Redefine Life Expectancy: Discover Life Before Death

TRANSCENDING PREOCCUPATIONS WITH SURVIVAL

We humans have evolved extraordinary capacities to analyze, conceptualize, manipulate, and alter our environments in order to ensure our survival.  This requires constant mental as well as physical attention, preparation, and work.  Born into a world as vulnerable creatures we learn through experience to recognize threats and react quickly. So fear, anxiety, uncertainty, suspicion, wariness, pain, guilt, pressure, urgency, loss, concern, anger, greed, jealousy, and even shame and embarrassment, are feelings that call the body to do something to address whatever  conditions are  perceived to cause them.  

Although extremely helpful for survival, responding to cues based in discomfort is not very helpful when survival is not an issue.  So here we are, suffering in many ways from our built-in mindset seeking out and reacting to the slightest perceived deficiency and insecurity. 

Yet, foremost, we are spiritual beings in human bodies with which we are so strongly identified that we often lose sight of the fact.  Not only are we built to survive, but we are also built with the capacity to transcend our preoccupations with survival and experience the mysterious unfolding of nature and our selves in the moment.   This transcendence of the false identification with "survival mind" delivers us into a new form of aliveness where we can discover and witness over and over, infinitely, the mystery and miracle of being fully human.  The great news is that this is possible, with a little discipline and practice. Find out more in ï»¿ï»¿Books/Resources