Breaking Up with the Status Quo is Hard to Do
The desire for change is leading us to the precipice. Whether it takes us over the edge depends on us and where we want to go from here.
We humans are such a crazy bunch. We’re in love with change, and clamor for things we don’t like to go away in hope they’ll be replaced by something better that we love. And we hate that which we don’t, yet we cling tightly to it so we don’t have to face our fear of the unknown.
It brings to mind an image of being in a tug-o’-war AND WE’RE THE ROPE. With one hand, we’re grasping for the lifeline of something new (even if there is no guarantee it’s better). With the other, we’re holding on for dear life in fear that if we lose our grip we’ll fall to our doom.
From that perspective, look at what’s going on in the world. The powers-that-be ride roughshod over the people, forcing unpopular policies down their throats in service of an elite group of puppet-masters that sets the agenda behind the scenes. As a result, a great populist uprising is underway, most lately demonstrated by the farmer protests in Europe. The people — at least a large number of them — want change, and they want it NOW before the lives and world they knew are gone forever.
Yet, even as they grasp toward the invisible ring promising an end to the madness, other groups are reveling in the exercise of state powers to advance agendas they thought were ignored for too long, like cleaning up the mess to our environment made by modern technologies and lifestyles. As such, their attachment to advancing those agendas leads them to turn a blind eye to the totalitarian abuses and restriction on freedoms imposed to make a non-consenting public go along with their plans, whether they want to or not.
What we have is a classic three-dimensional conflict of polarities. One side wants one thing and is willing to do whatever it takes to get it. The other wants something else, and is nearing the tipping point where open warfare is their only option.
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s going on everywhere we turn. Sides have been picked and lines are drawn in the sand. And frankly, no one seems to care about finding a way to live together. Instead, most people seem more willing to fight than switch what they want or believe in, much less sacrifice it for the cause of peace.
People would rather fight than switch.
I used to stick my nose in the middle of fights to try to stop them. But like when I was a teen trying to stop a knife fight between drunk friends, putting myself in that position only caused both sides to turn on me. It seems like they WANT to fight, to cause the other serious injury or death. Worse, some even look like they LIKE it and want more of it.
If you’re one who wants to fight on one side or the other, good luck with that. Thankfully I’m still on the fence, though I lean heavily toward the side that honors free will. But like my source, I seek a will that will encompass all wills on our return to Oneness and try to resist the temptation to jump into the fray, notwithstanding how important I know the outcome will be for mankind.
Instead, I like to think (Am I deluding myself?) that a Divine Plan is at work directing it all, and that the fighting and breakdown of our systems and institutions are part of that process. If our society is to evolve into something better, we humans must individually and collectively be better — more loving, more caring, and more compassion for those to whom life is less fortunate. How that plays out remains to be seen.
The way I see it, we’re in the middle of a cosmic exam testing our readiness to evolve into higher expressions of consciousness, where individuals exercise their free will with responsibility and restraint, even while going their own way. But that way is one of contributing their creative energies to raise the collective consciousness that creates this reality, rather than immersing themselves in the negativity of will and desire that fuels our unending conflicts.
As such, there is little I can do to influence how things play out. Sure, I could fight for the “light” and call others to awaken and join in the cause. I could even train them to fight and deal with the myriad obstacles that will block their way. But realistically, that’s going to happen whether I stick my nose in their battles or not. They don’t need me to add more fuel to the fire than I already am.
The road less taken
Instead, spirit is nudging me to sit this one out. For the real battle of duality is not between those competing sides who see each other as “dark” while they fight for the “light” of what they want or believe (or give their support to the side that does). Rather, the main war is fought inside each of us as we have to find a way to reconcile both light and dark within us.
Deep into our shadows we must go, identifying all those beliefs and scars and biases and other inner conditions that block the light or distort how we see it all, and doing our best to “polish the mirror” so our filters and distortions don’t keep coming back to haunt us. This is the process I call cultivation, where we must purify ourselves so that the seeds we contributed to today’s problems are not carried into the future we want to create.
You may be undergoing such a test. It could happen in myriad ways. Its effects can be diverse, too. But if you fail to recognize and meet it properly, you may inadvertently set back your own journey to Oneness so you can stick around in 3D and fight a while longer. As we know, conflict is addicting and bad habits are hard to break.
But don’t think it’s only happening to you, or to those who are awakening (whatever that means to you). This is being repeated around the world. Sooner or later we’ll all have to face the music. Either we give up our combative ways, or succumb to them and continue on to humanity’s destruction.
Of course, I don’t expect either side to lay down their sword. They’re too entrenched in their positions and the hatred between them has grown to where it’s ready to explode. Only once they’ve suffered enough from their wars will they seek another way, a way of peace where people have a voice in their own futures, rather than being subjected to the whims of a powerful few.
Until then, there’s no sense in standing up for peace. At the moment, nobody wants it.
But they will. And when they do, remember that the battle was all for a purpose — to wake everyone up and give them the will to change themselves, and maybe in so doing to change their world as well.
Whether you do is totally up to you.
God bless you indeed.