We’re full throttle into one of those spells of history that exceeds the ability of most people to make sense of it; to contain what they perceive within their preconceptions. In other words, we all approach the world with pre-established beliefs, and compare what new things we perceive to them. If the new things are too intense, or challenge what we already think, we tend to either shut down or have our minds blown open — or just simply blown. And not in the earlier sense of that concept (the Sgt Peppers album, Burning Man). I mean hurt.
Collectively, we’re experiencing this increase in energy in a compromised state, and I would suggest, it’s not a voluntary process in the way we usually think of that. Rather than openly choosing, we set ourselves up to be forced, to be pushed, to be backed into having no other options. It helps to be open and flexible, for example, when you’re being presented with new information or new experiences. Most of what we’re open to now is fear.
Our other portals are being systematically closed by fear, by divided awareness, by pain and by what we do to avoid pain.
Most of that is by shutting down; closing ourselves off to the world, to people, and to ourselves. By blocking out genuinely natural energies (eros, for example), or by mingling them with fear, we set ourselves up for even more fear, because fear is in part the result of resistance and a lack of trust in the flow of life.
One of the ways that people “avoid fear” is to indulge deeper in it — for example, horror movies; most of these involve chaos; and the influences are coming in from every direction. The 2012 movie is about to come out. I’m sure it will be a smash hit. That’s a lovely example of what we do to ourselves. It’s official website begins, “With the Mayan calendar ending in 2012, a large group of people must deal with natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, typhoons and glaciers.”
The premise here is that volcanoes follow schedules, like trains. If the calendar predicts the disaster, then it’s not a disaster. The calendar is supposedly astrological in nature, and dis-aster means “against the stars.” So this sounds more like a happy coincidence. In fact there’s a glacier right outside my door right now, and we are great friends.