Survival mode. Thank God for survival mode – because we survived. Unlike, dammit, the hundreds of people IN A HOSPITAL in Gaza today, that were blown up while in their most vulnerable state. A bomb blows up a hospital. Likewise the women and children trapped at home in Afghanistan, because under Taliban rule they can’t be out and about, were crushed under rubble during this week’s earthquakes. We are seeing a massive assault on the weak, the suppressed, the oppressed, the vulnerable. Ironically, rather than this being the forces of “evil” at work – it is life revealing the dynamics at work on our planet, so that we may wake up, that our hearts may crack open, that we may rise up in our own capacities for leadership and say NO MORE. Not because we become cruel in our attempts to stop cruelty, but because we MODEL a different way of being that does not tolerate juvenile, dysfunctional behaviors and instead creates cultural conditions in which basic human needs ARE MET rather than manipulated and controlled by others for personal gain or religious dogmatic reasons.
The 37th Shadow (from the Gene Keys framework), Weakness, is being brought to the surface right now. Alas, life presents clues in the form of catastrophe, in which that which is precious is shattered, that which is treasured is stolen, that which is dear to us is lost. These apparent setbacks are not malicious. On the contrary, they are laserbeams, pointing out with great specificity what we value – in a way that helps us see that we actually value it. (As the saying goes, we know the value of water when the well is dry…) Values, of course, are energetic drivers of our behavior, in the words of Richard Barrett, and evolution always shifts energy – not necessarily to “equilibrium” but certainly into some kind of balance, if that is the right word. And so as we have created a society in which the power dynamics of hierarchy, domination, and violence have ensured that some subset of the population remains oppressed, suppressed, frozen, and disempowered, nature is creating the conditions in which that frozen energy is liberated – so that it can be directed into creating something new.
In systems theory, we have the four stages: accumulation and buildup, a release phase, a reorganization, and then the accumulation begins again. The release phase is underway. It’s not quite accurate that some people are “martyrs” or “sacrificed” for the cause, as some humans would tend to label it. That’s true from the human lens, but energetically it is so impersonal – the same processes have been happening before “life” existed on earth, just molecules and atoms rearranging themselves from order to chaos and order again, in cycles of increasing complexity and coordination.
So. We have “order” in the form of oppressive regimes enforcing rigid control, and of course these systems are the snakeskin that’s way too small for our evolving world, and so things blow up so we can see things ever more clearly. We have “order” in the form of one political nation trying to control another group of people, and of course this rigid control is absurdly unsustainable, so… chaos erupts in the form of extremist violence and attacks on the innocent, so we can place our attention upon the disruption and inhumanity and ask better questions beyond just “WTF?”
We are in the systemic release phase. Which means we will see a lot more chaos before we see new structures that provide order – because the value systems driving the society-building are in the process of upleveling.
Every time we see people harmed – some of us awaken our desire to create a better world where that doesn’t happen.
Every time we see hatred, some of us awaken our desire to create a better world where more love and kindness are expressed.
Every time we see injustice, some of us awaken our desire to create a better world where people are treated fairly and with dignity.
And there are more and more of us waking up and doing this work – of rolling up our sleeves to create communities based in higher values, organizations with cultures that honor individuals more authentically, families that hold the precious soul journey of their children as sacred.
We. Are. Doing. It.