“When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it’s the collective consciousness and the collective energy of the group from which power comes.” - Bruce Lipton
I’m going to spend a few moments naming how challenging the psychology of our situation is. Not to be negative but because a vital step in change is to name the problem. It remains true that our crisis is a birth, that a higher intelligence and spirit is in charge, and that we can work together with that.
But right now we have big challenge.
Near the beginning of Covid I heard psychologist Franz Ruppert speak of Covid as stimulating trauma and recognized that that was my experience as well. It fit in with what I knew of trauma from my personal history and training. (I work with trauma in family constellations.)
I continue to see trauma at work in the way our societies have responded to Covid and are setting up for the future. Rifts and distance have appeared in community and organizations that we’ve felt relatively safe in our whole lives. We are touched by the debilitating isolation Lipton refers to. Individual’s early security worries and concerns are exposed.
Even the most strong and resilient feel challenge looking to the future which could include a Great Reset in which we'll own nothing (and be happy :)), a Central Bank Digital Currency with permission-based access based on compliance to social controls, vaccine passports, new viruses and war.
Anxiety and concern are understandable. I feel it as well. I think everyone feels the pressure because it’s there in the system.
But that’s not all there is. There’s a world of stuff we can do and that’s what this blog will be exploring but not all at once. Most have to do with active “showing up” and challenging in ourselves, and with others in groups, the sense that we can do nothing.
There’s a great deal we can do and if you’re interested in this I hope you’ll be reading and contributing because, as Lipton group energy carries what we need.
But one more thing. One little big thing.
I’m coming to see that there’s a deep personal gift hiding in the depths of this time. Covid and the "Great Reset” are functioning as “Dark Awakeners,” bringing us a to a confrontation with what is most close and private and precious to us. This whole situation exposes our own issue as never before and brings it close, makes it potentially available. The difficulty is that our own part is hidden beneath a lot of denial. It’s scary to look at because it’s something we’ve been insulated from. I know I’ve been avoiding it, but I can feel it down there nonetheless and I declare it’s there. Awakening to our own work will change everything for us.
Andrew
Andrew and others reading this; here is another perspective.
We are a meaning making species. Life and our life is what we say it is. Mostly what we say (what we think), if we're honest with ourselves, bears little resemblance to 'what is'. However, what we think it is, is what it is for us, and mostly that bears little relationship to 'what is'.
Warmly ... John
I’m seeing comparisons with the Dark Night of the Soul (in its contemporary sense). In its original sense it was a penultimate step in what John of the Cross saw as purification of the spirit, when there is no doubting God's presence but no clear idea what to do upon coming to that awareness. In its more recent, more secular sense, it is a period of exceedingly difficult spiritual turmoil, which may persist for years or for most of the remainder of one's life, but from the darkness of which there is also the glimmer of hope that all is not meaningless after all.