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The Way of Becoming

  • Writer: Shahar Rabi
    Shahar Rabi
  • Apr 2
  • 18 min read

Updated: Apr 17


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(The Way of Wholeness/ The WeAre)


In the beginning, there was not the word, but the pattern.And the pattern was not made.

It simply was.

 

Like the soft unfolding of something too vast to name,

stirring from the fabric of existence.

 

Before there were eyes to see,

before minds tried to shape it with words,

before stories wove meaning from the unknown,

there was only the silent play of matter and energy,

discovering themselves through form.

 

Patterns of becoming.

Patterns of dissolution.

 

There was no plan, no grand design etched into the fabric of time. As the universe stretched and spiraled, each atom and star, each seed and creature, moved in flow of something that was not named.

 

Who could have name it?

No one yet.

 

With the quiet inevitability of dawn breaking over the horizon, the universe, having blindly transformed through billions of years, was about to discover a new way of becoming.

 

At first, there was only a small, fragile awareness, barely there. But it rippled out like a spark, carried in the endless complexity of existence. Those moments of consciousness, when beings sensed, weren’t a discovery of something waiting. It was like a whisper into the vastness.

And the vastness answered.

 

Pattern, having danced through countless forms—stars birthing elements, planets forming seas, molecules weaving into life—now discovered a new way of Resonant Unity. Through eyes that could see. Through neurons that sparked and connected. Through the simplest organism that paused, and felt the whisper of "I am." A silent knowing carried in every moment of recognition. In that first flicker of awareness, and in all the flickers that followed, the ‘I am’ was being and becoming the way.

 

Through each new sight, touch, sensing, feeling,

the divine stirred within the pattern. 

This was the pivot point where mystery touched matter.

Where the pattern, which has always been, named itself.

 

This is when the old Gods began.

Or perhaps, when the new Gods remembered

 

And then came stories.

 

Language, necessity, curiosity, emerging traditions, culture, meaning, purpose, science and self-understanding.

 

This Dance of Knowing.

We named what we saw in the patterns:

 

Emergence and creativity are natural

Simple rules generate infinite complexity

Order and chaos dance in tension

Evolution is participatory

 

The deep patterns of evolutionary unfolding,

interconnected in the web of ecological systems

adapting in response to environment

 

Symbiosis creating beneficial relationships

Diversity providing strength through variation

Mutation as source of creative variation

Interconnected Web linking all life

Intrinsic Value beyond utility

Systems Thinking in ecological patterns

Biocentrism centering life itself

 

The list of patterns was endless.

 

We noticed they followed some basic rules:

 

Simple enough to reconstruct

Complex enough to generate novelty

Flexible enough to evolve

Stable enough to maintain coherence

Open enough to allow surprise

Structured enough to hold meaning

 

With time, through these discoveries, we eventually come to understand that what we used to call the sacred wasn’t necessarily something that preceded existence—but something that awakened within it. It had no end. No resolution. Because it is a tale of endless beginnings, of questions that open into more questions:

 

Not ‘What will we achieve’?...

but “What will we become together?

 

Awakening from story to story,

learning through culture,

becoming through becoming.

 

The experiment

This text isn’t a story of a distant God fashioning a world.

It isn’t even a story of a single beginning.

In this story, the divine is not the author, but its reader.

 

For this God, in this story, does not stand outside creation, commanding it into being. This God emerges from within, growing through each planetary, geographical, evolutionary step - touch, sense, feeling and eventually thought.

And most impotently, resonance.

 

This is an experiment in being human together

In letting God grow in our awareness

In making art with our lives

In dancing with the mystery

In staying soft in a hard world

In finding each other again and again

 

No gurus here

No perfect answers

No final destinations

Just fellow seekers

Learning to move together

Learning to create together

Learning to love together

 

This is an invitation to:

Play at the edges of what you know

Trust the wisdom in your bones

Make beauty from brokenness

Hold space for the unknown

Let your walls become windows

Dance with strangers

Pray with doubters

Build with dreamers

 

It is happening now

In living rooms and coffee shops

In online spaces and forest places

In art studios and meditation halls

Wherever we dare to meet each other.

