DECEMBER BLOG – DO NOT ABANDON YOUR SOUL
Dear reader,
We are coming to the end of 2021 and what a
year! We are in a pandemic time that has not been around globally for more than 100 years,
and we grew accustomed to the earning and spending culture. All this stopped now,
and we are faced with an assortment of viruses that are getting more vicious in
the many still unvaccinated and uneducated people who insist to have some human
“rights” and do not care about spreading this virus (that is constantly
mutating) to many others.
Let’s face it clearly, this is a BIOLOGICAL issue
not political and claiming rights not to vaccinate is not on. Stop blaming the “rich”
countries that they are reserving all resources to themselves and not share the wealth with
the “poor” countries. This division of ‘them and us’ does not fit in a global
crisis of today but only splits ideas as to what and whom to blame.
In addition, this chasm is created by several
conspiracy theories that feed on disinformation and spread more separation
between people of all cultures. First it was China sending a biological weapon
on the world and now it is Africa spreading the new Omicron virus. On the other
hand, the economy, the economy – we fear the decline of our goods that made the
rich richer.
Panic shopping
We are in a state of great pain that is global
in this critical time in the history of the world that requires major changes
both in Nature and in Culture. There is NO going back to normal as some political
leaders claim. There is no ‘normal’ as many people hope. Now we are living in
an era that clearly is telling us that we must create new bridges, tunnels, and
ways to re-connect with the human SOUL.
We are suffering major changes that are
COLLECTIVE and not individual, or single group or one country. We all must
realise that humanity is at a THRESHOLD and start to unite the Elders and the
Youth everywhere to begin to construct a new synthesis of how to live on this
planet or else we will be abandoning ourselves to increasing disasters in the
future. We cannot abandon the youth (they are already reacting with gun violence)
and dedicate time and effort to ensure a safe future for all.
Nihilist philosophy accepts the inevitability
of death but does not allow despair and abandonment of the coming generation.
We need to develop great compassion and give support facing the future and help
them generate new solutions and an increased capacity and wisdom to generate
the new vision of the possible.
We are in a place called the threshold that is
placed between what is possible and annihilation of Nature and therefore of
those who depend on it and that is all humanity. This new transformation will
come not from a social agreement or an ideology or some belief system telling
us that all good will come from some ‘higher power’ but from an inner awakening
of heart and soul. This is where all the solutions of life’s dilemmas come from
– OUR OWN SOUL. When a few people can turn their fears around to soulcraft,
then there will be a flow on to others. Clear understanding that most of us now
are living a life full of fear and panic, we turn this fear around and live a life
open and full of possibilities on a daily basis.
As my mentor states: “face your soul and
discover what are the things to risk your life for”! He also speaks wisely
about the wisdom of the Threshold that is there for all to share. Here is his
quote:
MICHAEL MEADE AND THE Wisdom
of the Threshold
As human cultures seem increasingly at odds
with the rhythms of nature and modern societies succumb to inner conflicts,
people of all ages can feel that there is no longer any purpose in life.
Although we all may be suffering a modern predicament, Michael Meade suggests
that we are also in an archetypal mythic condition.
Like characters in an ancient story, we are
collectively on a great threshold which can be simply seen as the edge where
everything falls apart or be viewed as a great threshold of awakening, where
ancient wisdom as well as new visions of life can arise. Meade uses a dramatic
scene in an old story to show how the turning point depends upon whether or not
we abandon our true selves.
As everything seems to teeter on the edge of
destruction or else on the verge of transformation, meaningful change does not
come from a social agreement, an ideology, or a belief system. Rather, it comes
from awakenings of the heart and soul in individual lives. As an old saying
reminds, if there is no change at the level of the individual soul, there can
be no change at the level of collective culture.
The sense of identity that we need to tolerate
the great tensions and pressures of contemporary life is not a “social
identity” or some kind of collective abstraction. What we are looking for, what
humans have always been seeking for, is the precise and unique identity that
was written on the walls of our souls before we were born. Seen that way, the
edge of our life becomes the place where we connect to missing parts of
ourselves and find the hidden “wisdom of the threshold.”
When that type of turning point happens in the
lives of enough people, everything can begin to turn around and we can find
ourselves on the way home, with home meaning the place where young people find
their genius and true dreams of life and older people have meaningful visions
that include renewed connections to the living world of nature as well as to
the nearby realm of spirit and great imagination.
This blog is the final one for 2021 and I
sincerely wish all readers to come around to meet their Soul that is eternal
and waiting for your attention. May the new year be a truly NEW and prosperous
for all. Here is a gift that you may give yourself: a book By Bill Plotkin SOULCRAFT (Amazon) and connect with the web
page: https://www.soulcraftanz.com/
