love.
From a politics of fear, to a politics of empathy.
Evolutionary Church is always going to be, not politically correct, but spiritually incorrect.
Let us be spiritually incorrect together. Let us rock it open. Let us love it open.
In Reality, there are always two choices: to be open, or to be closed.
In Evolutionary Church, we’re excited.
People say, what are you so excited about, you evangelicals?
Yes, we’re evolutionary evangelicals.
Evangelism means there’s good news.
There’s good news.
The universe is a love story. The Universe: A Love Story is going somewhere. We are part of where it is going.
We are personally implicated in the evolutionary process.
We get to be excited about it.
We are Evolutionary Lovers!
Evolutionary Evangelicals — awake and alive together.
This week, we want to recapitulate the basic themes of Evolutionary Church, of this new vision of this politics of love.
Our purpose is not wisdom-tainment, like spiritual entertainment.
- We are laying down tracks.
- We are participating in the evolution of love.
- We are coming together in this global communion of pioneering souls.
- We are evolving the source code.
- We are going to change the game.
It’s time for a new church. It’s time for a new vision of prayer. To reclaim and uplevel prayer.
To reclaim and uplevel Church.
With all of the complexity.
To reclaim and uplevel God.
Because the God you don’t believe in doesn’t exist.
Let’s go higher. Let’s do it together. Let’s love it open.
Now, I turn my word over to my fellow evolutionary evangelical, my beloved whole-mate, Barbara Marx Hubbard.
We are expressions of the process of creation
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I am feeling within myself what it means to be within an Evolutionary Church.
I did not realize, until we co-created this, that I’ve been missing it all my life.
Because all my life, I have felt this impulse of creative evolution coming through me. But I had no place to give it, to share it, to know it, until very recently.
I began to find others and I was turned on with joy. I realized each of us has a tremendous role to play in the evolution of our world. We are truly pioneering souls. This has not been done before.
I would like to start out with a meditation of resonance, to remember who we are, as expressions of the process of creation.
I call it the Evolutionary Chakra Meditation.
We’re going to breathe in deeply, the whole story of creation.
Place your attention now on Source, on the source of evolution, on the mind of God.
Breathe in from that Source, all that was, is now, and will be, from the first two seconds of the Big Bang.
See now the evolutionary spiral unfolding — energy, matter, life, the biosphere, single-celled life, animal life, human life.
And now us, humans, going around the next turn on the spiral of evolution, facing the destruction of all life on Earth or the evolution of life to its next stage.
To breathe in this multi-billion years story of creation into your lowest chakra. And feel the security coming through your body, of that core of the spiral of evolution, carrying the genius of all that came before us, into the lowest chakra of your body, and feel secure.
Now returning once again to the mind of God.
Feel the power of that process of creation entering your regenerative organs. And place that huge impulse of creativity, and see yourself shifting from degeneration toward regeneration, from massive procreation toward co-creation.
Feel the awakening of the immense power of the generative organs through the impulse of evolution.
Now breathe up once again through the mind of God —
- Through the billions of years of evolution.
- Through your impulse of security.
- Through your tremendous powers of regeneration and co-creation.
Place that power into your security of your mid-power center.
- The power of your presence.
- The power of your greatness.
- The power of your uniqueness.
Breathe the entire impulse into that power center and send it out into the world.
Consciously expressing the power of that impulse as you in the world.
With all your genius coded in it.
Radiate that creativity and power.
Starting once again in the mind of God, in one deep breath, bring that impulse of evolution into your heart.
Carrying the frequency and genius of the whole process into your heart of unconditional love.
Love of the entire story of creation.
Love of all that came before you.
And love now of everyone on Earth.
Starting with those you most love — your sister, your brother, your mother, your father, your child, your friend, your community of influence.
Now, let that impulse of love just go further.
Let it reach out into the global communion of pioneering souls.
Everywhere on Earth.
Just like us.
Awakening to their own inner impulse of creativity.
And your touch of love is now touching them in the vast domain of universal intelligence.
Now, bring that impulse of evolution further up into the heart and feel it as your gift of love, your vocation, your calling, your intention to create.
Place that mighty core of the spiral of evolution into your vocation, in your upper heart.
Feel your gift of love going out, uniquely you, expressing that which you are given to give, with the joy in the giving of it, to all you love and beyond.
