WordPress (the host for this site) has raised a challenge for bloggists to incorporate the theme of ‘bridge’ into their work. @WordPrompt Here are my thoughts….
When you think of a bridge, most people reading this would think of a structure that gets you over an obstacle such as a river, a train-track or a road. Me? I think in terms of Energy – the Energy of our planet and the Collective Consciousness of Humanity. Specifically, I am thinking of where the Collective is currently standing on that bridge between worlds. We are at the start of the bridge, right at the beginning of our journey from our Past and into our Future, and every step forward is a new step into whichever future we are choosing. For those who are wondering what the scenery is like on the other side – who knows? But we are actually in the process of choosing the future of humanity right now. That’s what all this upheaval is about. There are plenty of other people who can go into the whys and wherefores and the politics of totalitarianism and democracy, finance, control and all the other variables that we are feeling our way through – I’ve had my head in the sand for over 40 years and am so not qualified to make a judgement.
But I do know one thing – what we are doing is deciding what the future will look like for our children, and their children. Every choice and action we take, lays down the groundwork for the future of every Being on this planet, now and for the inconceivably long future. Are we truly going to be able to bring about a Golden Age of love and respect in a world free of greed? Or does it appear to you that we are heading right into the dystopian worlds portrayed by the movies we watch?
We’ve had it reasonably cushy in the ‘western’ world for a few decades and we have certain expectations of living which is probably one of the reasons that makes something like a pandemic and a war that will, quite likely, touch us personally in some way, seem so traumatic – even if it’s only in the cost of fuel or the lack of toilet paper. Yet this era that we are moving into, one of rising costs, civil unrest, pestilence, war, death and destruction, is nothing new. It is exactly the way the world, or rather, humans, have operated since forever.
A few days ago, I was talking with my friend and teacher, Essence Ka tha’ras, and we had one of those amazing conversations where we really dug deep into a topic. I love these conversations. Essence has a way of ‘tripping’ my mind into making connections I suspect I would never have otherwise made – and once made, understood and agreed that these thoughts hold a lot of Truth, they tend to stick around. This conversation was about cycles. Cycles of life of the individual, of the Collective, of our society as a whole. We discussed the cycles of our planet, our Galaxy, even our Universe. We went deep.
The result is that we saw that all the things that are happening in the world is not something that is unusual. What is unusual is that we have had a period before this current time where we developed a different understanding of what is considered normal life. We got used to easy living; of having plenty; of there being a surplus. Of expecting, mainly, to die of old age. We have given a high value to human Life. But, if you look back through known history, there has always been war and pestilence. It’s a horrible thought, and something I’d prefer not to think about, but these things are normal for our race.
Things move in cycles. We know this. Most of us only have to look at our own lives to see the repeating patterns. We work at breaking free of those patterns, of transmuting our darker threads into bright lights. But what if we are not so special after all, what if we are simply cogs in a wheel of the same-old-same-old cycles going around and around? What if that dystopian future is part of the pattern? Think about it.
Think of the wars in our own living memory and just beyond: WW1 and WW2; Vietnam, Korea, the Boer War, the Crimea, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, Palestine, Africa…. The list is never-ending. Now think of ‘pestilences’ – Covid is not so bad compared to smallpox, aids, mumps, polio, the Spanish flu and the one I personally survived – bird flu. That one had a 68% mortality rate. As I said – Covid is small-fry next to some of these.
Expand again and think of all the wars and conflicts you read about in school, that you watch movies about. Think about the Empires that have risen up and have fallen – Rome, Greece, Mongolia, China, Egypt. Then go back further into racial memory – Atlantis, Lemuria…. Who knows if there were any civilisations before then? I don’t, but I would not be surprised to discover that these too were simply part of the cycles of life on this planet.
There is no denying that we are a violent race and right now it’s obvious that in this very uncomfortable time in our history, we are experiencing the long drawn-out death of one ‘empire’ and on the other side of that bridge is another empire waiting to be birthed.
Currently this next ‘Empire’ looks to be anything but comfortable. It may be that, like our racial memories tell us, not a whole lot of us will survive this transition. We may have been well-trained to obey and find that life, where everything is controlled, is something that suits us well; we may have to drop a lot further down the spiral before we stand and say, “I don’t want my children’s future to look like this”.
Currently our galaxy is at a point of change in the Precession, and we do have the opportunity to choose which path we will take into the future. Which bridge to cross, and the potential problem here is that whichever way the Collective chooses, we are going to be there for the next part of the Precession – somewhere around 13,000 years. We need to choose well.
The cycle of birth, growth, decay and death is normal. It’s normal for individuals, Empires, planets and beyond. What is happening is nothing new.
As Essence summed it up:
“There’s nothing wrong. There’s nothing to fix. This is just the Tao”.
Essence Ka tha’ras
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