So much of the deeper essence of what we are actually moving through right now spirals around a fundamental crisis of imagination, and the loss of our human visionary potential. As a result, a primary compass in the journey of the life of the human soul has been destroyed. Countless have been set adrift and are entirely lost at sea.
If a human being is incapable of gaining distance from the civilization it belongs to, including stepping outside of it’s narrow confines to witness the fundamental philosophies at play, the ideologies being underscored, the meaning that is being perpetuated, and the trajectory of this greater movement - than one belongs only to that time - caught like a fish in a net.
Experience inside of the net is limited to the location of the civilization.
Beyond the walls of such a prison exists a vast ocean of possibility - just outside the frame of reference of the one who is captured.
When one ventures out into the deeper waters of this open ocean, the realities that were once held are shattered into a million pieces, and the world - like a dream - begins to reconfigure and reassemble, over and over again. This process is ongoing - the form moving back into the formless, rebirthing itself into ever shifting states of being and consciousness - the unknown coming to know itself, in the echo of the infinite.
This is the experience of awakening, at once beautiful and terrifying, excruciating and ecstatic. And this experience can also be terribly lonely.
What the last two years have revealed to me is that far too many human beings are tied entirely to our culture and civilization, without the knowledge or the desire to free themselves of such incredible bondage.
For when one begins to peer back into the net of systems and values that our current civilization is perpetuating, one is met with the darkest shadow of humanity.
This shadow is exemplified by a raw attachment to violence and to systems of domination, subordination, and control, the total destruction of innocence and the imagination, the wild disregard for the wisdom of nature and the immaculate technology of the human body, and above all - the complete exile of the human spirit.
Through our total divorce from the living spirit and our inability to simply imagine another realty, we have found ourselves in a shadowland built of our arrogance and narcissism. People of our era call this “science”, and “progress”.
When we begin to sink back into the wild beauty of our imaginal life, we reignite the visionary torch that has been snuffed out for so long.
We begin to identify with the larger capacity of our soul experience, rather than perpetuating the obsessive violence of our current times.
Through the sacred remembrance of our own visionary capacity, we honor our living sentience. We no longer are slaves to a civilization that has forgotten what it means to be human, but rather learn to embrace the continual visionary process of dreaming our world into being, above and beyond the confines of this time and place.
