…to that feeling of powerlessness when world events get so hot, you don’t now how to respond. I assure you that this feeling of disconnect and ‘having no effect’ is the very thing we need to get over; the thing that stands between us and our ability to create our lives, and thus create the world. I would challenge the theory that the solution is to not pay attention to the media or to our responses to what we see. I think we have to do so knowing that we’re being given a narrative, and teaching ourselves not to simply buy into whatever we’re being told.
There is a question of, on what level are these geopolitical games really played? Who is making these decisions? Is it governments? Is it individual leaders who are sold out to the dark hierarchy who have no conscious idea what they’re doing? Is it some force in human nature that’s inherent, or mutated, or adaptive? Such as fear and greed? Is this all driven by the fear of death? [J.R.R. Tolkien might agree.]
I think that our part in this — all of this — is to reach for peaceful interaction with ourselves and those close to us, and to work on the cellular level of humanity, which is ourselves and our immediate environment. That would include all aspects of life, from food to water to work to sex to love to raising children: day to day awareness. I’m not proposing this in the form of “pull back from the messed up world” but rather as an invitation to engage in the world as it is, participate, learn as much as you can about what you think is wrong — take the time — and find the means of meaningful participation. We need, I believe, to do this as full-spectrum humans. Not this other thing “they” try to make us into.
If nobody around you is interested, that’s a clue about where you’re at, and you may need a different at, and you can get there from here.
The Aries Point event that is now close to full blossom — Jupiter conjunct Uranus in the first degree of Aries — is about individual initiation and group initiation. Now they are one and the same thing. For a long time they could work on separate levels. Putting the two together is more like multiplication and less like adding. Individual consciousness is not added to collective consciousness, the two are multiplied by one another.
I am aware that most people don’t feel ready to shift levels. I cannot speak for you, but I can speak to you: you may be more ready than you think, and being ready may be overrated. This is more about being aware and willing.
It was after I read this post of yours Eric, that I got on the phone to my congress people and BP Oil to make my voice heard! Thanks for helping get me off square one–overwhelm, powerlessness and fear. Not speaking up is worse than death.
we have the potential to go exponential
I’ve been thinking a lot for some time about the words “orders of magnitude.” Somehow, here in your not-addition-but-multiplication approach… Those words apply so much more clearly. To what is potential. Rather than to what is harmed. Orders of magnitude… Ten to the nth. Let’s go.
P.s. This song gets me through it at these moments…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F58TfYHqLak
“Make You Crazy” – Brett Dennen (featuring: Femi Kuti)
You know it’s hard to be yourself,
free yourself, to see yourself
When all around you there are lies just to get you,
Spies just to get you, to buy so they can get you
There are cameras in the sky, lasers in our living rooms
There are wolves watching wearing sheep’s costumes
It’s enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
It’s enough to make you mad
It’s enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
And I’m amazed I haven’t yet
Isn’t it a shame the way we cheat each other, treat each other,
beat each other?
It’s a shame the way we use one other, abuse one another,
and screw one another, it’s true.
They will lock you up in prison but they won’t call it slavery
There are stolen children raised and trained in armies
It’s enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
It’s enough to make you mad
It’s enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
And I’m amazed I haven’t yet
Don’t hesitate to speak your mind (Speak your mind)
Never hesitate to speak your heart (Speak your heart)
They’ll call you crazy when you speak your mind (When you speak your mind)
So never, never hesitate (Never hesitate)
From http://6lyrics.com
‘Cause it’s enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
It’s enough to make you mad
It’s enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
And I’m amazed I haven’t yet
Femi solo
NA SOL THEM GO LOCK YOU FOR PRISON
NA SOL THEM GO BEAT YOU FOR PRISON
THEM NO CALL IT SLAVERY
IT’S HIM THAT MAKE ME VEX
NA SOL THEM GO LOCK YOU FOR PRISON
NA SOL THEM GO BEAT YOU FOR PRISON
IT’S HIM THAT MAKE ME VEX
IT’S HIM THAT MAKE ME CRAZE
It’s enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
It’s enough to make you mad
It’s enough to make you go crazy (Woah)
And I’d be crazy not to care
What do you do when you are “aware and willing” and have been for a LONG time and cannot seem to escape the frustration and anger over what is happening? I have my moments of peace and Oneness with the new paradigm, but this old paradigm is literally feeling like a ball and chain around my neck that I cannot shake. I am losing my cool on a daily basis at how clueless and unconscious so many people are. I’m sad that this is how I’m feeling at this monumental turning point….NOT liberated and like it’s a rebirth in process……but like I’m in a bubble, screaming at the top of my lungs and no one can hear me, or wants to hear.
