Robert Brumet, a Unity minister believes that we are in "The VOID". He defines the VOID as being in between the old and the as yet-to-be-determined new. This VOID makes us feel very uncomfortable and off balance, but we are in limbo? He thinks not -- the VOID could be compared to winter -- a "dead" time of year -- we think, but is that true. What we may not realize is during the winter season there is much going on underground. Plants and bulbs are getting ready to burst forth in the spring by storing nutrients and growing and spreading their roots during this seemingly "dead" season. When the conditions are right new blooms in all of their vibrancy will grace the landscape again. Brumet believes the same to be true for all of us -- when the conditions are right the VOID will end and something new will spring forth.
Similarly Deepak Chopra also believes that chaos and instability equal an opportunity for a collective change -- when we collectively reach rock bottom, we will change, because the current situation is not sustainable. Have we sunk to our collective rock bottom? I certainly don't know. What I do know and do believe is that change begins within each and everyone of us. As Chopra further states, "Be the shift inside of you, then you can communicate the shift to others...soon others are resonating on the same frequency and the energy spreads."
Christopher Renza, a health writer suggests that "at the most fundamental level of being human there is a primal energy exchange that happens between us whether we are conscious of it or not." He also asserts that "quantum physics has theoretically proven that everything is in a constant state of energy exchange." It is that energy that connects all of us together and brings us into relationship with one another.
Chopra suggests that we "look at the chaos in the world through the lens of what is the opportunity here for us". He further instructs us to to ask ourselves: "What are my unique skills at this moment? What do I really care about? Who are the people I can connect with and ask for help? Who are the people I can help with? How can I nurture the right relationships and are they examples of the people who have made a differences in this kind of situation?"
Our collective consciousness can and will change. That change is well under way -- the Occupy Wall Street movement, the Tea Party faithful, broadcasters and writers voicing their concerns, disgruntled workers and disenfranchised students are all speaking out. While they may have different points of view, they are putting energy out. This growing energy has not all come together yet. If we are in the VOID as Brumet claims, we all are growing in awareness, nearly unnoticed, just like plants in winter. We are being creative, sharing ideas and thus forming an energy that is working toward that moment, when the time is just right -- when our collective consciousness changes -- and a new beginning bursts forth.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Vol.2.1 -- How Did We Get Here?
Have you ever noticed how often you say to yourself, "How did I get here"? It's like you wake up one morning and wonder how did whatever (credit card debt, personal relationship problems, etc.) get so messed up. The truth is it was happening all the time. But it was unfolding step by little tiny step, so maybe you did not really notice it -- just a niggling feeling in the back of your head. So you just ignored it and lived in denial until THAT morning (like we all do). But as always happens, unless we deal with these whatevers they have a way of reaching critical mass down the road. And THAT morning was your day of reckoning and at that moment you became conscious -- and the pain and anxiety started, because you knew you must do something.
How did we get here as a society? The seeds for these changes were sown over the past several decades. Little by little our sense of shared societal beliefs and moral attitudes changed. And just like in our personal lives when we did not deal with a problem when it was small, it only continued to grow and become bigger.
Is it time to recognize how we have allowed the media backed by large corporations with their mass marketing and television programs to define what is acceptable in our society. We began to believe that we needed more "stuff" (consumer goods) to make us happy. And we bought it -- bigger houses, nicer cars, a myriad of things -- women went to work in droves in order to be able to afford this level of conspicuous consumption. And via the movie Wall Street with its Gordon Gecko in 1987, we learned that "greed was good".
Television, corporations and politicians continued to shape our beliefs. In 2001 the Survivor series started and through it we learned how to form alliances; we also learned that by being conniving and treacherous one could be rewarded. It was acceptable to pretend to befriend someone and then stab them in the back -- all for personal gain. It was about the individual and not the collective whole. Many supposedly "reality" shows have followed. In fact the media has dominated our every thought and shaped what we believe across the board -- what we buy, the way we look, what we watch on TV, which politicians to vote for and what is right and wrong.
The worst part of all of this is that we are all accomplices. By watching these shows, accepting explicit lyrics in our music, and by thinking that we are not good enough unless we get more "stuff", we are all guilty. Big money is supporting all of this -- and we are supporting them. If we did not watch all of these shows, did not buy numerous products, or buy the lies that are told to us, this could not be happening. We are our own worst enemies!!! While we have been lulled into submission by mindless entertainment, our corporations, leaders, politicians and wall street have been living by that motto that greed is good and it has been for them. We have been robbed of our jobs, our homes, our savings, our children's futures and even our culture.
Is it any wonder that this country is in a crisis and so are our governmental institutions, our corporations and even our families. We have been distracted by the the wrong things -- the greed instead of the good, the ME instead of the WE -- we thought we could fill ourselves up with stuff instead of what is inside us. How wrong we were -- but we have an opportunity now for a collective change. Let's seize THIS moment!
Stay tuned....
How did we get here as a society? The seeds for these changes were sown over the past several decades. Little by little our sense of shared societal beliefs and moral attitudes changed. And just like in our personal lives when we did not deal with a problem when it was small, it only continued to grow and become bigger.
Is it time to recognize how we have allowed the media backed by large corporations with their mass marketing and television programs to define what is acceptable in our society. We began to believe that we needed more "stuff" (consumer goods) to make us happy. And we bought it -- bigger houses, nicer cars, a myriad of things -- women went to work in droves in order to be able to afford this level of conspicuous consumption. And via the movie Wall Street with its Gordon Gecko in 1987, we learned that "greed was good".
Television, corporations and politicians continued to shape our beliefs. In 2001 the Survivor series started and through it we learned how to form alliances; we also learned that by being conniving and treacherous one could be rewarded. It was acceptable to pretend to befriend someone and then stab them in the back -- all for personal gain. It was about the individual and not the collective whole. Many supposedly "reality" shows have followed. In fact the media has dominated our every thought and shaped what we believe across the board -- what we buy, the way we look, what we watch on TV, which politicians to vote for and what is right and wrong.
The worst part of all of this is that we are all accomplices. By watching these shows, accepting explicit lyrics in our music, and by thinking that we are not good enough unless we get more "stuff", we are all guilty. Big money is supporting all of this -- and we are supporting them. If we did not watch all of these shows, did not buy numerous products, or buy the lies that are told to us, this could not be happening. We are our own worst enemies!!! While we have been lulled into submission by mindless entertainment, our corporations, leaders, politicians and wall street have been living by that motto that greed is good and it has been for them. We have been robbed of our jobs, our homes, our savings, our children's futures and even our culture.
Is it any wonder that this country is in a crisis and so are our governmental institutions, our corporations and even our families. We have been distracted by the the wrong things -- the greed instead of the good, the ME instead of the WE -- we thought we could fill ourselves up with stuff instead of what is inside us. How wrong we were -- but we have an opportunity now for a collective change. Let's seize THIS moment!
Stay tuned....
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