Regardless of your opinion on Covid and its dangers, the past year has seen a sharp rise in authoritarianism and surveillance under the flag of safety. As per usual, what started out as an incident will probably become the new normal. Legitimate concerns are used to scare people into accepting more restrictions. This is the way power is asserted, through fear-mongering and the iron fist.

It’s almost laughable the way societies are always changing and yet those in power are always fighting change. These days, it mostly looks like the old world is re-asserting its grip, but in truth we’re developing new ways of living, new ways of feeling, and new ways of thinking about what our reality ought to be like. We’re going through a rite of passage, and we have to go through this rite of passage, because change is the one constant in the Universe. 

Be that as it may, I think we all long for a profound change away from society’s move to restrict freedom. The reality of a violent, capitalist, moralising, antagonistic society has lost its splendour. Ever more people are trying to move away from these stolid, monolithic societies. And so, as individuals all of us need to begin to define for ourselves the new realities we would like to live in.

People 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 rediscovering the truth of our bodies. 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. 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 have a more direct experience of the true nature of reality. We need this new knowledge more than scientific understanding, more than being attached to what we once knew. 

To me, it seems so very obvious that the old world is not just crumbling, it has already disappeared. We are now merely looking at a fictional world that refuses to dissolve, because the minds of the rich and the scared are holding on to it and are making it real. But the old world is no longer real, it has already become a memory. 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 your fellow humans 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. You are connected to the Supreme Mind. The Supreme Mind has taken on many forms, and you are one of these forms. And love means, seeing how you can fully savour the joy of being alive in this form your currently in. Love means, expanding your emotional awareness, and letting go of your old fears. And as we grow through love, awareness will come more naturally.

As we let go of the old, we cannot do anything other than become completely new. And then, as we let go of fear and become something new, we can become the magical beings of our dreams. And through the wise application of our new-found magic, we will let go of our fears and resist authoritarianism. Are you with me?