Here is a secret i have discovered lately: we are not human beings. We are human becomings!
The animals are beings–they are born, live, and die and they are always the same as their generations pass by. You can count a thousand generations of animals and they are still the same species, the same animal. They are beings. The human is never the same–we come from a continuing tradition of transformation. We transform ourselves in history. It is not only that our societies change, or our environment is transformed by the work of our hands, or that our technology advances…we ourselves are transformed through the accumulation of knowledge and skills and information that we are a different species altogether from the one we were before! We never cease to become! Now in this age of internet and information, we fill our genes with new found knowledge and pass it on to the new generation. The generation gap is a clear sign that we are always changing and transforming. The new generation is always different from the old ones. Our society, culture, technology is always undergoing metamorphosis—we are the co-creators of the cosmos–endowed with massive gifts for healing, transformation and even destruction. Can we claim our ancient heritage of divinity and live as true and free souls making the world a heaven on earth or are we going to be trapped in the folly of our own greed and destruction? The choice is ultimately ours to make?
