I have moved from despair and bewilderment to starting to be curious to know what Spirit is up to with this surprising election outcome. I’m trying to widen my lens of perception to understand the larger good that will come out of all of this.
In the meantime, I have resigned from being a news junkie and have deleted all my TV media news shows from my list of recordings. Also, I’m being extremely selective of what I read; avoiding opinions and tuning into only the most reliable sources of reports.
The morning after the election, I did allow myself to catch an interview with Timothy Synder, the author of On Tyranny. He commented on Lesson 18, Be Calm When the Unthinkable Arrives.
After the interview, I went into my office and reached up to pull his book off the shelf so I could read Lesson 18 for myself. However, I was surprised by the book that ended up in my hand. It turned out to be Olivier Clerc’s Invaluable Lessons from a Frog: Seven Life-Enhancing Metaphors.
It contained the metaphor of the Chinese bamboo. I felt like this was a direct message from Spirit. Clerc describes how nothing shows up in the first year after planting this bamboo, watering it, and tending it. And then, nothing shows up in the second, third, and fourth years. However, in the fifth year, a tiny seedling begins to reveal itself as it pushes through the soil toward the light. And in that fifth year, that baby shoot, in a single year, grows 40 feet.
This was a direct message from Spirit, and it gave me hope. It is a message that many unseen activities are going on, working for what is good, healthy, sustainable, kind, and life-enhancing.
As I write this, I’m preparing for the upcoming interview with Douglas Grunther, author of The Quantum & The Dream: Visionary Consciousness, AI, and the New Renaissance. He reminds us of the Hero’s Journey (or in this case, the Heroine’s Journey) of Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz story written by L. Frank Baum, first published in 1900.
Grunther points out that the hero of this tale is an adolescent girl, Dorothy Gale, who is a unique element that “faithfully models mythologist Joseph Campbell’s thoughts on the Hero’s Journey.”
I can recall when the late Michael Toms asked Joseph what he thought the new myth for the 21st century would be. Joe responded that predicting what myth will take hold of future generations is difficult. However, he added that he believed it would have something to do with the rising of the feminine.
Dorothy’s indomitable strength of vulnerability, emotional bonding, and collaborative instincts inform key insights from two brilliant contemporary women (Julia Butterfly Hill and Greta Thunberg) who “pull the curtain” on the materialist paradigm, helping us recognize how we fit into the deeper patterns of Nature and can help grow seeds of the New Renaissance.
Also, I’m heartened by the closing words of Professor and historian Heather Cox Richardson’s interview with Jon Stewart on YouTube. “A hero is somebody…who keeps trying to do the right thing even when you know the walls are closing in. We can all do that.”
I’ll end this writing with a response to a posting I did on Linkedin from former New Dimensions guest and founding board member of Association of Waldorf Schools in America Joan Jaeckel: “We are bamboo! Not bamboozled. “
May we all join together and respond in mutual alliance in support of all creation.
