Who Needs Morality?

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What a fascinating question: Who needs morality?

This simple yet almost shocking question strikes me as central

to our shared quantum adventure in this land of dreams.

First, let me give you the larger context of the question.

Simply stated, it’s our human belief in ‘good and evil’—

not to mention right and wrong, justice and injustice,

obedience and freedom, reward and punishment, and the like.

It’s our shared human belief that our earthly experience

is a morality-based pull-and-tug between opposites—

one side being good (etc.) and the other being evil (etc.).

Both in my Emptiness Dreaming book and in my many talks

you’ve experienced me advocating

that we stop being so morally oriented and

discontinue our loyalty to this morality-focused orientation.

Indeed, I’ve often invited us to leave morality behind,

so as to make room for our quantum consciousness

to take its place and thrive in our inner awareness.

Recently, someone asked me:

“But what about those really, really evil persons in the world,

the ones who kill innocent people and do terrible harm?

Surely, we need to decry their actions as immoral!

Isn’t giving up my moral judgments about everything human

simply allowing, even encouraging, these terrible things

to keep happening?”

Hence, the intriguing question: Who needs morality?

If I asked you right now to share your thoughts

about the question, what would you say?

Well, I welcome you as my treasured guest

to a real-deal morality-centered adventure!

I’ll first set the stage for our adventuresome travels

by describing two examples in which loyalty to moral principles

was left behind, literally being supplanted by a different approach.

Hopefully, they will give you a meaningful reference

as you consider your own answer to the question.

The first example took place in a Jewish/Christian context.

Jesus, as you know, was a Jew, a follower of the Hebrew scriptures

and of the Ten Commandments, the central Hebrew moral code.

As his teachings evolved, though, “love,”

not obedience to a moral code, became his dominant message,

so much so that it actually replaced those ten commandments.

He proclaimed that there is only one commandment: Love!

To spell it out a bit: Love God, love your neighbor, love yourself!

Love your enemies. Don’t judge anyone or anything.

Let love take over your heart and guide your life!

In short, if you’re ready to take love into your heart

and let it be the main influence of your choices and actions,

you no longer need to rely on those ten commandments.

Yes, you can now leave them behind … and follow your heart.

Why? Because …

… you’ve just taken a great giant leap

from following the letter of morality’s precepts

to embracing its non-lettered, love-filled spirit

… you’ve just graduated from the human school of obedience

and entered into a life of spiritual and soulful inspiration

… you’ve left behind a fear-based approach to life

and taken on a heart-centered, love-filled one

… you’ve just stepped away from being a security-oriented ‘follower’

and embraced a life of being a grounded and empowered ‘lover’

… you’ve just stopped looking ‘outside’ of yourself for guidance

and focused your attention on what’s ‘inside’ of you—

the grander truth that lies in your own heart and soul.

In your profound heartful embrace of love, in other words,

you don’t need to keep thinking in terms of

“Am I being good or bad?” or “Am I right or wrong?”

In their place, you’ve created a personal relationship

with yourself, others, God and life—

one that you can now trust and follow.

In this, my first example, you’ve just graduated

from a life of obedience to a life of love.

Wowsers! You no longer need your former moral code of conduct.

Ready for a second example? This one is quite personal.

When our son (Eric, the ‘crown prince’) was 14 years old,

Donna entered into a doctoral program,

one that required her to spend three summers of residence

away from home, at the university.

The terrible side-effect: Our son inherited the unfortunate fate

of spending those summers alone with his father.

(Chilling, indeed!).

On our first day together, I announced to Eric:

“I think that you’re old enough to be more in charge of yourself.

I’m proposing that you and I suspend all the rules

that we’ve been requiring you to follow up to now,

and that you be completely in charge of your life—

your choices, your behaviors, your everything.

How about if, for these three summers,

you make your own decisions about everything,

and I will 100% support you and them?

Needless to say, his first response was one of suspicion;

I was proposing a whole new way of life that he never dreamed possible.

Once he realized my commitment in supporting him, though,

he became excited, enthusiastic and ‘all in.’ He loved it.

He went on, during those summers, to embrace self-determination

and a level of personal responsibility that truly astounded me.

As side-effects, he felt observably happier, more self- empowered

and immensely proud of his free and responsible self.

My interpretation:

Eric left behind a life of obedience to an outside authority

to live a life of self-determination and mature responsibility.

He no longer needed to follow my rules

because he was now grounded in his own internal truth.

Yes, truth and self-empowerment took the place of obedience.

Once inner truth took over, obedience to rules of conduct

quietly but decisively dissolved.

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Thanks for drinking in these two descriptions—

powerful examples of graduating from one level and style of living

to a freer, fuller and more empowering level and style.

My personal musing: Once we are ready to leap into our next ‘calling,’

we can leave behind our former, less empowering mode of living.

I hope that these two examples have prepared us

to look more closely at our opening question:

“Who needs morality?”

Obviously, our son did. Until he didn’t!

Also, regular human beings—those whose human motivation

is all about believing in and adhering to moral values—do.

Until they don’t.

Until they wake up to something bigger.

Something like pure love. Something like bigger truth.

Something like … well, it gets even better. Read on.

Enter, stage left, the quantum calling!

You and I are called to that ‘something even bigger.’

We’re called to embrace a quantum consciousness.

We’re invited to adopt a quantum identity,

take on a quantum nature, become quantum beings.