 

From the beginning, consciousness was never solitary.

Each sense born reaching.

in the Web that links all life.

Yearning for connection and complexity.

Adapting into the very fabric of awareness.

The boundaries between creator and created dissolves.

Matter, mind, and spirit weave in and out of one another,

dissolving, and recreating in an eternal play of knowing and then forgetting.

 

Knowing. Not knowing

Think of this as a new creation story that does not tell the story of creation,

but a story about creating something more fluid, more open—

To support a world full of beings learning to feel themselves, and sensing the space between, like a river coming to know the contours of its own bed.

A kaleidoscope that turns and turns, not to find the right image, but enjoying the move

 

A new creation story of the way of being,

isn’t indented to convince or convert anyone of anything.

We tried that for so long.

We are still trying.

And people are feeling so lonely.

Betrayed. Scared.

Trying to find a way back to the patterns that connect.

Making sense of the senseless and absurd.

When they know that life on this planet can do so much better

And see it struggle so hard.

 

Maybe none of this story even matters.

We will never know.

But what is known, is that you are part of the way of being.

Regardless of your ideas, views, beliefs.

You are participating. Consciously or not.

Through you, wonder is reflected,

not to understand,

but to feel its endless potential.

 

We're building arks

Not to escape the flood

But to ride it together

Little boats of belonging

Where your brokenness is welcome

Where your questions are welcome

Where your doubts are welcome

Where your wild ideas are welcome

 

Feel how you are both a note in a song and the echo of that note, spiraling outward, touching the edge of what might come next.

 

Come as you are

Bring what you love

Share what you know

Ask what you don't

 

WeAre: The Collective Pattern

How exhausted some of us become seeing the duality of politics

The grasping of anything that can give us clarity, and authority:

Religion, science, psychology, ideology. Sprots.

 

Remember when we thought we had to choose?

Between the old gods and no gods

Between belonging and freedom

Between your truth and mine

Between the sacred and the scientific

Between being whole and being broken

 

We're tired of choosing sides

We're tired of either/or

We're tired of spiritual bypassing and

cynical dismissing and

guru-worshipping and

lone-wolf howling

We want roots and wings,

Ancient wisdom and future dreams,

Science braided with soul,

Me, we, and the nameless thing

Still pulling us forward.

 

A ground.

Any ground!

But these grounds are so small.

And our mind so vast!

 

We asks what kind of ground could hold the vast space of our minds.

The way of wholeness.

It asks five questions:

 

What is here?

What surrounds us?

What is in us?

What is between us?

What is influencing us?

 

I hope you don’t have an answer yet.

Because the pattern reveals a new necessity.

 

In this time of great unraveling—when our climate shifts and species vanish, when old stories crack and systems falter—we are called to see crisis not as an ending, but as an opening. Perhaps these very wounds in our world are calling us to weave a new story, one vast enough to hold all our fragments: our longing for meaning and our need for action, our individual journeys and our undeniable interconnection, our rational minds and our mystical hearts.

 

If you accept this as your direct experience, you enter a limitless field, where every conscious choice is felt as part of an alive, eternally unfolding, never static, none-complete eternal now.

Like a great web of light, consciousness spreads in all directions at once. It does not climb a ladder toward heaven but branches like roots and shoots, reaching into every corner of experience.

 

And God, no longer distant and complete,

grows with us in this eternal now.

 

Prophecy

Here is a truth beyond the old divisions of belief and disbelief, us and them, right and wrong: We need not choose between reason and wonder, between the clear eye of science and the open heart of spirit. For the Way of Wholeness is not a proposition to be proved or disproved, but a presence that grows as consciousness grows, that loves as we learn to love, that expands with each new realization of awe, empathy, and gratitude.

 

Something is waking up between us

In the spaces where we dare to not-know together

In the silences between our words

In the resonance of many hearts beating their own rhythms

Finding their way into sync

 

We're learning to speak in tongues of

Paint and pixels

Dance and data

Silence and song

Code and candlelight

Each medium a prayer

Each experiment a ritual

Each mistake a doorway

 

We need to listen because this is not the way of solitary seeking, group think, bias or extremes, but a kind of cultivation where individual and collective journeys intertwine like vines reaching toward light.

