On 12 October 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered a “new world”.

This date for historians represents a “historical caesura” or hiatus, that is an event of general significance that alters the previous equilibrium. This event marks the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era, and was one of the first manifestations of the Renaissance.

What does all this mean to us today? What stimuli does it provide us with? What reflections does it raise in us?

Each of us, certainly in the so-called Western world, is in a safe and well-known land, a territory characterized by “comfort”, even if it often makes us pay high prices in terms of happiness, health and beauty.

There are three questions we should ask ourselves.
The first question is “Are we happy?” the second is “Are we healthy?” and the last but not the least is “Do we live in beauty?“

We often live a life in which we are really unhappy and we feel we are in a prison but we do not have the courage to break the chains and go towards the future that awaits us patiently.

The longer we remain in a “toxic” situation, the more our unhappiness emerges, which is communicated to us by our physical body with pathologies that at some point also manifest themselves in our skin.

Why? Because our organism wants to scream at us that it is time to leave this safe land, because other shores, predestined shores, await us and that a future full of new possibilities is ready for us.

The last question about beauty is fundamental because we should imagine ourselves as creators of beauty. Our thoughts should be beautiful, our actions should be inspired by beauty. Our whole life should radiate the beauty that comes from consistency with higher principles and values.

Are we faithful to the existential task for which we were born? Or do we feel we’re cheating on it?

There comes a decisive existential moment in which we feel an inner urge to free ourselves from the chains and go beyond the already known to discover new worlds.

How do we recognise this? What happens? A battle is activated within us between the part that resists this stimulus and the one that wants us to embark on a journey to understand the profound meaning of our existence and the real reason why we were born.

This inner need becomes so strong that we can no longer not listen to it. How many times have we betrayed it by being overwhelmed by the fear of coming out of safety from an already known world?

We are living now in a historical period similar to the end of the Middle Ages and to the instances present in the year 1492 that led Columbus to dare to go beyond the known. A new renaissance is within the reach of individuals, groups and nations.

Each of us is called to make their own contribution to this planetary evolutionary drive that will give us the opportunity to manifest new paths of beauty. Everyone needs to commit to work on themselves and look at the “unresolved knots” that are powerfully coming to the Light. Nothing can be the same again and it is necessary for all of us to go beyond the “Known Lands”.

Let us listen to our Heart which is desperately trying to communicate with us, to ask us to release our potential and write the future foreseen for us.

We must have the courage to look at the innate fear within us. The fear of losing what is already known, our securities. Knowing that our fear of change is based on the ancestral need for security.

It is necessary to accept that even if this is a process that involves humanity we are called to do it alone, loneliness characterizes it. We are alone in making our choices, alone in the pain of giving birth to a new life. It is an inevitable dimension. The decision to embark on an evolutionary journey is characterized by loneliness. We also know that we are immersed in a space full of opportunities for help.

We develop trust in life and try to connect with each other to weave a web of Light. We understand that this is an evolutionary process in which we are all involved, none excluded.

There is a path of beauty that is showing us the way and asking us to proceed towards the conquest of new worlds. We must learn to contact the “Vision” present within us and believe in it persistently even when it seems that all events and people are going against it.

We are asked to wield the sword of courage and dare to go and conquer new possibilities by going beyond what is already known. We feel that an appeal has been issued and that now the time has come to respond and do it and proceed towards evolution with confidence, in Joy and Beauty.

‘They will ask you how to traverse life.

Answer: Like crossing an abyss upon a taut string—

Beautifully, carefully, and fleetly.’

(From the series Agni Yoga – Levaes of Morya’s Garden 1 (The Call), 421)

by Marcello Spinello

 

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