Evolution starts with love. You cannot have love without evolution – without evolving yourself. You cannot evolve without love. Love-evolution is the snake that swallows its tail. Love and evolution are the sub-atomic particles and the ultimate building blocks of the universe and of life. They are the basic products of the first consciousness – the ultimate One. They both began when the One divided. Both love and evolution require a relationship. When the One became two, and so on, to where we are today, the infinite division of the one, and where we are going, love, relationship and evolution became possible – in fact, inevitable.

Love and evolution are the warp and the woof of the fabric of the universe. Being is love. Love is being. Evolution is becoming. Becoming is evolution. You cannot have being without becoming. You cannot have becoming without being.

Love and evolution are the beginning of everything. They are the qualities inside and outside of all dualities – all objects in reality. They are the qualities that unite – our path to unity – to the one. Unus mundus is Latin for “one world” and is “the concept of an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and to which everything returns”. This is from Wikipedia, which goes on to say that the phrase was popularized by Carl Gustav Jung. I will have lots to say about this concept, in future posts.

To evolve is to love. To love is to evolve. Love and evolution are the ultimate and absolute truths of existence. They are universal everywhere and in everything.

Art is the manifestation, expression, guide, inspiration, and celebration of love-evolution. Perfection is the ultimate illusion, but it creates the infinite potential space of love-evolution to reside in and to expand into. Art lies at the center of love-evolution.

Psychology and physics are the remaining areas of human knowledge and experience absolutely central to love-evolution, the big meaning of life.

Psychology looks inward to explore our individual consciousness and psyche. Physics looks outward to explore our relationship to existence beyond the self, including both physical and non-physical existence.

Love-evolution is/are central to psychology and physics, although the relationship to the latter is not yet clear. We are just at the beginning of understanding the central role of consciousness in the universe. Quantum physics has left no doubt as to the relationship of the physical world to consciousness, but we are in the very early stages of understanding that relationship. And yet, many still deny the evidence of the centrality of consciousness. The future will confirm this fact, indeed axiom, to more and more people.

Psychology, art and physics are the handmaidens to love-evolution, to make a sacred group of four.

The greatest explorer in all this is Carl Gustav Jung, a psychologist, philosopher, and deep explorer. He spent his life in this intersection of art, psychology, mythology, and physics, and other fields. He is best known for psychology, but his interests took him much deeper into psychology, metaphysics, and the ultimate nature of reality and our place in it.

The other great explorer in this, and my second inspiration is Joseph Campbell. He was inspired by the same yearning to understand our existence, and our place in it. He was very much a co-creator with Jung. Campbell was more focused on mythology and its role in art, psychology and life.

If I could paint, I would try to express myself through art, but right now I am limited to words and ideas. They are useful, but words are limited – the product of our rational minds. The finger that points at the moon is not the moon. Art is the moon and I will do my best to work within the limitations of my words. Poetry can be the moon. I’ll have to work on my poetry in private. Words are the beginning of understanding, but art, the heart. and the soul continue where words cannot travel.

I will do and be what I can. Thankfully I can evolve, just like everyone else. One of my goals will be to include art in all this because it is so central to love-evolution and to psychology. Jung used and respected the fundamental power of art. He was a true artist in all respects.

Jung and his ideas are central to my thinking and I think, to our existence. He started to explore the ideas that each one of us need to explore in our own lives for deeper, richer and more satisfying lives. He has given humanity a wonderful start in this direction, but one that is not broadly appreciated. I am dedicated to changing that. Jung’s ideas must be brought to a wider audience, and more fully appreciated. And more utilized!

Art and psychology work together to explain, celebrate, and evolve our life and our existence. Art and psychology are entwined, with mythology, to reveal ourselves, to ourselves. Art is the tapestry we weave as we live. There is conscious art and there is unconscious art., or deliberate art and not so deliberate art. I am simply in awe of conscious and deliberate artists who devote so much of their lives to their craft, gift and inspiration. Their gift to us all is incalculable.

Ultimately, everything is art, but deliberate art is most obvious and inspiring. Art is the richest and most complex metaphor in existence. It is a moon that is impossible to pin down with words. All we can do is point, perceive, enjoy and celebrate – absorb and integrate as we evolve. And of course, as we create.

We would all do well to work to become more conscious, deliberate and aware artists. I hold the conscious and deliberate artist to be a sacred hero in our society.

Make no mistake, love-evolution is art, and it is work. This all takes will, energy and effort. This work is never meant to be drudgery, but we often make it that.

Recognize the meaning and purpose of life as love-evolution energizes and sanctifies that work. It is the journey we are all on.

Art is essential in this work. Conscious and deliberate artists will tell you that creating their art is real work. But creating and living a meaningful life is real work and we have to make that work more conscious. We have to bring greater awareness to our lives, and the journey each one of us are on.

So this is the territory I will be exploring – psychology, myth, art, and physics in service to love-evolution. My focus will be on psychology, and Jung and Campbell in particular. But psychology and myth do not end with Jung and Campbell. They are the starting points. I intend to weave this all into a bigger picture and bring it farther, in a way that helps to make more sense and to help people use this in their lives. All in service to love-evolution – it’s our human gig.

I hope that seeing the biggest picture will help to make sense of the little bits that make up our lives – the little bits that constantly rain down on us, often adding to our confusion and alienation, without that central meaning to make it whole. I believe that a big meaning of life allows us to make sense of where we are and where each one of us are traveling. I believe a big meaning of life, love-evolution, will help us to become more conscious and aware of the path each one of us are on. It will help us to integrate and make use of all those little bits that come into our lives.

Love-evolution is the big meaning of life. But it is simply the starting point that allows each one of us to create our own personal meaning – our own personal journey of creation – always unique and adventurous, but always in service to our own evolution. Evolution is the gig, but each one of us defines that evolution for ourselves. I understand now that this uniquely personal evolution is the leap in consciousness that we are now witnessing in the world. This process began some time ago, will accelerate in the future, but will play out over a longer period than we can imagine.

The times they are a changing.

Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A Changin

I hope that I can explore art as well, but we’ll see what the future holds there. We have work to do.

We’re here to change the world.

It’s time.

Begin.