Our Planetary Responsibility

Inner Work Is Not Just for Oneself

Currently, the planet is undergoing macro-level changes that, for us, at this micro-level, are challenging to comprehend. However, we can feel their impact on our bodies and the processes that humanity itself is going through. There is an acceleration and an increase in the intensity of events—everything is "exploding" everywhere, and everything is opening up and becoming more visible. On a planetary level, we witness climate phenomena that had never occurred before—hurricanes and earthquakes in unexpected places, along with a variety of Earth events that show us how everything is changing, even to the point where the predictability of seasons is disappearing. This is no longer reversible.

On a human level, intensity is increasing in what we consider "positive" and "negative." Technological and scientific advances go hand in hand with suppressing rights, disease, and wars—both seen and unseen. Violence, cruelty, the dreamlike state in which we live, and consumerist society coexist with new awakenings, mutual aid, a sense of community, overwhelming kindness, and millions of people becoming increasingly aware of caring for themselves and their planet.

We could call this an overwhelming time because of its intensity. It is essential that we no longer avoid the suffocation of our world but instead begin to acknowledge, feel, and experience it to understand its calling. This suffocation, ultimately, will allow for something more—it is our task to discover what that is. Significant changes always arise from great crises, enabling the quantum leap into a paradigm shift.

While this is a planetary crisis that concerns and affects humanity as a species, it is also a call for responsibility on an individual level—to take ownership of what is happening. If we narrow our focus to the micro, to each life, the contributions of a single person might seem insignificant. However, consciousness must first awaken at the individual level for change to occur collectively. Recognizing that each of us participates in this as a cause and a consequence, like a single cell within a vast organism, is essential for initiating fundamental transformation.

This change will only be possible if we shift our perspective and how we relate to life and the planet, understanding that everyone’s small contribution is necessary to create a new collective. A new perspective is needed—one that expands our horizons beyond "mine," beyond what is personal and desired. One that includes others as part of a whole, recognizing that all beings construct this entirety together. Seeking to see beyond the superficial layer of what we believe we are—this body and its pursuit of survival and achievement—toward something more profound, toward that whisper of life, that Spirit that forms us and that we all share. That which makes the difference between you and me nonexistent.

Without self-knowledge, this shift in perspective is impossible. Personal evolution is what will allow us to see things differently and help each other understand the world in a new way. This is what will have the most profound impact on the planetary paradigm shift, enabling us to create a new Earth inhabited by humans with an awareness of Unity. This is our true responsibility—to others, to ourselves, and to Mother Earth, who sustains us. Making personal evolution open the doors of consciousness toward collective transformation is an urgent, non-negotiable imperative.