Sacred Purpose: That unique combination of callings, gifts, offerings, archetypes, lessons, significant relationships, and key emotional issues that each of us is here to clarify, to embody, to transform, to actualize, and to grow through. Because of the gripping nature of survivalist codes that exist in our DNA and cultural conditioning, we have the tendency to define ourselves in linear, practical terms—but we are actually multi-dimensional. We glimpse this in our dreamscapes and in our nightmares—there is a much richer world within us than the one we encounter in our waking consciousness. That sublime world is a reflection of our sacred purpose—the profound significance of each birth, the deeper currents and rhythms that thread through us, the real why we are here. Far from being one-trick ponies, each of us is a “polyphrenic soul,” entering this world with a sacred purpose to uncover: a multitude of treasures, pathways, potentialities and brilliant shades of possibility that both reflect our soul’s growing edge, and our unique contribution to the world. We honor our purpose both because it grows us individually, and also because it grows us forward as a humanity. When we each live our sacred purpose, stitch by tiny stitch, we weave together an unseen tapestry that grows the collective.
I spent a considerable amount of time wondering why I couldn’t identify and actualize my callings, gifts and offerings. Sometimes, I beat myself up, certain that everyone else had found theirs, and that I was one of the rare few that hadn’t found their way. Of course, this was untrue. Very few people actually find their true callings, gifts, and offerings in this lifetime. Those who do are pioneering a new way of being. One of the important things to recognize, while attempting to either clarify your path, or to authenticate it once found, is that which stands in the way. That is, what conditions do you need, before you can clarify and actualize your callings, gifts, and offerings? What obstacles must be cleared first? What personal patterns, issues, and wounds, need to be resolved first so that you can give over to the next stages of your true-path? How does your familial, cultural, spiritual, and religious conditioning interfere with the quest?
On one level, the embodiment of sacred purpose is an art form. But, on another, it is a kind of personal science, one where you come to realize the precise conditions that you need in order to flourish. In the year to come, be painstakingly honest (and self-loving) in your efforts to imaginatively identify what has to happen before you can recognize and/or actualize your callings, gifts, and offerings? In other words, what has to happen to shift you from a seeker to a finder, on the quest for sacred purpose? Sometimes we keep seeking because we are afraid to walk a path that we have found; sometimes we keep seeking because we are not truly showing up for the quest; sometimes we keep seeking because we don’t yet realize the obstacles in our way. All are important to acknowledge. Here is a list of just some of the things that can get in the way:
-fear of success (and its roots in negative associations with vulnerability, self-revealing);
-economic challenges, overwhelm of responsibilities, lack of opportunity;
-relationship(s) that distract, discourage, absorb too much life-force;
-negative self-concept (shame, self-hatred, feelings of unworthiness);
-unreleased emotional material that blocks clarity;
-survivalist conditioning that prevents you from fully exploring your individual path;
-over-willfulness, impatience, refusal to surrender to confusion and the not-knowing;
-health issues;
-a fundamental ungroundedness, tendency to spiritually bypass, a resistance to believing that you (not something outside yourself) have your answers, a fundamental sense of disempowerment;
-psychological issues, patterns, and tendencies, that undermine your quest.
What, if anything, is obstructing your quest for purpose? Where does false-path prevent you from walking your truest paths in this lifetime?
For me, it was clearing away the clouds of survivalism that were falsely painted in MY psyche by a survivalist parent. That was not my story. I had to consciously lift the fog to more deeply listen to the faint calling within my own heart and pay attention to my own “desire”, which survivalism identified as a negative reason. I LOVE the word DESIRE, and once I listened to real-ly hear its call, MY story began to unfold in concrete ways... all the way! So yes, survivalism is prudent common sense, paying our way in the world $$$ is an essential for most. But when the bones unceasingly rattle with the DESIRE to follow a different path, coalescing with that desire is the risk worth taking 🎶💖
This I passed on to my two sons... that their greatest challenge in life was to listen to and identify the true desires of their hearts, which continue to blossom. True Path can be trusted... one must listen while walking.... imho