The idea of Christ Consciousness has always frightened me a bit. It seems too "love and light" to ever achieve. To have Christ Consciousness, don't you have to compare yourself to Jesus? Isn't that the height of arrogance?
This week I've been thinking about that as I've watched Brother Weather rip across our country, demolishing homes, killing some people, injuring others, and frightening others. How does Christ Consciousness view something that seems so NOT "love and light?"
It occurs to me that Christ Consciousness is actually more deconstruct and reconstruct than it is "love and light."
I spoke with a Native American man a few weeks ago who lives on a reservation just north of Santa Barbara, CA. Standing out in the hills one day, he felt the earth start to roll under his feet. He described what he later learned was a 6.8 earthquake as the most energizing and exciting moment he'd ever experienced. There were no homes there to be leveled, no buildings to fall on him, no lives in the balance. i.e. nothing to fear. "Mother Earth rocked me like the rock of ages!" he sang, vaguely borrowing from Paul Simon's tune.
Periodically, Mother Nature shows us that it's important to deconstruct. She shakes, she ignites and burns, she floods, her winds blow, her snows fall. And if we humans ride along with her deconstruction, we get to witness the reconstruction. The quakes bring new soil to the surface. The floods deposit new soil on the surface. The winds blow away what's no longer needed. The snows melt as the spring flowers pop through. If we humans don't amplify the deconstruction by building levees that don't hold, building nuclear plants too close to the shore, building our homes in the dry and fire-prone forests, building dams that create drought areas, we instead celebrate with the Earth as she demonstrates Christ Consciousness: deep understanding of the power of cycles alongside wise decisions that partner us with that power.
Yes, it's horrible and sad and heartbreaking to witness the people of Japan, the people of Alabama and the other harshly affected Southern states, the people of Haiti, the flood victims of Australia - on and on our hearts can be broken again and again. But I wonder if the true work of the Ruby Sphere is to teach us to hold both ends of this spectrum in equal balance: celebration of Nature, alongside grief that humans suffer.
I'm reminded of a Hafiz poem - if I remember it correctly:
my house burned down last night.
now I have a better view of the moon.
This week I've been thinking about that as I've watched Brother Weather rip across our country, demolishing homes, killing some people, injuring others, and frightening others. How does Christ Consciousness view something that seems so NOT "love and light?"
It occurs to me that Christ Consciousness is actually more deconstruct and reconstruct than it is "love and light."
I spoke with a Native American man a few weeks ago who lives on a reservation just north of Santa Barbara, CA. Standing out in the hills one day, he felt the earth start to roll under his feet. He described what he later learned was a 6.8 earthquake as the most energizing and exciting moment he'd ever experienced. There were no homes there to be leveled, no buildings to fall on him, no lives in the balance. i.e. nothing to fear. "Mother Earth rocked me like the rock of ages!" he sang, vaguely borrowing from Paul Simon's tune.
Periodically, Mother Nature shows us that it's important to deconstruct. She shakes, she ignites and burns, she floods, her winds blow, her snows fall. And if we humans ride along with her deconstruction, we get to witness the reconstruction. The quakes bring new soil to the surface. The floods deposit new soil on the surface. The winds blow away what's no longer needed. The snows melt as the spring flowers pop through. If we humans don't amplify the deconstruction by building levees that don't hold, building nuclear plants too close to the shore, building our homes in the dry and fire-prone forests, building dams that create drought areas, we instead celebrate with the Earth as she demonstrates Christ Consciousness: deep understanding of the power of cycles alongside wise decisions that partner us with that power.
Yes, it's horrible and sad and heartbreaking to witness the people of Japan, the people of Alabama and the other harshly affected Southern states, the people of Haiti, the flood victims of Australia - on and on our hearts can be broken again and again. But I wonder if the true work of the Ruby Sphere is to teach us to hold both ends of this spectrum in equal balance: celebration of Nature, alongside grief that humans suffer.
I'm reminded of a Hafiz poem - if I remember it correctly:
my house burned down last night.
now I have a better view of the moon.
A recent issue of National Geographic had an article on Bangladesh which is relevant here. In that country, many people live on islands in the rivers. However, the islands appear and disappear with the tides and currents. People have to build houses they can dismantle in a day, pack onto a boat, and go to a new island. You might board a boat to go visit a friend, and find their island is gone and they have moved upriver.
ReplyDeleteBangladesh, the article said, is a glimpse of part of our future as sea levels rise (South Florida anyone?) and our planet's population rises to 7 billion & beyond. Like your Native American friend and like Hafiz, we have to accommodate to Nature's rhythms (even as we have increased their tempo and intensity), and be prepared for dramatic change.
In small things too, life in the Ruby sphere demands openness to change, even though it tears at our hearts.
Traci Hanson is one of our dreaming sisters. She's having trouble posting comments on the blog because she doesn't have a gmail account and Google is being pretty stubborn. She's asked me to post this for her
ReplyDeleteHi Connie-
Your deconstruction theory reminds me of the Universal Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy...the formless moves into form and back into the formless...
It is one of the great gifts of being in a human body - to be able to transform the formless into form. For some reason we seem to have forgotten in our collective human psyche that it is okay to return the form back to the formless...
This is what I see is happening...we are returning what we have created (much of which is out of balance and no longer serves us, if it ever did) to the formless realm, so that we can create new form - new structures and creations that serve our newly acquired consciousness.
We are good at creating/constructing...but not so good at destructing...as a population we tend to hold onto things past their usefulness...I notice this with women...we struggle to let go and we keep juggling and managing so many things...it is hard for many of us to just let go...to let the form return to the formless so we can create something new...
Perhaps if we learn the art of deconstruction (or returning the form to the formless)...we wouldn't have to wait until there is so much tension that it is done for us and it becomes large or "disastrous"? Perhaps if we learned the valuable skill of deconstruction and release our fears around deconstruction, our lives would naturally flow in balance and harmony...
Nature is a perfect example. The natural world does not resist the decay and deconstruction that happens in the winter months. And it is that precise decay and deconstruction that brings about Nature's balance. Humanity is the only species I can see that resists the natural flow of the wintertime...perhaps this is born of our fear of deconstruction?