Horsemaker Soulstar and Rhiannon in Second LifeThis past couple of months have been a roller coaster ride for America, some would even call it a nightmare! We all have experienced nightmares, both the kind associated with dreaming and the kind in our life that happen during our waking moments. Lately I've been thinking more about the purpose of nightmares.
Ever since I started making the clay horses in earnest in my studio I have watched a new understanding unfold about the connection women and horses seem to have. It seems that the Celtic Wisdom figure, Rhiannon has played a role in Humankind's journey. It is said that she rides through the evening sky on the Night Mare bringing prophecy and wisdom to the dreamer. Many of us know that if we do not face our worst nightmares we will never be free. The more we avoid facing them, the more they persue and haunt us.
At the moment, it has never seemed clearer to me that the reality we think we live in, seems to be coming apart at the seams, it is failing, disintegrating, imploding. Have you ever seen so many businesses and organizations that seemed just a few years ago to be solid and now are going bankrupt? What is going on here? We can't put off facing the fact that the world around us is different. Though we may want to avoid this seeming mess all around us, we can't. It requires a change of consciousness because we can't solve these problems by using the same level of thinking that created them. (Seems to me Einstein came up with that thought back in the day.)
So what are we to do? I have found that my experiences in Second Life, something I have mentioned before in another post, have given me some new insights about all of this. In order to function in Second Life, you have to be willing to suspend your normal perspective and watch from a different vantage point. In so doing, I have realized that my mind and thoughts are what is really creating what is happening outside of me. The only way I can change the world outside of me is to change it from the inside first. No amount of stimulas plan or bank bailout will change things for the better until each one of us changes this game, first on the inside. We each know someone who is losing a job, or,is sick with a life threatening illness or, is at the very least, discouraged, confused or angry.We may ask ourselves how we can help and the answer is that it is an inside job for each of us. The first step is to realize that no matter what our outside package looks like, the Consciousness who created the experience we are now having is magnificent and is a creative genius. I am not referring to God here. (That's a whole other story!) I am talking about you and me Consciousness. Yes, even the bozo on the bus or the annoying neighbor next door. We are all awesome expressions of one flawless force. The nightmare we are riding together is a great opportunity to finally discover this truth, but we may have to suspend our normal perceptions to see it. I think this present time is a Golden Opportunity to know a greater freedom from the life of slavery to some pretty big illusions we have been living with on this planet for so long.
As my day dawns this morning I am curious to see what I can create today from the opportunities that present themselves. Saddle up with me and let's see where this Night Mare is going. Just remember, the reins are in our hands.
5 comments:
As always, such an in-sight-full, thoughtful post. I, too, think that this night mare is rich with opportunity to do/view things differently.
There has been massive agreement in our world that everything is falling apart because of the monetary crisis. But money is just energy. It seems the energy holding various illusions in place shifted and the illusions are disintegrating. The energy can be redirected to a new vision - a higher purpose.
I pray we are awake enough to heed the prophecy and wisdom we receive from the Night Mare.
I understand exactly what you are saying... though as a human, I find it difficult to get past that EGO who cannot stand the bozo on the bus.. I guess it will come to me oneday how to get past the EGO mind into the Consciousness that you write of... and a part of me wishes I could go back to the time when I believed everything that was told to me from the pulpit... it was so much easier not to have to think for myself :) - ... I wonder what was meant by 'the faith of a child'??
I'm not sure I understand everything you're saying here, but what I do think I understand, I absolutely agree with. I also am looking at the opportunities this 'nightmare' is providing as positive. I keep working on me from the inside, but I think it's that ego (as miss R said) that keeps getting in the way.
Kathryn so wonderful to check in again on your blog- you speak truth and creativity so clearly.
Free your mind, and the rest will follow.
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