The cancer is in America’s bones at this point, much deeper than any one man or even one political movement. We’re in a period of epic change and systems collapse, neither of which can be navigated by the superficial thinking of our political status quo.
Our power to rise from this lies on the level of values. We can’t just fight off bad guys forever; we need a renewed dedication to the good.
Change occurs when enough of us are willing to atone for the fact that the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world so strayed from dedication to our own First Principles, in too many cases even to human decency, for over half a century. As citizens we abided that. We have not been the nation we like to think we are.
Too many of us were willing to surrender our critical thinking to a crass and corrupt political industry, many thinking only of their own pocketbooks, and stood by while our country imploded from within. Dedication to the profundity of our Declaration of Independence and the responsibility to teach its principles to our children, both fell away like unimportant dead leaves. We countenanced obvious military adventurism, systems of increasing economic injustice, and ever-increasing destruction of the earth and its inhabitants.
None of us should now act shocked.
This dark night of America’s soul need not be the end of our democracy, however, if we use it as a time for rethinking and regreening. The answer lies first on the level of the heart. Genuine contrition is what activates the power of redemption. Atonement for our national arrogance and recklessness. Humility before our Creator, Whomever or whatever we perceive that to be. All the powers of the world won’t put us back together again, if we’re not willing to look in the mirror. We had only two choices: to fall to our knees, or be brought to our knees. Obviously we chose the latter. But the good news is, we’re there now.
This is a time of destruction, but also a time of new creation. It’s time of fundamental recalibration… a great fever that had to occur.
Yes, we get what we focus on and now we have a chance to create something different, but the same principle guides the results - what we focus our attention on we will get more of that. So, if we focus on what's broken and what isn't working - we will just get more of that, but it will look differently. If we focus on what's possible and what we want to experience - those opportunities will be presented to us to create something new and different. It's up to us the kind of world we live in - what are you choosing?
May our hearts not only be broken, but may they be broken open, and may this open heart guide us, rather than using the ego, the brain, the mind, the desire mind, and the power hungry guidance in the domination culture that the last 5000 years has ruled humanity.