I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe. I have been more vocal as of late, but have been doing live casts on Facebook in order to air my thoughts. Some lovely lady made the meme of something I said and thus the picture here at the top. The sad thing is that this is what people will see on my professional page when they click on the blog link. Still if they want fake love and light sentiments I am probably not the professional for them. When I love you, it's more than just a surface emotion.
So let us take stock. We are in the middle of history. Technically we always are, but only sometimes are we aware of it. I have found it hard to remain stable and centered in the past few weeks. The first week when I was laid off (temporarily...most likely) from one of my teaching jobs I was not able to do much of anything. I have rebounded a little, but some days I just drift through the day. Social media has been both a blessing and a curse in this time. It keeps me able to chat with many friends, but also I see the horrors again and again in the newsfeeds.
Hope is important, but I also feel like right now people are misusing it to try and not feel the grief of what we are going through. People are dying and more will die yet. The social fabric of our lives has been torn asunder. Here in the U.S. we have been given a hard lesson of just how vulnerable the majority of us are to disaster, and how little our representatives and leaders have our backs. The lie of the land is that we are a place of opportunity, I have seen three different responses one on the white lighter end of the spectrum and the other being on the conspiracy theory end of things. Then there are those who are in denial.
So on the white light side of things you have folks saying this is all part of the plan of ascension and transformation. We're going to be entering some kind of Golden Age where everyone stops being dicks, and loves one another. For a Golden Age it sure is starting off with a lot of greed and blood. Now I do think that this is a turning point in history, but I don't think the outcome is set in stone. Will we change our ways and how we organize our society to take care of our brothers and sisters? Will we begin to let the Earth heal? I hope so, but if we do it will take collective action not just prayer and affirmations. We have to be willing to face where we've allowed our own selfishness and apathy to contribute to the calamities of the world. We also have to be willing to change our own behavior and expectations. Everything is not going to be alright, some people are going to lose that which they love the most for whatever world emerges out of this. If we want to honor them and give that loss meaning, then we best be willing to act and hold people accountable. Like it says in the meme, "Love and Light are not condoms." They don't protect us from our own actions or inactions.
Now on the other side of this we have the doomsayers. The illuminati preachers, the 5G apocalypsers, and the anti-vaxxer syndicate. I will say this. Conspiracies aren't that intricate, all you have to do is follow the money. Really the culprits for this abominable response to a global crisis are not hard to spot. I don't need to name them, if you can't figure out who they are you're not smart enough to understand this post. I realize that was snarky, but my nerves are frayed. Snarky is what I have left in the tank these days. Posting these doom and gloom vast conspiracy plots online they seek to control the fear they feel by shoving it into a familiar compartment. Just like the white lighters they are not committed to dealing with what is in front of them.
So that leaves us the deniers. These folks always downplay things. The climate is not changing, and even if it is we're not to blame. Even if we are to blame, we can't do anything about it. If we could do something about it then the economy would be ruined. Oddly enough these old arguments have just been substituted for the virus. It's not that serious. Well it's not serious except for old people or sick people. It's just like the flu. It's better that some people die rather than ruining the economy. I don't know how to explain to people that they should care that their actions can inadvertently kill someone. Maybe not someone they know, but someone who matters to somebody. Maybe it comes from having a culture of disposability. We throw so much out right after we're done with it. I think that we've over the years started to see people the same way. When they serve no more use for us, we just dispose of them.
Why am I telling you this? Well I find that expressing myself seems to be my way of dealing with the fear that the current crisis evokes. I also want to impress upon you how much your actions in this time matter. The failings of our society are being exposed in high contrast. We will have a narrow window to act to change things for the better, but that change is not guaranteed without our continued efforts. It is easy to be sucked into the black holes of denial, fantasized spiritual optimism, or the web of conspiracies. It is much more difficult to stand centered in who we are, and choose who we want to be in this pivotal moment. Make no mistake this is a fulcrum of history, but even if we do change for the better it will still be a tragedy. It will be a tragedy because we could have decided to do better without having so many people die. We could have averted much of the coming suffering if we realized earlier that our own well being is intrinsically linked to everyone's well being.
How about you? Are you balancing between trying to maintain hope amidst crisis while acknowledging the fear and grief? Are you giving your power to false idols with pie in the sky philosophies? Are you sure that you and you alone know the true movers and players in this world wide game of Risk? Well slow down there slick, maybe you just need to sit with your feelings and have a good cry in the shower. When you're done call one of your friends and check up on them, because right now the one thing we can do (and absolutely should do) is be kind. If nothing else let us learn that our actions towards others have consequences, and that we should weigh those carefully. Welcome to the new world, please treat it and each other well.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
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