In the middle...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”   Antonio Gramsci

This quote was written in 1929, a decade before the beginning of WWII, and it is no less appropriate today.  People are desperate to return to the old ways, to get back to “normal”, but they are forgetting the old ways weren’t working. 

Life has been becoming less and less sustainable and yet we continue to act in selfish, irreverent ways towards the planet that houses us.  In the movie The Matrix, Mr. Smith refers to humans as a virus, an organism that consumes every natural resource until depletion. 

We operate on fear, on the premise that there is not enough, which leads to greed and hoarding (think of the toilet paper crisis in the US during the pandemic). We cause each other, the planet, and her beings, great suffering with our wars, our greed, and our ignorance.  

Out of touch with our inner world we are desperate to gain control of our outer world through any means necessary –oppression, violence, torture, genocide, wars, bombings, shootings - all have become accepted means of gaining control in the “us vs them “society in which we live.  We turn to drugs, sex, gambling, shopping, television, and technology to numb our minds and escape this unholy way of being.

We are the monsters that walk amongst us, puppets of the evil that is created when we join our fears together and give each other permission to commit monstrous acts.

The only way out is through compassion and love, through recognizing our oneness, through understanding that the suffering of a man in the Middle East is no less than the suffering of our mother or our daughter.  To fully grasp that is not a sink or swim situation for individuals but rather for mankind as a species. 

The hope lies in the research of David Hawkins, which states- “One individual who lives and vibrates to the energy of optimism and a willingness to be nonjudgmental of others will counterbalance the negativity of 90,000 individuals who calibrate at the lower weakening levels.”

The question you must ask yourself is – Are my thoughts and actions contributing to collective weak energy levels or am I using my power to help others to shift to a higher level of being?
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Does your role support extinction or evolution?