Journey to the Wisdom of the Center: Part 2

The year was 1919, a dark time in human history. The horrors of World War I had just finished, but the so-called “Spanish flu” was ravaging the world. The poet William Butler Yeats was in a desolate mood. His wife, eight months pregnant, was struggling to survive the flu and the future seemed bleak. Yeats sat at his desk and wrote a poem entitled “The Second Coming,” which began like this:

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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.”

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Are we now on the edge of Yeat’s somber vision of The Second Coming? I don’t believe we are, but the dangers are certainly lurking in the shadows. Civilization has made enormous progress in the last one hundred years, yet we still seem to be at each other’s throats, threatening to silence our perceived enemies in any manner we can.

In my previous article, I reflected on the importance of aligning ourselves at the center of a worldview. This month’s article picks up where I left off to inquire how we can inspire a critical mass to live and act in coherence with shared values beyond politics and “tribal identity.” 

These challenging times call for a belief in our extraordinary capacity to co-create a world that works for all, even in the midst of polarization, violence and despair. It’s this bold vision that is at the heart of the Holomovement. Its mission to catalyze a critical mass of ambassadors, holons and alliances is both intentional and aspirational. But where are we meant to find this “centralized spirit” of the Holomovement in these times of extremes?

The Holomovement as Presence Rather than a Position

At the heart of my contemplation is how to build confidence in the understanding that we can serve a collective purpose without losing our sense of autonomy and self. However, if we describe the Holomovement as a centralized “home-base” for the universal truths of the divine, we are making spatial assumptions of our cosmic reality. The word ‘centralized’ infers that there is literally a center of our universe. This can create a misunderstanding when it comes to describing where a social movement is rooted politically, ideologically or even geographically.

It’s difficult to not visualize an energetic spectrum that is linear when we are limited to our 3-Dimensional-thinking capacities. If the universe is infinite, and we’re all one in our wholeness, how can we say we are gathered at the “center” of a worldview? 

The Holomovement’s centralized energy isn’t so much a location on a spectrum or map, but rather a balance between the “unchanging” truth of our wholeness and our individual frequencies amplifying the flow of our evolutionary wave. Like the Law of Polarity, everything has its counter-position, like a pendulum in motion. 

If we study the movement of the pendulum, we find that when it meets the end point of its swing, for an infinitesimally small moment, there is no measured velocity in space. It finds stillness and knows that it is time to reverse direction. The Cosmic Law of Rhythm will predict that it will swing all the way to the opposite extreme until it reaches stillness again. Are we humans locked in a perpetual swing of our own, swaying from one extreme to the other? Not necessarily. We have the mental will and the cosmic call to find a balanced center, that is our deep, spiritual presence. Our lives do not need to be a constant flow between one extreme and another but rather, as William Walker Atkinson writes in The Seven Cosmic Laws, “the Symbol of the Cosmic Law of Rhythm is to be found in the Ascending Spiral, rather than in the Circle or the Pendulum Beat.”  We are not simply endlessly turning in the widening gyre, but rather ascending to the cosmic source. 

This is the motion of the Holomovement, taking us back from our explicate extremes to the wisdom of the implicate order at the ascending center. Atkinson tells us that “Pairs of opposites constitute but the two contrasting poles of a greater thing into which they may be synthesized.” As a social movement we are not seeking collective stillness, but we are envisioning a coherent energetic place beyond space that resonates with our global family. It is not so much a literal central meeting point, but a high frequency coherence in our consciousness.

Our goal within the Holomovement is to limit the extreme pendulum swing of cultural values and belief systems that divide rather than unify. This transformative work begins with a call for unity, not uniformity. This inclusivity allows for nuance and perspective within the unifying principles of the Holomovement, a common vibrational quality that we all feel physically and emotionally. 

Holotropic Attractors as Core Amplifiers 

The Holomovement isn’t something we each have to find; it is something we energetically co-create. Our balanced presence and vibrational resonance acts as a magnet, attracting fellow stewards to heed the transformative call. In the Holomovement we describe this as the Holomovement Effect. It is the exhilarating high frequency crest of the evolutionary wave. It is when the falcon finally hears the call and returns home.  

No matter how dire or divided things may appear, let us assure the poets of the world that the center can, indeed, hold. It has never been otherwise. We can each be a holotropic attractor building a movement. Holotropic attractors draw fellow stewards into holons, which in turn can become larger collaborations. This energy manifests as love-in-action, where the tangible impact of change is felt and experienced. Being at the energetic epicenter is the Holomovement’s strength in gathering a critical mass for aligning purpose and unifying values to serve the greatest good. 

Thus, may the best find their conviction and may the worst tire of their extremes. The task is to explore how we can invite and curate ways to experience what it feels like to be aligned in oneness for the good of all. How can we as stewards co-create spaces and practices that hum with an unmistakable frequency resonating with love in our body, mind, heart and soul?

Like a great jazz performance, the Holomovement calls for spontaneity, style and diverse instruments and offerings to find our way back to the divine center within the whole. The creative freedom of the individual becomes a celebration of wise innocence and is amplified when each player understands the core values and vision central to the unifying worldview. 

The goal isn’t to wordsmith an exact definition of the centralized energy of the Holomovement. It might be better described as the second coming of consciousness, where the journey to the wisdom of the center brings us back to the high vibrational stillness, to the love frequency from whence we came. In this collective energetic coherence, we can truly put love into action to create a world that works well for all. 

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