Be the Lineage
I spent quite an amazing morning with my friend, Louise, in a powerful conversation that will manifest as a CD that speaks to what is important to me in my attraction of others into my life, so that we, each, become more, as we engage.
Prelude to the CD, I arrived in the office, knowing that I was on the verge of yet another expansion in Being whom I am. I was not sure just what that was going to look like and how I was going to experience myself; yet, I knew that I was on the cutting edge of something both critical and wonderful to how I would continue to move through my world that I am creating.
Toward the completion of Louise’s interview of me, I spoke of ancient teachings that have always communicated notions of remembering the lineage that backs any Initiator as they introduce new ways of Being into their worlds… and, yet, paradoxically, where Being is mindlessly translated as doing (note the smaller case!)… and where the ‘Initiate’ can do nothing on her own without the reference to what is past and external to back her up (consider what presuppositions are present in the words, ‘back her up’!). While I knew, consciously, in the moment of its expression that I was speaking to ‘Remember whom we are’ in our genius as the Quantum Biological Human™, I still remained unconscious to my own habituation (not only within the context of esoterica) that other lineage was, somehow, superior to my own and that the past, somehow, still served as the driver for both my present and my future.
What came to resonate with me, instead, a nano-second later, was Louise’s maxim: Be the Lineage. Present choices (can they be otherwise?) for future creations. Forward-facing movement ahead that is inspired, in and of itself, toward the manifestation of meaning… in contrast to backward-facing motion forward that struggles, in and of itself, to ‘find’ meaning – yet never actually achieves its intention, in its proclivity to default to what it already knows as untenable as its path of least resistance. How can one move toward manifestation when she is faced in the opposite direction? Ultimately, she’s actually moving away from it. Perhaps the habituated search for meaning lies in its own habituation…which lies in its own habituation… which lies in its own habituation… and so on. I am learning, quickly and resolutely, to remain awake to those times when the sheer subtlety of the bumps, relative to history, that show up as ‘obstacles’ in my chosen road, could force me into an unwanted detour, simply because I diverted my eyes from really discovering the view ahead.
Amazing! All was revealed to me, in the close of our interview in these three simple words: Be the Lineage. An open, honest, clear and direct expression of (now, having found and claimed my unique turf) standing my ground, Being the Lineage that I am creating in every breath.
Be the Lineage means Be Me. It is the only thing, in my world, that is worth remembering. There is no past to that.
Thanks, Louise, for you willingness to redirect. Ancient Space that Awakens the Sacred is never about remembering lineage as history; it IS about Being the Lineage in present space and time, focused on my continually emerging future and being clear about what holds meaning for me.
Be the Lineage. These three exquisite words serve, now, as my newly-claimed, conscious currency in standing my ground for the more that I can become.
Be the Lineage. Be Me.
What a marvelous way to live!
Posted: March 3rd, 2009 under Spirituality & Self-Discovery.

Comment from Louise LeBrun
Time March 4, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Aloha, Sheila!
And thanks for capturing and sharing our conversation with others. What comes to mind as I read your words is The Declaration of Evolution by Intention and one of its beliefs… the one that says ‘History (the past) is irrelevant as a guide to creating the future.” What is relevant is my ability to digest/metabolize all that history offers up as part of my Emerging Futures journey and BE the awakened, transformed difference that will make the difference. In that moment, I AM forever the start point of the lineage. All is contained inside me as a living expression/manifestation of the journey, to this point.
The alternative is to stand outside, detached and separate, trying to emulate what was… in a world and time that is so profoundly desperate for what can be.
Mahalo for always being willing to travel the path of Self discovery!
Louise