Waking Up in an Unsafe World
How do we operate well when the world seems more threatening?
In my circle of friends, when we begin to talk about current events, inevitably someone will bring up how unaware or asleep the general population has been.
OK, I’m probably the one who says it, however, I’m not sure whether this is a new insight or a talking point that has been planted into my head.
Either way, at least I am aware of the present popularity of this idea of sleep walkers and I can’t recall it being a big discussion point until the last few years. This is evidence, at least to me, that we have entered a more confusing time in the world.
But I still don’t know if it explains reality.
Have we been asleep like Rip Van Winkle? And are we now waking up to the fact our world isn’t the place we thought it was just a few years ago before masks, lockdowns, and the rest?
Or is what we are experiencing more about an originally slow erosive process that started before we were born and is now beginning to pick up a lot more steam?
If it is the latter then rather than being asleep we, the general public, have been busy trying to manage our own lives by making adjustments, with a lot of mind-changing along the way.
Which speaks to me of the necessity of rebirth, that it isn’t for a few, but for every one.
In other words, conversions, significant moments of dramatic internal change, are not only normal but necessary. Not just from a religious or spiritual aspect but in order to effectively operate in more hostile environments where we need more power and courage than we think we have.