This Week’s Quotation:
“The creative field we share as human beings is a field for transformation because there are elders here; elders who hold this field and create a context where other people can awaken to who they are, so that people around the world can find that their thoughts and feelings are drawn to the creative field held by the one angel. They might not know about you or about me, but they will find themselves believing that there is hope in the world, that there is something that is true and there is something that is possible, because somehow they can feel it, they can touch it themselves in our global presence, in our fusion.”
—Becoming a Sun, p. 190
Becoming an Elder
Can a person be an elder if they are not yet many years of age? Is every older person automatically an elder? Or is being an elder about something more than just age?
David describes the job of an elder as the function of anyone who holds their field and creates a context where others can awaken. A transformative journey naturally requires a safe space where a person can feel comfortable moving through the pain of trauma and being willing to face the illusions that we have accepted as truth for ourselves. Most people don’t initiate themselves into a process like this on their own.
I’ve been attending experiential sessions hosted by the Korean branch of Emissaries who are here at Sunrise holding an event they call Lineage of Light, focused on emerging leaders. They are led by an older man named Yujin who has been training the younger folks to carry on the torch of presenting teachings of truth and facilitating people to move through a transformative process in a ritual context.
I am amazed to see how powerful these younger ones are as they strongly step into the sovereign space of providing something for their participants—something that is true, something that is possible for them in their experience, and something they can feel and touch for themselves. They are becoming an elder.
This is the call for anyone who has done their own inner work and is willing to hold a space of loving service for others to have that experience for themselves.
What does it mean to become a sun?
Every human being is already a sun on the inside—a being of intense love and light. The difference is that some people have the vision and courage to become a sun on the outside. This difference is our human destiny.
I suppose at age 84 I quality as what is normally understood to be an elder. But as you indicate, Gary, being an elder about something more than just age. To me, it involves a level of spiritual maturity that I would describe as conscious living. A true elder is consciously aware of who he/she is and what he/she has come on earth to do. Though you are decades younger than I am, I would describe you as a true elder.