Now, going once again up from the mind of God, through all the chakras of your being, breathe the impulse into your throat. Let your voice vibrate when you speak with the resonance of creation, the frequency of vibration of the impulse as you. Sound your note, when you speak in Evolutionary Church, with this impulse of power and creativity.
Now bring the impulse of evolution all the way up from Source, energy, matter, life, animal life, through your own security, generative organs, power, vocation of heart. Bring it up through your throat into your third eye. Activate the supramental genius of the whole process of creation embodied in you. It’s true.
At the precise moment, contact your expression of the divine process, as you, at the threshold of your own evolution.
At the precise moment.
When the evolution of the world is shifting from one stage to the next.
Place the genius and power of your impulse of creation.
Into the scales of history.
Towards more life.
More love.
More genius.
In the great 13.8-billion-year tradition of evolution.
We could say Hallelujah Evolution!
Breathe the impulse all the way up and all the way down.
You, and we, are the whole story of creation, coming to you in person.
Thank you. Thank you.
Marc, I turn the message to you.
The deepest understanding we have from exterior and interior sciences is that Reality is intelligent and alive
Dr Marc Gafni
Barbara, thank you for the awesome and gorgeous resonant meditation.
Reclaiming prayer is one of the essence of Evolutionary Church.
The good news, we realize, the God you don’t believe in, doesn’t exist, meaning:
- The old image of God as the one demanding obedience, standing there ready to punish you if you just missed a fraction of a fraction, is not actually the deepest understanding we have.
The deepest understanding we have —
- based on the best of the interior sciences of all the great traditions,
- and based on the best of evolutionary science,
- and chaos theory and complexity theory —
is that Reality is intelligent, Reality is alive.
Reality manifested photosynthesis, and mitosis and meiosis, and cortex and neocortex before there were supercomputers.
Mitosis and meiosis are more dazzlingly complex, more dazzlingly beautiful, than anything we’ve been able to manifest with every supercomputer that ever existed.
Meaning, Reality is awake. Reality is alive.
Remember The Sound of Music?
The hills are alive.
Ah, no, no! Reality is alive.
Reality is intelligent.
Reality is awake.
Reality is breathing.
And just like I could hear Barbara talk, because the quality of personal intelligence in me could hear Barbara, Reality could hear Barbara. My hearing of Barbara participates.
And this is what we call, in Tibetan Buddhism, a pointing-out instruction.
Prayer means something really simple.
I speak, and an intelligent Reality, the LoveBeauty and LoveIntelligence of Reality, hears me.
The noosphere, the awake, alive, intelligent Reality hears my voice.
We used to talk about God as the Infinity of Power. Not God out there. But God that holds it all, and God that’s in it all. The inherent ceaseless creativity of Kosmos, that at the same time is the source of Kosmos, and all power participates in that power.
And yet, that’s an insufficient way to speak of essence in Divine.
God is not only the Infinity of Power, God is the Infinity of Intimacy.
Intimacy means that every part of our life is beautiful, even when it’s tragic; that we sometimes live in partial fulfillment; that we are all holy and broken Hallelujahs.
We realize that Hallelujah, the great psalm of King David, resung by Leonard Cohen, is always our first prayer song in Evolutionary Church. We realize every breath is Hallelujah. It’s the celebration of finitude.
Prayer affirms the dignity of personal need.
Prayer affirms the infinite dignity of our intimate lives in all their dimensions.
As we’re about to move into prayer, we hear the Evolutionary Church hymn, by Leonard Cohen, who passed away just recently. The broken and holy Hallelujah coming at you. And let’s follow the words that are on your screen, as we are in this place of evolving church and evolving hymn, praying together.
There’s a blaze of light in every word, it doesn’t matter which you heard. The holy or the broken Hallelujah. I did my best but it wasn’t much. I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch. I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand before the Lord of song, with nothing on my lips, but Hallelujah.
And Hallelujah is, Yah. It’s the second part of the word Hallelu-yah. It’s the outbreath. It’s the very breath. It’s the Pranayama of Reality itself (Pranayama being a word drawn from the Eastern traditions). And hallel, remember, is pristine praise, delight. And holelut — hallel, the same root word in Hebrew, means drunken stupor. It’s the holy and the broken Hallelujah. It’s prayer which affirms the dignity of personal need.
If God is only the Infinity of Power.