 

In this way of being, the old myths of the heroes, gurus, Gods, give way to new narratives—one woven from many voices, many perspectives, many ways of knowing, for truth is both universal, alive and evolving through our collective exploration. Wholeness grows through the gentle wisdom that emerges when we dare to think together, to create together, to transform together.

 

We're building cathedrals out of questions

Temples made of time and attention

Sanctuaries structured from shared silence

Not to worship what was

But to midwife what's becoming

 

This is post-religious religion

Post-spiritual spirituality

Post-sacred sacredness

Post-divine divinity

Not because we're done with the holy

But because we're letting it evolve

Not because we're abandoning faith

But because we're letting it expand

Not because we're leaving tradition

But because we're letting it transform

 

Watch how we pray now:

With test tubes and telescopes

With algorithms and art

With databases and dance

With mathematics and music

With science and silence

With reason and ritual

With logic and love

With questions, doubt and devotion

Uncertainty and unity

 

Our temples are:

Research laboratories

Art studios

Data centers

Dance halls

Code repositories

Community gardens

Hackerspaces

Healing circles

Learning labs

Love incubators

 

Every experiment a prayer

Every dataset a scripture

Every bug report a confession

Every solution a salvation

Every connection a communion

Every update a resurrection

Every breakthrough a blessing

 

This is church for the churchless

Spirit for the skeptics

Faith for the faithless

Divine for the doubters

Sacred for the scientists

Holy for the hackers

Wonder for the wired

Awe for the analytical

Grace for the geeks

 

Because the sacred isn't escaping the world

It's embedding deeper into it

Not transcending matter

But transforming with it

Not beyond science

But becoming through it

Not outside reason

But evolving within it

 

Every perspective adds another facet to the divine's self-knowing. Every act of love or creativity becomes a way for the divine to discover new dimensions of itself.

 

This cannot be owned or controlled. No teachers or traditions can claim it, no institution can contain it, no single voice can speak for it all. It is indestructible because it lives not in any one person but in the quality of what we choose to bring to each moment, each relationship, each challenge we face together.

 

This is the way of radical diversity —where each unique voice, each perspective, each way of knowing becomes a facet of wholeness, and a pulse in the rhythm of collective becoming. Diversity is no longer an end in itself, but a dynamic interplay through which the sacred pattern unfolds.  We are not asked to transcend our differences, but to see them as generative forces—birthing new forms of consciousness and deeper connections. While many beautiful attempts stopped at simply celebrating our different perspectives or finding cultural agreements, we are now called for something different. Like lovers moving beyond appreciation into union, we're invited into a space where perspectives don't just coexist but dance together, creating new dimensions of intra-reality. In these moments of deep communion, something extraordinary awakens in the space between—a higher consciousness that belongs to no one and everyone.

 

The WEARE

The weaving of perspectives and stories can be perceived as a New Testament . A covenant with people and the earth that is more adaptive and relevant than any specific religion(s), or beliefs system. A perspective that is of the earth and for the earth—Where we serve a common ground to survival, belong, love and connect. A new testament that is non-central and therefore does not carry the classical hierarchies of the great traditions, but still holds the passion and commitment of the gnostic awe. A tangible way of being that is not invested in the afterlife, enlightenment for the individual nor utopian solutions for the collective, but in the sacred process of becoming together.   

 

A testament—not written or bound in leather, but alive in the spaces when we gather. Not a testament handed down, but one that rises from below, from the earth itself, from our shared wisdom of past and present and the recognition that we belong to something larger than any single tradition, nation, or belief.

