CEASING TO BE A NATIONALITY IS THE BEGINNING OF A BIRTH.
The transformation of our life begins when we disidentify ourselves from what we think we are.
Most children born in the world end up being patriots, addicted to the biography of the country where they are born. When we grow up, our consciousness begins to awaken, and we realise that we are in the prison of defending our nationality as if we were programmed robots. In many people arise a rejection and sometimes even a very particular hatred for the country where they were born because it is the place where we have been conditioned and programmed to be a certain way.
TO STOP BEING RUMANIAN is a proposal that I will formulate in Romania but is also a tremendous challenge that can bring about the evolution of many people trapped in the limitations of their identifications.
To be cosmopolitan is to consider that any part of the world is the same homeland. Homeland is an affective bond to the place where we were born. WE ARE BORN IN THE WORLD. Therefore, I can affirm that to stop believing that we are a nationality is a journey of unimaginable openness towards the globalisation of consciousness and the integration of the human species. We cease to be many races to become one species, ceasing to be of many nationalities to recognise ourselves without limits, ceasing to be so many religions to unite in the same spirituality.
When we cling to a nationality, without wanting to, we stop being human and become soldiers, warriors, and enemies of millions of people who are of another as if we become sub-humans ready for war and to reject those who are not like us.
I was born in Argentina 59 years ago, and I have lived in Spain for more than 20 years. I have visited more than 40 countries giving conferences and conducting workshops and retreats, and I lead a team of people joining this new continent of consciousness. It is not in a single place, but it brings together people from all over the world. We use the language of love and speak the Esperanto of compassion. A way of communicating from a compassionate and comprehensive point of view that is helping us a lot to overcome our limits.
I am writing this article after a long process in which I stopped being Argentinian. That has been an arduous and difficult task for me because being Argentinean is like having a profession. The title is not hung on a wall but tucked inside the mind and heart as if one studied for a couple of decades (at least) to learn everything necessary to become conditioned to a history, trapped to a way of being, thinking, and reacting.
Disidentifying with my nationality has been one of the greatest evolutive advances I have made in my entire life. It does not mean abandoning our country of origin, hating it, or ceasing to feel love for our country, but disidentifying ourselves from the socio-cultural, moral, and traditional attachments that condition us from being free and part of a cosmopolitan way of living, without the need to defend or attack any nationality, or belonging to any of them.
That is why I decided to create a new continent from love; I call it the continent of consciousness. Anyone can live there without having a passport; being part of this continent without limits or identifications opens the doors to having friends of all nationalities, languages, and cultures because they are no longer a barrier that separates us. That is why in our eleven houses around the world, we have created communities of coliving of people from many countries to heal what keeps us apart, preparing the way for reconciliation.
When a person detaches from the patterns carried by families and ceases to be loyal to the old-fashioned instructions installed by teachers, religion, politicians, and grandparents, a door opens to the internationalisation of intelligence. They no longer think in terms of nationality but humanness and nothing more, without flags to carry. Every time someone raises a national flag, it creates the conditions for struggles and wars that isolate us and lock us in the poverty of identification and mental limitation that prevents us from expanding our consciousness and being in harmony with others.
I am offering a Conscious School workshop on Friday 6th December 2019 about the particular Romanian intelligence that can help us comprehend this original proposal. I will address the different problems and limitations that affect personal life from identifying with nationality and how to get out of that prison, not of Romania, but of the attachment to its way of being. It is not because there is anything wrong with it but because it simply limits and castrates the potential of an individual.
I direct an international organisation present on five continents and has collaborators from dozens of countries and can assure you that one of the keys to our enterprise is transcending the boundaries of our nationalities. To look at ourselves as humans from the same planet and as a spiritual family that does not pay attention to geopolitical details but the essence of love that we all have, no matter where we were born.
Consciousness has no boundaries. Any limits we create or maintain will prevent us from connecting with cosmic consciousness.
The awakening of consciousness is related to an individual transformation. In any personal process, whether in our life or profound situations, it is vital first to realise that we are not what we thought we were; and secondly, to recognise that what we are is a mystery whose potentiality is unlimited. This is the work that we essentially propose from our method of Inner Evolution. The international team that visited Romania in December was born across Romania, Argentina, El Salvador, Colombia, Spain, Italy, and Uruguay but came from the same continent of consciousness.
Alberto Varela
