Part I

An Evolutionary Turning-Point: Revolution from Domination to Unity

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George Floyd’s death was a flashpoint, erupting into the flame of truth, spreading the world like wildfire. What is that truth, too long hidden, that needed to break through into the light of day, to break open our hearts?

It may seem like everything is coming at us now at once, shock after shock after shock -- the pandemic, ecological and economic collapses, racial violence, martial control and attack -- almost too quickly to absorb, everything coming together. But if, in the midst of these breath-taking events, we stop to take a breath, we can see some things clearly. It is not an accident that they are all coming together, because they all go together. Our exploding crises, fragmented as they may seem, all have the same root.

All are caused by the same roots – a divisive consciousness, of separation, domination/submission, that underlies our culture, values and systems – and all are crying out to be uprooted today, by getting to those roots. We have to radically shift today from a society based on domination and division -- that echoes at all levels – to one based on interconnectedness, caring, cooperation and love. These too can echo at every level of our consciousness and society, but it is up to us to go to the roots of the crises, to make that evolutionary leap.

The Pattern of Domination that Echoes at All Levels

Right now we exist in a chain of domination, from the top down to the very roots of our consciousness and society. We are at a vital turning point in our evolution – the time to reverse this perverse upside-down hierarchy that has dominated and pervaded every level and domain of our lives.

The same patterns of domination and submission exist in our present society at all levels and scales. The way humanity as a whole dominates and exploits nature, the way whites dominate and exploit people of color; the way men dominate and exploit women; is the same way the most aggressive, rapacious strong-men at the top, nationally and globally, dominate and exploit everyone else and the planet. It is one pyramid, one pecking order, of power-over relationships that is now destroying us all, collapsing from the unsustainability of its own top-heaviness, teetering and toppling from its own egregious imbalances.

But there is in fact another power far stronger than even the top-men in this scale of domination; and that is the power erupting now, that is causing it all to collapse. What is happening has clearly spun out of the control of even those who would create a new order of their total control – nature herself, and the sacred itself speaking though her, rising up through indigenous people, people of color, youth, women, people of good will around the world, demanding radical change.

It is a true changing of the guard we are seeing today, from those profiting off their domination and destruction of the Earth and peoples, to the Earth and those people themselves rising up in defense of the sacred. There can be no doubt on whose side the highest power lies, in this incredible play of creation – though it has long been hidden, the game is up now and all is exposed -- it is surging up now full-force.

From Apathy and Complacency to Love and Solidarity

We are energized by crisis, especially when it hits home. And home is getting closer and closer, as we realize none of us will escape the damage, the death and destruction, we are inflicting on each other and our planet, the one home that sustains us all. It is hitting home now, that our real home is the whole.

The worse things get, the greater the temptation to withdraw into numbness, complacency, a kind of stupefaction, complicity, carrying on business-as-usual – and many have been doing this. But those who can afford to do this – who still have business-as-usual to carry on with -- are not the most impacted, the greatest victims, of the atrocities happening; and, in many ways, by withdrawing into numbness, apathy, they add to their complicity. Like frogs in boiling water, they pretend not to see, as long as they still have skin in the game.

But something new is happening now – we have finally reached the rupture point, a radical tipping point, the game is up. With the pandemic, climate collapses, and martial racist violence, those who are most impacted -- black people, people of color, like the Earth herself -- are no longer taking it lying down; they are at the breaking point, with nothing more to lose. And so they are erupting now, with the painful truth, bringing it into the light of day for all to plainly see. They are rising up from the knee in the neck that killed George Floyd -- and will soon kill all of us if we do not join them.

We all need to rise up together, from domination to unity – or we, the human race as whole, simply will not survive. We are all one race – human – we need to realize that, down to our bones, and we need to act that way. This is the naked truth, that is seeing the light of day now. In the intense heat of this evolutionary moment, something big is being cooked – bigger than saving our own skin, the understanding that we all have to take this leap together – the evolutionary leap from divisiveness to connectedness, from separation to co-creation.

And this is finally shattering the complacency of our more privileged brothers and sisters. We are seeing that no one is immune from the wide-spread destruction happening now, the collapses closing in on all of us – if we don’t rise up and act now, we will all go down together. We are seeing more and more that it is not just a cliché – in many ways, more than we can count, we are all in this together.