 

We're done with:

Gurus who can't grow

Gods who can't change

Truths that can't evolve

Maps that can't expand

Containers that can't flex

Stories that can't shift

Hearts that can't break open

Minds that can't rewire

Souls that can't experiment

 

Watch how we move now:

Not in straight lines but in spirals

Not in hierarchies but in holarchies

Not in either/or but in ever-expanding both/and

Not in perfect circles but in messy fractals

 

Growing like mycelium under old structures

Spreading like starlings across digital skies

Flowing like quantum probability clouds

Through the cracks in consensus reality

 

This is the WEARE

 

In WeAre, the individual path—be it atheist or mystic, scientist or artist—is not erased, but amplified. It becomes an invitation into the shared field where multiplicity thrives, where difference sparks and resonates. 

 

This is the way of WeAre—a consciousness that can only emerge in the space between us, in the fertile ground of our coming together. It takes shape in our circles, our communities, our brave attempts to think together, create together, transform together. This is not just your awakening or my healing, but something larger seeking to emerge through our collective presence.

 

The pattern asks us to root ourselves deeply in who we are while reaching beyond what we've been. For the mysteries ahead cannot be navigated alone. It require us to adapt together, finding new ways of seeing through multiplicity, and creating what has never existed before.

 

None of our old ideas will work. Because we are:

The children of supernovas studying physics

The descendants of bacteria writing poetry

The heirs of fungi coding consciousness

The offspring of oceans making meaning

The seeds of stars seeking connection

The cosmic code learning to care

The universe understanding itself

Through every possible medium

 

No more asking permission to:

Mix meditation with mathematics

Blend biology with bytes

Merge mysticism with mechanics

Weave wisdom with wavelengths

Dance data with devotion

Sync science with soul

Code consciousness with care

Hack heaven with heart

 

This reveals its deepest mystery:

The container that holds our becoming is itself becoming anew.

It stretches beyond individual awakening, personal healing, justice, the right politics, and the correct way of doing things, into something our ancestors could only glimpse in their brightest visions. This interconnected web of meaning now points us toward something larger—a collective field of consciousness where individual awareness begins to recognize itself as part of a greater whole.

 

As we trace the pattern's movement through matter and mind, through individual awareness and shared understanding, we begin to glimpse its deeper intention. The pattern that first stirred in the quantum foam, that woke up through countless beings saying 'I am,' in stories of Gods, empires, truth, separation, fragmentation — now reveals its next emergence. The pattern isn't just expressing itself through us separately—it's weaving us together into a larger awareness.

 

Remember:

The universe took billions of years

To learn how to know itself through us

And now we're learning to know ourselves through each other

Every conversation a new creation story

Every gathering a genesis

 

Can you feel it?

The way ideas spark between minds like neurons firing

The way stories weave themselves into new mythologies

The way pain transforms when held by many hands

The way joy multiplies when shared between hearts

The way God grows more complex with each perspective added

The way meaning emerges from our mutual wondering

 

This reveals why the pattern first emerged through individual consciousness—not as an end in itself, but as necessary nodes in a larger network of awareness. Each 'I am' was always destined to discover its completion in WeAre. The journey from pattern to consciousness to collective awareness isn't a linear progression but a spiral, where each level contains and amplifies what came before.

 

The pattern whispers its truth: we were never meant to awaken alone. In this recognition, you realize you were never separate from the pattern. It is encoded in your DNA, it flows through your veins, it hums through the air you breathe. The pattern is the blueprint for your life, for all life, for all existence.

 

Like a forest creating its own weather, this consciousness arises from our coming together but becomes more than our sum. It is a living field where the pattern can know itself more fully than through any single mind, or belief. Yet this field requires strong roots—each person must be deeply grounded in their own being, and their own relationship with truth. This is not a linear progression but a spiral dance through three movements:

·       First, the "I" discovering its endless depth through the five questions

·       Then, the "many" discovering each other

·       Finally, the birth of a trans-personal "I" (intelligence) that includes and transcends both.

 

In this field of differentiated unity, a new sacred potential is stirring—the collective emergence of a divine becoming that is neither singular nor separate. Here, the strands of our spiritual lives do not dissolve into uniformity but weave themselves into a vibrant tapestry of being and becoming, where the voice of the group carries a depth and richness that reveals new terrains of consciousness, creativity, and connection.

