Awakening to Apocalypse
“Apocalypse” does not mean doom.
“Apocalypse” does not mean doom. Its Greek origin, and as used in the bible Book of Revelations, means just that, “revelation”. Or “unveiling”. Like taking the lid off. As the lid comes off, light shines on what’s been hidden, and we suddenly realize reality is not what we thought it was. It is so much more. Kind of like the movie The Truman Story, except it has not been some crazy TV producer doing the hiding but rather our own selves, our own fears.
And, as many indigenous prophesies have predicted, these are the times. Yes, the “end times”. Not the end of the world, mind you, but the end of the world as we’ve known it. It’s truly an awakening. And, as such, also an opportunity, if we choose to take it. An opportunity to work with one another to co-create a new world, one based on love and peace, a new beginning, even as the old world crumbles around us.
A pertinent essay from Charles Eisenstein (https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/reality-is-breaking). Important for all to read in these apocalyptic times. I posted the following comment (along with over 168 others!):
Brilliant and profoundly perceptive. The Matrix lives even as it is dissolving. It's the apocalypse - which literally means not doom but "revelation". Today, the revelation of Epstein. Ten years ago, the revelation of Me Too. As you and Pogo point out, "we have met the enemy, and he is us." As they say, when we point at others with fingers of blame, we have three fingers pointing back at us. I love your listing of the elements of the new, more loving and holistic (and wholesome) reality and the observation that they will be - are already - entering back through the same cracks through which the "current" one is collapsing. We are in the space between realities. The space into which what we’ve known as “reality” is dissolving and out of which a “new” reality is emerging. A new reality which we have the opportunity and the responsibility to help shape and manifest.
A key section of Eisenstein’s essay that stands out to me is:
"If, on the other hand, we pass this initiatory threshold, we will enter a new era of civilization. For one thing, the same elites who raped and tortured children also presided over a global system of war, genocide, and exploitation whose victims are no less pitiable. Is it really so different, to sacrifice a child in a Satanic ritual to further one’s personal power, as it is to sacrifice whole populations for geopolitical power? Both are outcroppings of the same mindset, the same dehumanization and instrumentalization of human beings. The lies that shroud each draw on a common source: the legitimacy of the elites, their institutions, and the story-of-the-world that elevates them. When one crumbles, so will the other.
"Secondly and more importantly, waiting just outside of the carefully-guarded borders of official reality is knowledge that can revitalize humanity and all life on earth. The same breach in the wall through which the feral pigs of pedophilia, human trafficking, rape, murder, satanic ritual, and financial and political corruption are invading public awareness will also allow more welcome exiles to enter. What will this world become when we bring in all that has been suppressed? Circular economy money systems. Mind-body technologies. UAP technologies. Psychedelic therapies. Indigenous practices of ritual, dream, sound, story, and ceremony. Over-unity energy devices? What happens when “alternative” healing modalities come into their own? Regenerative agriculture? Bioremediation of waste? Ecosystem healing? And social technologies too, of inquiry and listening, conflict resolution, compassionate dialog. And what happens when we fully countenance the reality of extraterrestrial civilizations, of telepathy and ESP, of the continuity of consciousness after death? We will be able to create together the more beautiful world our hearts have always known is possible.
"I’m quite tired of holding knowledge of all of the above against the assault of “impractical,” “Impossible,” “delusional,” “fake,” “fraud,” and “debunked.” From personal experience and decades of study I know they are real, yet we have lived in a reality-story-agreement field in which they are not. That is starting to change."
Much to not only ponder but let inform our daily lives and action.
Thanks Mike ... it ain't pretty lifting the lid, but necessary for healing the "residoo-doo" of 5,000 years living under the rule of lowest common dominator. You can read my take here as to how failing to look evil in its evil eye has gotten us where we are today. https://signsoftheupwising.substack.com/p/did-the-republicans-cheat-hey-is