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From an energetic point of view, Sarah Palin represents the choice we get to make about where we are vibrationally on the planet. Never before in the history of this country's elections has the choice of a vice president mattered so much. There is a real possibility that neither Obama nor McCain will survive their first terms in office. It is speculated that McCain is to die of stress and Obama will be assassinated. by the fanatics who will be outraged. while nobody wants to manifest such a thing, the deaths of either candidate will cause a major fundamental shift in the energetic psyche of this country. Will we choose to lead the world through the dominoes of global depression that have started to fall or will we close the door, so to speak, and tell the world to go to hell? Will we allow ourselves to arrange new growth opportunities that allow us to flow easily into a new paradigm that allows for a smoother ride through these chaotic times or will we choose the hard path and have to experience social, cultural, and economic revolution similar to what we experienced in the 1960's?
We are poised and ready to make an enlightened decision. Either way, whoever ends up leading this country in the next four years, there will be the appearance of hard times. The choice we make now is whether to move through them smoothly or the hard way. Sarah Palin represents the hard way. Joe Biden represents the easier way. How do you want to move through the chaos we are about to experience?
We will not end up back where we've been if McCain/Palin get elected. That's impossible. There are too many things occurring that are initiating global transformation. The U.S. is meant to lead that process. Biden will find himself having to be extremely creative in handling the events of the next four years. If he's as good on foreign policy as we hope he is, there will be a number of energetic blocks to the transformation process that will fall away with grace and ease.
However, if Palin is the one, she will become a lightening rod for social, economic, and cultural change. This is not a bad thing, but it is going to be the harder way for global transformation to take place. We have an opportunity to choose whether we will make global transformation easy or hard. The energies are such that we don't have to do things the hard way anymore. Our task at the moment is to get the global consciousness shifted into the new dynamic of flow, ease, and grace and out of the mentality of the ego which has our faith invested in the falsehood that transformation must be hard.
This national transformation is being mirrored in individual lives. There are ways to make the challenge of emotional and spiritual shifts easier to integrate and accept. How each of us chooses to move through personal chaos will be how the nation moves through global chaos. The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm. If we collectively choose the easier path on our individual journeys, the national journey will also choose the easier path. Now is the time to prove the spiritual theory that thought plus feeling equals manifestation. Use your thoughts and feelings to manifest easy lessons and gentle transformation in your life. Watch what happens to the national psyche as it happens in your life. It will be wonderful to watch.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The Shadow of the National Psyche
From: Deepak Chopra |
Posted: Friday, September 5th, 2008
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City . By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper.
She is the reverse of Barrack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of 'the other.' For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.)
I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin’s message. In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision.
Look at what she stands for:
--Small town values -- a denial of America 's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.
--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America 's image abroad.
--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.
--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.
--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.
--'Reform' -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn't fit your ideology.
Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from 'us' pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of 'I'm all right, Jack,' and 'Why change? Everything's OK as it is.' The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good. The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.
Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light, which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to see what we are getting, without disguise.
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www.theawakeningprocess.com
Posted: Friday, September 5th, 2008
Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of running one-tenth of New York City . By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness, but her real appeal goes deeper.
She is the reverse of Barrack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of 'the other.' For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.)
I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin’s message. In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision.
Look at what she stands for:
--Small town values -- a denial of America 's global role, a return to petty, small-minded parochialism.
--Ignorance of world affairs -- a repudiation of the need to repair America 's image abroad.
--Family values -- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.
--Rigid stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be negotiated with those who disagree.
--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a failed war.
--'Reform' -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn't fit your ideology.
Palin reinforces the overall message of the reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from 'us' pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners of 'I'm all right, Jack,' and 'Why change? Everything's OK as it is.' The irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are voting against their own good. The Republicans have won multiple national elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to change, and narrow-mindedness.
Obama's call for higher ideals in politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to light, which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to see what we are getting, without disguise.
www.delphian.7gen.com
www.theawakeningprocess.com
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Diving Into The Abyss by Chantal DeBrosse
There comes a point in one’s life, especially when you are making moves to improve your lot, where you may experience what I am calling “Diving Into the Abyss”. An abyss is defined as an immeasurably deep chasm. It is also used to mean anything incomprehensibly profound or infinite such as the concept of the infinity of time. The derivative word, abysmal, means extremely or hopelessly bad or severe. When one is in the abyss, often plunging headlong or whirling and spinning with no concept of which way one should turn, it feels like things are hopeless. You know you are falling and the bottom is somewhere. You don’t know where the bottom is or when you’ll hit it, but you are sure there is going to be one and it’s gonna hurt when you crash against it. The impact may even break something or at the very least leave a scar. You just know this from past experience or from watching others as you observed them during their personal plunge.
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However, there is one thing that the abyss gives us that we are no longer focusing on as a result of changes in linguistic meaning and philosophical beliefs. In Greek mythology the abyss is the primal chaos before Creation. Chaos, you say? Yes, Chaos. Or as my friend Debra Redman calls it, C.H.A.O.S. - Catalytic Hunches Advancing Our Spirituality. Catalytic Hunches, eh? Well, here’s what I did on my very long two-year fall.
I panicked.
I adjusted.
I rationalized.
I was in denial a few times.
But I kept falling thinking this will end any minute now. But it didn’t end. Two years is a long time. So like a prisoner in a concentration camp, I accepted what was. I no longer counted on the end of the day as being one step closer to my breakthrough. Another day was just another day. There was no indication on any calendar as to when things would get better. Sometimes things got worse and other times they would ease up and be less severe, but not better.
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There was always another layer to the relentlessness of experiencing my life’s challenges. Though I live in a prominent neighborhood and have an important position in a respectable company, I was struggling to survive. Paying the mortgage on time meant not having enough food to eat. Buying food meant a check would bounce. Heating the house in the winter meant no gifts during the holidays. No gifts meant suffering the embarrassment of letting everyone know that I was in dire financial straits. Loving my son meant that I would be broken hearted yet hopeful for his present and his future. Loving my daughter meant I had to let her express her love for her father even if I wanted to tell her to shut up about that man that I divorced after 23 years of marriage. I knew I couldn’t tell her to wait on her feelings until I stopped being so mad and feeling so betrayed by my ex-husband and by my own self for making such a challenging choice for a spouse.
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Not one thing I did made anything better. Everything I did netted zero. That is, I was merely in a state of “hanging in there.” Plus, everything took practically forever. In 1983, my family emigrated from
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Finally, something happened to signal that the fall was over. There were a few triumphs during my fall but none of them felt like this one. There was no thump because there was no bottom. Nothing broke. It didn’t hurt and instead of a scar there was healing. I felt my awareness sharpen as the shift made its presence known. In spite of myself, I learned something. I develop some very important skills for my continuing journey through life. I was learning to wait and not act on my impulses to lash out at everyone or run from everything. This whole experience was about waiting. Waiting on God, the Universe, the Angels and All-That-Is, trusting that everything is conspiring on my behalf for my greater good. I didn’t know that I was learning to trust. While falling, I honored the times when I needed to be still and enjoy the silence. I learned to keep myself busy by noticing my thoughts and not taking action on any of the ones that I felt would undo all that I believe I deserve. I believe I deserve peace, love, prosperity, health, and a clear connection with my divinity. The chaos was the matrix from which my newly revealed being was nurtured, cleansed and birthed. I am now in a state of suspended animation. I know don’t have to do anything. The upswing will soon begin. Let’s just say I have a Catalytic Hunch.
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