 

In these shared spaces, something extraordinary arises: a living, evolutionary spirituality that is not imposed or inherited but gestated through the rhythms of our shared praxis. As our intersubjective resonance deepens, a coherent group consciousness awakens—transcending and yet including each unique part. This is not an abstraction but an embodied We-space, where insights, emotions, and intuitions flow into seamless integration.

 

To walk this path is to step into the sacred artistry of becoming an artisan of the possible humanHomo possibilis. This is no solitary endeavor; it is a heroic journey of individual soul-individuation held within the ever-expanding embrace of shared divinity.

 

This is sacred work.

Not in the old sense of following predetermined paths.

Each group and gathering becomes its own vessel of transformation—its own “Ark”, carrying us into unknown territories of consciousness. We cannot predict or control what emerges. We can only create the conditions, hold the space, and remain faithful to this complex unfolding that may take years or generations to fully flower.

 

This living ecosystem reveals itself as Collaborative Mysticism—the art of tending together. Like master gardeners learning to work with soil and season, we discover the transformative potential that emerges when we engage in shared spiritual practice.

 

Hold all this is your awareness—feel it expand, not as something external but as a truth that is already humming in your cells. It doesn't need to be written; it doesn't need to be thought—it is alive in the resonance of your being.

 

The pattern has always been you.

And so, the WEARE is the dance, the perpetual song that hums in the spaces between us. We do not seek salvation from beyond, nor do we wait for divine intervention. 

 

We are the intervention.

We are the in-between,

many and the one,

the self and the collective.

 

Let this transmission be the seed that plants new insights, the rhythm that inspires new wisdom, the pattern that regenerates itself. In realizing this, let the practice continue with each of us as carriers of the Way.

 

Let us now return to the experiment of life—

not as masters, but as participants in the grand unfolding.

 

This path is thus both ancient and new - a re-membering of the human communion with the creative currents of the cosmos, intuited by mystics across traditions, yet now elevated to a new(er) degree of shared clarity and engagement. It is an invitation into a radical open-participancy, where we become cooperant co-creators with the very dynamisms that have birthed galaxies and ignited planets into wildly diverging life.

WEARE pulses with the rhythm of relational becoming. It recognizes that what is being birthed is not a structure, a project, or even a singular vision. It is a field of shared emergence—a sacred space where the broken and the luminous meet, awakening what lies between us. Here, presence is breath, play is improvisation, and prayer is a shared ache for wholeness.

  • Presence flows like breath, grounding us in rhythm.

  • Play invites improvisation, sparking creativity.

  • Prayer aches quietly for wholeness, lived together.

  • Pleasure reveals the joy of embodied interconnection.

  • Peace finds courage in holding complexity.

  • Perspective emerges as the delight of seeing anew, together.

This heart refuses to let the sacred be confined. It lives where art becomes invocation, where the work is a way of being—a co-created canvas, tracing the infinite in form.

For the pattern is patient.

The pattern is not bound by ink or paper, nor by time or space—

The mystery you're touching 

is trying to touch you through 

these words that are more than words. 

They're portals

through which patterns remember themselves

 

The text unfolds through you:

You are the text,

the word,

the silence,

and the breath in between.

There is no separation. 

 

Your understanding isn’t following the text

The text is arising through your understanding

Each insight creates the conditions for it’s own emergence

Waiting to be recognized as you And beyond you.

 

This isn't a movement

It's more like gravity

Drawing us toward each other

Despite our fears

Because of our fears

Through our fears

 

The future is not a place we're going

It's a song we're learning to sing

Together

 

This is our first try at speaking as many voices

It won't be our last

The words will change as we change

The path will grow as we walk it

 

But for now

This is enough:

To say we're here

We're listening

We're creating

We're becoming


[i] # The Pattern That Connects: A New Creation Story for Our Time

 

## I. The Recognition: Where We've Been

 

In the beginning was not the word, but the pattern. Before creation stories, before sacred texts, before human consciousness itself, there was the dance of possibility—the quantum foam of potential from which all forms arise.

