The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence and consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying “Grow! Grow!” I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying “Evolve! Evolve!”
Steven Pressfield in The War of Art
In captivity, a baby elephant is tied to a post with a rope. No matter how he pulls, he cannot get free. When the elephant matures, putting a rope around his leg will keep him in place. Even though he could easily free himself, he does not. He has long-since resigned himself to the all-powerfulness of the rope.
This limiting belief about his own strength was programmed in his youth. It keeps the adult elephant tethered and docile.
People too are programmed early in life. We get so accustomed to living our stories that soon we don’t realize that we are now all grown up and can break that rope and live free.
What story are you telling ? What is the story teaching your child? Do you see autism as a curse? Can you see it as a gift?
Two Natures of Human Existance
Throughout history, people have noted two natures of human existence:
1. Static
2. Dynamic
1. History Repeats Itself
Static stories are based on predictable, repeating patterns in nature. The static nature of our existence is symbolized by the circle or the ouroboros and illustrated in the changing seasons and the path of the Earth around the sun.
This is the pattern we see in our families.
“He’s just like my father, jumping all over the place. He just can’t sit still.”
“My family has a history of depression…” or lying, or abandoning people, or being left-handed.
2. 
Evolution
Dynamic stories demonstrate progress based on evolution and learning. Human behavior changes dramatically when people encounter new information and experiences.
The dynamic nature of our existence is symbolized by arrow or a zooming rocket.
Predictable Cycles and Dramatic Leaps Occur Simultaneously
People who live close to the land survive by living in harmony with nature. Progress is not required.
Those in the modern world are preoccupied with progress.
“Unfortunately, the glamour of technology has eclipsed humanity’s connection with Nature, and the pursuit of technological advancement has contributed to disharmony, imbalance, and global crisis.” (Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman in Spontaneous Evolution, p. 46.)
Lipton and Bhaerman say that uniting the principles of harmony and balance with the principles of technological evolution leads to a self-sustaining and thriving civilization symbolized by a universe-friendly spiral of evolution.
The spiral is also the symbol of the Wise Woman tradition.
A spiral always returns to itself, but never repeats. “Spirals remind us that live is movement, that each moment is unique, and that form is the essence of transformation.” (Susun Weed in Healing Wise, p. 11.)
Jump Off the Hamster Wheel and Evolve
Two hundred species a day die to support human existence. This matters because we are not separate from non-human life on Earth. We are part of it.
Since the time of the Fertile Crescent, we have been shifting away from balance and harmony. Our way of life is not sustainable.
Our children are experiencing life on Earth differently from us to show us that humanity’s way of life must change if we are to survive.
(To read much more about this, please see the work of Daniel Quinn.)
When you find yourself on a vicious cycle, for goodness sakes, stop peddling!
~ Swami Beyondananda (Spontaneous Evolution, p. 85)
What we must have – and nothing less – is a whole world full of people with changed minds.
~ Daniel Quinn (If They Give You Lined Paper Write Sideways, p. 180)
Just as the people of the Middle Ages could not have predicted the Renaissance, we cannot envision what the change that sustains the world will ultimately look like. We do know that we must return to living harmony with all creation.
The founding slogan of the United States is “out of many, one.” Let us watch our children. Let’s learn from them — and evolve.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
~ Khalil Gibran (The Prophet, On Children)
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.
~ Alan Cohen
References
Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here)
If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.
Healing Wise (Wise Woman Herbal Series)
Swan Mothers 
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