One of our most astonishing and unrealized roles as human persons is that of calling each other into being and expression. It is a sacred and largely unrecognized aspect of our common interaction. In every word or interaction we speak, even in our silence, we are, in effect, issuing a call to the world, to the ancestors, to the sky, and to the future. To all things, even if we may be particularly present with those who are directly involved. We each ‘evoke’ a unique instance of any being or situation with our own interaction. We call not only each other into being, but also the world.

This is not the power to make demands, but to issue invitations, encouragements, and to exchange gestures of hope, commonality, curiosity, fascination, wonder, awe, and reverence.

What creed we follow has no real place in this matter, because it is fundamentally simple. We are calling each other, across every kind of distance. And the character, skill and intention with which we form and convey these calls comprises a transport of incredible opportunity for us to do with awareness what ordinarily undergoes a largely habitual obfuscation.

Once aware of this together, we can form our calls in the image of our hearts and dreams for one another, rather than in those of our culture and its absurdly invasive broadcasting whose fundamental purpose is to render us isolated, servile, and afraid. Can you imagine what could result from such a process?