True Fulfillment and Purpose

"We strut and fret our hour upon the stage," is how Shakespeare put it. A few centuries later, Andy Warhol was downgrading us to fifteen minutes in the spotlight. And taking that to heart, a few of us propelled ourselves into the fast lane. "We're here for a good time, not a long time," was that creed - and a few of that stripe burned out spectacularly like super-novas.

What we do with our lives is something personal. But every once in awhile we need to sit back and take stock. We'll do a little of that today on Healing Through Consciousness.

I'm a fortunate guy. I was born in a good country into a comfortable middle-class background. I had a loving and supportive family, I played on all the sports teams, did well in school, had every advantage - and then some - in my life. I have no doubt there are many, many people suffering in what must seem hopeless situations dreaming of opportunities like that for themselves and their children. If, that is, they have any time for dreaming in their struggles to just stay alive.

And have I taken my priviledged life for granted?

Of course I have.

Have I wasted time and turned my back on opportunities?

You bet.

And in my quiet moments, those times of more humbled reflection, have I wondered, "What's it all about, Alfie?"

Yeah, that, too.

Those are moments of taking stock, and they can be devastating for those who only take time for that late in life, when it's too late to change, or it's too difficult, or they've lost the way too much to ever find their way back. Dante Alighieri wrote about that, didn't he ... and that was way back in medieval times. So this soul searching is nothing new to human experience.

Who of us hasn't looked up at the stars or caught snatches of a favorite song from our youth and found ourselves reflecting on the greater meaning of life, on whatever happened to all that promise we once felt?

This strikes at the essence of our radio program actually, which is a program of consciousness. We record from our studios at the International Society of Analytical Trilogy, and A.T. is a comprehensive therapeutic science that helps us answer those questions about the purpose of our lives. We hold to a revolutionary view here - revolutionary in the sense of being dramatically different from the dominant scientific worldview that we are only the end products of millions of years of evolution from the primal ooze and have no more desire in life than survival.

That view doesn't much cut it in the light of our work. Dr. Norberto Keppe's Analytical Trilogy proves to us another thing: that we possess, right now, all that we need to enjoy the things that we think will only be possible tomorrow. Everything is here now, inside us and in our perfect world. The question is not one of needing to evolve there, but of why, if we have everything, our world and our lives are still in such a precarious state. This is a matter of us doig something against what is already perfectly created, not one of us not having arrived yet.

We have it all, but we deny it. And by understanding how we deny it we can begin to return to it. We can begin to see our way through the dark wood.

Every week, I sit down with Dr. Claudia Bernhardt Pacheco, vice-president of the International Society of Analytical Trilogy, and we talk about this. And we invite your participation at joneshealing@gmail.com. You'll find much here to clarify your troubles and make your soul sing.

Today, a couple of young callers join us to consider their lives, especially in relation to true fulfillment.

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