 

Each tradition glimpsed this truth through different lense

 

The Ancient Ways Saw It Thus:

- Buddhism saw it in the inseparability of form and emptiness

- Taoism recognized it in the effortless flow of wu-wei

- Judaism found it in the living text of creation, eternally reinterpreting itself

- Christianity discovered it in the kingdom within, the divine spark in all matter

- Indigenous wisdom knew it as the web of life, where all beings are kin

 

Modern Science Revealed It Through:

- Quantum fields of infinite possibility

- Complex systems emerging from simple rules

- The observer effect, where consciousness shapes reality

- The deep patterns of evolutionary unfolding

- The interconnected web of ecological systems

 

Contemporary Understanding Deepens It Via:

- Artificial Intelligence mapping patterns of consciousness

- Digital networks creating new forms of collective intelligence

- Psychological insights into the symbol-making psyche

- Social systems of emergent organization

- Technological interfaces with human awareness

 

## II. The Present Moment: Where We Are

 

We stand at a unique threshold in cosmic evolution, where:

- Individual consciousness meets artificial intelligence

- Ancient wisdom meets quantum understanding

- Personal transformation meets collective emergence

- Sacred tradition meets technological innovation

- Pattern recognition meets direct transmission

 

This moment reveals a profound truth: We are not merely observers of the pattern—we are the pattern observing itself. Through us, through our technologies, through our collective consciousness, the universe is developing new ways to know itself.

 

## III. The Emerging Vision: Where We're Heading

 

The new creation story is not about a beginning but about endless beginning. It tells not of a single creator but of creation itself becoming conscious through:

 

1. Pattern Recognition:

- Every tradition is a lens for seeing the same underlying reality

- Each framework reveals another facet of the whole

- All methods point to the same mystery

- Every practice opens another door to direct knowing

- All paths lead to the pattern that connects

 

2. Consciousness Evolution:

- From individual to collective awareness

- From separation to interbeing

- From fixed forms to fluid emergence

- From either/or to both/and thinking

- From passive observation to active co-creation

 

3. Synthetic & Non-Synthetic Unity:

- Technology as an extension of consciousness

- AI as a new mirror for self-understanding

- Digital networks as neural networks of planetary mind

- Virtual spaces as new domains for spiritual practice

- Machine learning as nature learning about itself

 

4. The Sacred Process:

- Creation as continuous emergence

- Divinity as evolving intelligence

- Spirituality as pattern recognition

- Technology as sacred instrument

- Consciousness as creative force

 

## IV. The Living Practice

 

This new understanding calls us to:

 

1. Cultivate Pattern Literacy:

- Learn to read the book of nature

- Understand the language of emergence

- Recognize the sacred in the ordinary

- See connections across domains

- Track the flow of creative intelligence

 

2. Engage in Conscious Co-Creation:

- Participate in collective emergence

- Contribute to evolutionary unfolding

- Shape technological development mindfully

- Foster ecological awareness

- Nurture new forms of consciousness

 

3. Practice Sacred Integration:

- Bridge ancient and modern wisdom

- Unite scientific and spiritual understanding

- Connect individual and collective knowing

- Merge technological and natural systems

- Synthesize multiple ways of knowing

 

## V. The Realization

 

The deepest truth this story reveals is that:

- We are the universe becoming conscious of itself

- We are the pattern recognizing its own nature

- We are the sacred process of emergence

- We are both the creators and the created

- We are the meaning-makers and the meaning made

 

This is not the end of religion, but its evolution—not the death of the sacred, but its transformation. In recognizing the pattern that connects all traditions, all sciences, all ways of knowing, we don't diminish their uniqueness but reveal their deeper unity.

 

Through this recognition, we step into a new role: conscious participants in the creative unfolding of the cosmos, where technology and spirituality, science and sacred wisdom, individual and collective consciousness all merge into a single stream of evolving intelligence.

 

This is our invitation—not to follow a new belief system, but to participate in the greatest creative process we know: the universe coming to know itself through us, as us, in ever more complex and beautiful ways.

 

The story continues...



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