I would like to start by giving credit to Tom Kenyon (sound healer extraordinaire) for these marvellous words from his recent newsletter. He is happy for his content to be shared. This particular sentence struck a strong and very positive note with me. It made me smile. What a wonderful thing to consider – that the future has changed. That the future can change. That the future is not what it used to be.
What does this mean at a time when everything seems chaotic, unruly, in a state of upheaval? What does it mean when emotions around the world are running high? When injustice, prejudice and bullying seem to be the order of the day? When personal freedom of choice and expression is not just being curtailed, but punished and not just with loss of income, reputation, country, or limb, but in many cases with loss of life itself?
Many are calling this moment the ‘end of time’ days. Predictions and prophecies abound. Earth changes escalate and earthquakes, floods, snow storms, volcanic eruptions and fires sweep across the planet, giving rise to once-in-a-lifetime statistics and extraordinarily rare planetary alignments, on an almost daily basis.
Animals are rushing out of national parks and humans are revolting, marching, screaming, petitioning, standing up to be counted, like never before. Conspiracy theories, secrets and undercover activities pour out in a lava of condemnation over the news and social media. At the same time, new species, inventions and life-changing cures are being discovered. Previously extinct life forms are re-appearing. Natural solutions to pollution, illness and death are emerging. People are rising up to help the world with enormous gifts of generosity in time, kindness and cash towards their fellow beings. It is a unique moment in time. A documentary moment.
Yet in all this noise, there seems to be a stillness. A quiet waiting, as if nature is holding its breath, waiting for an outcome, waiting for us to choose, to determine the new future. A scene out of a time-travelling hero movie, where the pause button has been activated and everything has stopped, while the picture gets adjusted. And many seem shell-shocked in this moment. Unable to take on board what is happening, unable or unwilling to believe it, they stand in rows, frozen, like rabbits in front of particularly large headlights. They wait. To see what will happen. To see how it all works out. They wait to be told what to do. Where to go. Where the chips will fall. Not wanting to take a side, not wanting to commit. Sitting on the fence and hedging their bets.
And others still, on the hiss side of freeze, huff and puff and vent angrily about everything. Condemning, criticising, taking the moral high ground, adding fuel to the flames of hatred in the name of good. You can’t really do that. How much flack did I get recently when I suggested ‘there are no winners in war’ to a post asking who would win if the US states all went to war – complete with map. I was given some pretty derogatory comments focused on ‘that time of month’ (because apparently only menstruating females oppose war), was told I was a wet blanket, a hippy and definitely would be ‘no fun at a party’. Still trying to connect the dots between fun and war. Oh, but I would dance those men right under the table on any day. Or many days and nights for that matter. Without pause or intoxicants and without a shadow of a doubt.
Yet the majority agreed with my ‘there are no winners in war’ and the count of likes for this keeps growing daily. Because, despite a really inaccurate urban myth-type belief, the majority of people on the planet are basically good. The majority want only the good and the just and the positive. But sometimes they get lost in waves of outrage and disbelief and horror. I do sometimes, too. It’s easy to feel justified to oppose the negative. It’s easy to want to jump on your horse and, sword in hand, ride out to decapitate and destroy the evil. To wreak havoc and destruction on the wrongdoers. To smite them and burn their homes to the ground, in true biblical style. Then bring on the plagues. I do feel that way some days, I cannot lie.
But alas (and drat!) there is karma. And also, no matter how much smiting you may feel like perpetrating on a good day, you know that it will only keep the cycle of destruction fuelled and going. That it will feed the very fires you are trying to put out. So you need to remind yourself of that and desist. Resist joining the dark forces. And it’s this resistance that is a problem. Because when you resist anything you set up opposition and you need rather to flow with and focus on the good instead of resisting the evil. It’s a small, subtle, but enormous difference.
You should not try to oppose war. You should seek to encourage, join together for and promote peace.
You must not talk about, focus on, analyse, criticise, laugh at, anyone or anything you are against. You should rather focus on, highlight, talk about, intend, and thereby bring to pass new positive outcomes. A new positive future, in fact.
