THE WAR WITHIN A WAR
Dear reader
We are coming to the final month of 2023, and I am
reflecting on the many things that happened over this year. Some are very good events,
and some were bad events but all events that we all experienced lead us to
learning and to become more to be resilient and find ways to become a
better human being. Please reflect: What is your gift to the global human needs?
The wars in Gaza and Ukraine are only a small example of
other evil events and deadly wars conducted by psychopathic leaders that are
torturing and killing people of all ages just to remain in power and fill up
their greed.
My own example here
is Putin, as a psychopath who does not stop to not only bombarding Ukraine but
also forcing Russian young people to go to battle for no other reason than to fill
his needs to become the “ZAR” our of all Russia.
Michael Meade, my mentor, speaks of War within a War as he
describes Putin as the mythological God Cronus. He says that Putin is waging a
war also with the Russians that suffer from his lies and false propaganda. Therefore, the suffering of some people
requires the suffering of all people. We
all think of good intentions and to hope and believe that things may be better,
but we are at odds with the evil premiering every part of the world. We all
suffer like the Ukrainian people suffer as the bombs and killings that destroy
towns and many leave their country. It is hard to balance and avoid so much evil that can
exist yet, we hope for peace for all in the future, as our parents witnessed the
fall of the Nazi Germany.
Yet we know that many Ukrainians are standing up and fighting
for freedom and truth for all with a kind of nobility of spirit that can only
come from the human soul, the human soul that values truth meaning and beauty
and the fullness of a good life.
My reflection is based on Mead’s podcast where he speaks of Putin
and is reflecting on the fight for truth and beauty that is not only in Ukraine
that also these things are happening also in Russia, where people themselves
are protesting but are quickly imprisoned and then many are simply staying passive,
and Putin gets all day glory he wants.
This reminds me, as I am reflecting here of Cronos, the God of
the ancient Greeks that devoured his children so that they would not grow up
and take over his power.
Cronus
learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overcome by his own
children, just as he had overthrown his father. As a result, although he sired
the gods Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon by Rhea, he devoured them
all as soon as they were born to prevent the prophecy. When the sixth child,
Zeus, was born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to
eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his father and children.
(Wikipedia)
We must reflect on the CORE ideals of humanity that
come to light during the dark times. Do not despair and stay positive, not
passive, but stay in the struggle for truth and beauty. We are capable to
transform and grow more AWAKE.
HOPE is like a butterfly, it is very beautiful and at the same time very delicate. The podcast is a gift for the New Year and please listen to the podcast below.
Michael Meade
Click here to listed the podcast
This episode of Living Myth looks at both the need to transform and our resistance to change through the lens of the metamorphosis of butterflies. The fact that the Greek word psyche means butterfly implies how we are secretly connected to the essential dynamic of transformation in life. As if compelled by the primordial poetics of transformation, scientists named the cells that carry the potential for a true transformation of the caterpillar “imaginal cells.”
The capacity of the imaginal cells to develop into a butterfly and transform life completely is related to the inner capacity of the human soul to also transform repeatedly in the course of life. In the same sense that the imaginal cells hold all the information and energy for the butterfly to be, there is core imagination and deeper self trying to awaken in the soul of each person.
At the same time, something within us resists changing, even when the time for transforming our lives has come. In the mysterious way of the world, the metamorphosis of the butterfly also offers ways to understand why we resist the exact changes we most need in order to transform ourselves and help change the world. In simple biological terms, an exchange of one kind of cell for a different kind of cell changes a crawling caterpillar to a winged butterfly. In terms of understanding the essential dynamic of change in the world and at the core of the human soul, a great mystery is revealed that can be called the wisdom of the butterfly.
