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Welcome to the Descension
What does spirituality have to do with the taste of an apple? With the kiss of a lover? Or with how your business is structured?
In this episode of “Currents,” I break down an idea that I’ve been holding for a while. The idea of the need for “Descension” of spirituality into our bodies, into our businesses, and into our physically manifest world.
This includes an embrace of the physical as a pathway to the divine. A pathway that values the felt experience as much as the destination of our pursuits and cultivations.
It’s been said before that everything is in this moment. That begs the question: What is happening in this moment? What am I feeling? Sensing? Thinking? Touching? What is this moment actually comprised of? And how much of it am I actually participating in?
A response to masculine concepts of purity
This piece is in response to a lot of talk about the idea of “The Ascension”, that we are somehow transcending the world of the physical through a massive collective process of awakening.
While this might be true, I argue that this is only half of the picture - and a primarily masculine one. The feminine/feminist side of the coin suggests that we will only achieve this collective awakening through the body, through being a living embodiment of our divinity through the businesses we create, the relationships we cultivate, and the earth we tend to.
Balance, embracing what’s here, and advocating for our world
It is easy, in times of chaos and upheaval, to want an out. But the desire to jump ship leaves us at the teetering edge of bypass. “The way” is not solely the pure white mountaintop of perfection through spiritual cultivation. Instead, we live in bodies, on a planet to be in the throws of life - wide-eyed and fully engaged - to devour and be devoured by our experience/one with our experience.
Once we can lose ourselves and find ourselves again through the portal of our experience (when we can integrate the white mountain with the mess of birth and death) only then will we reach something new. And it will not be a departure from what is, but instead, an integration with the intensity and depth of life.
Yin … Yang. The map has always been there.
I hope you enjoy the episode. I look forward to more conversations on the topic ahead, but this idea is at the crux of so much of my exploration of how it is that divinity can live through our works in the world. Because what we need is not to escape to something “better” but to find, bring, and live the beauty here.
With love ✨
Rei
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