Excellent essay here by Jan Phillips:
The art of original thinking is the art of thinking beyond dualities. It is the art of immersing ourselves so thoroughly in the idea of oneness that the creations, the visions, the solutions we offer the world are in the service of the whole human family. This itself is countercultural, given that we have all been born into a world where duality reigns. But we know from science now, if not from our own faith and spiritual awareness, that the notion of separateness is fundamentally wrong. As was the notion of a flat earth. As was the notion of the earth being the center of the universe. These findings caused a great tumult in the societies called upon to accommodate them, for it is never easy to realign a worldview.
And our society now is undergoing a similar upheaval as we witness and bear the breakdown of nearly every system we have created. The old ways are disintegrating before our eyes, as well they might, rooted as they were in the soil of separateness. Profit before people is a concept that will soon be history, for it fails to stand up to the tests of this day: Is it good for the whole? Does it harm the earth? Is it good for our grandchildren?
Because we are dealing with an entirely new worldview, with the creation of a new myth, based, not on separation and a fall from grace, but on oneness and an ascendancy into our true potential, the revelations of our collective wisdom will take some time to supercede the old myths and methods. They will meet with opposition, cynicism, and a wild clamoring against change. Since so many are profiting from things as they are, and since we collectively fear letting go of the known, the forerunners of change will be addressing minds that are closed and frightened. And this is the great challenge for any emergent thought leader--to know that one's ideas will be criticized and resisted, and yet to dare to speak, knowing that these thoughts are the only building blocks we have to a new and safer world.Thought leaders do not wait in silence. Nor do they wait for others' minds to be opened, or for safe places to speak into. Thought leaders are the openers of minds, the modern day prophets who dare say "we," knowing our words spring from a place of unity. We are the new mythmakers, the new prophets and pattern-makers for a massive karmic correction. The whole world is in our hands.
Here are Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's thoughts:
If the world has not come to its end, it has approached a major turn in history, equal in importance to the turn from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. It will exact from us a spiritual upsurge, we shall have to rise to a new height of vision, to a new level of life where our physical nature will not be cursed as in the Middle Ages, but, even more importantly, our spiritual being will not be trampled upon as in the Modern era. This ascension will be similar to climbing onto the next anthropologic stage. No one on earth has any other way left but - upward.
(In recent times it has been fashionable to talk of the levelling of nations, of the disappearance of different races in the melting-pot of contemporary civilization. I do not agree with this opinion, but its discussion remains another question. Here it is merely fitting to say that the disappearance of nations would have impoverished us no less than if all men had become alike, with one personality and one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, its collective personalities; the very least of them wears its own special colours and bears within itself a special facet of divine intention.)TRANSUDATIONISM: MANKINDS' COSMIC IDEOLOGY.
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