What would happen if you were to embrace the entirety of your human experience? Would your whole life fall to shit? What if the exact opposite happened?
What would happen if you were to embrace sickness and go all the way into your pain, reveling in the exhilaration of being a human and experiencing human emotion?
When the time started approaching for me to move out of my parents' home and start my own life, I started wondering about how to do this human life thing. No one around me was doing it right, I knew that much. I had a clear picture of what not to do, and then I would spend the rest of my life finding out how to do it.
This was quite a task. I found teachers along the way through books who helped me immensely like Eckhart Tolle. I dreamed about the prospect of being free from human concerns and emotions and money and being above it all like an enlightened person.
And then I was hit by a car while riding my bike. And this was the best thing that ever happened to me. Getting hit by this car gave me enough money to buy a truck and move to my dream city, Asheville, NC, and it also put me on the path of my hero, my Chiropractor, Simon Senzon. And Simon brought me deep into my humanity. The healing that we did together stirred up a whole slew of resistance and fear and every scary and shadowy human emotion.
And through Simon... I was introduced to the work of Donny Esptein. This body of work that Simon and Donny represent are the quintessential essence of diving straight into humanity and being it.
What else would you do if you're on planet earth? We're not here to avoid being human. We're here to fucking embrace that shit. This is the new spirituality. The new spirituality is raw. It embraces the grusome and the painful. It invites in the feelings that we feel when we're sick. It invites us to revel in the entirety of our human experience just like we would a roller coaster ride.
The roller coaster ride can be scary at times. There are twists and turns, and your stomach drops, and there are people throwing up and screaming. It's a thrill. It's exhilarating. And a three minute roller coaster ride in our human lives is exactly what being a human is like for our infinite selves: a brief, exhilarating, scary ride where there's also beauty and fun and you get to hold the hand of your loved one who sits beside you.
I have a friend who's going to be giving birth for the first time in the next couple of weeks. What does she feel? She can't even describe it to you. When she first got pregnant we started manifesting a short and easy birth. But as we talked yesterday, here's what we decided: while giving birth she is going to experience all of the deepest beauty of the essence of what life is. She's going to experience pain. She's going into the unknown. The reality is, people die while giving birth. Your vagina often rips. The baby can come out feet first. You may have to get cut open instead of birthing naturally for some reason. And she's going to embrace every part of it. She's going to go all the way into the pain. What better opportunity do you have to feel and to be what life is? Alllll of the suffering and all of the pain and soooooo much beauty and wonder all intertwined. Because that's what life is. It's beauty and pain all intertwined. There is no beauty without its opposite.
This is extreme and intense, folks, this business of being human. This is one insane roller coaster we're on. You're about to get off before you know it, so relish all the twists and turns and go into the pain with a sense of wonder. Get dirty. Experience being human. The entirety of it.
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