A WHALE OF A CHANGE IS TAKING PLACE

Changes In Awareness, in Consciousness

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Can you feel the world changing?

It is almost palpable to perceive - as this old planet turns creaking on its rusty old hinges - that an enormous change has arrived.

We as living beings are veterans of such massive changes.

This old planet - at times in the past wrapped in flames or frozen in ice - is a forcing house for the enormous changes wrought by evolution.

For nothing the universe has thrown at Planet Earth thus far could burn out or freeze out or destroy the powerful evolution of life.

We are the current incarnation of that life and are - in an unbroken line of succession from whenever that first spark of life lit the chain of evolutionary change - part of it.

Each of us is the phoenix fire of change and part of the inevitable process of this unfolding consciousness of life.

But now we experience something previously unimaginable.

Through our technological development we experience - for the first time - the instantaneous awareness that we are one interdependent, interconnected, force of life and consciousness.

It is an idea - an unstoppable idea - whose time has come.

It is almost impossible to put one’s finger on the exact moment when world shaking changes occur but if we’re paying attention they can be felt as they unfold.

Like many others here - I am convinced we are in the midst of such a change.

That I watched this seismic but gradual - almost imperceptible - shift happen in my lifetime is something I am certain of.

Despite all the attempts of our society to crush this change and to use it all to profit and support the system itself - there were all the while deep systemic sea changes at work - changes which could not be subsumed or stopped.

An idea had arrived whose time had come and as such could not be stopped.

This idea, struggling to be born through the madness of genocide and warfare, through the saccharine insufferable world of television, through the Hollywood weirdness of film, and through our music - managed and shaped by corporate greed - is now fully emerging into the light.

The idea - one so threatening to the system that they must try to stamp it out everywhere it surfaces.

They are working very hard currently to kill it off.

A WHALE OF AN IDEA

But the idea is like a mammoth whale in the depths of our consciousness and will not be banished.

This idea - so powerful and true - continues to rise up from the depths of the living consciousness of every individual across the world.

The idea - spread via the technology - that which has now linked the world into one massive instantaneous consciousness generator.

Feelings and awareness which heretofore were fragmented and divided became united by tech achievements into a singular force.

Feelings and awareness that have always been largely recognized through art - through literature, visual art, music, and film - are all widely shared now through technology.

The new spiritual consciousness and awareness of billions of humans arose in the crucible of shared arts - allowing feelings to be accurately understood and shared.

Since this happened over so many years and was so gradual it will take many years to unwrap and to describe but what it represents is nothing short of amazing and earth shattering.

I know you feel it and I know we have all felt it coming for a long time - perhaps even before we were born.

No big seismic shift like this happens quickly - it is too important, all to miraculous.

But now that we can watch it being born and be part of it - it is time to acknowledge and celebrate it.

NOT MAN APART

We as humans are no longer fragmented into warring nation states and tribes - unable to rise above the petty fuedalism among the warlords.

We are united at the planetary level - not only by our technology - but by our arts and human consciousness.

We operate with the awareness now to see things we could previously feel but could not quite fully understand or put into context.

And divided, conquered and domesticated by the feudal drama-queen antics of the war lords and their bureaucratic engineers - we could only glimpse the nature of what we were seeing.

But the important thing was that we did glimpse it and that we did process and feel the change.

Previously the territory of poets and artists it now is available to us all.

Like any birth it has been a painful and difficult process at times.

Humans know instinctively that nothing worth doing usually comes about easily.

And nothing priceless is ever born or achieved without having to confront enormous obstacles first.

In many ways we should probably thank the childish and not too smart antics of the warlords and bureaucratic enablers who have tried to crush this revolution.

Worthwhile adversaries are critical to any endeavor worth achieving.

It is no accident or coincidence that each of us is here at this juncture and we are all here to play a role in the unfolding of this miraculous event.

This is not limited to some “American” idea but to the dream of all humans for millions of years - that real freedom and human agency is possible.

In ways we have not even begun to learn yet - we are the universe made flesh.

We are electromagnetic beings - consciousness generators - and barely aware of our potential.

That creator - whomever and whatever we imagine he, she or it to be (pronouns again) - really knew what they were after when they set this great chain of being called life into motion.

We are all in this together in ways we never quite imagined.

For in the midst of every petty dream of world domination and control - rose the counterpoint to the need for domination and control - the dream of freedom and free agency.

Our free agency and freedom are not possible in the framework of domination and control - although in our vulnerable human nature we often select for the more organized structure of domination and control - out of fear of chaos.

But now we find - as our human nature is united as one by technology - that we are indeed one interdependent whole.

Connected - all of us - each of us - as individuals with unalienable rights conferred by the creator - and connected as one.

There is simply nowhere left to hide from this truth.

We exist as the predominant life force in this small planet - finally recognizing that we must work it all out together - in the instantaneous here and now.

The power of the poem The Answer, by Robinson Jeffers, is undeniably recognizable.

And the understanding that we have always been one thing - united in our pristine biological individuality - not a hive mind - but a life force of extraordinary beauty and of a stunning and remarkable individual nature

Not man or woman or child - no individual - ever - apart from that.

The more powerful and resilient idea whose time has now arrived.

“Love that, not man apart from that.”

The Answer

Then what is the answer?–Not to be deluded by dreams.
To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times before.
When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose the least ugly faction; these evils are essential.
To keep one’s own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted and not wish for evil; and not be duped
By dreams of universal justice or happiness. These dreams will not be fulfilled.
To know this, and know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand
Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history…for contemplation or in fact…
Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man’s pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.

Robinson Jeffers, The Answer

Feel the whale as it rises in the collective consciousness of this universe.

And remember the odds against the universe - or ourselves - to have existed at all are astronomically large

But here we find ourselves.

WE - YOU - WE ALL - ARE THE WORLD.