Dr. Julianne Hanson
Transpersonal Psychologist-Chaplain-Intuitive
Maui Spiritual Counseling
Aloha from Maui, Hawaii!
Aloha Dear Ones,
There are many things I want to share with you, many ways of exploring our evolving capacity for deeper, mutual relationship. I also want to answer your practical questions about relationship issues most of us face.
A question came to me this week from someone who has read all my blog posts.
They love my down-to-earth advice. They specially enjoy my attempts to bring humor and hope to relationship, whether for singles looking, or for couples looking for something more together. They are intrigued by the evolutionary perspective on relationship about which I’ve begun writing, but confessed to not feeling ready for it. ”I’m willing to take responsibility for myself, and I want to be a better partner. The evolutionary stuff is very interesting, and I’d like to believe what I do makes a real difference in the world–but it kind of sounds like something for people who’ve got everyday problems handled. How can you expect regular people to feel responsible to everybody? Maybe down the road, I’ll be able to take that on.”
This is a valid question, and an honest response to the biggest picture world view I’ve ever encountered, evolutionary spirituality/ evolutionary relationship. I get that being asked to consider the greatest good, in everything from how we love, how we do business, to which thoughts we think, is overwhelming. Any sane human is humbled by the realization that, “God has no hands but ours.”
Yet, not only are we being called to realize our big picture responsibility, we are now actually being called to lean into the edge of our understanding of it. We are called to act boldly on behalf of the greatest good, even as we question what it is, what our relationship is to it, and what our relationship is to each other.
Perhaps the best known teacher of evolutionary spirituality is Andrew Cohen, with whom my current teacher, Craig Hamilton (IntegralEnlightenment.com), studied. Andrew’s new book, “Evolutionary Enlightenment,” is a wonderful explanation of the evolutionary perspective. I highly recommend it to you. Andrew also publishes an online magazine/ evolutionary network, EnlightenNext.org, in which he writes a, “Quote of the Week.” The quote I just received in my email speaks beautifully to the question of just how much consciousness we are ready to take on.
It’s important to remember that your ego—your separate personal self-sense and all its culturally conditioned tendencies—is just not awake to the urgent need for your participation in the evolutionary process. That’s why your ego is convinced that it has all the time in the world to be eternally busy with its own self-improvement. It says, “Well,I’m not ready because I’m not perfect yet.” But that’s just the ego’s perennial excuse to avoid the overwhelming urgency of the evolutionary context of being alive. Did you ever meet anybody who was actually perfect? I don’t think perfection exists within manifestation. If you want to experience perfection—inherent perfection; unborn, uncreated perfection—meditate. As you gain the capacity to transcend a conditioned relationship to thought, memory, and time, you will eventually awaken to the timeless, formless, infinite ground of your own being and you’ll experience that which is perfect.
But when we reenter the manifest realm of time, space, and form, we leave perfection behind, in order to create ourselves anew through the evolutionary process. And perfection will never be reached here. So when the ego tells you that because you are not perfect, you are not ready yet, it traps you in a spiritually and evolutionarily self-defeating cycle. A big part of awakening to spiritual maturity is realizing that, even in all your imperfection, you are ready to take responsibility.
While you realize that perfection is unattainable, you aspire for it, always reaching higher and further. You are ready to be responsible for creating the future, right now, even though your ego may kick and scream all the way. And your liberation, your enlightenment, in every moment, depends upon that. It’s not easy. You have to be a warrior, you have to be an exemplar, even though you know that you’re not perfect. So you have to deal with the reality of your human frailty, with the inherent contradictions in your character, and still be bold and brave enough to be willing to take responsibility for all of this. If you do, then the power of spirit will enter into your heart, your body, and your mind and you will begin to express That, in spite of all your imperfection. And then you, as a human being, don’t have to be perfect, because Spirit already is.—Andrew Cohen, 1/4/12
Can we allow ourselves to move from plain, “overwhelmed,” to, “overwhelmed by the power of Spirit,” entering into our hearts as we take responsibility for creating the future of conscious relationship?
If you can say, “Yes,” let’s dive in together, and see where Spirit leads us.
Love and blessings,
Dr. Julianne
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Transpersonal Psychologist-Chaplain-Intuitive
Maui Spiritual Counseling
Aloha from Maui, Hawaii!
Aloha Dear Ones,
There are many things I want to share with you, many ways of exploring our evolving capacity for deeper, mutual relationship. I also want to answer your practical questions about relationship issues most of us face.
