When Transformation Becomes an Offering

Twenty some years ago, when my life was falling apart and I felt the urgency to become conscious of my healing journey, I saw my process as an inner pilgrimage to excavate my wounds, cultivate clarity, and find deeper purpose. Back then, I would have never guessed  that my transformation was also the most important thing I could offer to a world in crisis.

I believe that the illusion of separation lies at the heart of our corrupt and materialistic worldview. It tells me that myself ends at the edge of my skin, that nature is a backdrop, and that my healing is an detached individual achievement. Yet Indigenous cosmologies and emerging sciences remind us that we are woven into a web of life—where plants, animals, humans, fungi, microbes, and all other beings participate in a dynamic field of energy in which the health and actions of one part affect the whole.

In the words of biologist Rupert Sheldrake: “The idea that we are all separate is a powerful illusion. The more we discover about nature, the more we realize that everything is deeply interconnected through fields of relationship.”  In his theory of morphic resonance, he explains that memory and patterns of behavior are not stored in brains or genes alone, but in collective fields that influence all living systems across time and space.

For this reason, every breath we take with awareness, every act of compassion, every forgiveness made real are not just personal wins, they are blessings that ripple out to the human collective, to the entire biosphere, and to our past and future.

Now, one thing is to understand this in our head, another is to know it deep in the heart. When this is true, it is natural to dedicate our healing process and every gesture of beauty to the goodness of our ancestors, of our children’s children and of all life in the Cosmos. At this point, we have awakened to the sacredness of our existence, rather than being dragged along the road of unconscious fate – of karma.

There is an awareness in which there is no longer a split between weeping for my personal pain or shedding tears for the a land that can’t bear fruit; no difference between whispering my one’s deep longings and feeling the longing of those who sleep under a bridge; no difference between the first breath of those being born and the last breath of those who are dying. Every thought, action, dream, prayer and desire becomes an luminous thread in the fabric of existence.

Carl Jung said: “Individuation does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.”

The call to realize the healthiest and most wholesome version of yourself is also a call to be in service to life and to add your own ripples of beauty and grace to the world. It is an act of generosity and reciprocity with everything that nurtures you. Thus, your inner transformation should not be seen as an isolated and selfish act; but as a return to Nature and to the sacred human task of guarding the treasures of life.

How do my words land for you? I look forward to reading your thoughts.

Love,

Marcela Lobos