About Quest for Emergence
Quest for Emergence is all about helping individuals in the following areas:
1. Connection and Purpose
Direct experiential Connection to (or alignment with) our core spiritual reality (nonduality, love, joy, peace) gives us the deepest context for our lives and our actions. It puts us in touch with the “source field” underlying all of life. Persistent efforts at this level of connection permeate us with feelings of well-beiung and illuminate our thinking and feeling with creative ideas and intuitive hunches that would be difficult to perceive otherwise.
Our greater Purpose or calling emanates from our connection to the source field, drawing us into a larger story. This story transcends mere survival or success as these are conventionally imagined, connecting us to a more universal level of consciousness.
2. Manifestation and Legacy
Manifesting our vision through courageous and creative acts puts our desires in motion. It’s all about making real what we feel and know and want most deeply. The physical world is our experimental ground, and where we reap the fruits of our efforts. Our actions show us what’s true about our ideas and our current capacity, providing feedback for our next steps. In this domain we establish the habits and the life-supporting framework for moving forward step by step.
Our Legacy is our grand opus, what we most deeply wish to leave our children and their children and the rest of the world, down to the seventh generation. Opening ourselves to the possibility of manifesting at this level simultaneously opens us to deeper levels of loving wisdom and creativity. We possess incredible wealth and intelligence, now we need the wisdom to put these into play in a way that will make a real difference to the quality of life on this planet.
3. Change and Transformation
Change is the theme of our time. Most people sense that our personal and shared worlds are at a tipping point, which calls us to live our purpose and create our legacy. We can either flow along with change, or resist it, but we cannot avoid it. Change means engaging all of our creative faculties, developing ourselves and our skills, and going beyond our comfort zones into a new world — a world that has not yet existed!
Personal Transformation goes hand in hand with Connection and Manifestation, because these will drive any and all contrary beliefs and habits to the surface. Our unconscious patterns relate to our sense of security and identity, and function to keep us in our comfort zones and away from bold actions. Transformational tools help us develop the psychological resilience to be able to manage change by letting go of self-defeating habits and discerning what is true and helpful in our own choices and actions.
By knowing ourselves and growing ourselves, we gain the capacity to open to infinite intelligence and create new images of the world we want to inhabit. By breathing life and love and sweat into powerful ideas that express the worlld we really want, we gain access to more of the infinite resources of the universe to help lift ourselves and our fellow humans.
Develop a practice in these three areas and nothing can stop you. All of the offerings of Quest for Emergence — individual sessions, courses, writings, meditations — are designed to help you do precisely these three things.
A World on the Edge
Right now, things are unfolding in this world — socially, economically, politically, technologically, and environmentally — that we have no idea about how to handle. Life is throwing so much at us that we are being forced to evolve, rapidly and profoundly. The gravity of events and the scope of change that is upon us invites us to be in a vastly higher level of authorship of our own reality, and to join with others at a much deeper level than we’re used to.
The indigenous tribes and the 13 Grandmothers and the wisdom teachings of the ages have long been calling us to remember what we forgotten of this. They’ve been calling us to awaken and to get on with the Great Work of creating a world that works for all.
The critical role each of us has to play is to show up as that new world. And to bring it into being, we must embody it in heart, mind and deed.
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A transformation of this magnitude won’t be like learning a new skill. It will be more like making a quantum leap, joining a revolution even… Will this be Humanity 3.0? I honestly don’t know. But what I do know is that I hear the heart’s ever-present call to a life beyond fear, beyond polarization, and into a love-centered response that sees and protects Life and what serves Life.
And just so we’re clear, this new world is not like some carefully placed target across the hayfield. It’s not a “thing” that we have the blueprint for, or that any person or group or nation has a corner on, contrary claims notwithstanding. Instead, this world is revealed through the opening of our hearts. We encounter this world only when we walk towards it, when we open to it, when we seek it, when we find it. Quite simply, we allow/wake up to/create this world, individually and together.
Can we allow and see that somehow, in a way that defies our rational comprehension, a more deeply sacred and beautiful world is awakening, right from within our deepest hearts? Can we be fully present for that, and weave it together as the best expression of who we are?
And anyways, anything less is the long way around, wouldn’t you say? Where’s the fun in that?
You’re Already Participating
There is nothing that is happening in your life on this day that is not a part of your journey, and therefore part of our collective awakening. Visionary ideas, deep desires and vexing problems all serve to focus your attention to “resolve” their creative tensions. You do this by entering into the flow of life with them. Even the worst of experiences — fear, cynicism, boredom, and yes, rage too — all are your teachers. But you have to turn around and look at them, see them for what they are. When you do, you will start to become free of them, and recognize what they are helping to birth within you.
Your deepest desires — to be at peace, to be whole, to love and be loved, to be creative, to be meaningfully engaged with life, to uplift the world — are helping to guide your journey by calling you to something greater, something beyond your locally-defined identity. Your current life offers you the perfect context for manifesting what you most desire. But you have to believe in yourself enough to challenge all of the lesser patterns that would have you sinking towards the comfort zones of safety and conventionality.
You are more than you ever thought. The world is waiting for your spark to ignite you into the next level of your manifestation. Are you ready to embrace that?
On the quest
It’s up to each of us to take this heroic journey and return to the world to contribute to its transformation and flowering. If we wish to be truly happy and fulfilled, nothing less will be enough.
Are you up for the trip? Well then grab your compass and mapmaking materials cuz this is gonna be a wild ride through terra incognita. You will forging a new path for yourself. And for everyone who follows.
Over the last several years I have been on my own quest, gathering together everything I’ve learned, all the direct consciousness access and transformational tools I have found helpful throughout my life, ground through the mill of my life and the play of my creative outpourings. Quest for Emergence is my offering back to the world, from all the teachers and healers and helpers and co-travelers who have inspired and uplifted me.
Deep thanks to our ancestors who dreamed and sweated us into being, upon whose shoulders we now stand. And thank you to those today who share their deep hearts and open minds to continue to point us towards the doorways, windows, skylights, cave exits, and cracks in the walls. Deep blessings on our journeys.
In Lak‘ech Ala K’in.
I am another you, you are another me.
John-Michael
(More about my professional background here)