One of my guides referred to the times we are living in now as the crucible. Basically we are being put in a container where the fire is being turned up to burn out the inconsistencies. The burn off stage is one of the steps in the great work of alchemy. Currently we are all being challenged to clarify ourselves in our thoughts and deeds. We are seeing this on the societal level too.
Speaking of society, notice anything lately? Everything is heightened. I am not saying things are worse at the moment just that the contrasts are being sharply highlighted. Many of the illusions we've clung to are being ripped away to reveal what lies beneath. There is a widespread belief that if we have all the necessities of life while others do not that this comes from some sort of inherent trait or goodness on our part. It allows us to write off people who aren't getting their needs met, putting it all on their personal choices. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is that our health and well being is interconnected. We are as healthy as the least well off person we come into contact with. So maybe healthcare should be a right and not a privilege, just saying.
In the midst of the health and economic crisis we are also being forced to look at the inherent racism and inequality in our systems. Let me be clear, racism affects everyone, but some bear the brunt of the burden. Still it holds our whole society down. We have spent so much energy and resources to keep people down that we don't have enough to support our citizens. How many masks can a single canister of tear gas buy? Perhaps the brilliant mind who could have found a treatment or a quicker route to a vaccine is in prison just because he was born black in America, and 'fit the description of a suspect'. We have for hundreds of years now had one of our hands tied up trying to push people down. Where would we be now if we had just let people get up, or even lent a hand to help? I don't know, and the fact that I have trouble even picturing it is part of the problem.
Why am I telling you this? Why am I focusing so much on world events? Well we are not born in a vacuum. Our culture shapes and molds us. Events in the world affect us. We in Eurocentric cultures have been raised on the myth of the individual. It's all about individual success and rights. The problem is that we are not an individualist species. There are species that are like that. They get together during mating season and then go their separate ways. The females raise the young and then they kick them loose. Some of the great cat species are like that. They are fine on their own. They can take care of themselves. They are strong individuals, but they also aren't building any world spanning civilizations. Those are not built by individuals, but by collective effort. Every road we drive on, every piece of food we eat, and every article of clothing we wear is made possible by incredible collaborations. For those die hard individualists I find it the height of hypocrisy that they claim they got there all by themselves.
In my last livestream on Youtube I talked about what we owe. In this time of great upheaval and change we need to ask questions. What do we owe to each other? What do we owe to society? We also need to ask what do we owe to ourselves? Most of us are in servitude to a system that doesn't care if we live or die. It cares about maintaining power. We should ask whether the economy should serve the people or if the people exist to serve the economy. All lives are precious, but until Black Lives Matter, no lives will matter.
Peace and Blessings,
Thomas Mooneagle
P.S. Here is a link to some organizations that you can donate to that are working for change. https://mix247edm.com/blm-and-blm-lgbtq-charities-you-can-donate-to/
