Well, another year is coming to a close and I realize I haven't written a single blog post since around this same time last year. My sentiments haven't changed a whole lot since then, except to say that I'm so done with the state of things and ready for our world to shift out of this dark, twilight zone stage of limbo. I'm sure many of you would agree.
I've always viewed the chaos happening in our society as a sort of collective reflection of the suffering going on within each of us as individuals and sensed that in order to make it through we would all be required to face ourselves. In other words, it would be necessary for each of us to personally process our internal issues and shake ourselves awake from our cultural, indoctrinated stupors.
Although I do what I can to help move things along, which in many ways has been a costly undertaking, the waiting has probably been the most grueling part of all this. Awareness certainly does have it's drawbacks. Knowing for much of my life that we live within a corrupt system, I never focused much on the daily propaganda pumped through the television. However, since my work over the last few years requires sitting in front of a computer a lot more, I've sadly watched people virtuously surrender their rights as if it was something to be proud of. Voltaire once said, “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” I would add, or from the shackles they believe they have no choice in wearing.
We always have a choice. The challenge is whether or not we are brave enough to make the really hard ones. We can jump off the bridge because everyone else is or we can follow our own path. We can buckle under duress or we can stand strong in our convictions. We can choose to believe whatever we're told or we can use sound logic to question the narrative. I get that it's sometimes hard to decipher fact from fiction. What can you trust in an upside down world, where persuasion is the name of the game; where the corrupt are presented as the good-guys and the good-guys are portrayed as villains?
My answer is nothing - you trust nothing unless it can be verified through legit means. We've got to use critical and objective reasoning at all times and be conscious of where we place our trust. It is my personal opinion that trust is best saved solely for those closest to us who have earned it.
Hopefully it's finally becoming clear that all this madness in the world has never been about safety or democracy, but about social control and creating the fear necessary to leverage it. As more people wake up to hard truths, rub the sleep from their eyes and begin to realize the amount of bullshit they have ingested, I hold the vision this holiday season, that we can finally join together and walk out of this hellish 'no mans land' we've been wandering around in the last few years and step out into the sunlight of greater consciousness so that we may forge a more harmonious and soulful world. Where the focus is no longer on our differences, but on freedom, collaboration and love for all life.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!