I’m taking an intermission from Reality-Show-World. And like an intermission during a movie, stepping away reminds me of everything that fell outside my awareness when I was engrossed in the movie.
Such as how easy it is to miss the good news when all you’re watching is a horror flix.
I’ve written before about the extraordinariness of this time. About the collapsing of one version of reality and the beginning of the new. I’m revisiting that theme.
It’s such an amazing time.
It’s easy to lose focus on the larger picture when your back is up and your heart is hurting and your brain is attempting to grasp what was, just five minutes ago, an impossibility.
I get it. I do it, all the time.
The ‘‘givens’’ of this world are giving way; the very conceptual foundation of how we thought the world was, and who we were in it, is dissolving under our feet.
So very challenging.
I’ve written also on what that means internally to the individual when the external is breaking down. Our identities are entwined - the world and us - so our sense of self which developed alongside and in sync with it is deeply impacted when the world we thought we knew turns out to be The Truman Show.
What does that make us? Well, Truman.
We’re in a collective existential crises and it’s likely about to get worse. Much worse.
The continued, incongruous avoidance of so much evidence by so many, is at bottom, in my view, mostly about identities attempting to hold on in the face of this threat.
We need only ask ourselves:
What’s the upside of being an “expert” in a world where are the experts have led humanity off a cliff and are being proven wrong daily?
What’s the value of being a medical doctor when the overwhelming majority were proven ignorant and complicit to the point of gutting their oaths and the extended authority we gave them?
What’s the positive in being a journalist tied to legacy media when your industry is seen as nothing less than an amplifier for the forces of propaganda?
What does it mean to have a higher education when you graduate without critical thinking skills and essentially paid big bucks to become someone who merely voices the agenda of anti-human hidden forces?
Where is the value in identifying as a scientist when a large percentage of the public recognizes science was hijacked and used against them? (And most “scientists” had no idea.)
Who are you - really - as a “citizen” of a country, a member of a party, when the whole facade of a democracy has been proven a fairy-tale, a story provided to keep you from recognizing you’re a slave and your efforts fund the whole thing?
Obviously I could go on.
We’re in a collective-identity crises and a lot of us don’t know that yet.
So what’s the good news? I think it’s obvious. If the world you’re inhabiting was built on lies, then discovering that is incredibly necessary. And it’s also great! And it’s happening.
Yes, it’s uncomfortable.
Yes, it’s scary.
And yes, our future is largely unknown.
What do we hold on to? This will become, increasingly, a visceral question for many of us. Here are my answers - so far.
Each other: Who we go through this massive transformation with will become more important and essential. We will deepen and strengthen bonds.
That deeper identity we all share and that will emerge more strongly as the superficial identities fade away along with the superficially constructed world they were tied to.
Precious life, nature: We will re-discover our intrinsic place in it.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for more Real. I’m beyond tired of false, of lies, of being lied to. I want to know the truth and if the whole world has to come down to know it, well… okay.
I’m in.
It’s gonna be messy.
Not everyone will make it through. (As we know.)
But that deeper identity we each claim, (know it or not) most definitely will - the eternal spark - so, for me, there’s nothing to worry about there.
Today, in the midst of the ongoing show, highlighting the so called elections, we have a Beaver Blood Full Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse.
I’m no astrologer, but I don’t doubt the larger forces in play and that are generally missed when attempting to understand what’s happening. Our perspective is alway going to be limited and it’s easy to lose sight of the cosmic cycles we are part of, cycles that encompass periods of time far greater than any single lifetime.
However sincerely we attempt to bring clarity to our current situation on planet earth, it’s good to remember - for me at least - that this moment is held in a vast complexity of life that exceeds our ability to comprehend, that remains mysterious though is clearly intelligent.
I believe we’re in really good hands in that sense. We’re held.
Let’s let the false fall away and trust life and its marvels and mysteries that keep us in wonder. Let’s step out of the theatre and crazy show to look up at the immense skies and our place in it.
Free-falling can be frightening, but really we have the earth as our place to land. It is our home. It will ground us and take care of us.
Something more true is coming and I’m grateful for it. (This morning, anyway.)
Something, even, wondrous this way comes.
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Being able to pull out of the show is always a nice welcome when the shows suuuuuuucks. 😂 yeah, I’m no astrologer either, but having this rare blood moon fall in Election Day is a sign of the red wave incoming. But I also thought a birdie landing on Bernie’s podium during his campaign speech is a sign, so my track record isn’t all that great. It’s gonna be entertaining tonight, either way.
"The continued, incongruous avoidance of so much evidence by so many, is at bottom, in my view, mostly about identities attempting to hold on in the face of this threat."
Exactly and all very well said. I am really sensing a sea change happening. And increasingly that normies know that the gig is up. Might be the core of my next piece.
Feeling so much gratitude for blogs like this.