A mistake in the evolution of consciousness.
We need to evolve our understanding, our realization of the Divine.
If God is only the Infinity of Power.
Then it’s but us who are relatively powerless to be obedient.
But if God is also the Infinity of Intimacy.
Then not only do we need to claim our power.
But we need to claim the infinite adequacy and dignity of our lives.
The personal matters.
No one is extra on the set.
We can’t do it without each other.
And all of a sudden, we understand that there’s a problem of evil.
Evil is a failure of intimacy.
We have got to respond to evil, to suffering, by restoring intimacy.
Every single person is intended by Reality.
To be a Unique Self.
The implication of uniqueness is to know that Reality intended me.
Feel into that.
When you actually feel that, you can actually have an immediate, we call it in the East, a Kensho: an enlightenment experience.
Oh my God, Reality intended me, Reality needs me!
So when I pray,
I pray to the intelligent Kosmos that knows my name,
that intended me,
that holds me.
The Infinity of Intimacy,
which is all of the cosmic infinite laws of physics,
laws of chemistry,
billions of light years,
sitting in a chair right in front of me, looking at me, saying:
Oh my God, I need you, I love you, I care for you. You matter so infinitely to me.
Do not forget personal prayer.
Do not just pray generally.
You matter.
Your life matters.
Your loneliness matters.
Don’t get caught in life as a victim.
Don’t get caught in the pathos of a story that you can’t get out of.
Affirm the dignity of your story.
Your story matters infinitely.
And to feel the power of prayer. The power of prayer, not as a fundamentalist prayer, not as a fundamentalist God who says: Worship me, and if you don’t, you’re damned forever, and only my people are safe.
But actually, the realization that that which unites us is so much greater than that which divides us. And that the LoveIntelligence of Reality is holding us in every second. And that every moment of our lives, from our lips is drawn the Hallelujah: the drunken stupor, the pristine praise, the inbreath and the outbreath.
No one is extra on the set.
Our prayers matter. We become prayer, we are prayer.
Even as we are activists, Evolutionary Evangelicalis and activists, for the transformation of it all.
And in this moment, I’m delighted to turn to Barbara, to take us into the message for this week. Take us in, Barbara.
Reality is coded with a direction towards higher freedom, greater consciousness and more loving order
Barbara Marx Hubbard
We have entered the first age of conscious evolution.
Now this is an amazing thought: Evolution has been going on for billions and billions of years, but no species knew they were part of it.
There were five mass extinctions before we got here. Billions of species have been extinct.
None of them knew it was happening.
And here we are now, this young human species. As far as species go, we are very young. We are just waking up with the realization that we are the power of evolution.
That we’ve been given the power to destroy ourselves through all our advanced technologies and capabilities.
And, at the very same instant of awakening, we are aware that we could evolve ourselves towards a future that is radically new.
As once human life was new.
So just place ourselves in this message at that actual shift point, 13.8 billion years of evolution, to right this moment. The first species on Earth ever to be aware of evolution, aware we’re creating ourselves by every thought, everything we do, every baby we have, every war we fight.
And what is the purpose then, of the Evolutionary Church, in the midst of conscious evolution?
- It’s to gather together the pioneering souls of Earth to move evolution by choice, not chance.
- Conscious evolution.
- Evolution by choice, not chance.
- To choose more life.
- More love.
- More freedom.
- In the 13.8-billion-year tradition.
Now this is another awesome thought:
That from the mind of God, for billions of years, every time there has been a turn of the spiral — from single-celled life, to animal life, to human life — every single turn, there is a new sense of direction.
And here it is, it’s very simple, towards greater complexity; as from single-celled to multi-celled to animal, leading to greater freedom and intelligence.
That’s why we have all these cells joining together in evermore complex bodies, like our 52 trillion cells talking here, to 52 trillion cells each; each cell uniquely creating us, organized way beyond what any human could possibly do.
We are right at this stage of more freedom, more creativity.
Feel into it.
When I feel right now, the desire to be more, to love more, to create more, to be more connected, I’m following internally the impulse of evolution, and it leads from complexity, to freedom, to more synergistic or loving order.
As Marc says, The Universe: A Love Story.
So as we get more complex, the cells have to interact uniquely with each other, to create something so much greater than the sum of the parts.
