Thursday, March 3, 2016

The Brilliance of Political Chaos

Last night, as with many nights of late, I dreamt politics.  My dreams have been filled with a passionate desire to understand… part of me desires to know, what’s going on?! Last night, after a very long day of travelling… the dreamtime gave me some brilliant answers.

Stepping back from my perspective… looking at the big, big picture… feeling beneath the surface of the political chaos… what we see… is not the whole of it… The chaos… the struggle… the incredible pace at which things are moving… is Consciousness… the flow of the One and Only… commandeering change… Can you feel it?  Politics is the stage on which we get to see all our beliefs displayed… all the starring archetypal forces of old… none of which we may have been aware… This particular election… may be more about what’s to come… than the immediacy of who’s elected president… because the transformation being called forth… will continue to morph, grow and intensify… well beyond November 2016…

Things are changing… and the “traditional”… the “establishment”… the old power structures… are like dams, stressed by the increasingly rising force of flooding waters… The pressure isn’t going to go away… It’s not going to be quelled… It’s only going to grow… and it’s meant to…

My dream last night… had me looking at Donald Trump very differently… Beneath the surface… his character plays the part of the catalyst… a catalyst that can’t be ignored… What he says motivates people… one way or the other… He also shows us what it can be like to be empowered… free… unafraid… owned by no one… He refuses to be “heeled” by the media… a political party… the establishment… He is the catalyst that gets people moving… He’s the hurricane… the wild card… and he’s a force that cannot be denied… Look at what’s happening to the Republican party... openly trying to figure out how to stop him… Good luck… Change… Change… Change… Consciousness moves in mysterious ways… doesn’t it?…

On the other end… we have a similar character in Bernie Sanders… Where Trump is the “hare”… Bernie Sanders is the “tortoise”… Bernie isn’t owned by the media… a political party… or the establishment, either… Though the Democratic party has attempted to barricade the barn doors... the rotting wood is about to give… or those doors may be blown off… Where Trump is the hurricane… blowing up structures… catalyzing people to move, NOW… Bernie represents a slow burn… a growing movement over time… the people reclaiming their empowerment…. His character represents that which will endure… long after each of us is gone… Trump is the “I”… Bernie the “We”… and both are necessary… when it comes to change…

Let’s not forget those we deem to represent the “establishment”… those who we may see as representing the shadows… the outdated… the “way it’s always been”… They have a part too… Humanity changes through oscillation… We oscillate… back and forth… between the old… and the new… what has always been… and what is to be… That’s what we do… Everyone plays a part… We would do well not to judge ourselves…  

It’s also become clear to me… that I’ve had a belief regarding how change should happen… There’s a right way… and a wrong way… There are people who are wrong… and people who are right… I’m finding… that none of this is true… Consciousness moves how Consciousness moves… and none of us really knows how things get done… Our beliefs, many times, have no substantive value when it comes to the workings of Consciousness… most likely because they were never really accurate… Every character plays a part… We’re moved when we’re meant to be moved… And when it’s time to move… no one can stop us… not even ourselves… We may be appalled by how we’re moved… not understanding the sudden shift… the desire to speak… to use our voice… to march… to write… or whatever it may be… And what I’m learning is to pay attention… go with it… enjoy it… don’t judge it… It’s happening to all us… so carry on… however you're called... When we look beneath the surface… seeing the brilliance for perhaps the very first time… it becomes very clear… all is moving as it is meant to… 

With great respect and love,

Karrie

1 comment:

  1. Karrie
    As always, your careful reflection, openness to consciousness, and commitment to sharing your voice has given us this morning another profound gift!! I'm eternally grateful and at peace,
    Love
    Diana

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