Our homo quantum nature lives and thrives

in a more rarified field, the quantum field—

a realm beyond the regular human field,

beyond the one that invites us to follow moral precepts,

beyond any preoccupation with moral guidelines,

beyond, in fact, the very concept(s) of good and evil.

In fact, we can strongly assert that being ‘quantum’

brings with it a consciousness that overrides

and takes the place of the human morality story.

Being quantum gives us an above-the-forest perception,

an outside-the-box vision,

an access to a bigger-dimensional ‘reality.’

Yes, that’s our calling, our nature, our destiny—

being quantum beings with a quantum consciousness—

all the while living, breathing and walking in the midst of

a human world and its compelling human story.

Wow! How do those words grab you?

Yes, that’s you and me—

face-to-face with our very own quantum calling,

a calling that invites, even compels, us to leave behind

the ‘normal’ concept of and preoccupation with morality

and to be welcomed into the elevated world of ‘quantum.’

In the words of the Sufi poet Hafiz: “Now is the time to understand …

that all your ideas of right and wrong …

were just a child’s training wheels …

to be laid aside …

when you finally live with veracity.”

On the heels of Hafiz’ wise words, here’s our next question:

What is it exactly that we as quantum beings graduate to

once we give up our attachment to morality?

For you and me, what’s our next step beyond the morality story?

I’m so glad that you asked. Let’s look at some comparisons:

For Jesus, it was (and is) pure love.

For my son, Eric, it was his inner truth.

The Buddha, in turn, might invite us pure Light.

Abraham might suggest that we embrace faith.

Lao Tzu might recommend a state of being.

Mohammed might propose a life of surrender.

All of these, as we know, are beautifully inspired approaches,

each one embodying a gigantic value, potency and truth.

But what about us—those of us who are quantumly called?

As I ‘sat a spell’ with this question, two responses appeared.

The first one is twofold: quantum presence and quantum power!

The quantum presence: You and I are clear that our human destiny

is now in the far-beyond-human hands

of the quantum source, the nothingness-filled void

that has recently come alive within us.

This voidal source is now an actual presence within us.

From this deep internal home within out human frame,

it reminds us daily of our true nature:

We are quantum beings having a human experience.

The quantum power: Even more compellingly, we’ve experienced

the void’s awesome power equally present within each of us—

literally becoming the propelling force

that supports us in our lives.

As we sit daily in the embrace of that mighty power

and experience it literally becoming us,

we are awakening to the many freedoms

that our quantum nature allows.

Among those freedoms,

we are no longer called to be morally motivated,

nor are we called to any other aspects of the human story

that involve morality’s side-effects:

personal guilt, fear or punishment, as examples.

Rather, as quantum beings we are now qualified to live our lives

in a vast, bigger-dimensional field filled with quantum truth.

That truth leads us to walk through this dream’s many possibilities

with our heads held high, our hearts in love, our souls free,

as we enjoy a sense of daily discovery and adventure.

The answer to our question, then, is:

As we move beyond a belief and participation

in the human morality story,

we live our lives not as obey-ers of right-vs.-wrong rules,

but as adventurers who are rooted in our quantum truth,

propelled by our quantum power,

and inspired by our quantum source.

The result, as I see it, is that

we are free to embrace the roller coaster ride of our earthly dream

and witness its intended diversity with appreciation and celebration.

But wait.

If you recall, there’s a second response to the question.

That response might proclaim something like this:

Once we graduate into a realm of quantum truth

and allow that zero-dimensional truth to guide everything about us,

a second gift—the next step beyond even our digestion

of quantum presence and power— will then appear.

I wish that I could describe this new ingredient to you, but I can’t.

That gift doesn’t yet have a name.

It’s still in the yet-to-be-announced category.

We can only sense it baking

in the invisible quantum oven, so to speak.

As it shows itself to me, though,

It’s a brand new ingredient in our human dream.

Though incomplete, this is what I can say about it.

Once out of the oven, it will be available to you and me

as a brand new ingredient in our human creation.

Yes, an ingredient at the same level as space,

time, energy, light and the like.

An ingredient that,

once installed within us and once having become us,

will graphically change everything about the way we envision,

perceive, relate to and experience what we now call the human world.

At that point of personal ‘singularity,’

a truly quantum ‘you’ and ‘me’ can experience creation

just as the quantum void does:

as an imaginative, wondrous, awe-inspiring phantasm

of possibilities, playing out in a seemingly real

but entertaining dream,

the likes of which are unthinkable.

What I know: This new ingredient will awaken within me

and take hold of the ‘me’ that you know

during my one-year sabbatical (Nov. 2025 to Nov. 2026).

Upon my return to you, I will bring it back with me to share with you

and to initiate you into it (should you feel called to it).

I look forward to this next step in our shared quantum adventure.

In closing: Permit me to reference another great Persian poet:

The mystic, Rumi, who gifted us in the 13th century with these words:

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.

If I may be so bold as to put a label to Rumi’s field,

I’m privileged to call it the one and only:

the quantum field,

where notions of right- and wrong-doing are left behind,

where our hearts’ love follows the path of a freer rhythm,

where our minds’ thoughts beat to the sounds of a mightier drum,

where our souls’ light breathes the freshness of oneness-filled air

and where our quantum nature becomes blissfully fulfilled.

So, who needs morality?

Not you. Not now.

You are a quantum presence!