Calling All Creators

 
"What do you do when an animal is mortally wounded? Do you run up to it and get real close so it can kick you and injure you? You’ve seen what a dying animal does, flailing about: it’ll kill anything close to it. Stand back and let it die. And when it’s dead, go in and get that tail.” Milton, Toronto Mystic, on the absurdity of protesting the G20


            While listening to Max Igan’s latest profound commentary, I was struck during his discussion of the ins and outs of corporatism and its inevitable journey to fascism that there is hardly an example in all of human consciousness of what an actual HARMONIOUS society looks like.  And it’s not like they haven’t existed.  I think foremost of my great Uncle, Ernest Thompson Seaton’s book The Gospel of the Redman  whose account of the worldview and social culture of indigenous peoples in North America before they were thoroughly engulfed by colonial civilization describes a utopian society where a homeless citizen is viewed as a terrible sin that weighs down on all members of society who quickly seek the individual out, clothe them and nurse them back to strength in their living so they can reclaim an empowered role in society.  And utopian is not being sensational but is, in fact, borrowing the term expressed by many colonists, soldiers and priests alike, who were dumbstruck at how few social ills that were commonplace back home in Europe, such as corruption, poverty and war, were present amongst the ‘savages’.  But even though such books are out there, during our most FORMATIVE years of education when the worldviews are constructed that sustain us for most of our lives (unless we rebel at some point), we are force-fed a boring, extremely narrow and most certainly prejudiced perspective on the way things are.  Some of even more dramatic inclinations would say that our modern educational institutions represent the true terrorism in this world! (“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school” Albert Einstein). 

            Truly, the state of our educational systems is poisoning the evolution of not only individuals but human culture in general.  To think that our youth are still reading science books based on outdated scientific paradigms such as Newtonian Physics, are still being taught Mathematics as a secular subject (when the origin of Math is wholly mystical and spiritual—-just check out the life of Pythagoras to see it was more than just about triangles! Better yet, watch the movie Pi!), are still being taught sexual education from a fear-based foundation of the threats of STDs and HIV rather than explaining that sexual techniques nourish intimacy, are still being taught HIS-story instead of HER-story and phew! – the list goes on and on, folks. You get the picture…But it’s far from hopeless: the Internet, when used with the right intent, represents possibly the greatest antagonist of ignorance WE HAVE EVER SEEN.

            This is important NOW because in case you missed it our whole sense of the world just took a massive kick to the face this past weekend and it’s due time.  We’ve been living in a dreamland, folks, of entitlement, SUPERfluous conveniences and complicit complacency for a LOOOOONG time, and it’s TIME we woke up.  In some ways, we owe the now-unmasked fascist police force a huge thank you for giving us unparalleled motivation to change the world. That’s right ‘peace officers’: THANK YOU! It’s weird, isn’t it, how the truth works like that sometimes? Oh, paradoxes (‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ Will Shakespeare).

            As I said before, I was struck during Max’s commentary that there are precious little thought-forms out there of harmonious societies for us to reference, to be inspired by and guide us.  This is unsettling and of great detriment I feel.  Again, knowledge of those societies is out there but it’s often suppressed in an INSTANT by hoodlums of history writing or bombed into anonymity the moment the phrase WE ARE A DEMOCRACY is uttered (heck, or even thought!). We in the West are lucky in the sense that we have more freedom to roam than other nations that are frankly in pitiful states of brokenness and tyranny and we must realize and seize that freedom, remembering the struggle it come out of. 

            So we can do the research and find the stories of those sublime societies and string them together in the tale of humanity’s forgotten or deliberately hidden past OR we can dip into our souls/true nature that is ALWAYS plugged into truth and vision what kind of a world we would like to live in.  Then, we are beginning to create thought-forms or ideals, which are powerful in themselves because everything that manifests in the material world must first begin as an idea before stepping down the steps into physical fruition.  We all need to do this and do it muchly.  We need to continually engage our creativity, setting our imaginations wild to vision the world we want to live in and then share those ideas with others, finding common grounds, nurturing that ground and planting more seeds in those grounds, where fertility will be even more so, mineralized by the meetings of our minds.  We need to start unplugging ourselves from all the little distractions that the modern world attempts to throw at us to wrest away from alignment with our true nature (that means you, World Cup!).  And we need to realize this is spiritual work and that that’s the highest work we can do.  We are on a mission, folks, from the moment those two halves of Mama and Papa made a whole, and it’s to push things forward, change the world and cultivate that change evermore!

            Don’t be so doomy and gloomy these days, brothers and sisters. Lick your wounds. It’s not like this kind of bullshit hasn’t gone down before and in MUCH WORSE fashion.  Just ask any of your elders, especially if they’re not Caucasian!  What just happened is only the beginning but we have the most advanced technology in the universe at our disposal to create new outcomes: CHOICE. Consciously make choices and assume your divine role of creator of this world, of this universe.  Don’t be hoodwinked by all the fear and emotions flinging around like drugs these days.  That’s what all the forces that are against change want: us to be so caught up in drama that we try and fight what’s already dead.  We should be much more interested in aligning and creating what is just now being born.  The empire is falling.  What are you doing standing before it and yelling at it to die?  It IS dying.  Get out of the way so you don’t get squished.  As a spiritual teacher recently told me with a knowing grin, “G20, is that like a vitamin supplement or something?”, we should also be so fleeting with the attention we give the monoliths of sociopaths.  What are you waiting for?  We’ve got a world to change!!! Start dreaming, start visioning, start sharing (and caring-BIG LOVE!) and start creating. What else were you born to do? And NEVER forget:


Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

 

In La’kech

Darren
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Chris Savidge
07/01/2010 11:21

Hari Om, Darren. A beautiful manifesto to real change and evolution.

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