Another post where I can’t start with the title or an image because I have no idea what I’m going to write, just that I am feeling called to write something. So, it’s eyes closed time again and typing.
The world is at a tipping point and cannot continue in the way that it is. The earth is suffering by our lack of care and love for it, because of this sense that we can do as we please to it and with it and it will have no repercussions. Man’s ability to invent is limitless and one of the strengths of humanity. Making life easier for people, or more likely stretching the boundaries of one’s imagination and bringing that into reality, is a marvellous thing. But it has been done with no regard for the implications to either humanity or the earth itself.
The question is whether mankind was meant to survive on earth into perpetuity. Maybe in giving humans an inquisitive mind, there was always going to be an end date. Because the way humanity is going, it will not be the end of the planet but it will be the end of the species. Maybe that was the plan all along maybe there was always the shelf-life. Removing one thing to make way for something else, similar to the dinosaurs. We can’t know the answer to that, so we must do what we can to put right the mistakes we have made.
One of the biggest mistakes we have made over the millennia is forget that we are part of a whole, not a separate component. And as with all things, the whole only works properly when it is complete. As does the separate element. How do we do that? How do we make that whole work properly? Function as it should? By recognising that we are part of a whole, not separate to it. We have spent so long seeing ourselves as something apart, as the apex predator (which we are) and so having dominion over all else on earth. It is this notion, this misguided belief, that has sown the seeds for man’s own destruction. It has taken a long time comparatively speaking but is just a blip in the life of the universe. We do have a choice, and we are at the precipice of that choice – if we continue as we are we have maybe a few hundred years left as a species, and an uncomfortable few hundred years at that. But if we turn towards love and connection, we have millennia of living on this planet as we are supposed to. In a form of nirvana.
What does that mean? It means like a heaven on earth, basically. An existence that isn’t devoid of strife but equally isn’t riven with it. An existence where we understand the true power of our minds and seek, within the collective conscious, to create the lives we want. To have mastery over out minds rather than the other way around. Of course there will be differences of opinion, that’s to be expected and to be encouraged. This isn’t a life full of automatons. We won’t always get along with people, we will still have values clashes with people but we will be able to respect those differences rather than spend time trying to get people to think the way we do. Basically, getting all stressed and angry trying to control other, and getting ourselves – the only thing we can control – stressed out in the process. Because we will live in a society that is basically founded on love, we will respect each other’s differences because those differences will largely be based on the fact that how others choose to live their lives (as long as we not talking about mass murderers and the like) is of no concern to us other than how it feeds into the collective conscious. Which, if everything and everyone is by-and-large positive, it will be a completely beneficial impact.
Society can be governed something along the lines of the Essenes – who believed that everyone was equal and so there was no outright leader because they understood that that model led to greed and corruption. Instead, their governance was made up of a Council of Elders, those who it was deemed were more enlightened in a variety of different ways, principally those who had accumulated knowledge in all its forms and had an ability to wield it. And because their power, such as it was, was limited, no one sought to take it from them. It was a society not without crime, but a society based on the principles of love, respect and education or at the very least, knowledge. Everyone being equal, each knew they had a role to play in society and they did so being equally respected. They established a society based on the premise that we are all one, that we are all connected and that no one is better than another. In no way do we treat ourselves as such currently. We are riven with increasingly vicious arguing over who is ‘right’ in a political situation and a religious one with the real answer being – no one is right in either scenario. It’s an opinion, and while everyone’s right to an opinion should be sacrosanct they should equally recognise that it is an opinion. Not a fact. The Essenes lived by a set of rules based on the Ten Commandments, certainly in different times to today but surely we could come up with a set of fundamental rules to live by that everyone can agree to. I mean, thou shalt not murder doesn’t sound too shabby to me.
We can extend this thought into the Hermetic Principles. These show that we have forgotten that we are energy, the whole universe is energy that vibrates continuously, creating a rhythm and making waves. Waves that can either be at extremes – very high and very low – or which can be smoothed out by focusing on the mid-point. That in the polarity we create through, say, politics might be opposites (the very high and very low waves) but actually, they are the same because polarity is the extension of a continuum. We create the polarity in politics, the extremes, when actually they come from the same place. The same vibration. We are the problem by moving politics too far away from the mid-point which is where we should happily settle, where we smooth out the waves. It is in this mid-point that we can find the peace and structure that will safely allow our disparate ideologies to come together in a way that is harmonious. No more would we have to endure this deceptive way of handling our politics. This sense that we cannot be brought together because our opinions are so polarising – they are not. Don’t we fundamentally want the same thing? To live our lives as we would wish to and for the most vulnerable in society to be taken care of?
In the Essenes culture they had no money. They had no need of it because everyone’s function in society was something that provided to the higher good of the collective. Someone grew food, someone made clothes or shoes, someone cleaned the streets…all of it had a place in society, all of it was a part of the whole. No one was denigrated because they cleaned floors, they were respected for the way in which they made the floors clean to enhance how people lived int he space. The person who grew the, say broccoli, gave it to the person who cleaned the floors or who cooked the broccoli for the collective. There was at its heart a sense of respect that everyone had a function to perform to make the collective strong. And we have lost that ability. We have lost that respect and instead have embraced polarity. I’m not arguing for the absence of material things, including money, here. I am arguing that we can find the mid-point where instead of the high and low waves created in our vibration, we smooth out the wave and bring a sense of harmony. And a mid-point that is devoid of greed, devoid of a sense that one must hoard else they will be in a position of scarcity. Hoarding comes from a mindset of scarcity, of lack, as much as flagrant overspending does. But if that mindset doesn’t need to be there, if we can all accept through the collective conscious that mid-point where there is more than enough for us all that sense of greed need not exist.
We have used technology to increase that polarity as well. I was recently in a discussion about a historical figure where accusations were made that we blatantly untrue. Apart from anything else, that figure had not been old enough to have the influence it was said they had and anyone with an ounce of knowledge would know that. Many comments pointed this fact out, but many went on to repeat it as though it was fact when it was a blatant lie. This happened again in another discussion about a historical figure, someone wrote something that was again untrue, and it was repeated elsewhere as though it was fact. Whether the initiators of these lies are bots or deliberate agitators I don’t know, but what was interesting was that both points were overtly negative about the characters involved. The positive comments about those characters were not repeated at all. It was the negative that was repeated again and again until it could inevitably become seen as a truth. Whether the repetition was also by bots I have no idea but what is clear is that there is a drive towards polarity which has grown exponentially over time. Why? Why are we being set against ourselves when out very survival as a species depends on us coming together? Who wins if we are not cohesive? Because someone does.
I guess this is an essay arguing against the polarity. Arguing for finding that mid-point in the rhythm of the universe where we are supposed to live according to the Hermetic Principles, the Essenes and, interestingly, increasingly quantum physics. We are all one, we are all connected. So that mid-point where we smooth out the waves is the point where, actually, we will thrive and grow. Positively.
Louisa Simpson 