Time
to Fly
“We
are feeling the surrealness of being in never, never land.”
Caroline
Myss
As
usual, Caroline Myss stirs my heart with her genuine love for life. In her video about the “never, never land” we are
living through—record heat, terrible unrest, street fighting, schools opened
and closed in the same week, record numbers of deaths from a virus that is
still not under control after six months—she speaks about how surreal this time
we are living through truly is. All of these are things we have never
experienced before, and we are getting them all at once. She speaks about the
contagiousness of the dark emotions—anger, hatred, envy, entitlement—and how
they have spread exponentially just like the virus. We are in an historically
epic transition that is going to determine whether our democracy survives or
not. We haven’t been there since the Civil War.
Before we
get too far down that rabbit hole, consider also that what Myss calls the “higher
graces” are also contagious. Those are the forces of love, optimism, hope, and the calming support of one another. Those forces can also spread like wildfire. In
fact, the spiritual journey includes the capacity to be joyful for and with one another,
to celebrate one another, and to be happy for someone else. We can be
generators of anger and despair, or we can be generators of love and optimism.
But if we want the world to be a better, kinder, lighter place, we need to
choose the latter of those options.
Just as
there are no accidents in who we meet in our lives, and where our spiritual
journey takes us, what is happening now is not an accident. It is the result of
accumulated karma that we are now being given an opportunity to correct. This
won’t correct itself without our involvement, so we must decide whether we will
come down on the side of the darker forces of anger and hatred, or the higher
graces of kindness and love and optimism. We can be part of the contagion of
rage, or part of the contagion of joy.
Now is
the time, according to Caroline Myss, for us to enter never, never land on new
footing. We can see it as an opportunity to do and be what we’ve never done or
been before. Remember, in never, never land people fly. If you choose the contagion
of optimism, as I do, then go out there and spread it today. Be kind to
everyone you meet, celebrate their achievements, share their joys. Don’t allow
the forces of hatred to draw you in and contaminate your heart with its venom. And,
by all means, think of something you’ve never done before and give it a try. Spread
those wings of yours and fly.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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