Letters to Ukraine – 23

Who are the Invisibles? I’ve heard, from people practicing various spiritual traditions, that every age generates anonymous women and men who profoundly, or subtly, change the world. I don’t mean billionaire recluses, or Freemasons, or some private cartel of mighty businesspeople. These ‘Invisibles’ (as I call them) aren’t fashionable or famous, or even well-known gurus li­ving on the mountain; they could just as well be packing shelves in a supermarket. By humble devotion to understanding themselves and the cosmos as transcendent rather than merely material, these extraordinary ordinary people somehow fertilize the whole of human consciousness. Quietly, they become yeast for the human dough. In mo­dern society, we tend to think of ourselves as irretrievably separate beings; but what if consciousness is more like a hologram, whereby all are connected? The ‘100th Monkey’ hypothesis claims that when a critical number of creatures acquire a certain awareness, that state of awareness can be communicated instantaneously into the collective consciousness. Far-fetched? Well, it might actually be consistent with quantum physics. So, you needn’t become influential and powerful to shift consciousness; just become that 100th monkey. Anyone can become an Invisible. Which leads us to another insight of spirituality: to change the world, first change yourself.
© Mario Petrucci, 2013