Many of the material structures around us have now
become a transparent fiction: our financial systems, our job securities,
pensions, educational systems, etc. It is becoming increasingly difficult to
believe that these structures will continue to provide for our needs. As our
rafts search for land, our paddles are being taken away from us. So when we
eventually find fertile land it will be from our own efforts – and the
cultivation that much more rewarding. As personal circumstances become more
affected by the changes occurring in the world it will become necessary that
people ‘wake-up’ to new responsibilities and decisions. After all, the upcoming
years will be different from what has gone before. This is inevitable even on a
physical level, as structures once seen as strong begin to lose their source of
strength (literally, their ‘fuel’). And as these physical changes begin to
impact and encroach upon each person’s well-being, new voices will be rising
and asking for assistance, both tangible and invisible. There is always help
for humanity; assistance is available to those who ask with genuine need. Only we
need to remember that help often does not appear in the way that most people
expect it. However, it is definitely present and available – only don’t expect
a rescue!
It is not my premise to debate the
dominant western thought-paradigms of Darwinian survivalist evolution and
religious Creationism. What I do suggest, however, is that there is
an evolutionary ‘design’ which allows for the creative development of living systems as well as planetary, solar,
and galactic systems: the micro and the macro. And humanity is very much a part
of this wider developmental design, whether consciously or unconsciously. Yet
as the changes in social and cultural systems increasingly manifest it is hoped
that more people will awaken to the understanding and conscience of their
responsible participation. It is with conscious minds that creative action can
have a more powerful effect. Especially amid disruptive circumstances it will
be paramount that individuals respond with balanced minds and thoughtful
actions. This is no time for super-heroes or martyrs: it will be a time to act
within the human capacity; away from gratifications of recognition and
attention. Diligent work with oneself, with others, and within the community is
the action that guarantees a response.
There is no avoiding the fact that negative
influences operate within our world, and have done so for a very long time.
Such forces resist change; they resist anything that is a threat to their
power. It may seem that during the times of transition the negative influences
are at their peak. Hunbatz Men, teacher of Mayan science and
spirituality, acknowledges these negative forces and contends that it is time
to raise the frequency of the global mind: 'Now the world has a dark
civilization, a dark culture. We need to re-establish a high culture...by
raising the frequency of brain waves...the frequency of the modern mind is
going to change in a positive way'.[i]
Hunbatz Men claims that the Mayans have known for a very long time of the big sweeping
changes that are to come. These changes, he says, are part of cyclic patterns
that help to renew and re-vitalize Earth and her living systems.
The upcoming changes, to some degree, are unstoppable
yet they function to ‘sweep the house clean’ rather than to reinforce the
negative presence. This is important to remember so that we do not mistakenly
feel over-powered by the disruptions coming with the change. Such disturbances,
however distasteful, are necessary: just as the odour of bleach is distasteful
and dangerous yet its function is to clean and purify. As the world struggles
to accommodate more and different energies, there will be many ripples
spreading out and into the homes of many. And whilst meditation is important as
a means of practising inner balance and focused intentions, there will also be
a need for disciplined action. Just as there is a discipline
that holds the energies of the universe in their creative pattern, so too must
human activities be focused with disciplined energy. Part of this can be
fulfilled by shifting our ‘patterns’ away from a self-centered material
consumerist agenda to a more Earth-centered set of values. As Doris Lessing
wrote in her Canopus in Argos
Our behaviour and actions within our communities will be better served
if we can realize that the Earth is a bio-spiritual planet. Further, that the
cosmos of which Earth is a part is also the context and environment for our
enduring reality:
The archetypal journey of
the universe can now be experienced as the journey of each individual, since
the entire universe has been involved in shaping our individual psychic as well
as our physical being from that first awesome moment when the universe emerged.[ii]
[i] Mcfadden, S. (1991) Profiles in Wisdom: Native
Elders Speak About the Earth, Santa Fe, NM, Bear & Company.
[ii] Berry New York
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