And the great evolutionary teacher, Teilhard de Chardin, had the assumption that the next stage of evolution is when the noosphere, he called it, the thinking layer — now the internet, the social media — gets its collective eyes. If it’s infused with enough love, creativity, in the tradition of evolution itself, he believed it would turn on, and he called it as a Jesuit, the Christification of the Earth.
We’re calling it the awakening of the planet in love through a Unique Self Symphony.
- In other words, this Church is founded on the expectation of the possibility of humanity connecting in love.
Following the great impulse of all of evolution, what seems to be the intention of the Creator of evolution?
- It appears to us that the intention of the Creator, of the billions of years of evolution, is to create co-creators.
- Doesn’t that seem right? That the intention of God is to create godlings.
- The intention of the entire process — toward higher freedom, greater consciousness, and more loving order — is to create beings able to say Yes to the intention of creation itself. Not simply as an idealistic thing, but simply as saying Yes to the entire process.
And I want to remind us, how new the thought is, that we’re in an evolving universe.
It’s not in any religion.
It’s not coded in any politics.
It’s not known broadly even in our universities.
But the fact is that even Einstein thought it was an eternal universe.
Here’s how it happened. In the 1960s, two radio astronomers picked up the background radiation of the First Flaring Forth, as Brian Swimme called it, the First Big Bang. They were able to record this vibrational field from the origin of creation.
And they were able to understand that in those first two seconds, as they say, the attunement was so perfect, the energy was so perfectly designed, that it made it possible for energy, matter, life, and you and me and us talking right now, to happen.
- If the frequencies in that first two seconds had been a little faster or a little slower, the scientists have told us that we wouldn’t exist at all.
- And to the degree that the scientists think it’s an accidental universe, to that degree, they cannot explain the perfection of the first two seconds.
But not only the perfection of the first two seconds, but it’s coded with a direction.
- So when I say, and we say, in Evolutionary Church, that humanity is becoming more loving, more creative, more empathetic, naturally, we’re going on the study of the 13.8 billion years of direction in evolution. This is not a made-up story, this is coded in our blood and bones.
What we’re doing in Evolutionary Church is we’re cultivating the genius of evolution.
When I say genius, I don’t mean you’re just brighter than somebody else. I mean, the awesome, supramental creativity, of organizing an entire universe, including you, being the impulse of evolution, that’s in you, now yearning to be more, love more, do more, and create more, at the instant of conscious evolution on this earth.
Is that a moment?
Is that a moment to celebrate?
Is that a moment to create a church?
Because if we didn’t have some place to go, to recognize the incredible intelligence and love, and to find ourselves the first generation in the history of these billions of years, as far as we know, on planet Earth, to be alive to saying Yes to it, by free choice.
Oh, my God! I have to go back to one of Marc’s Hallelujahs for this. When we say Yes to this impulse, we are actually saying Yes to the mind of God.
And we’re not doing this alone. You see, sometimes you might feel you’re inadequate. You might sometimes not feel you would know enough to help evolve species. Isn’t that true?
Realize you are the evolution of the species’ incarnate, and every single breath you’re taking that’s longing and desiring and yearning for more is the God-Force internalized.
So I’m going to complete this wonderful meditation, and wonderful inspiration, to say that the planetary church, as Marc put it, and we could all hold it together, it’s not that we’re expecting the second coming of Christ in that old language.
But we are expecting a planetary awakening in love.
- We are expecting that the direction of evolution leads toward higher consciousness, greater freedom, more complex order.
- And that if we create a convergence zone — a vehicle of inspiration for all of us, anywhere on Earth, who choose to give this gift of love, empathy, creativity, and genius, to evolve ourselves and our society — that the self-organizing universe will do the rest.
As Marc said, we couldn’t have invented photosynthesis, we couldn’t have invented our bodies.
So I’m going to conclude with the idea that we are here to gentle the birth to the next stage of evolution.
To gather the empathy, creativity, in the politics of love, which we will go through week after week. What are the elements of that, such that we actually will wake it up in our lifetime before we go down towards greater destruction.
The Evolutionary Church is formed everywhere, anyone on Earth who wants to be part of it, to gentle the birth to the next stage of conscious self-evolution.
So I thank you now, and I turn to Marc.
Reality is an Outrageous Love Story, and your Love Story is a Chapter in the Love Story of Reality itself
Dr Marc Gafni
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Oh, my God!
