Thank you to everyone for all the inspiring stories and lessons. It really is a time to reflect and heal and listen. I, too, have had a difficult time listening to the rhetoric and talking points and hatred from " the other side ". But, sadly, my daughter and son-in-law are staunch Trumpsters, so we cannot discuss one thing that could be twisted into political talking points. I made the mistake of commenting that the federal government has done nothing to help with the pandemic- that got the anger started.... So, I remembered my meditation class and lesson saying people just want you to listen to them. So, I stood there and just listened to hateful, angry, beliefs being yelled at me to make a point. I just listened. I tried not absorb the vile energy, but just listened. To my amazement after awhile they stopped and then thanked me for listening to their side and concerns. Although it was disturbing and emotional,it also served a purpose. At the beginning of this whole pandemic I heard a loud message many times " We are all in this together ".
Mother Nature at her finest
Am struggling this morning with trying to stay even keel under the onslaught of lies from Trump and his campaign.
I hope people don't think that because I've asked for us not to dehumanize the opposition that it means to back off calling them out.
@jeanne-mayell I’m sending you light. I think we all have these moments of overwhelming sadness and anger these days. I know I have them too. I hope it passes quickly and that you regain equilibrium. I keep having to remind myself that this is a marathon, not a sprint and guard/use my energy accordingly. Big hugs to you!
@jeanne-mayell I choose to believe that Spirit is guiding this Great Transformation and that things, both good and bad (from our perspective), are happening to move things forward, but maybe the actual effects are only visible from a much higher perspective. To me, it's no coincidence that the story of Light Workers coming here expressly for the the purpose of transforming the world keeps popping up in different places, both ancient and modern.
This belief is what lets me step back from the day to day drama of the world and trust that its all for the greater and higher good (Perhaps Trump's horribleness is serving the purpose of waking up Light Workers around the world, like all of us here, who are coming to the conclusion that there has to be a better way). Learning to trust Spirit has been one of my life lessons over the past few years and it's still ongoing.
As John Lennon said: "Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end" ❤️
@jeanne-mayell you are a light and keep us all reaching higher. This has been a hard week and many of us are feeling the weight of trying to be positive and think positively. You created this space and for me it’s been a refuge. I’m sending you love, peace and light to fill you. You’re weary, it’s ok. Even the strongest warriors need a moment. All will be well I pray. Until we can truly exhale we have each other to support and lift up. Peace dear one. ❤️☮️
I am so comforted by all of your posts. @jeanne-mayell, thank you for starting this wonderful thread. @coyote, I love that beautiful Eisenstein essay. I've printed it out and will read it in my moments of confusion and despair.
Like many of you, I’m experiencing waves of sadness, anger or anxiety. Last night my husband and I were watching a bit of MSNBC as Chris Hayes was discussing with Senator Cory Booker the current state of our country. I was feeling low and suddenly heard Senator Booker say the following:
We have to stop cursing the darkness. We are here to be lightworkers.
I was so inspired by the interview that I searched for more of what Booker has written and came upon this radio cast with Krista Tippett, where Booker talks about a “Civic Spiritual Evolution.” Booker says that if we can’t even see the humanity in someone else and demonize them, then there’s no hope for us as a country, and there’s no way we can work together to find common ground. He said that he’s often criticized for talking about love in the political space, but what Booker is talking about is a difficult, courageous love, one with daring empathy that gets hurts and gets angry. And it goes beyond tolerance – to Booker, tolerance basically means that if you disappear from the face of this earth, it won’t bother me, because I was just putting up with you. But to Booker, love says, “I see your worth. I see your value.”
For those who are interested, I’ve attached the complete Tippett-Booker interview here:
https://onbeing.org/programs/cory-booker-civic-spiritual-evolution-jul2018/
This made me howl. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor, not to mention strong opinions lol
I posted this in the Random Predictions thread by accident, so I've moved it over here.
For me darkness is simply the unknown; that with which we have no experience and of which we have no knowledge. In my opinion, the origin of darkness as evil or bad is simply rooted in the primal fear of the unknown. We are sighted creatures, and much of our experience of the world comes through what we see. When we can see, we can properly assess danger; when we cannot see, our minds revert to the instinctive programming of protecting ourselves from all of the possible dangers that might be lurking in the areas that we cannot see. Since darkness represents what is unknown - and even with with our past present experiences, unknowable - we steel our minds against the danger that may be in it and imagine all sorts of fearsome things. We are programmed to expect the worst, so using the experiences we already have, we prepare for everything we can imagine - and we can imagine many terrible things.
Those in power prey on our imaginations and give us things to fear. They don't know any more than we do what will or may happen, but they know that they can use our (and their) fears of the unknown against us.
For all of that though, darkness is necessary. As @journeywithme2 said in another thread, seeds do not germinate and grow in the light. They require darkness. They must be surrounded by and feed on the death and dissolution around them to nurture and sustain them through the first stages of birth. New growth feeds on the decomposition of the past, transforming it into something new, necessary, and beautiful. The seed cannot see what it will become or what beauty it will create; it only knows that it is surrounded by waste and decay and must do what is necessary to use whatever resources it has around it - including the corrosion, blight, and ruin in which it is buried- to grow beyond that and escape it, and this, this is where we are now.
We have been buried by the degeneracy and gangrene that has infected our political process, and we cannot see our way to the light. We must use whatever nourishment we can find in the dregs of what they have left us to grow through and beyond it to re-create the new world with the knowledge that others in the future will do the same when we fall. Our mission is to leave the soil as fertile as we can for those future generations.