For someone who hasn’t paid a great deal of attention to the details of the news over the past eight to ten years (with deliberate positive rationale behind that decision), the main news event of the past ten days has proved to be quite compelling. And I do have to confess to having had a little “schadenfreude” and “I told you so ism” as the once mighty are most certainly starting to fall from grace and even power to some degree.
Conspiracy theorists’ and other websites will no doubt be brimming with similar feelings of “I told you so” and whilst many of them have done highly creditable work in helping to bring elements of this scandal into the light it is, as ever, important to remember where we should be focussing our energy.
One could attach a number of strong words in connection with this scandal…power, corruption, greed, manipulation and control are only a few and all of them have much relevance to the situation, and they are all very strong currents flowing through our society and our planet. We have seen a number of similar patterns being exposed over the past few years in this country with the “scandals” of the MPs and their expenses, the bankers and their pay cheques et al, however they all blew over relatively quickly and reflecting back on them, I wonder if anything has really changed in those scenarios, especially the latter?
And why did they all pass so relatively quickly? Was it because the underlying strength of those involved in those scandals was actually or was it because we all felt a little pleased when these issues came out into the light and defocused our positive intentions? Probably a lot of both and a few others things too.
This scandal seems to run much deeper, and it may well be the one that truly creates a brand new vista in the fabric of our society. If you ponder the potential implications that our entire system of media communication and information intake (and thus our collective psyche) has been subject to corruption and manipulation for many years (yes, I know – it doesn’t really take much pondering to know the answer to that one), then it of course provokes a fair few questions, not least of which is what is going to fill that rather large gap in our collective pscyhe.
And that can only be one thing….the Truth of course. And not the immediate truth of the scandal in question as there will doubtless be numerous attempts to duck, weave, bob, hide, side-step and all sorts of shennanigans coming into play, and that truth might take a while to out.
It’s our truth, and us living our truth for every minute of every day, being our truth in every situation and living in heart-felt honesty on all occasions. It’s all of us who have made this moment possible, by carrying out the work on ourselves that we have, by continuing to transform whatever no longer serves us, and by all of the various other transformations that so many of us have been carrying out; seemingly for ourselves but ultimately for the collective too. And that’s how we can continue to transform the archetypal pattern that’s unfolding in our media…by living our Truth.
There will be many things that try to fill the gap in our psyche, in our society or our own personal section of it; some will be this, some be that and some will even be spiritual. Probably all of them will appear to be highly attractive, many will be genuine and some will be opportunistic etc. However everything that glitters is not necessarilly gold. It’s a highly important time to maintain a very high level of discernment, and discern what truly serves us. Are we giving our power again to someone or something which is seeking to control or manipulate? Is this place or person that we are energsising, showing us by example how to take responsibility for how we manage all of our energies. Do they show us how to use that power with balance, compassion and truth. Can’t remember exactly how the phrase goes but it’s something like “the true yogi never wants anything from anybody” …and we can all be that yogi if we want to be, for ourselves and others.
At this time we do need to keep doing work on ourselves; what’s happening in the media is an archetypal example of what is within nearly all of us. Most people have some kind of pattern of manipulation and/or control within them to whatever degree and we need to be honest and acknowledge them in this moment and to bring them to light so that they may be transformed, so that we can heal the collective pattern in entirety this time around.
And we do need to keep sending positive vibrations to the positive solutions within the situations that surround us. Strange as that may sound to some people, we really do. One of my favourite Mother Teresa stories is when she was asked by anti-Vietnam protester to sign a petition protesting against the war there. She refused, much to the amazement of the person asking her, who responded….”but you’re Mother Teresa, surely you’re against war”. Mother Teresa replied “yes, of course I am, but that’s not where I choose to focus my energy. If you had asked me to sign a petition which was in favour of peace, then I would gladly sign that. I will not add my energy to the energy of war by signing an anti-war petition”
Be the Change That You want to See in the World….
With love, light and many blessings
Doug
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