The Inevitability of Change

Change

The only constant is change.  As difficult as that seems to realize in a daily pursuit of comfort and stability, it is liberating to comprehend the eventuality of growth.  Universally, evolution of mind, body, and spirit lay at the foundation for all fulfillments.  

The stage is set early, at least in western culture, to extend a limitation to growth in the fundamentals with which society is framed.  We have basic mandated education and cultural normative in communities.  There is also the “higher” education extension, almost entirely reimagined over the last two generations.  

Originally, university pursuits were available to individuals where apprenticeship would not suffice.  Libraries alone could not disseminate information like current iterations of the internet and media.  Tradecraft has slowly gone out of favor as manufacturing has been resettled in other countries.  The scarcity of tangible productivity compelled a generation to seek college as a means of qualifying for occupations and means of resourcing that were otherwise not realized.  Many would analyze the situation as a sort of a holding pattern.  The currently employed were not aged or monied enough to retire and the young adults exiting the traditional avenues of education had nowhere to land.  

We witnessed change in the absence of a plan to account for what that change would bring.  We are dealing with the effects of this while simultaneously refusing to recognize the fundamental contributors to the disorder we are observing and living through.  

The son should not pay for the sins of the father.  Most would agree that culpability is limited to the individual and individuals are subject to the results of their personal choices.  The ethos of racism resides in the idea that there is genetic primacy and familial or cultural relations confine humans to a value or potential.  Understanding this bigotry as an irrational artifact, history remains inextricable to our experience on earth and informs our decision making at conscious and subconscious levels.

Although children should not pay for the sins of their parents, they do pay for their debts.  We recognize debt as transferrable in marriage or through cosignatories.  We are familiar with the phenomena of generational wealth but unrecognized is the direct experience of generational debt.  Much of the discussion regarding reparations in the communities of those descendent from slavery in the US revolves around this idea.  Debate continues in not only recognizing a way to extract an amount lending to resolving the debt but in the responsibility of the debt altogether.  

What isn’t in question, however, is the debt placed on countries and economies which function on an unsustainable pattern of borrowing without regard or responsibility to the payment of the debt burden.  The entirety of the world is in such a crisis.  We have collateralized our future to pay for the debts of our present.  We have forsaken the land beneath our feet to achieve luxury and comfort because we refuse to apply ourselves in building our own existence.  We are so afraid of resonating with the unknown, of dancing with the mystery of creation, that we have sold our souls to the extravagance of the past.  

In our pursuits of comfort, we have built our own prisons thinking they were castles.  We look through our windows at the outside world.  We look at our screens to distract ourselves from the true nature of reality.  This denial of our existence and our circumstance has consequences beyond a messy home.  When an individual stops questioning their path, they err in their journey.  We accept so much about our lives that we have forgotten to ask the questions that compel us to discover and create.  We have worn the life jacket for so long that we have forgotten we can swim. 

The universe will not stop.  Karma will force growth and there is no amount of complacency stronger than the force of God.  

We will reorganize our societal governance structure.  We will attain accountability for ourselves and for the structures and individuals that we bequeath with authority to collectively manage our resources.  We will come to terms with the truth of what we are doing to this planet and ourselves ecologically.  We will see that not all of our progress is progressive.  Our food system and dietary influences will be understood more completely in regard to their impacts on personal and collective health and their cultivation practices of the greater biosphere.  We will understand our human physiological system better and witness the majesty and perfection of the human body…and our part in defiling it.  When we understand our own perfection, we will recognize our personal and collective contribution to disease.  We will stop operating under the assumption that our practices of pharmacologic intervention are correcting a frail or broken system but instead mitigating and perpetuating the damage we are doing to ourselves.  We will collectively achieve a balance of mind and spirit once more, immersing ourselves in the glory of natural existence and embracing the love and splendor of the earth.  We will stop turning to drama and medications attempting to alter our psychiatric malaise.  We suffocate in our caves, shielded from the healing forces of nature and protect ourselves by putting on a mask.

We will do this together through cocreation and we will do it with honesty and love.  We will conduct commerce truthfully and fairly by reimagining our system of currency to extend value and energy without manipulation and thievery.  No individual or entity will control commerce.  Resources will be awarded based off of value and that value will be assessed collectively.  Novelty, creation, invention, and progress will flourish.  These extensions of hope and benefit will be at the forefront of human excitement and expectation.  Children will no longer be asked what they want to be when they grow up, it will be understood that we are all here to manifest the mysteries of the universe in service to all.  The ideations of today could never foretell the majesty of tomorrows creation.  

We will see each other as brothers and sisters on this eternal journey and recognize a limitless potential of possibility and resources.  There will be no war because there will be nothing to fight over.