I have moved away from so many relationships and social/work arenas for this very reason and continue to try to find my “tribe” but always feel like I’m the only one who cares. I know that is not true, thanks to Planetwaves and few other communities spread around the globe, but in the Here and Now of my life, it seems like so many, seemingly conscious ,progressive, and spiritual folks are more concerned about themselves than anything else.
Going to call the Wah-ambulance…..thanks for listening,
Victoria
p.s. In Maui where I live, there is a massive surge in staph infections, because even here the “Powers that Be” are so f&**(ing LAME they dump raw sewage right out into the most remote and potentially pristine island chain on the planet, for surfers and swimmers to infect themselves in.
I’m with Patty; that’s a lovely invitation to meditate.
Thank you for the very informative post Phall.
Thank you Phall, for sharing the meditation.
Nicki Scully (shamanicjourneys.com) has put together a meditation for plugging and/or diverting the leaks from the oil reservoir in the Gulf. I can’t find a direct link to it – so I copied this from her Facebook page – and I’m posting it here.
She asks that we do this meditation at 10 pm (any timezone) if possible. It focuses on the pressure differentials in the reservoir that contains the oil, a mile deep beneath the waters of the gulf. You can use the this same meditation as a template to offer your support and visions for the souls that have already lost their lives, the endangered and damaged wildlife, the beaches, the waters, the people suffering from loss of livelihood, the people under tremendous pressure to find solutions, and any other spill related situations that come to mind.
Meditation for plugging and/or diverting the leaks without exacerbating the catastrophe:
Start by grounding and centering yourself . . . Focus on your heart. Find and feed your inner heart flame with love. As your heart flame grows brighter, feel it radiate outward, from the center of your being . . . Continue to pour love upon your flame, adding the power of your breath . . . Soon you will feel a connection as your heart flame joins with the heart flames of others who are also are working spiritually through meditation to assist with the capping of the well.
Now focus on being there in the Gulf. Be there and see what it was like before this well was drilled. Feel the great pressure of a mile’s worth of seawater above you . . .
Let your wish be known to the universe: Express your desire for the gulf region to return to the state of contained pressure before the well was drilled. Acknowledge the effect of the discharge that’s already happened . . .
As you focus into the reservoir deep beneath the Gulf, become the reservoir . . . Allow yourself to experience the release that is occurring as the oil spews upward through the leak. Feel the flow . . . Feel the expansion of the compressed oil and gasses as the pressure releases . . .
Put your attention for a moment on the containment of this vast reservoir— the rock formations that are compressed between the pressure of the oil that has been held there for eons and the mantle of water above . . . Notice how it feels as the pressure releases into the leak, and what changes are happening because of it . . . When you feel the trapped gasses and oil that’s held in this reservoir, notice how this pinprick of a hole, tiny as it is relative to the size of the reservoir, has affected the pressure throughout . . . Feel the dynamic and static phenomena within the reservoir slowly begin to stabilize. . . . Long pause
Focus your attention on the new equipment that will be placed on top of the pipe . . . As if by force of an unseen hand, or a leviathan of the deep, see how it almost majestically slows the flow and the resultant pressure increase stays contained. The exiting flow slows dramatically as the bulk of the exiting oil that needs release finds its way up the pipe to the waiting ships . . . Long pause
Now see the reservoir returning toward a state of rest, as it has been for so many eons past. Feel a calming of this dramatic event . . .
