There is a new consciousness birthing itself on the planet—an awareness
that supports conscious living, which means conscious choice-making.
I feel like I have more room to breathe now that President Obama has been re-elected. While not the perfect progressive by any means, Obama is a fascinating figure. It’s not an accident that he has appeared at this time of history. He supports women’s health and empowerment, workers’ rights, and the health of the earth as a whole. Those issues are key to the advancement of world peace and the well-being of all. Obama’s presence on the world stage is a bridge to better possibilities, even though his actions don’t reflect that a hundred percent of the time.
Historical consciousness has a way of twisting and turning through mazes of paradox and contradiction before showing itself on a clear path. It’s an evolutionary thing, good overall but often tough in the short run. Conditions will likely get worse before they get better, but we as a world are moving in the direction of a growing awareness that supports conscious living. We don’t have much choice in the matter. The Earth is moving us towards investing in our own humanity. There is a lot going on. You can feel it on both a personal and planetary level. I’m aware of a deluge of developments in people’s lives in both my close circle of friends, family, and acquaintances, and in the larger world around the globe. Lots of serious stuff. People are having to step up.
I’m grateful the election period is over. The immediacy of electoral power politics consumes my attention in a way that pushes deeper, more long term issues aside. It sucks the air out of the room. It taints my perspective, feeds on fear, and makes it hard to remember the higher purpose that motivates my work. I have now settled back into my primary focus, which is to nurture people to open to the unity of being, the truth of existence—the Oneness, and to address their personal issues in a universal context. The trick is to stay connected to universal truths while at the same time applying ourselves to improving the quality of daily life, finding the balance between staying true to existence and meeting the incessant spontaneity of events.
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The Winter Solstice is almost upon us. There is excitement in some quarters about this year’s solstice. They say December 21, 2012 is significant in the Mayan calendar. I don’t know a lot about this, but I do find it interesting. The doomsday prophecies making the rounds make no sense at all to me, but the idea that the world is moving in a profoundly transformative direction does.
In an online article last year, a Mayan elder named Carlos Barrios is quoted as follows:
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. It’s just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed. We are no longer in the World of the Fourth Sun, but we are not yet in the World of the Fifth Sun. This is the time in-between, the time of transition. As we pass through transition there is a colossal, global convergence of environmental destruction, social chaos, war, and ongoing Earth Changes. Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human.
The opportunity to be more human. Yes, but only if the rise of feminine strength and perspective is given the central focus it deserves. Humanity will not become more human without the full participation of women and a revival of respect for more-than-human nature. The forces of history and of the universe will not have it any other way. There are real power paradigms vying for historical dominance. In other words, change is upon us and will be for some time to come. Centering society in the truth of women’s lives (which is what reproductive choice does) changes the terms of understanding for all people. It gives people a different awareness of how life works.
The change in consciousness is from one of obligatory caring, power of one over another, competition, and greed, to a consciousness of equality and conscious caring. It will grow as humanity shifts direction and embraces living “in a different way.”
MAY OUR HEARTS OPEN TO ALL OF EXISTENCE.
MAY WE LEARN TO LIVE AS ONE BODY.
MAY WE LEARN TO LOVE AS ONE BEING.
If we only didn’t have to invest so much hope in one person, in this case our President. It would be grand if there were hosts of global leaders who also cared and were committed to positive change.
I agree that it is disheartening that there aren’t more global leaders who are focused on positive change. But perhaps this is the transformation heralded by the Mayan calendar and mentioned by the elder. The transformation doesn’t start with our leaders – it starts quietly inside us and then becomes amplified as we start observing those changes. It is through the growth of those transformations that we see the emergence of the kind of leadership that will help carry our communities and eventually our countries forward and upward. I feel very hopeful for the changes, difficult though they may be, that we are facing.