A question came to me this week from someone who has read all my blog posts.
They love my down-to-earth advice. They specially enjoy my attempts to bring humor and hope to relationship, whether for singles looking, or for couples looking for something more together. They are intrigued by the evolutionary perspective on relationship about which I’ve begun writing, but confessed to not feeling ready for it. ”I’m willing to take responsibility for myself, and I want to be a better partner. The evolutionary stuff is very interesting, and I’d like to believe what I do makes a real difference in the world–but it kind of sounds like something for people who’ve got everyday problems handled. How can you expect regular people to feel responsible to everybody? Maybe down the road, I’ll be able to take that on.”
This is a valid question, and an honest response to the biggest picture world view I’ve ever encountered, evolutionary spirituality/ evolutionary relationship. I get that being asked to consider the greatest good, in everything from how we love, how we do business, to which thoughts we think, is overwhelming. Any sane human is humbled by the realization that, “God has no hands but ours.”
Yet, not only are we being called to realize our big picture responsibility, we are now actually being called to lean into the edge of our understanding of it. We are called to act boldly on behalf of the greatest good, even as we question what it is, what our relationship is to it, and what our relationship is to each other.
Perhaps the best known teacher of evolutionary spirituality is Andrew Cohen, with whom my current teacher, Craig Hamilton (IntegralEnlightenment.com), studied. Andrew’s new book, “Evolutionary Enlightenment,” is a wonderful explanation of the evolutionary perspective. I highly recommend it to you. Andrew also publishes an online magazine/ evolutionary network, EnlightenNext.org, in which he writes a, “Quote of the Week.” The quote I just received in my email speaks beautifully to the question of just how much consciousness we are ready to take on.
In All Your Imperfection
It’s important to remember that your ego—your separate personal self-sense and all its culturally conditioned tendencies—is just not awake to the urgent need for your participation in the evolutionary process. That’s why your ego is convinced that it has all the time in the world to be eternally busy with its own self-improvement. It says, “Well,I’m not ready because I’m not perfect yet.” But that’s just the ego’s perennial excuse to avoid the overwhelming urgency of the evolutionary context of being alive. Did you ever meet anybody who was actually perfect? I don’t think perfection exists within manifestation. If you want to experience perfection—inherent perfection; unborn, uncreated perfection—meditate. As you gain the capacity to transcend a conditioned relationship to thought, memory, and time, you will eventually awaken to the timeless, formless, infinite ground of your own being and you’ll experience that which is perfect.
But when we reenter the manifest realm of time, space, and form, we leave perfection behind, in order to create ourselves anew through the evolutionary process. And perfection will never be reached here. So when the ego tells you that because you are not perfect, you are not ready yet, it traps you in a spiritually and evolutionarily self-defeating cycle. A big part of awakening to spiritual maturity is realizing that, even in all your imperfection, you are ready to take responsibility.
While you realize that perfection is unattainable, you aspire for it, always reaching higher and further. You are ready to be responsible for creating the future, right now, even though your ego may kick and scream all the way. And your liberation, your enlightenment, in every moment, depends upon that. It’s not easy. You have to be a warrior, you have to be an exemplar, even though you know that you’re not perfect. So you have to deal with the reality of your human frailty, with the inherent contradictions in your character, and still be bold and brave enough to be willing to take responsibility for all of this. If you do, then the power of spirit will enter into your heart, your body, and your mind and you will begin to express That, in spite of all your imperfection. And then you, as a human being, don’t have to be perfect, because Spirit already is.—Andrew Cohen, 1/4/12
Can we allow ourselves to move from plain, “overwhelmed,” to, “overwhelmed by the power of Spirit,” entering into our hearts as we take responsibility for creating the future of conscious relationship?
If you can say, “Yes,” let’s dive in together, and see where Spirit leads us.
Love and blessings,
Dr. Julianne
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Tags: Andrew Cohen, chaplain, consciousness, counseling, Craig Hamilton, enlightenment, EnlightenNext, evolutionary enlightenment, evolutionary relationship, evolutionary spirituality, finding a spiritual psychologist, God, Hawaii, integral, integral spirituality, IntegralEnlightenment, intuitive, Julianne Hanson, love, Maui, phone counseling, Prayer, Psychology, psychotherapy, Relationship Advice, relationship counseling, singles advice, Skype counseling, Spiritual Counseling, spiritual psychologist, spiritual psychotherapy, spirituality, transpersonal psychologist, Unity
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