The pressure is building. I watched this the other day and felt a hopeful
sense of ‘maybe now…’ come over me (the clip is not long but highly revealing).
It shows graphically the perceptions about wealth distribution in the US, what
people ideally want, and the reality. What it shows me is the evolution of our
species has swung more than a little off balance. And whenever humans go off
balance there is usually hell to pay to set things right again.
Money and ‘ownership of stuff’ has never particularly motivated
me other than from a ‘seeking independence’ point of view. I don’t find comfort
in feeling reliant on others so have always wanted to make my own way. At the
same time I find comfort in knowing I have people in my life I can absolutely
rely on if I need them. I know I am that person for others and like that
feeling too - it is one of the joys of life for me. And so I have come to
understand interdependence.
With freedom comes responsibility. Without risk there can be no trust, and without trust our world
becomes a very scary place indeed.
“The
world is getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster, and
we’re all in it together.” (Paul Ray).
ARE WE MAD?
The past thirty years especially have been phenomenal with
regards to the speed with which resources have been and continue to be gobbled
up and stock-piled by a tiny few. The enslaving of entire generations of the
commons to indebtedness, the levels of violence and corruption, environmental degradation,
poverty and crime, economic crises…not to mention the raft of natural disasters
we have been privy to ‘live on camera’ all over the world are all day to day
issues now.
Nature shows us over and over that crises drive
transformation. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein says it all really. We have
implemented ideas that have created vast inequalities. Humans in authority have
manufactured crises in order to redistribute wealth all over the world. We have
democracies that have become corporate controlled and accountabilities are all
but non-existent for those with the power to change the laws of the land. Too
much deregulation creates chaos and anarchy, and over regulation chokes growth.
Both are unsustainable in their extremes yet we struggle to find a balance of
structure and flow.
History shows that when the King gets too big for his boots
and stops caring for his wider kingdom or worse abuses his people, he tends to
have his head removed – to me a symbol of the disconnect between ego and the
heart residing in the body. When we go too far, our environment clips our wings
and shows us our place. The frog in the pot is beginning to realise it is being
boiled alive…
As long as we are unaware of being manipulated we will
continue on, blissfully opiated by the glittery attraction of the material
world and the drive to consume. How many more Tsunamis and earthquakes and
super-storms will we need in order to get that all that is transitory, and all
security based on the material possession is illusion.
The atrocities we humans are capable of seem to get worse
every day. The outrage about corruption, the outrage about the way women are
treated still, the outrage about human trafficking, child abuse, poverty, air
quality, food and water shortages…the list goes on. Puff and bluster and
outrage is just hot air unless it actually influences the way we see ourselves
and our relationship with the environment that sustains us. The way we think
precedes the way we act.
The human future is not something we are heading towards
just now…the future is hurtling towards us and it is looking more and more like
a nightmare.
The best way to escape a nightmare is to WAKE UP!
Conscious evolution IS a wake up response. We can
influence and impact our future but first we must acknowledge and ride our way
out of our dis-ease.
Awareness is
the first step to freedom. Choosing an evolutionary view offers
a very positive potential for us all – a view where we awaken fully to
our responsibilities and take joy in creating a better world and a more
conscious and compassionate and tolerant human species. We have shown ourselves
the dangers of ego run amok in every area of human life. What could we be if we
played to our most positive potentials I wonder? Could we be better than we are
now? I choose to believe we haven’t seen the best of ourselves yet…
And that’s it, from my view
Amanda
A e-copy of I Can Speak….is now available here. You can also read
chapter one of Activate Your Human Superpowers.
