Panic is setting in as people realize how locked up things are.
From the Supreme Court to the House of Representatives to the Senate to the White House - and let’s not forget the fourth branch of our government, Elon Musk - the odds are not in favor of our democracy’s survival. The full scale assault, coup, whatever words we want to use for it is well underway.
There is only one option, but fortunately it’s a good one. In the words of A Course in Miracles, ‘There is no order of difficulty in miracles.”
What does that mean, exactly? It means that as thoughts change, the effects of our thoughts will change. The world is simply a reflection of our thoughts. That’s why Einstein said we wouldn’t solve the problems of the world from the level of thinking we were at when we created them. We’re not getting out of this mess - we won’t be able to change our circumstances - unless and until we ourselves are willing to change the nature of our thinking.
There’s a saying in AA that every problem comes bearing its own solution. That principle is very much evident now. The arrogant, elitist, smug, amoral, self important shrine to Western materialism that is America’s political establishment now finds itself powerless before the might of a political strongman and the movement he created. Without a moral center, you’re reduced to either acquiescing to a devil, or you throw cotton balls at him and expect him to be scared. There’s really only one place to go at this point, and it turns out to be a place where, had we been there to begin with, none of this would have ever happened.
Our strength now lies in admitting to ourselves that we don’t in fact have all the answers. Yet there is something in us that does. Such a concept is foreign to the traditional thinker, but traditional thinking is what led us here. To the spiritual among us, our Founders claiming a “firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence” was not mere symbol. Those men didn’t deal in symbols. They were dealing with revolution. And so must we: nonviolent revolution, as in Gandhi and King.
In the words of President John F. Kennedy, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.” He was talking to the ages then.
Now he’s talking to us.
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