Most of the world thinks of Halloween as a time of costumes and candy and fun tinged with fear.
This year, of course, is different; and the pandemic prompted me to think about how else I might spend the evening besides offering sugary treats to the neighborhood kids.
By settling into the energy of this particular point in the fall season—when so much from our fields has been harvested, and we have less and less daylight to guide our steps—the deeper spiritual significance of Halloween came into sharp focus…
People have honored this evening for millennia as a kind of mysterious portal, where the veil that separates this world and what lies beyond thins out, and where you can almost peer through and connect with your ancestors and relatives who have crossed over.
This ancient wisdom, which comes ultimately from the natural world and our Creator, is reflected in both the Mexican tradition of Dia De Los Muertos and the European pagan holiday of Samhain.
Whoever you have lost, whether in 2020 or in previous years, I encourage you to take a moment this weekend to let their memory come up, to invite a message in from them, and to write down what you think they might be saying as a means of guidance for you.
Of course, it’s your choice who you wish to connect with, and we all have relatives with whom we had closer and more distant relationships.
It’s also such a potent time to connect with all who have crossed over who offered us guidance in our lives, in any form. I like to call them our spiritual ancestors: the teachers, friends, and (for some of us) clergy folk who guided us spiritually in ways different from our family.
If you were blessed to have a special relationship with someone in one of these categories, please make space in your heart for their messages to come through today, too.
We are all part of the human family, and our lives can be enriched by spiritual traditions and teachers far and wide—regardless of whether they are living or dead.
One highly regarded spiritual teacher who has crossed over and who remains very dear to me is Barbara Marx Hubbard.
Toward the end of Barbara’s life, Humanity’s Team recorded a set of powerful seminars with her exploring how to combine our spiritual, vocational, scientific and technological capacities, harnessing them through developing specific skills and practices so we can evolve into a new species: Homo Universalis.
In Barbara’s honor, we’re broadcasting her free 2-part Online Program Series, titled “Becoming Homo Universalis: The Keys to Evolving to the Next Stage of Human Development,” which provides a glimpse of the extraordinary process Barbara created to recognize and nurture your spiritual evolution.
In the first video program with Barbara, called “Evolutionary Self-Actualization,” you’ll discover the extraordinary powers that have emerged in humans in the last century—and why accessing your higher self can ensure you harness those powers in your evolutionary process.
In the second video program with Barbara, “Birthing the New Human,” you’ll discover how fostering your creative expression can help you move from depression, anxiety, and crisis toward evolution, along with how the shared field that implicitly connects us can allow us to tap into and nurture our universal selves.
As we move deeper and deeper into the darker time of the year here in the Northern Hemisphere, I’m so grateful for having had Barbara’s companionship on the path, and for the way she shone her joyful light for the benefit of all.
Join us for the series—so you can see exactly what I mean!
And I hope that any communion you do this weekend with your ancestors, spiritual and otherwise, is richly meaningful and supportive, too.
Love,
Steve
