A PLEASANT MONDAY

It is cloudy, but a pleasant day, it is 37.2 degrees F, a nice relief from the cold. It is Monday. My Mondays have been full of unexpected events lately and I have postponed blogging on a few of them. This is not one of them. Everything is quiet and predictable. No chaos, no excitement, no unexpected errands; but I have been sitting here for about an hour without a thought about what I should blog about.

On Friday, I said I would discuss the world situation. I don't want to. I don't know what is going on. Last week the world's markets were crashing and the price of gold began to soar. Today, it looks like a recovery is under way. It makes no sense. There has been no fundamental change. I don't know of anything that would inspire optimism. All indications are that the economic system, as we have known it, is crumbling.

Civilizations come and go. Empires rise and fall. It is no surprise to many of us that we are watching the collapse of the old world order, based on competition, greed, uncontrolled capitalism, domination of a few, and the elevation of power and money. Most of us, living on planet Earth, are eager to see it go.

We are tired of racism, sexism, nationalism and all the other isms that keep us from realizing our unity and love for each other. We know our dream of a sane world exist behind this illusion of separation. We know when we remove our support for the old world order, it must collapse.

How do we remove our support? What can we do? First accept one idea, the tired old world that is passing is built on FEAR. Fear, big fears, little fears, fears of all kinds. We have been manipulated endlessly with fear. Fear of other sexes, other races, other nationalities, other religions, foreigners, other ways of bringing up children, different educational ideas, any differences at all. We had been parsed and divided endlessly to the point where, honest to goodness, real trust in each other, was becoming rare.

At some point we turned the corner. We recognized that a world of love could manifest. We began to question why we should be afraid of each other. We began to see through the veil of craziness and separation, offered to us, by the ones who would be in control. We don't wish to judge anybody else. We wish to appreciate and love all differences. We don't want to respond, to the invitations of fear, like a bull responds to the red cape. No, no, no, we want to be free. We want to love. We don't want to be crazy anymore!

We remove support from the old world, by refusing to give it any emotional attention. We must ignore all invitations to be afraid. Money/power have invaded all areas of our culture. Fear is used to make money in science, medicine, agriculture, education, everything. I will be happy to give examples if one has any doubt about this. But I don't want any of us to think about it too much. It doesn't help much to examine the rotten corpse of the old world. We only need to do it, to find out, we don't want to do it any more.

We have a new world to dream. Let us focus on love and forgiveness. Let us look for the shining light in everyone. Let's use our energy to discover who we are. It is time for the illusion of separation to end. It is time to discover our Oneness.

Love and Peace, Gregg