Thinking, feeling, willing in action

I have, over recent months, been much struck by three themes that my colleague Bruce Irvine of the Grubb Institute has been working with. Recently I wondered how they might be connected.

The first theme I noticed was the spirit of enquiry, and I particularly noticed this in the context of whether or not one felt curious. The loss of curiosity being a sign of having given up. I like to think of the phrase in terms of a spiritual "Spirit" called "Enquiry". A member of the family of Spirits whose most exalted member, the Holy Spirit, leads and contains all the others. The task of the Holy Spirit to be the relationship between, to be the flow of love and of grace. The task of the Spirit of Enquiry being the discernment of all that is, right here, right now, including, what is present of the future, emergent in this moment. Of spirit substance, the Spirit of Enquiry is thinking in action, it is Goethean observation.

The second theme is co-creation. Distinct from creation, co-creation highlights the deeper reality that all that is, is, because together we have made it so. The concept of co-creation precludes the possibility that we are victims of the other and insists that we have it in our gift to change our own behaviour in order that what is co-created becomes truer to our purpose. This concept struggles to be comprehensible, or even seem fair, until the concepts of pre-birth intention, karma and freedom are brought to bear. Co-creation is mobilised Will.

The third theme is self-authorisation. Just as co-creation reframes creation to include others, so self-authorisation reframes authority, once again frustrating attempts to attach blame for consequences to anyone else but oneself. I act because I choose to, because I authorise myself to act. The moment of commitment, of taking up ones own authority, is a threshold, and we only cross when it feels right. Self-authorisation is achieved through feeling mobilised in freedom.

Thus we se that, in freedom, our thinking, feeling and willing are put to work, enquiring, judging the rightness of decisions, and accepting responsibility for our part in all that comes about.