Tammie: Exactly.

Michael Lindfield: And that's what it's really all about. Living is not just an act of blind faith, although it is an act of faith at some level. Faith for me, is the belief in the good intention of life. Its ultimate purpose is benevolent - in the way that we currently understand that word. It goes beyond words. When I live by faith and trust, then I'm willing to walk out there into the unknown because I know that there is only life. Whatever fears or beliefs I hold do not really matter, they don't change Truth– only my perception of what that truth might be. I can argue with people about the concept of reincarnation and whether it actually is the process for the growing of the Soul in time and space, or I can argue that God does or doesn't exist, but my beliefs don’t change what is. So my philosophy and approach is simple: participate in what is to discover what part I play in all of it.

Tammie: Do you mean Michael that you perceive life to be an ongoing process that actually continues beyond the death of the physical body? When you say, "life is" are you saying that life's an eternal process?

Michael Lindfield: Absolutely. Life, as far as I can comprehend it within the dimensions of our temporal world, is both the creative intent to express as well as the field of expression of the creator. This process of life has many seasons and cycles in its outworking and these we call life times. It is a principle that is not limited by scale. Humans go through cycles of lives. Even planets and solar systems have cycles and life times: albeit longer in duration from our perspective.

Tammie: I'm reminded of Carl Jung's observation that if a man lives in a house that he knows will eventually crumble and be destroyed regardless of his best efforts, then the likelihood of him putting all of energy into the maintenance of this house would be less than say the man who believed that his house will always be available to him.

Michael Lindfield: Well you see, it's a question of: "am I identifying with the form or the indwelling life?" If I'm identifying with the indwelling life - the soul - then my point of identity actually exists outside of time and space. And therefore I see time and space as something I dip into in order to express, to grow, to serve. If I'm identified with forms that crumbles and fade, and feel imprisoned within time and space, then I'm faced with the terrors of oblivion and of loss of identity as forms cyclically appear and disappear.

Tammie: Shifting gears now, I mentioned Matthew Fox before and one of the things that he said is that our work is a sacrament, and I wondered how that fit for you?

Michael Lindfield: Yes, I believe our task is to make the act of living a sacred act. What I mean by the phrase "make sacred" is the act of bringing the inner quality of who we are into manifestation and having that spiritual identity resonate and express itself in form. It's really the process of aligning the soul and the personality so that every thought that I have, every act, every movement, is an expression of some inner quality. That really would be a sacred act, because it would be, in Christian terms, the act of bringing heaven to earth and building the new heaven on the earth.

It sounds very grandiose, but all I’m saying is that, as a soul, we are these divine qualities. Now the forms that we create don't always allow us to express these qualities in the clearest way. Sometimes they're distorted and they're fractured and there's a gap between what we feel inside and what we express outside, and we feel guilt and we feel blame, and we feel this and we feel that. So to the degree that I can align my soul and personality and have it resonate as one field then I can act from that sense and that place so that my life becomes a sacred act. And I don't mean sacred in the sense of attempting to be "holier than thou". To live a sacred life is to bless all we touch with our inner presence. Life is an act of blessing. For me it's as simple as that.

Tammie: Giant corporations have been blamed by a number of people for many of the evils that exist in the world today, and yet they have a tremendous capacity to positively impact the world depending upon their priorities. As their power continues to increase, so does their capacity to profoundly impact the quality of life here on earth. I'm wondering, Michael, what your thoughts are on the role of corporations on the creation or survival of a new mythos.

Michael Lindfield: They are powerful but let's not give them too much power. I believe that the future of the world depends on our ability to resonate with the truth of who we, as individuals, and then to join together and express that truth collectively. That is the only power for change that exists.

Now, energy follows thought and as we focus our thinking on certain forms, they naturally show up as the world of business, the world of agriculture, the world of this - the world of that. Through our collective intent and mental focus, energy has been poured into the forms that now show up as these institutions - corporations and organizations - but let us not forget that they were originally created by our focused thoughts. The forms are held in place by beliefs and focused thoughts. This is the inner mental architecture that determines the shape, size and quality of the forms we build. For example, the current financial and business structure is held in place because this is how we choose to direct our creative energies. This is how we choose to grow and harvest the food that we believe we need. Food is always there to satisfy a hunger and because hunger exists on many levels, food can be looked at in several ways. We can see "food" in the form of money, compassionate acts, consumer products and all manner of things. So our present society is a collective attempt to feed the hunger of the human condition and the way that we satisfy this hunger is to organize ourselves.

We create ways to provide ourselves those nutrients that will reduce the feelings of emptiness. Forms show up as the products of our imagination. Our society is currently operating on a belief that if you consume more products, then the hunger will cease. Unfortunately, physical food cannot satisfy a spiritual hunger. So, in our ignorance, we generate more and more products. We produce a whole range of items that go beyond the essentials.