Invisible World

By Willowbei Eversole

These are strange and challenging times. These are times of great hope and great fear. It seems like our country and our world has split in two (almost literally). Times like these contain the seeds of great growth and great opportunity.

Our cosmic birthright and our reality is Oneness. Still we seem to find ways to deny our connection one to another. Still we seem to refuse to come to some place of common understanding.

Traveling the path of “waking-up” is not an easy one. Finding the strength and courage, the desire and the will to let go of old habits and “comfortable” ways of doing things (even if they hurt us) is not for the weak.

Waking-up to our Universal birthright requires diligence, persistence, desire and a whole lot of love for ourselves and our fellow travelers. Waking-up requires us to face ourselves in the mirror of life and understand our connection to all that there is. Waking-up supports our choosing to move in this world in uncommon ways and with conscious intent.

Part of waking-up is learning to love ourselves. In waking-up there is a willingness to see, feel and understand our Oneness. Waking-up can also be scary to our egos. Support from those that have traveled the path makes it much easier. Being part of a community of some kind can help us get through moments of “panic.”

This is deep inner spiritual work, soul work. It is also physical work. We find our physical environment changing as we wake-up. As we let go of long relished thoughts, attitudes and actions we can feel very alone. We begin to develop a certain level of trust based on deep inner Knowing.

Much of this work is done on an invisible level. We are changing our cellular memory; we are challenging centuries of cultural conditioning. This invisible work is as important as the visible physical, emotional and psychological work.

I have included below an excerpt from a poem by Rumi (a 13th century Sufi mystic) called “Work in the Invisible.”

Every motion of created beings
comes from the creator.

The first soul pushes,
and your second soul responds.

Now consider what the prophets have done.
Abraham wore fire for an anklet.
Moses spoke to the sea.
David molded iron.
Solomon rode the wind.

Work in the invisible world
at least as hard
as you do in the visible.

Be companions with the prophets
even though no one here will know that you are.

As we understand the power of working in the invisible we see the wisdom Rumi offers.

Recently I saw the film “What the Bleep Do We Know?” This is a film about Quantum physics that directly relates how working in the invisible literally changes our physical world.

Let us embrace this New Year and ourselves with love. Let us find renewed energy to work equally in the invisible as well as the visible. Let us open to our inner truth. Let us enjoy the journey of changing our lives.

Willowbei Eversole is a published author and poet from Royal Oak, MI. ObeiLet@aol.com.