I am in the process of preparing for a speech titled "Health, Wellness, and Spirituality." It is to be given next week at a conference of the
Integative Health Network in Salt Lake City, Utah. When I attempted to write about the connection between spirituality and health, I suddenly realized that I had no idea what the connection is! A blank!
Then I began to review what I perceive spirituality to be; that which comes from within, beyond the belief structures of the
bodymind consciousness. I define health as a state of natural body functioning. This means that the body needs little in the way of artificial support for its natural functioning, consistent with its age and predisposed genetic disposition.
If I assume connectedness and oneness to be natural spiritual principles of human existence, then belief structures and behaviors which attempt to create a reality of separateness is the source of discord, division, and conflict in human reality; right down the the personal level. Diversity is the universal
phenomenon which is attempting to have us realize the falsity of separateness.
By
separateness I mean belief structures that support racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, etc that are translated into behaviors of discrimination. I had an
experience the other day of a person who stated, "I'm glad my skin is white." Now I'm sure this person means something more than just color, but further implications of beauty, intelligence (involving technology), or possibly superiority. These notions are the obvious cause of most of the discord in the world today. But they all have in common the notion of
separate and unequal by whatever measure one wants to use.
The reason diversity is so resisted is because, at its base, it fosters the concepts of connectedness and oneness. Since these are spiritual principles, that is the major reason diversity, as an
acitve initiative, still exists today. Remember, it had its official origin about 1985. The ultimate objective of diversity is to create "cultural inclusion or compatibility." In essence, this means the collective human experience of transformation from separateness to oneness.
Oddly enough, in spite of the
resistance to diversity, cultural compatibility is the
only hope for continued human
existence on this planet we call Earth. From a "scientific" measured perspective, that occurrence does not appear to be anywhere near a reality on
anyone's radar screen!
What's your opinion?