There Is Only One Human Body On This Planet
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The Teaching
Andrew Cohen - an impactful spiritual teacher - said in the early nineties during a lecture: “There is only one human body on this planet." It stuck with me “How can that be?”
Years later, Salvia Divinorum - an impactful plant spirit teacher - showed me what that teaching feels like with and through my whole body.
30 years later it’s the guiding light in my life and of a quietly rising global movement. An internal revolution that will transform humanity alongside other teachings of truth.
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The Practice
It all begins with a simple, humble movement practice of Body Prayers: called “The Inti Practices” available as free monthly live sessions.
But no practice affects us unless it becomes “embedded into our DNA.”
That’s where we need discipline and a supportive structure and group to keep our practice steady and grounded and reliable.
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What's The Problem?
Simply put:
As long as there is even one person who suffers at the hand of another person on this planet, humanity is not free.
No individual is free from suffering unless all of humanity is free.
“That’s not my problem,” you may say. “I’m not guilty of the suffering of people over there. Isn’t it their choice to live the way they do?”
Maybe it is or maybe it’s not. It’s a mysterious life.
“It’s Not My Problem”
The moment I call you an “evil” person, I denied your humanity, that divine spark of light that is in your heart and I pulled you into the dark. I denied your true nature.
By doing that I confirmed that I don’t know that I am of divine nature, hence I can’t see it in you.
And I have perpetuated the cycle of suffering.
I suffer of ignorance and you suffer of the consequences of my verdict over you. If I happen to have power I may even harm you.
Why am I doing all this? Don’t I know better? Maybe in my thoughts I do.
But in my body there is fear of that which I don’t know.
Fear is contagion.
Contagion
If those people over there suffer, it is like a contagion, no matter how tall my wall is, their suffering seeps into my house, my life, my territory.
Suffering does not care about walls, it permeates them. I fear that.
The result is that I become fearful and defensive of losing all the stuff I have. My lifestyle, my religion, my beliefs, my material goods, my family, my lover, my children, my everything.
It’s all about me, me, me. Fear makes my self-centered and closes my heart. My only concern becomes: “How will I keep those over there away?”
My fear mounts and I gather weapons, internal ones at first, then follow my words. Then follow the guns, the bombs, the tanks. Guns follow fear.
I want to control others so I can keep my cherished stuff.
