I'm inviting you to step into a new era with me. And I'm inviting you
to invite the people in your life to step into a new era with you.
What new era? And: who invited me to step into this new
era? Who invited me to invite you to step into this new era with me?
Who invited me to invite you to invite the people in your life to step
into this new era with you?
I invited myself to step into this new era. I invited myself to invite
you to step into this new era with me. I invited myself to invite you
to invite the people in your life to step into this new era with you.
It's an original invitation, an original new era
invitation. I'm inviting you to create an original new era invitation.
For yourself. And for the people in your life. Invite yourself to step
into this new era. Invite the people in your life to step into this new
era with you.
This is the new era into which I've stepped, into which I'm inviting
you to step:
In this new era I come from things are alright exactly the
way they are and exactly the way they aren't. I generate them this way.
I'm not dependent on others to remind me things are alright exactly the
way they are and exactly the way they aren't, and I'm open to it if
they do. I'm not interested in engaging in conversations which forward
my opinion that things aren't alright exactly the way they
are and exactly the way they aren't. In fact, in this new era I'm not
interested in my opinion about anything. In this new era, if I
have an opinion I'll express it like it's just my opinion and not like
it's "the truth".
In this new era there's no dithering and no doubt I'm alright the way I
am, have always been alright the way I am, and always will be alright
the way I am. In this new era, I'm responsible for the quality of my
life, for my future, and for inventing the possibilities for my life.
In this new era I've given up (in the same sense as I've
given up nicotine) casting myself in the role of victim in
the drama of my life. In this new era I exercise intentionally
forgetting (when required) to bring back the clean slate
at will.
In this new era I no longer see myself as a separate entity contained
in a bag of skin, the false perception of which drives the frenzy and
panic to survive, my self preservation, my selfishness, my
egocentricity.
In this new era I'm clear my very being ie
who I really am
is inextricably connected to and interconnected with every single human
being who's ever walked and whoever will walk the face of
Planet Earth
in the past, in the present, and in the future. In this new era, I
don't simply know this like a rule, like a strategy, like a tenet to
live by because it's intelligent. In this new era I know it like the
foundation of my life because it's
what's so.
This new era begins not when the calendar says we've reached a pivotal
year - say, the year 2000 which heralded the new millennium. Neither
does this new era begin when the next level of technology changes the
way we go about our business as it inevitably will - again. Nor does
this new era begin when something
catalytic
and galvanizing happens in the world like an earthquake or an oil
spill. This new era begins with a
linguistic act.
This new era, the new era I'm speaking about, begins right
now when I declare this new era has begun.
How do you extend an invitation to step into this new era? How do you
extend a new era invitation? A new era invitation doesn't have the same
business as
usual
format as other invitations. In the first instance, a new era
invitation isn't sent in a letter by mail - and it may be. A new era
invitation is extended by example ie it's extended by
being a new era invitation. It's extended by being in
this new era.
In the second instance, a new era invitation is extended with
intention it'll be accepted yet with without
hope of, or expectation that, or attachment to it'll be
accepted. That doesn't mean you don't care if it's
accepted or not. It means its acceptance is a function of your
intention it'll be accepted, rather than of your hope of, or of your
expectation that, or of your attachment to it'll be accepted. Being
complete with extending a new era invitation doesn't require its being
accepted. Being complete with extending a new era invitation only
requires extending a new era invitation. As soon as there's hope
of, or expectation that, or attachment to it'll be accepted, then
instead of being a new era invitation, it's just more
business as usual.