A Manner of Speaking

All sorts of things are going on right now, and this is the duty of those of us who are on the precipice of a new revolution. To understand what the artist must create. Create in partnership with the intelligence and presence at the center of things. Revolution is an “evolution again.” Is it possible to make evolution conscious? For us as apparently the most conscious species on the planet earth, how could evolution be in a different direction? It is the mind that has to move forward, or, perhaps, it is the mind that must be submitted to something higher, which will then work with it, the personality, and the essence to transform into something different than what presently exists.

But what can change mean in this realm? Where can we go and how can we make the present exist in its entirety (its eternity). The entirety of the present is eternity. Somehow, this “now” of eternity and the present holds the key to all that we are, have been, and will become. The state of eternal transformation and change in the present, which sees us come onto this stage, live life after life, and then die, only to experience, again at the right time and place, a repeat until, finally, we catch on and can “get it right.” Getting it right means what? That is also a question to consider. It might have something to do with “living rightly,” or according to our given purpose.

This might be many different things. Room for speculation here, certainly, but also room for becoming the multitude of diversity we experience on the planet. Save room and space and time for this probe. What do we become? Are we at all aware that we are becoming? Aren’t we becoming the fabric of our consciousness? Aren’t we becoming our desires? Aren’t we learning? What are these desires, and where are they leading? We can see for many people it simply means the sphere of family, striving in a profession, and the limits imposed by the environment. There aren’t many who can move out of this, or who are working to create a way out of this in their consciousness. They have time for their world, which is the world of their choosing, consciously or unconsciously.

Can mankind evolve if its guiding force is self-interest? Hasn’t self-interest turned man into a predator? Where does self-interest end? Does it end? Is it the essence of fragmentation? Do we not have a world where people are preying upon people? Was this ever intended? Is there a way out?

Not to be pessimistic, of course. But to simply see the truth, to see what really is, what is really going on. Is seeing, in this light, also a matter of feeling? Is feeling a way of knowing? Of course it is. Is it a higher way of knowing, more immediate than thinking (the rational thought process, which, come to think of it, isn’t so rational after all, right?)

To do anything well, one needs energy. One dissipates energy when one is distracted. One creates energy when one is focused. What distracts us? Is it possible to be distracted when one is following one’s aim? What is an aim? A place to go now. Something to do. Work to accomplish. But, it has gotten so much more complicated than all of this, hasn’t it? Hasn’t the world of work been responsible for this? Is work to blame? How can work be to blame for anything? Afterall, it is just action. It is what surrounds action – the noun aspect of it – that is the problem: the one that not only does, but is, or assumes it is.