These three discussions are all centred around the current social climate. Authoritarian control, centralised fear-mongering media, conspirituality, polarising social platforms, vaccine mandates and economic cliff edges realised and hidden. This is a super special time to be alive, all of these thresholds are leaving behind what we considered as normality. Creative chaos is being thrust upon us catapulting our society into an engaged and full life.
Watch us leave characteristics of capitalism behind as the air of uncertainty shifts us towards what is immediately reliable; relationships, the environment, surrender and a certain disciplined asceticism in the face of passive entertainment, media agendas and unrestrained fearful projections. We are being taught self-responsibility and having our values thoroughly examined.
The wave discussion gave us the dynamic tool of metaphor to explore the macro picture and how its nature is to unfold. Big waves pushing forward with offshore winds blowing the spray sharply into our visions. The meeting of waves hitting each other and shooting upwards into air, ascending then balancing the forces and rippling through each other. Waves of wind and water stripping forests of dead barks and twigs and branches, cleansing the environment of the rotten, dead and dying.
These are but a few of the examples that emerged through our discussion of the wave and the metaphor allowed us to see the whole thing as a natural process of distorted vision, balancing and cleansing.
The topic of AUTHORITY followed as more legislation seemed to be slipping under the guise of Covid-19 yet had obvious weight in totally seperate ‘good intentions’, such as the ‘Identify and Disrupt Bill’, which gives the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) the power to spy on the general population. The alleged reason is to target ‘serious and organised crime’ (Melbourne Activist Legal Support). This is not just surveillance but the ability to alter data and take over digital accounts. The over-reaching of our government bodies is signalling separation. The current system is acting incongruently with the people it is allegedly designed to serve.
The bureaucratic machine is getting away from us. Political bodies treating us like inconvenient children who are not doing what they are told and consequentially this angers these career politicians as their chess moves are not playing out.
Where are our leaders?
What is a leader?
Who will we listen to, who demands your respect and who will respect us?
All humans participating in the discussion expressed how they wished to be addressed as equals and listened to in order for them to follow a directive being passed to them. There is an empathic retardation and juvenile level of communication skills that simply put people offside, anger and disempower. We will not respect our so-called leaders until they respect us. Our relational skills have been undermined as we seek to serve a systemic logic and reason, unveiling an unconscious desire to be done with our nature and be robots instead. This is a perspective born through static precedented facts, fear, control and the scarcity mentality all of which if uncontrolled/unobserved lead us along the path to convenience, automation, disempowerment, domesticity, otherwise known as a dystopia or in more spiritual terms; hell.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
This brings us to our final discussion, ‘good intentions’, with an eye to the paradoxical and seemingly perennial knowing of its oppressive and evil capacity. Yet, in our highly encouraged and educated one dimensional perspective, seeing good intentions as a contributor to hell on earth can be quite confusing. Known in Orwell’s 1984 as double speak.
This in itself is an example of where we have fallen from the garden and find ourselves to be more of an auto-immune response upon the body of the Earth.
When auto-immunity is explored in any great depth we soon find the body is responding to a pathogen. The pathogen if continually exposed can create chronic inflammation, leading to an inefficiency in rebalancing.
The real virus is not COVID-19, the real virus is fear, the scarcity mentality and the continual pursuit for so-called happiness. We have lost sight of the only thing that exists, the present, the gift of existing and contributing to the moment. Fear takes us back and forth from past to future, stimulating actions in the present that have no relevance to anything other than a projection of the future or an attachment to the past. We react to our fears and the conflict that exists is a corresponding event born from the stories of the past and projections of the future. Sadly in ignoring the present we also ignore the opportunity to understand the other’s context, which holds the key to the bridge of empathy and compassion, circumventing polarising discourse and opinion.
So where can I as an individual fit amongst these fears, stories, agendas, how can I make an autonomous decision without subscribing to a tribe or team?
How do we reclaim our power?
The greatest rebellion is to act as if you are already free.
The above quote holds our access to power and freedom. As the unwieldy stories of the future and past cast us this way and that, we may take a moment to see that it is the story that has the most directive power upon the way we engage with the only thing that exists; the present moment.
We need not cooperate with the mainstream narratives of left and right, right and wrong, or fearful alternative stories.
We can create our own story for ourselves to take the first step and to be witnessed as the leader who leads themselves and only asks for others to lead themselves as well. A natural diversity blooms through cellular power being moved by a directive that is beyond the mind. Call it intuition, the heart, love, joy or nature itself.
But please be careful with your ‘good intentions’. When do they overreach for your subjective view of the greater good? Who are your ‘good intentions’ for?
Perhaps they are for nobody but yourself, just like your opinion or the advice you give. Advice without consent is much like a law without the people’s consent. It is negating a wisdom, a power within us, and exposes the idea the issuing body has of it’s receiver. ‘Good intentions’ if handled without care simply oppress all of which reside as part of the whole idea. Just like a child playing with a dollhouse, a centralised perspective of what is good dictates everyone. We are still children.
The most radical stance of this day and age is to be affirmative of absolutely everything.
What if we celebrated all of this suffering as necessary rituals to embed wisdom. What if we walked our own pathways and celebrated the other pathways around us?
What if we trusted ourselves enough to let go of the stories we lend our responsibility to?
What if we forgave our stumbling as a parent understands that a child needs to learn to walk?
Love to you all
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