The long-standing historical pattern of domination/submission is coming to a head, breaking down. We will no longer submit to it – and that “we” is becoming bigger and bigger, as those who are impacted grow, and those who would exempt themselves become smaller and smaller. As the world burns, an awakening is being ignited, and it is spreading like wild-fire. The flame of truth, goodness, justice, beauty and love, is being awakened in our hearts, as they break wide open.

A tremendous, long pent-up power of people and planet is breaking through, being released now, to come together, to heal the damage done, to light the way to a new future. We are being called to jump into this evolutionary leap, this revolution of the heart – it is either now or never.

Let us make it now. Let this be the day that love and truth awaken, finally, in the human heart, that have been so long dormant.  Let us not all go down together – let us rise up together. 
Which torch do we want to carry, which torch do we want to pass on – of separation or co-creation, hate or love?... it is up to us to decide. An evolutionary leap is upon us, a revolution of the heart…None of us can do it alone, but together we can make it.

Revolution, Inner and Outer – Now Is the Time

We need a revolution, inner and outer. We need a revolution in our consciousness and we need a revolution in our systems – a whole-scale, whole-systems shift – now is the time, while the iron is hot and while we still can do it. The world is on the boil, we have reached fever-pitch, and it’s time to break through our sickness.

 
A “crisis”, in medical terms, literally means the peak of the illness, the turning-point from which the patient either goes on to die or revive, where all the anti-bodies kick in and we come out stronger. This is what is happening today. We are called to rise up, in inner and outer revolution, to renew ourselves and our planet, to turn the tide on the damage we’ve done and the damage we’ve suffered, to bring in a new world of caring and love, of strength in cooperation, communion.

The problem isn’t a “them” versus an “us” – the problem is “us” and “them” thinking -- the divisive thinking that pervades our consciousness and our systems. The revolution we need is radical, total, global – it is not “against” anyone or anything, but to see how all are interconnected and all need to work in unity. It is an overturning not of the opposition – that has been done, again and again, endlessly throughout history – but an overturning of opposition itself, a true realization on the outer plane of our oneness on the inner.

We need a revolution -- and now is the time, or never -- which one do we choose?

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Part II

The Flame of Truth Is Blazing

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George Floyd lit a spark that has ignited the world. In the midst of a pandemic, hundreds of thousands are out on the streets, risking their own safety and lives to show solidarity with one man’s death -- and the potential for the rising of a new way of life on this planet.

The solidarity that is coming forward, in such a shaky, vulnerable moment, speaks volumes – an extraordinarily auspicious sign of these times, and the ways they are turning. In the middle of a pandemic, climate crisis and economic collapses, people have come out on the streets all around the world to protest the violence of racism, even at the risk of violent attacks on themselves by the forces of suppression. People are rising now to the call of these times, even at the risk of their lives, no longer turning away.

We are at a liminal moment, a turning-point in our evolution, from long-standing patterns of separation and domination to the realization of our true interconnectedness, in our consciousness, actions and systems. This is a call to an evolutionary leap -- a now-or-never choice-point -- and people are starting to get it. The nature of the patterns we have been subjected to is now clicking in place, as they show themselves ever more clearly; and so are our responses – a movement from domination and violence to communion and care on all levels.

A pivotal point such as this one is no short of a revolution – a conscious turn-around, from the grass-roots, of the unjust patterns of domination and division that have been choking us all. People are reclaiming their breath now, their powers of expression, their very right to live. They are connecting the dots between the patterns that have been breaking us, setting us apart from each other, and coming together to act. The words “I can’t breathe” have been echoing around the world, and people are coming together to reclaim their breath, their voice and their power.

Because the same pattern of domination and destruction pervades all domains of our culture, people are starting to see now that climate action, racial and gender justice all go together; that ecological collapse and economic and social collapse are all related issues, and must be addressed in tandem. They are all consequences of the same pattern of separation, domination and exploitation that reverberates at all levels of our consciousness and society, and need to be uprooted at all levels. The kingpin of both these patterns and the ways to address them lie in their roots, the type of consciousness that underlies them -- whether it is divisive or connective, whether it is one of separation or collaborative co-creation. It is there that our choice-point lies, our most powerful leverage for radical transformation.

