Humanity

It’s a delicious idea, humanity. It’s within all of us. Our ‘soul’ is its oracle, its ‘speaker’ and manufacturer. We either listen to our ‘soul-talk’ or we don’t, depending on the circumstances. If we engage the ‘soul’ we feel a glow inside … but maybe get overwhelmed. It’s as if we can only feel it as an abstract, as a potential we might not yet be experiencing. Our actions don’t reflect it because they’re driven by fear and the need for personal achievement. This ‘soul’-driven potential, we say, is “too idealistic”. We don’t take it seriously.
For some of us the implications of a humane world are too powerful to behold, and yet … it’s both frightening and dazzling.
If ‘humanity’ is the very essence of human life and if this is our ‘special gift’ to the planet (don’t laugh!!), then why don’t we think-humane. Perhaps we don’t because we know humanity comes with strings attached. The downside of any altruistic (humane) act is that it can be depressing - no rewards and not even any affirmation of what we’ve done.
When we DO something that’s really good there’s often a feeling that we’ve ‘set ourselves up’. We’ve made a rod for our own back. We expect things of ourselves. And if we’re silly enough to boast about it, then we also have to cop others’ expectations of us. Usually the only applause we get is from our most loyal friend, our ‘soul’.
Now Soul has impeccable manners. It defers. It stays in the background. It waits until it is wanted. For any transmigrating entity there isn’t a need to hurry. Maybe in the same way there isn’t any hurry, one dangerously suggests, in our cause? Urgent yes, but a fine line between urging immediate attention and moving hastily.
So far, from our most primitive developments right up to now, as humans’ souls have had a poor showing. (Imagine what the animal killers would say to that!). There’s something about humanity we daren’t face up to. It’s like one of those over-keen traders in the markets of Cairo, whose eye one hardly dares to catch for fear they’ll leap on you and not let you go on without buying something from them. We might not want to catch the eye of the ‘soul’, for fear of it wanting to speak to us, and stretch our imagination to hurting point.