As I wrote in a recent TGP post:
The
challenge before us is to stay centered in the eye of whatever storm swirls around
us, focused on the larger perspective of the evolutionary transformation we are
undergoing, and proactively doing our part, in community, to nurture the
consciousness of wholeness that is aborning.
Given this, we must look beyond merely resisting or protesting
this or that policy, presidential decree, judicial nominee, or cabinet appointment.
Yes, those things are important in the immediate micro situation (see my other recent TGP post,
especially the part about not posing enemies). In the much more profound macro
situation, though, it’s even more important and will have much longer lasting and
far-reaching consequences to be projecting, building, and demonstrating the new,
more just and life-affirming behaviors and systems that will replace those that
are dissolving.
And one of those life-affirming behaviors that we now have
an opportunity to develop in ourselves and demonstrate is expressing compassion
and love for all those souls who are trying desperately to hang on to the
structures that have served them so well heretofore, nourishing them, giving
them a job to do, and thus providing security and meaning – and that are
suddenly, inexorably being torn asunder in the violent winds of change. We can help
reduce the trauma and possible (likely!) violence associated with the
metamorphosis by helping those in resistance to overcome the fear and to trust
that, after the storm and once the debris has settled, new structures will
arise to provide meaning and security.
What are the structures that are dissolving in this country?
They include attributes of our nation that many if not most Americans have
always thought of as bedrocks of what defines the United States of America but
are now crumbling – things such as White majority and dominance; Christian
majority and dominance; male dominance; the dominance of money, materialism, capitalism,
and the nation-state; and the dominance of humanity over other life and Earth
as a whole. Actually, also dissolving is the acceptance and use of dominance
itself as a form of relationship. For
example, “power over” is morphing into “power with” as a preferred way of
relating in families, workplaces, communities, and government.
Of course, exercising power-with requires that we trust in one
another and in processes that unfold organically and nonlinearly. And that’s
very scary to many people. Hence the call for and necessity of compassion,
understanding, non-judgement, and love. A difficult, possibly unimaginable task when looking through the micro lens, but perhaps it makes more sense and is more doable from the macro point of view.
Thanks Mike
ReplyDeleteVery well said.
Thanks. This helps.
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