“It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear. She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages. And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever. But there is no other way. The river cannot go back. Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence. The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean” Fear by Kahlil Gibran.
A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and quotes as needed.
“Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness” Amit Ray
I was 8 years old when the Covid 19 global lockdowns occurred. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that period of isolation with only immediate family around me was hard on my young psyche, as it was for nearly all children at that time. When the transition started to occur in 2030 I was a young 18 year old woman ready to change the world, driven by an hidden anger. Although at the time I didn’t realize it, It was a righteous anger that demanded justice from all that the Cabal had been doing. Anger from whatever source and perceived unfairness comes from a lower consciousness and is detrimental to one’s physical and spiritual health if not rechanneled into a more positive frame of action. It’s OK to be angry but it must be healed from a place of compassion, not aggression.
This anger creates a dark shadow within the psyche that harms only ourselves. Fortunately, I had a wonderful family whose higher conscious spirituality helped me navigate that healing I needed. It was because of this experience with my own anger that made me the compassionate and effective sustainabilitist community developer and educator for which I gained international renown. My family ask me why I am busy writing these journals around my 100 birthday. I tell them that I need to record my experiences should we ever find ourselves – unlikely as it may seem now – from inadvertently sliding back into the destructive and uncaring ways of many people in the pre-Great Change era. Part of my current journaling impetus came from comments I recently heard from some young children that emphasized how little they understood how life had once been before the GC.
While I was brought up in a spiritual household, I still harbored the problems that were inherent in nearly everyone before the GC. We judged ourselves severely by the opinions of others. The social media didn’t help much but merely intensified this need to be popular and seek approval. It was only when I faced the question, ‘Why do we have such a fear of rejection or of offending people that we dare not to be ourselves?’ A popular meme of the time was, “Why do you ask for approval from anyone you would never go to for advice?” Seeking approval from others is being anti-authentic. Its nice to be recognized but more importantly, to be true to yourself.
“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority only read the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content” Emile Zola.
We used to live with masks of what we believed people expected of us – our self-reflection chained us to a harmful way of living. We little realized that we were not ‘in it all together’ but rather that we were really alone, rarely sharing anything. People in the developed countries were so self-absorbed with their images. While many had sympathy for what was happening in the world, true empathy was a rarity. “All we are doing is toying with our manageable, unreal, man-made reflection” Carlos Castaneda. What happened around 2030 was reconnecting in so many ways to find our authenticities, which in turn led to us finding fulfilment and a redefinition of what it meant to be successful in life. “True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose” Richard Jurin. You can have major achievements, but you won’t be fulfilled if not authentic to yourself (see PERSONAL SOVEREIGNTY 3 – {November 2018})
The solution was that each individual, being spiritually centered in themselves and grounded in a compassionate and loving frame of mind. It acts contagiously to bring people to an awakened state of calmness. Before the GC, people contagiously, through unconscious fear, created the chaotic conditions that occurred. Everyone, has to be consciously aware of their own state of mind and then how that state of mind affects everyone around them. We were the solution but we had to each look internally and stop focusing externally for salvation. We started to Live in a State of Flow (see Theory of Flow parts 1 and 2 {August 2019}) and the world stated to change. We found happiness all the time and not just when we thought we were escaping to have ‘fun.’
A psychologist of the time, Robert Ornstein, talked about how reconnecting was a primary aspect of higher consciousness, “What is needed, now, is a new view, to reassess and reform the concept of the universal. It is the experience of going beyond the norm to achieve insight as to how life events are connected on a “higher” level. We now have an idea of how the process happens in the brain and, importantly, how to develop this innate potential in today’s world. This knowledge could be the first small step toward finding the common ground for us to stand on to work toward a new spiritual literacy.” It is working past fear of any kind by having faith in connection. “Clouds don’t fear falling into the sea because they can’t fall or drown. But they are free to believe they can, and they may fear if they wish” Richard Bach.
When I was 18, I recall a young man my age travelling around the world. Despite the mass media telling us all what a dangerous place the world had become he wrote a book about how he found it was the opposite. His story was not unusual. His first observation was that we are much more alike than different. Of course, we had different cultures, but the vast majority of people, everywhere are, at heart, kind! Strangers showed generosity – especially in less wealthy places. “I still have a comment I wrote down where he said that more often than not, we don’t talk to the strangers we pass on the street. But the truth is, we are one quick sentence away from a connection with almost anyone. While we didn’t typically talk to strangers, he said that anyone he would approach with a simple question, “Hey, can I ask you a question?” over 99% of people said, “Sure, go ahead.”
I found the same thing when I travelled to teach community building. People naturally want to share their stories, and be listened to without judgment – it helped them feel more reconnected and less alone. Before the GC, we may have separated ourselves along the lines of politics and identity, and felt derisiveness because of social media of that time, but we all shared similar human experiences with the same human emotions. Life is all about human connection. We learned to prioritize relationships over working too much. Ask anyone who is faced with premature death such as from terminal illness. It’s the only thing we can guarantee. Live value comes with trying to make the most of one’s existence. This involves spending time with the people we love most and making a positive impact on everyone around us.
“By training our mind to learn to observe, we start moving into a higher level of consciousness and remember who we truly are – deep at the level of our Soul” Heidi M. Morrison
TBC …………..
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