It is so good to be here. Barbara, yes!
It’s so easy, friends, to say no.
The great flaring forth of Reality is the unrelenting affirmation of the dignity, the positivity of Reality. The great Big Bang is a holy Yes!
And we know in quantum physics today, and we know in the interior sciences of enlightenment, that the universe actually flashes in and out of existence in every second.
It’s the nature of virtual Reality. What we call virtual existence.
Because in every moment, Reality is being renewed, both from the perspective of physics and from the perspective of interior science.
Why is that so? Because actually, in every second, Reality is crying out Yes, Yes, Yes!
Yes, how could anyone ever tell you that you’re anything less than beautiful?
So let me, if you will, just sing to you, in my voice, which is a broken Hallelujah.
Marc sings: How Could Anyone by Libby Roderick
We want to lay down and recapitulate, as in the movement of Symphony that has recapitulation, the tracks that we’ve laid down up till now.
What’s the most essential truth, the most essential realization of Evolutionary Church that Barbara pointed to?
This emerges not against science.
This is the deepest implication of the leading edges of the evolutionary sciences.
And the best and deepest understanding of all the great traditions of wisdom.
In the premodern, modern, and postmodern period.
As we head into this new expression, this new moment in history.
This is the Office for the Future right here, we are articulating the memory of the future.
Sometimes to heal, you need to recover a memory of the past, and that’s critical in trauma. But sometimes, to heal and transform, you need to recover a memory of the future.
We are here to articulate the memory of the future.
Hope is a memory of the future.
Life is not, Shakespeare, a tale told by an idiot, full of sounds and fury signifying nothing. It’s not tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, remember Anna Macbeth, that creeps in this petty pace, day after day for the last syllable of recorded time. No, it’s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and Yes!
The universe, Reality, is not a fact. Reality is a story.
That’s the best understanding of science we have today.
It’s going somewhere.
Reality has telos, it means direction.
Reality has Eros, aliveness.
As my sister Barbara likes to say, we live in a telerotic universe.
Reality is not a fact, it’s a story.
But it’s not an ordinary story, it’s a love story.
But it’s not an ordinary love story, it’s an Outrageous Love Story.
That is the best understanding of Reality that we have today, based on the best integration of all the sciences from all the different disciplines.
Reality is not a fact, it’s a story. It’s not an ordinary story, it’s a love story. It’s not an ordinary love story, it’s an Outrageous Love Story.
Let’s recapitulate the distinctions that we’ve drawn in the first five weeks, in week six.
- We distinguished between ordinary love and Outrageous Love.
- Ordinary love is a strategy of the ego, seeking comfort and security, and we dress it up in the pretty costume of love.
- Outrageous Love is something else. Outrageous Love is Evolutionary Love.
- Outrageous Love is the love that moves the Sun and other stars, said Dante.
- Outrageous Love, said Tagore, the Bengali mystic, Outrageous Love is not mere human sentiment, it’s the heart of existence itself.
So what does that mean for me?
It means that I’ve got to awaken to who I really am, to know my true nature.
Because friends, the only sanity is to be madly in love.
Being madly in love is the only sane way to live.
Why?
Because that’s the nature of Reality.
Every quark falls in love with another quark.
Attraction, electromagnetic attraction, allurement is the core of Reality.
All the way up and all the way down the evolutionary chain is allurement, attraction, and love.
Reality moves towards greater and greater levels of mutuality, recognition, union and embrace. And that’s Hallelujah. Not because it is a dogma, it is a Dharma. It is First Principles and First Values.
A Dharma means the best take we have on a Reality today.
The only way to be sane, is to be madly in love. And not to be madly in love with just one person. Don’t exile love to romantic sexual love.
Romantic sexual love is gorgeous, it’s beautiful.
But to exile love to that narrow band of love, is to misunderstand and to make love small.
Outrageous Love means we get to be outrageously in love with each other, as quarks are outrageously in love with each other, and we uniquely get to see and rejoice in each other, because we awaken as Outrageous Love. We are Outrageous Lovers.
What do Outrageous Lovers do?
Outrageous Lovers keep every boundary that should be kept, and they break every boundary that should be broken.
Which boundaries should be broken?
- The boundaries of contraction.
- The boundaries of smallness.
- The boundaries of limiting beliefs.
- The boundaries of I’m an extra on the set.