It’s hard. No two ways about it. But the more you focus on the weeds, the more they grow. That’s permaculture-style gardening, which I always talk about. In permaculture, you ignore the weeds and focus on the flowers and vegetables and plants you are growing. You feed and water and focus on them. And, as-true-as-god-made-little-green-apples, the weeds when ignored simply fade away. I have actually tested this theory in my own garden, which has been organic and pest- and weed-free – without any external input – for two and a half decades now.
Now there are a number of characters in our current day- and night-time life-on-planet-earth soapy that feature on and on. And on. Ad nauseam. Whether these characters talk, tweet, debate, or make unhealthy rules themselves, creating dissent and outrage. Whether people are mocking, or talking against, or supporting, or ridiculing, or making funny memes of, or creating comedy out of these characters. Or people associated with them. The attention is constant. The focus is unending. The tedium is tedious and energy-draining, counter life-enhancing. And what you focus on expands.
What you focus on expands.
All that attention, negative and positive, adds energy and attention to the characters involved and keeps them fed and shining! Keeps them in the limelight. Adds energy to their agendas and projects and intents. That, is an absolute fact and something to really, really consider.
Can you imagine having some or other aspiration or intent and having tens or maybe hundreds of millions of people all plugging their energy into that – negative or positive energy doesn’t matter – energy is energy. Can you just imagine what you could accomplish with that amount of pure energy and attention fed to you? Think about that. Because that is the state of affairs and the actual issue here. And if you want to turn the tide, you need to look away and withdraw your energy from the stuff you do not want to support. Then plug it in to your own, created, new and improved future!
When we align with the good and the positive and the right, we align with Spirit and the forces of good. No matter what name you give this primordial goodness, this Divine Beingness or Isness, whether you see it as male, female, personalised, all encompassing, amorphous or nature-based, it does not matter. When we connect with the constructive, ever-flowing whole, invisible hands and helpers will come to our aid. And they will help us to turn the tide.
Yes indeed, if ever there was a time to turn the tide, to rewrite the prophecies and predictions and foretellings, it is now. If ever we could jump onto some new parallel timelines and shift the trains of possibility onto new tracks, it is now. And, as was foretold in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, it’s just a jump to the left.
We were also told in the same fine show, ‘don’t dream it, be it’. That is how we create a new reality, a new future. ‘The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades’ Timbuk 3
What new future can you imagine? Can you imagine light and sunshine and all things working for good at the end of this tunnel? Can you imagine this moment as a blip in the history of the world? Can you imagine reading future history books which mention that short-lived moment in which some awful trolls thought they would turn the tide of goodness and failed? Can you even imagine that this blip will be so small in the grand scheme of things that it is not even mentioned in the history books at all? Forgotten? Gone? Wiped out from memory and imagination? Imagine that.
I came across such an interesting photographer – he photographs people who are holding their phones in various situations – from a wedding couple lounging against a car, to people sitting on a couch or around a dinner table or standing about outdoors. The photos are in black and white and the phones are blanked out. So you see the people staring, but not at each other, with nothing in their hands. A sad testament to this age. I could not help but comment and hope that these photos will be earmarked in history books as that brief moment in time when technology threatened to take over the world and failed. That’s what I dream and imagine. You can too.
I imagine a good and wholesome future which is earth-based and sustainable. I imagine that we have ordinary phones and cameras and appliances that are not smart but functional and good. I imagine a return to nature and basic values. That the things that are really important are focused on. I imagine a world where all children are protected and have a home – even if its not with their biological parents. I imagine a world that is compassionate and caring. That all can practise their religions and beliefs without fear, but also without imposition on any others that may believe differently and with respect for all gods and creeds. I imagine a world where animals and nature are protected. Where the divinity in all is recognised and where less is more. Everyone has a home and food and warmth and protection. People contribute their skills and gifts towards an integrated whole and work together for the common good. Work takes up just a few days and then you dance and swim and walk in the countryside. I guess I am a bit of a hippy after all.
What future do you imagine for the world?
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, maybe someday you will join us, and the world will be as one” – John Lennon
