Not Everyone Is Going To Agree With This
Apr. 22nd, 2020 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI was always expecting something big to happen. When I was a kid the thing I was expecting was nuclear annihilation. It didn't happen. Not on this time line anyway...
Later I sort of expected things to change when we moved from one century to the next- and was disappointed when the 20th century just seemed to carry on- same obsessions, same music, same politics, same everything. Somewhere in this blog- which I started in 2004- are posts that ask, "So when is the 21st century going to start?"
I reckon now that it started about 12 years in. At the Precession of the Equinoxes- as the Mayan calendar said it would. This is terribly subjective, but that's when I began to feel the change.
New Age people- of whom I suppose I must be one- call it "Ascension"- a slightly confusing term because it means something different in the Christian tradition in which I grew up. In New Age speak we're talking about the raising of the consciousness of the whole human race- another step- a bigger one than usual- in our long journey back to the stars. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood: one led to nuclear annihilation and the other led to a better, smarter future. We made the choice, we can't go back.
Humankind entered its troubled adolescence. No-one said growing up would be easy.
(Trump? Yeah, we've got a troubled adolescent running things- and buggering everything up nicely. Things have to be properly buggered up before they can be made new.)
And now the epidemic- the first event that humankind has experienced as a whole- as a single planetary awareness- with everybody pretty much on the same side. We'll look back- and go, "That was when we first noticed the difference, when we began to realise..."
I think we come into incarnation as we choose, when we choose. And if we're here now it's because we wanted to be- and that this historic event- even if our brains (which lack the information available to our higher selves- are going, "No, no, no!")- is what we were born for.
Later I sort of expected things to change when we moved from one century to the next- and was disappointed when the 20th century just seemed to carry on- same obsessions, same music, same politics, same everything. Somewhere in this blog- which I started in 2004- are posts that ask, "So when is the 21st century going to start?"
I reckon now that it started about 12 years in. At the Precession of the Equinoxes- as the Mayan calendar said it would. This is terribly subjective, but that's when I began to feel the change.
New Age people- of whom I suppose I must be one- call it "Ascension"- a slightly confusing term because it means something different in the Christian tradition in which I grew up. In New Age speak we're talking about the raising of the consciousness of the whole human race- another step- a bigger one than usual- in our long journey back to the stars. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood: one led to nuclear annihilation and the other led to a better, smarter future. We made the choice, we can't go back.
Humankind entered its troubled adolescence. No-one said growing up would be easy.
(Trump? Yeah, we've got a troubled adolescent running things- and buggering everything up nicely. Things have to be properly buggered up before they can be made new.)
And now the epidemic- the first event that humankind has experienced as a whole- as a single planetary awareness- with everybody pretty much on the same side. We'll look back- and go, "That was when we first noticed the difference, when we began to realise..."
I think we come into incarnation as we choose, when we choose. And if we're here now it's because we wanted to be- and that this historic event- even if our brains (which lack the information available to our higher selves- are going, "No, no, no!")- is what we were born for.
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Date: 2020-04-22 06:02 pm (UTC)I don't know about the whole "Ascension" philosophy. I'd love to think humanity could reach a higher level of consciousness and that we would find a way to "fix" people like tRump and make them better people. I don't know that we'll ever be able to restore people to a state of decency when they are so far gone.
What I do believe is that this pandemic situation will make or break people depending on how they respond to it. Some people will be helpers, will care about their fellow humans, will do what they can to make things better instead of worse. Others will hoard toilet paper and ammunition and look for any excuse to rampage, whine, or take advantage of others to enrich themselves while degrading others they consider less than themselves.
I am choosing to try to "ascend" to my better self and make changes for the better. Yet, I know myself well. I will still have my own little rampages against the stupidity of people following their cult leader tRump, who is the embodiment of everything evil on the planet.
In a hundred years, no one will remember I was here or anything I did--whether it was good or evil. I just hope I will be leaving the world just a little better because I was here.
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Date: 2020-04-23 08:30 am (UTC)Ask yourself, has he promoted wars around the world?
Answer, No, he hasn't. For an American President he has been remarkably sparing in his use of violence- and for this the world has reason to be grateful.
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Date: 2020-04-23 05:05 pm (UTC)Hmmmmmm..........
In that case I got it wrong first up!
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Date: 2020-04-23 05:20 pm (UTC)We choose lives for all sorts of reasons. Difficult lives may offer more opportunity for growth and learning than blissfully easy ones.
And anyway, is there even such a thing as a blissfully easy life? Earth is recognised throughout the galaxy as a sort of planetary boot camp- and we get kudos simply for showing up.