Changing the World

I had a client today who shared with me that she sat with Max, the Crystal Skull. She was told in session with him that she "is here to change the world." "What a burden!" I smiled, noticing that she was using this bit of information to make her life seem stalled and unfulfilled. Such a belief is a burden when we take it as it comes within this illusory three dimensional dream we are living...the literal world. But it isn't so important or special as it sounds, and as many people would take pride and comfort in believing, because it doesn't just apply to a few. Max said something very true, not just of my client but of us all. We are here to change the world. But what does he mean?

Is it enough when a person is a full-time mom? "How can I save the world that way?" she asks herself? Should we drop everything and run to an ashram? Are we meant to write a miraculous book that will change people's lives? "But I don't even have a college education! I'll never meet my potential," someone else argues. Are we meant to work with the poor like Mother Theresa? Perhaps. Perhaps not.

These considerations and doubts simply don't matter. You see, each of us is a world unto ourselves. That is the world to which Max was referring. That is the only world we can ever hope to change. That is the only world we should want to change, for it's the only one we have even a prayer of affecting. Yes! You ARE here to change the world, the world that you are... And suddenly the burden lifts. For there is nothing more we need to do than wake up every day with the intent of changing "the world" for the better. That's it. Done. Put the books away and save all that workshop money.