Climate, Race and Gender Justice All Go Together

Racial justice, gender justice, climate justice, our social, ecological, economic collapses, are not piecemeal issues, that can be addressed in isolation – neither their present isolation from each other, nor ours from each other -- they are all intricately interconnected, as we are. We need to see how they are connected, and we need to come together to address them. And now this is happening – the combination of climate crisis, a global pandemic and one man’s death at the hands of a viciously oppressive system has lit the spark that is now bringing the light -- the flame of truth and justice erupting, spreading around the world like wildfire.

In his last moment, his dying breath, George Floyd called out for his mother. It is possible it is the Anima Mundi, the World-Mother of us all, the sacred feminine, who in her passion and mercy, has fueled the protests rising up around the world – not the violent ones but the ones passionately standing up for peace and justice, love and well-being for all. George Floyd’s death was the last straw, and the spark, that lit the fire for truth –for goodness, beauty, justice to be done in the world.

Little did he know, when he called out for his mama, that he was becoming a martyr – someone who dies for a cause, for a greater good than himself. In that last call of his dying breath, he ignited something huge, a force that is rising up now all over the planet -- a call for justice, truth and love, a call for redemption, his own, and all of life on this planet.

The more you try to repress something, the more it ultimately rebels. This may take some time, but when it comes, it explodes with an equal and opposite force and power, and still more – if it is aligned with goodness, justice and truth. Truth ultimately overcomes falsehood; the good overcomes the harmful; the power of beauty overcomes the forces of cruelty and suffering. Today we are living in the turning of the tide -- if we turn to that truth.

A Revolution from Divisiveness to Connectedness: Our Evolutionary Leap

In our evolutionary journey, individually and collectively, we move from unity to separation, back to unity. We are in the “separation” phase of our evolutionary journey – the peak of materialist, individualist self-seeking, of seemingly endless outer greed and acquisition -- and now we have come to the turning point, the time to turn back to our true unity. We see this at all scales and all levels – the entire edifice of our society is trembling, ready to collapse, and bring us back down to Earth, to the true ground of our being, our centre. And the regeneration that follows must also happen at all levels, flowing from the foundation of our being, the spirit of love and unity reverberating, rippling out, rising up, touching and transforming all the dimensions of our being and our global society.

We are at the peak of the phase of separation and domination – that’s why they are so pervasive now, as is their impending demise. We have reached the outermost limit of the outward phase in our separation from our own Source, from our own essence and from our own hearts – that is why everything is so upside-down and backwards, and needs to be reversed. It is why the crises are driving us, forcing us, back to our centre, where we can re-set, come together and start afresh – this time, however, chastened by our lessons, and expressing the spirit of love and unity, caring and community, at all levels.

What Power Do We Allow to Control Us?

We are being carried on a sacred wave, a tsunami of grace – clearing out the old, washing in the new -- if we can only flow with it. Anyone who has a sense that there is a sacred force behind all this – a hand of goodness, truth and beauty – is blessed, because in that faith, they become the vehicle for that power, goodness truth and beauty itself, quite apart from whether or not its existence is “objectively” true. The higher power may not be outside us, it may be within us.

In a sense, we make true what we believe in, by the power of that belief, that dedication, itself. This is not sophistry but a crucial key to the way reality works. This works for individuals, but also applies to the collective -- if a critical mass of people see the world in a certain way, they will make the world in that image – until, if it is not aligned with a deeper truth, history and time itself will overturn it. This is a hidden secret of life, that is coming to the light of day today, because we desperately need it. This is the key to the Anthropocene, the domination of men on this Earth – its ending, and what is beyond it.

Whether or not we believe in a higher power outside us, we have a higher power within us. Now is the time to call on it, and to act in its name. Nature, science, the events of our world, all are saying the same thing – it is a clarion call. Now is the time to come together, for the sake of ourselves and all others, for the sake of the sacred web of life of which we are all a part.

We will learn what we need to along the way, but we have to jump in now. We are called to an evolutionary leap – from divisiveness to connectedness, from separation to co-creation, from enmity and hate (or complacent apathy) to caring, love in action. We are all part of one human race, and the clock is ticking. It is either now or never. At this zero-hour of the fate of humanity, let us take the leap.

The flame of truth is blazing now, blazing our way to a new world – it can be annihilation or light – which one do we want it to be?

I believe we the people are choosing.