A thought occurred to me the other day: We're born in contrast to the world. From birth we're at odds with everything we've established here. Nothing is in alignment with us and everything seems stacked against what is inherent within us.
That thought reached home when I went to 2 networking organizations back to back on Thursday.
On the one hand I was immediately struck by and impressed that both groups were largely led by and consisted of women. They were not women's organizations: One was a membership organization that helped businesses in the hospitality and travel industry make connections with planning guides for large, out of state corporate groups coming to Colorado. The other was an organization that marketed Colorado out of state and also had a membership for businesses in the travel/hospitality industry to attract tourists and visitors from out of state. 90% of both the leadership teams and attendees of these 2 highly successful organizations were women.
Then I thought it was really weird and off-putting that 100% of those women were white and 90% were blonde. Most Coloradans are blonde haired/blue -eyed, but in a CITY where there's an amazing amount of diversity you know something's off when there's that great a disparity.
I was then also dismayed, and more importantly alarmed by the spiritual atmosphere in these 2 groups. Like other organizations and networking groups I've gone to it was deeply closed off. Unlike my experiences in California, it's almost like people in these groups DON'T want to network. It's very much like clicks in high school and you feel like you;re holding a lunch tray figuring out what table to sit at among strangers that don't want you to sit by them. People in Denver suck at networking. And that's saying something because I don't network great either.
The spiritual plane is heavy, weighted, and sealed. It's like the Heavens above have been caked over with a thick layer of plaster. You may have just entered into a cave with a bunch of cave-people sitting around a fire. I get drained, I get migraines, I feel depressed, and I feel out of place. It's a horrible spiritual environment in that it isn't one.
But that's business. It's no secret that business is consciously devoid of spiritual influence. And it struck me more clearly this time: This is from Hell. There is nothing of Heaven in this.
"Business" keeps us in a continuous survival mode focused on income and projects and deadlines instead of life and connection and meaning.
But we're just hamsters running around on a wheel going nowhere in a cage without knowing. We're not to blame, but we do reiterate this.
And I thought that non-profits would be the solution to this trend and we could shift on over to them instead of the traditional business model, but then it became clear that's not really possible either. Right now non-profits are set up like companies. They compete in a dog-eat-dog world to sustain themselves. Instead of sales it's donations, but you still have to focus on getting the funds. You still have the same old positions: HR, Marketing, Finance Department, IT Tech... It's not that different.
The economy then ties in inevitably to it all. Another layer on the cake of chains holding us back that we consume every day. I think that's why we'd have never been able to overcome this on our own. there's too many ways in which we're caught up in a tide like a fish without much of an ability, even as a pod of whales, to shift things.
We're in it.
You can't change the ocean when you're swimming in it every day with no understanding of the land or sky beyond it.
There are no cubicles in Heaven. And one day, thankfully, there won't be any more here.
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