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We are All Connected

We are all connected. I know there are many people who can not believe that, but that is my opinion.  Where does it come from?

Something happened when I passed 30. I don’t know the time or place, but something in my conscious changed. I don’t know if it was listening to Joesph Campbell’s “The Power of Myth” over and over, or something I got from Deepock Chorpa’s teachings, but something changed. I started to feel humanity, and more precisely our shared humanity. We share a common humanity, men, women, Christian, Muslim, Jew, and Hindu. We may call it different things because while we share this tremendous unmeasurable commonality, our egos keep telling us we are apart form each other… and there’s a reason for that as well which we may touch apon later… but after 30 I became much more aware of that common humanity. Watching October Sky, where a son and father just can’t seem to get past the differences between them, yet at the end the father realizes the dreams and abilities his son has. Unspoken, the emotion off the screen where he puts his arm around his son to watch the rocket go up speaks louder than any words could. It’s speaking to our humanity, and it was speaking to mine. I can often feel that in movies… the best ones use that unseen force to connect with the audience in a way more powerful than pictures and words can. Music can and usually does play a huge part in that effort as well, as music has the power to go straight to our heart and emotions. That humanity is the light of Christ – as Christians may call it, but it is the power of love, and indeed I think the power of the universe.