Goodbye, old world...

As I went out this Sunday morning to breathe the air around the lonesome city, I stepped into a church I passed along the way. The building was as old and desperate as you’d expect in these forlorn times, and it seemed to me the landlord had forgotten about the tenants long ago. A priest was conducting a service, although he pretended not to, because faith in anything other than the government and what many believe is science, is all that is allowed now, and gathering together and listening to words of another kind of faith is forbidden. Anyway, listening to that priest and his age-old formulas, I sat there and wondered whether magic can trump madness.

Everybody knows this is nowhere. And so, you have to find truth within yourself, as the world around you is crumbling. You have to retreat into your mind, you have to find your inner authority, and from that lonesome position, ultimately, you have to seek out what is true. You have to find a truth that is so strong that it will keep you safe from the ruins of this old world falling off of the crumbling buildings on top of you.

Last summer, I posted a video saying: ‘The madness will fade’. Either my timing was very flawed, or I just forgot to mention how things first need to get far worse, before they can get any better. So are we now witnessing the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning? I prefer to believe that this shock to the world heralds better times - after all, why not? Because what do we need, as a species? Sex, food, drugs, and shelter - and we need this not just for a select few, but for everyone. All the rest is luxury; and there is an abundance of luxury in the world available, it just needs to be available to everyone, and not merely to a select few. We can now see this, and act upon what we see, and change this world around. If we want to.

So anyway, as I sat in the pews, listening to this old priest reciting the mantras of the Catholic church, I naturally thought about death, too. All around us we see the might of the State, taking away civil liberties in the name of a greater good. The greater good being that all efforts will be made to keep people from falling ill and dying - which is laudable, of course. But you see, death is not the problem. Death is merely a passage; the living things die, and through the process of dying, they pass on to the next life. When people die, the essence of the person leaves the body, and the essence of the person is an eternal energy, it is a part of the eternal energy of the source of all being, and it will return to the source, and as the essence becomes one with the source, it will go on living.

The source of all being is the consciousness of the world. It needs to fragment and it needs to take on a material form, because only if it is material, can it act, and only when it acts can it turn the endless potential of creation into a material event, and only through material events happening, is it possible for the consciousness of the world to gain a true understanding of what is and what might be. And death is just another way for the source of all being to gain a greater awareness.

At the stage we’re now at, as a species, we are developing our emotional awareness, in order for the consciousness of the world to learn. As people, we have to go through this rite of passage, because we are connected to the greater consciousness. This is our fate and it is our glory. We are individual bodies connected to the body of the world. We can no longer search for truth in dogma and long-held beliefs, we are finding it in our body. The body of the world is warning us, it is saying, ‘learn what can be learned, and learn it now, or your time will have passed.’ So, we need to learn about empathy, about the truth of intuition, we need to learn to distinguish false emotions from true feelings; and we need to understand what sensations can help us directly experience The Consciousness of the world. We need this new knowledge more than scientific understanding, more than being attached to what we think we see, more than what we think we are thinking, and certainly more than we need to rationalise what is not rational.

The time has come to overcome our fears. The time has come to turn away from this clinging to the material world as if the reality we can shape in our own image is really all that reality is. Because, as I sat there in that grand old church, it seemed so very obvious to me that the old world is not just crumbling, it has already disappeared. We are looking at a fictional world that refuses to dissolve, because our minds are holding on to it and are making it real. But this old world is no longer real, it has already become a memory. From out of our collective awareness, we need to conjure up a new kind of magic.

Instead of merely waiting for this crisis to pass, now is the time to begin listening to your inner truth. The truth is, you need to expand your awareness, and you do this through the physical manifestation of Love. Love means, trusting you are connected to the others and acting on that trust; it means seeing that you are connected to the natural world, as well as to the world beyond this human life. Love means, seeing how life should not be ruled by the fear of death, but by the joy of being alive. Love means, expanding your emotional awareness, and letting go of your old fears. And as we grow through love, emotional awareness will come more naturally. As we let go of the old, we cannot do anything other than become completely new. As we let go of fear and become something new, we can become the magical beings of our dreams.

I walked out of the church, the way one wakes from a dream and steps from one reality into another reality. The old building faded as I walked on through a deserted city. I left behind me what I now saw was an empty shell. I said goodbye to the old world, and I stepped into the light.