11/03/2020
So often ideas come in the early hours of the morning, in the state between waking and sleeping, or when the mind is quiet in meditation - Einstein dozing in his chair and Archimedes in the bath. Many have come across the answers to their problems in these quiet moments. This morning I awoke to the words of a really annoying tune buzzing around in my head (Einstein gets E=MC squared in his moments of revelation and I get a Jimmy James and the Vagabonds song from 1976 that I haven’t heard for decades). However the words resonated. “Now is the time to set things right, now is the time to realise. We don’t need a revolution, we just need to open our eyes...”
We do need to open our eyes and get back to being at one with the world. Mankind has been fighting its way through centuries of angst and retaliation. Time to raise the mother energy and nurture our world and all its inhabitants - humans, animals and plants - and maybe then we will see some peace and have some acceptance that life does not have to be the chasing of monetary success, in the empty belief of a scarcity that has to be owned and stored.
Our fears in this type of limited world can be seen now in the toilet roll saga, of this recent episode of fear and panic, the endless worry of running out, or the Brennan’s bread fiasco of the big snow, that came and went without one missed slice of toast.
We need to step back and find the learning in all this chaos. We need to be outside of the panic and look at the reality.
And that reality is that there will always be death - the Syrian children now losing their lives in freezing camps, the starving victims with swollen stomachs in Yemen, the plastic poisoned fish in our seas, the animals slaughtered and packaged to feed us.
Death is part of life and there is nothing to be gained by being scared of this recent cloak of darkness, any more than there was being scared of nuclear war in the 60’s or any other crises that have come and gone. I grew up searching for communists under the bed, where I should have been equally as worried about the so called ‘democracies’ fighting them. Both committed terrible crimes in the desire to dominate the board game of Risk our world became. Neither stopped to look at the bigger picture, neither felt they could shake hands with their opposition and show love instead of fear. They called this opposition to their political enemy showing their strength but it was always really showing fear.
The solution to all these global problems has never been found in pressing any panic button or fighting back with equal anger and insecurity; but finding the way to rise above crises. And many have done that in the past - Gandhi, de Klerk, Mandela, Martin Luther King. And now we must see this time for what it is, a call to change - a resetting of the way we see our world, an opportunity for growth and renewal.
Teaching History, the one obvious aspect of the past is that every time we have a major tragedy there is also a major triumph that rises out of the chaos. It would be good if we could work now to find this higher order thought and solution.
We are forever playing out dramas in a duality of existence - the opposition of black and white, good and evil, negative and positive, male and female, life and death. Maybe it is time to bring these polarities into balance and see them for what they are - aspects of life experiencing its existence.
There is no us and them, life and death, separation or togetherness. All is one. It is only how we look or observe the world that creates its existence. This has been proven by scientists looking at subatomic particles. We are living in a quantum universe, holographic and expansive. Now is not the time to think small and fearful but to think big and creatively. We are not pawns in this but co-creators.
