Mystical Activism by John C. Robinson

Author:John C. Robinson [Robinson, John C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789044195
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2020-02-27T23:00:00+00:00

What Is Activism?

Activism in general may be broadly defined as efforts to promote social, political, and environmental progress to remediate the suffering of humans and other life forms. These efforts include social activism, sacred activism, and the mystical activism of self-transformation. Because activism is not a “one size fits all” process, we must each find the path best suited to our own values, nature, personal wounding, and life experience. In fact, we may use more than one type of activism in our helping efforts.

In social activism, our deep beliefs and values inspire us to stand up to injustice and suffering through social, political and legal campaigns, organized marches and demonstrations, volunteering, and letter writing and phone calls to our elected politicians. Our activism may be performed individually or through countless organizations ready to put our energy and experience to good use. In social activism, we work within the World of Man to change the World of Man.

In sacred activism, religious commitments, spiritual beliefs and mystical experiences deepen and drive our work in the service of humanity and life on Earth. Blending social movements with spirituality and religion, we fuse psychological, social, political, and sacred dimensions to transform the World of Man. Andrew Harvey’s book, The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism, James O’Dea’s book, The Conscious Activist: Where Activism Meets Mysticism, and the Order of the Sacred Earth, edited by Matthew Fox, Skylar Wilson and Jennifer Listug, are excellent examples of impassioned sacred activism. Finally, to the field of sacred activism we may also add the process known as “Subtle Activism” pioneered by David Nicol that creates a coherent group energy field capable of transforming social systems near and far.

There is yet a third form of sanctified activism – the mystical activism of self-transformation. Emerging naturally from the awakened states experienced in sacred activism, it focuses primarily on the radical now of mystical consciousness and the resulting revelation of Creation. We work first on our self, dissolving the personal self-idea into the thought-free consciousness of the mystic, as the monks did in the last chapter. In this awakened state, we move rapidly into a world that is literally sacred and beyond the chains of identity and beliefs. We enter the flow of divine consciousness and being, caring for the sacred world right where we are, and, like Coyote, releasing the gifts of true self and soul to others. We become divine humans in a divine world, our transcendent consciousness transforming the World of Man into Heaven on Earth, and lifting another veil of Maya from our progressive awakening.

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