An Outrageous Lover commits Outrageous Acts of Love.
Which Outrageous Acts of Love does an Outrageous Lover commit? Those that are a function of your Unique Self.
What’s a Unique Self?
A Unique Self is not a Myers Briggs test. It’s not a typology. It’s not just my talent. My Unique Self is the best answer, based on the best sciences, interior and exterior, to the greatest question that will ever be asked in our lives.
The question is:
Who are you?
Why are you here?
What’s there to do?
You are an irreducibly unique expression of the LoveIntelligence and LoveBeauty, that is the initiating and animating energy of All-That-Is, that lives in you, as you, and through you, that never was, is, or will be ever again, other than through you.
And, as such, you have an irreducibly unique perspective.
You are a unique taste, a unique quality of intimacy.
That unique perspective and unique quality of intimacy manifests your unique capacity to give your unique gift, to offer your unique vision, which addresses a unique need, in your unique circle of intimacy and influence, that could be addressed only by you.
Which means that you are called, I am called, to stand on the abyss of darkness. And with your unique singularity, your unique structure of light, to actually say: Let there be light!
That you speak to a corner of the world that is unloved. That no one that ever was, is, or will be, other than you, can speak to.
Without your gift, Reality is somehow deficient, without you waking up and saying I’m here to give my unique gift.
I just spoke a few months ago to a wonderful man, Werner Erhard, on the phone, who created the Landmark Forum. He was sharing with me his teaching, which is so beautiful, but actually is limited at a certain point. From Werner’s perspective — and Landmark is so gorgeous and so beautiful — but from Werner’s perspective, ultimately, it’s all empty and meaningless. And even the fact that it’s empty and meaningless, he says, is empty and meaningless. So go create your Reality.
Now that’s true, other than one little thing.
What’s true is, you can create the Reality.
What’s true is, you can transform.
But what’s not true is that it’s empty and meaningless.
It’s infinitely meaningful, all of it is meaningful.
What’s empty and meaningless are the old patterns, are the contractions.
But actually, Reality waits for you.
It’s not just you create whatever you want.
Actually, you’re needed.
And your irreducibly unique molecular signature, and your subatomic signature, and your cellular signature, was intended and designed by Reality.
You are a unique gorgeous expression of Reality and LoveIntelligence that is desperately desired and needed and affirmed by All-That-Is.
So wow! Reality, my friends, is having a Barbara experience.
Oh, my God. Reality is having a Steven experience.
Reality is having a Lisa experience.
And here’s the story. If Reality is having a Marc experience and I need Steven, I can be madly in love with Steven.
Oh, my God. I’m so excited that Steven is doing what he can do, because I don’t have Steven’s capacities. So there’s no jealousy between us, we get to love each other madly. When I listen to Barbara talk, I don’t say, why am I not saying those words? I say, oh my God, I’m in devotion, I’m in adoration to Barbara speaking her words. Yes!
Forgive us, in Evolutionary Church, for anything we haven’t gotten right.
But I can promise you one thing.
We are making mistakes in the right direction.
And we are here.
And we’re committed.
We’re committed to offering a vision of transformation.
Which is rooted in the best of science and the best of spirit.
Which is the good news.
Which is the best understanding we have today.
Reality is a love story.
And here’s the last sentence.
Your love story, the love story of your life, is a chapter in the love story of Reality itself.
So we’re going to ask everyone to just confess your greatness.
We used to confess our sins, now we confess our greatness.
I am a beautiful being capable of loving.
I am a beautiful being with this particular gift to give, whatever your greatness is.
I am a beautiful being with this message that can be given.
Kristina: I’m a wild Outrageous Lover.
Maria: I’m going to keep making mistakes in the right direction.
Simona: I’m committed to Evolutionary Love.
Let’s confess our greatness together. We don’t need to confess our sins. If you’re a worm, what does Reality expect out of you? Confess our greatness.
Confess our greatness.
I am love itself.
I’m an amazingly vibrant and living being.
Confess the gift that’s yours to give.
So thank you, Barbara, for being here. Thank you, Barbara, for being my wholemate and partner, you’re awesome. I get to be madly in love with you. It’s the only sane way to be. Thank you, everyone.
And we close. We close with a simple chant, and it goes like this. We did it once before, we’ll do it once again. So here’s the chant.
Marc sings: How Could Anyone by Libby Roderick
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