Katya Walter - ecology of the soul
We live at a fulcrum of history…a tilting point.
by Katya Walter, Ph.D.
We also get this same message of bouncing against the limits in other ways—emotionally, financially, culturally, ecologically. Global mass transit and instant messaging have turned this world into a big round neighborhood. Whether we like it or not, we are a global community—one currently full of fights, crises, bottlenecks, and anxiety.
But we learn. Slowly and with hardship we seek to make this new leap required of us now. To admit that our world is round and circumscribed by the limits of how we treat it and each other.
The Little Crystalline Tings! of Synchronicity
Perhaps you too have heard those chiming moments of synchronicity go ting! in your life…some little incident of perplexing significance that's so hard to explain, yet it triggers you into sudden alertness without a logical cause. Within those crystalline moments, perhaps you discovered along the twisting corridors of time the shape of a transcendent meaning for your own life? David Bohm called it “a significant connection that rests in the folds of implicate order.”
Once I had lunch with David Bohm after he lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. I saw that this man who’d lectured so brilliantly during the seminar had a face irremediably tired in repose, yet he’d rather travel to lecture world-wide than protect his weak heart and clogged arteries. He was pushing the envelope to sow his ideas. He saw a hidden depth beyond the edge of ordinary consciousness. I saw that he’d been beyond the liminal zone and found it hard to come back sometimes.
In fact, that was why I was studying in those days at the Jung Institute. I was trying to learn how to go in and come back. The only reason we can even do this is because the left and right hemispheres of our brain—this bicameral organ split by the corpus callosum—mimic this bicameral universe with its twin domains within the double bubble structure. And the Planck level is its corpus callosum.
Could it be that the goal of life is not just aiming us toward sybaritic indulgence in an expensive domicile with a fine job and a sexy mate and admirable offspring for as long a life span as possible? Could it be that something engineers our life events toward the growth of our souls through change, even right down to allowing the play of a free will factor?
Hard to imagine? Well, here’s what my friend Virginia said when she read a draft of this material on tings: “Wow! This would explain to me why God knows how it’s all going to turn out, but my free will of personal choice is still real.”
Once I had lunch with David Bohm after he lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. I saw that this man who’d lectured so brilliantly during the seminar had a face irremediably tired in repose, yet he’d rather travel to lecture world-wide than protect his weak heart and clogged arteries. He was pushing the envelope to sow his ideas. He saw a hidden depth beyond the edge of ordinary consciousness. I saw that he’d been beyond the liminal zone and found it hard to come back sometimes.
In fact, that was why I was studying in those days at the Jung Institute. I was trying to learn how to go in and come back. The only reason we can even do this is because the left and right hemispheres of our brain—this bicameral organ split by the corpus callosum—mimic this bicameral universe with its twin domains within the double bubble structure. And the Planck level is its corpus callosum.
Could it be that the goal of life is not just aiming us toward sybaritic indulgence in an expensive domicile with a fine job and a sexy mate and admirable offspring for as long a life span as possible? Could it be that something engineers our life events toward the growth of our souls through change, even right down to allowing the play of a free will factor?
Hard to imagine? Well, here’s what my friend Virginia said when she read a draft of this material on tings: “Wow! This would explain to me why God knows how it’s all going to turn out, but my free will of personal choice is still real.”