Feel the staunching of the flow. Know the cessation of the venting oil. See all the molecules in the oil pool still under the sea floor once again resting in the subterranean warmth that radiates from the core of this Earth, blanketed by the cold, heavy water above . . .
When you feel that your time is complete for now, ground and center yourself and separate your consciousness from the situation, for the moment . . .
Being there is the key— being there and exercising your will in co-creation with the will of your higher self, God, and whatever intelligence can be brought to assist. The accumulation of many people’s will adds to the process. Return to this meditation again and again until the work is accomplished. We can all be part of the solution.
Please pass this meditation on to others, so that we can all work together. I am also reserving a time next week, Wednesday, June 9th for a web/teleconference so that we can create ceremony together to continue the work that is needed through our spiritual and energetic focus.
Thanks for that.
Eric,
I found your words very timely and inspiring and beautiful. I am currently remaking my life from the inside out and though I have moments of sickening fear and anxiety, I am determined to make myself go into it rather than try to shift it or opt out — running “to” rather than running “from” something.
This morning I awoke to another episode of distrust and loneliness but in the surrender, I believed and felt that I was creating something very deep and profound. It felt in sync with “something” benevolent, an energy that was inviting total surrender and that in holding the fear with compassion at the centre of me, there was something evolving deep within my DNA and all around me.
I know too well the dark energy of denial and when I consciously learned to open to trusting in myself and in the force and power of love, my life changed in an instant. It was an epiphany.
I am determined to hold those people who seem to be recking havoc on our world, the oil barons, the government of Israel, our own Canadian government, which seems hell bent on shutting out feelings of empathy and compassion for its citizens; I will attempt to hold them without judgment but with a faith, that a moment will come somehow, someday, for enlightenment or a rebirth for each and every one of us. We do not know when that moment will arrive, neither for ourselves nor for each other, but I believe that with faith, we can transcend and evolve to a more compassionate, creative and caring collective.
There does not seem to be a moment to waste. There is no down time to this adventure. It has to be lived each and every second of every day, from here on in, as fully as we possibly can. It is, as you say Eric, about being “aware and willing” and getting over ourselves. We are all connected and we are re-connecting at a deeper level — a deep well of love, available to each and every one of us.
Dive on in people ‘cos the water is just fine!
It’s about ready to storm here in Cape May… I hear the thunder… and saw beautiful lightning strikes not too long ago out over the ocean. I am enjoying my stay.
But, what Eric says about nobody around being interested strikes a chord. I hate (in a good way) when things do that. So where is Camp Planet Waves? Can I make a reservation?! :0)
If what Eric says is true about multiplication of the individual and the collective rather than adding individuals to the collective, I’m not sure I get it. But an image of a funnel just flashed: it’s a one-to-many, many-to-one relationship? Obviously, or not, they feed one another and exchange energy. It seems rather imperative, then, that we individuals rise to the occasion… and if we do, can we carry the weight of those that do not?
Was that last line changed? There was a typo-O earlier and I don’t recall that last line being stated in that way because before it begged the question if being ready is over-rated, then what? That question seems to now be answered. Either way – thank you.
Patricia MoonRose
Eric,
Thank you for the words of wisdom. It does truly help. Another expression of Chiron in Pisces.
Your words ring true and helpful this morning, Eric.
Nights of deep sleep are over and last night after being awakened, I tossed and turned half awake, revisiting my old homes where fear had reigned king and experienced that fear was gone – each former home in turn was an empty shell and I alive and whole to walk through once again in this hear and now – seeing each place clearly than ever I could while actually living there. A clearing – or reclaiming – of past, to be sure.
The world seems so large right now, and I so small And so I will be small. But I will Be. My films, stories, art may do no more than bring joy to myself while I express – but methinks this is part of the undoing of culture; that is, not having the motive of “success” that is outward but rather inward – and let the outward expressions take it’s form via others response/s.
I’ll pause here and put writing to other joys and tasks of the day.
Love to all,
Linda