What’s the quality of our connection with what’s happening in the world? Surprisingly, our connection may have more to do with what we end up thinking and believing is happening - and what we end up doing about it - than any amount of analysis.
This is not a new poem but it’s particularly poignant in this time of the Great Reset and ‘Central Bank Digital Currency. ” Those powerful mechanisms - like mighty horsemen - are riding all over the previous certainties of the world. The question is how are we to be with them and can we look back with firm eyes saying this is where I stand?
This is a wonderful question we seldom ask.
Usually we don't allow our sense of the Great Reset and its many parts to form fully in our minds. We read about it, cite the slogans, repeat the list of Bill Gates' sins. We may obsess about it as I see on online forums. But we don't see or feel ourselves to be in an conscious relationship with the future. We seldom go face-to-face with the Machine as I call it, or its minions, the Great Reset, Central Bank Digital Currency, sub-cutaneous microchips. We hardly know how to deal with the thing. It's so all-encompassing we become shy around it, mute.
While analysis is interesting, it’s not transformative. Taking multiple perspectives on what’s happening and feeling into them, is transformative, or can be.
Taking multiple perspectives opens up personal voice and choice. Here’s a sketch of this conscious approach to the Machine. I’ll explore it in more detail over the next few weeks.
Since the problem is that our experience is not clearly visible to us, the crucial first step is to step outside and look at it. Here’s a representation of that. I use colored mats to represent the elements and I can set them up however I like, exploring different perspectives. Here’s me on the right and the Machine on the left. To get a sense of the representations, I stand over them and sense what it’s like to be there in that relationship. I can stand over “me” and feel my relationship to the Machine.
What I see when I do that is a dead zone, an implacable foe. A darkness. A first sense is there’s no way to fight it. It's the Borg. (In this case I didn’t take the Machine’s perspective but I could have done that too. )
Although it’s just a representation and I can step away in a heartbeat, it's not easy to stand in front of the Machine. But it is information and it expresses some part of my inner reality.
I can also step away and look at me and the Machine from a third person perspective, that of an observer or witness, here represented by the turquoise mat.
From there I can consider what I’m seeing from the outside I can think of this observer through different personas too, a wise man, a young and savvy one, a king, an angel.
There’s flexibility here. You can step back from the Machine as far as you need to. You can withdraw to a distance where you can contemplate it without being overwhelmed. From there it’s easier to see what is needed.
You can check what else is part of the situation. What else belongs in this picture? A part of me is certain that there is more, even if I don’t know what it is at first.
I sense the presence of what I love. It's itself a Presence, a Presence that's present for everyone. I feel that too and can turn to it. I represent it in the field, here with a yellow mat.
I can stand over this yellow mat representing Presence or the higher power and feel it. I take a moment to do so. It's a sense of being seen and blessed. I can feel it in my body. It's more than an idea though it's that too. It takes on shape and color and flesh. I feel myself in connection to it. When I'm doing this the Machine isn't directly in my awareness; I’ve turned away from it. But now I can sense how I need to be if I’m to deal with the Machine. I sense the strength that I have that's untouched by the Machine and the gifts that are in it. I feel into what I know deep down.
Doing this I see again how I can move between different perspectives and see which one is truer. I have choice. I can feel into the gifts and contribution that I have to give and find out more. All of this can expand what’s available analysis alone.
I really like this Andrew. I love how you write, and what you write about. I feel the tension in myself between these stances and 'mats' and the relation between them, and that feels like fertile ground. There is some anxiety in it, which befuddles me a bit. A choice perhaps. The Machine seems so ubiquitous. I have this line from the Tao Te Ching in my thoughts, 'ignore (the Machine) and it ceases to exist' ... but maybe my anxiety is in the ubiquitous nature and activity of the Machine ... perhaps I fear looking away, or stepping away, for too long lest it surprise me somehow. And as you say, there is something in my inner condition that is reflective of the machine (years of trained dedication to fitting into and propping it up). And yet, I know that I must 'stand like a tree' in my own intention and experience, and look upon the scene as a whole, as you have guided by way of this piece you have written. Thanks for this! Still working me.