One of the greatest dilemmas we are faced with during these dramatically changing times is the paradox of what to trust and what to fight off in terms of social change. Many seers, sages, prophets, and spiritual advisors are saying that these are times of dramatic change forecast by many prophecies and that rather than resist the changes we are better off going with the flow and navigating the changes as they come. For example, adapting to climate change is a good move because on the one hand many of these changes are inevitable and we cannot necessarily technologically steer around them or halt their rapid progress with our failed attempts at reducing green-house gases. However, what about the dramatic changes brought about by political figures for dubious self-profiting motives? Do we fight them or do we simply adapt to them even though they may be leading us into oligarchy, authoritarian regimes, the destruction of democracy, fascism, and dramatic backsliding in terms of misogyny, racism, and perhaps even slavery to AI technologies? This uncertainty has many mature and older souls scratching their heads and keeping them from sleeping at night. Ultimately this boils down to the age-old question, do we have free choice to alter our reality or not? On the one hand we have “Whatever will be will be” and on the other hand we have “We create our own reality.” At least that is the way things appear. In this physical plane existence, we seem to always end up with some kind of dualism, this or that, up vs down choice. As usual, perhaps both have some truth they can offer.

“It is the way that it is” is a classic Taoist or Zen viewpoint that implies there is only how it is and at the end of the day all re-thinking, analyzing, and problem solving throws us out of being in the present moment and is a path to suffering. We can always be joyful by realizing that all appearances are illusionary in nature and that existing and being is inherently in alignment with Spirit and how can that be anything other than perfect. Yet there is always the danger that because of relentless conditioning we can fall into amnesia or forgetfulness momentarily and end up resigned instead of joyful and then we are in deep shit. In fact, that happens to most of us many times a day. If we don’t see the Creator Spirit in everything permanently, then we are always feeling separate and that is a blueprint for struggle. If we are actually aware at all times that there is Spirit in everything, that all is divine so to speak, then we are seeing beyond appearances to the truth, that all is one or in other words, all is perfection. That is a tall order most of us would grumble. If you want to be in that permanent state where you see Spirit in everything at all times you will have to master the endless chain of thoughts that makes our brains slither this way and that. Not so easy you might say and I agree. Our amnesia is an addiction that was baked into our DNA tens of thousands of years ago when we first became sentient. Without amnesia there would be no game of hide and seek with spirit and there would be no point to the game we are playing, pretending that we are individual and separate beings on our own in a random universe, aware by virtue of chemicals that happened to coalesce into some kind of self-consciousness. Oops. That sentence was a little long but it summarizes the whole game.

So, what is the solution to this dilemma. Well, here is some good news if you are okay with believing it.  At the same time that our amnesia was baked into our DNA, we gave it an expiration date. Now you might ask who is ‘we’ and that is a fair enough question. ‘We’ is awareness itself. So, amnesia that we are actually awareness itself was never meant to be permanent. It was meant to expire at such a time that we were ready for it to expire. That raises more questions. What does ready mean and why now and is everyone ready or just some humans and so on? Those are too many questions to be dealt with adequately here so let’s just say that the oracles say this is the time and leave it at that for now. As far as who is ready let’s just say that enough people are ready that the hundredth monkey program is in effect and that enough of us are ready to shift the paradigm from amnesia to remembering.

So, what is the solution to this dilemma. Well, here is some good news if you are okay with believing it.  At the same time that our amnesia was baked into our DNA, we gave it an expiration date. Now you might ask who is ‘we’ and that is a fair enough question. ‘We’ is awareness itself. So, amnesia that we are actually awareness itself was never meant to be permanent. It was meant to expire at such a time that we were ready for it to expire. That raises more questions. What does ready mean and why now and is everyone ready or just some humans and so on? Those are too many questions to be dealt with adequately here so let’s just say that the oracles say this is the time and leave it at that for now. As far as who is ready let’s just say that enough people are ready that the hundredth monkey program is in effect and that enough of us are ready to shift the paradigm from amnesia to remembering.

Now there are two things you may ask; Why do I have to witness all of this because I don’t behave this way anymore? I am now an adult and a good person? And how do we stop them when it seems the children have run wild and are totally out of control and have manipulated the system so completely that the rest of us are powerless? These are two legitimate questions.

The first question implies that we are not these misbehaving children and that it is not fair that we have to endure this terrible behavior and pay for it with our own suffering. Well, this is wrong thinking and part of what we need to learn. We are all one. We are the human race in its entirety and it is only an illusion that we are all seeing things from our own little points of view. As an analogy, we think of our bodies as ourselves but at any given time we have mature healthy cells operating and old cells dying and some cells being born etc. We are all that all the time. We can’t just say, “I am only the healthy mature cells. The rest are not me. I shouldn’t have to look at what those cells are doing or that some of them are unhealthy.” That would be ridiculous. So yes, we have to look at what we have been, racist, misogynistic, hurtful, fascist, whatever, because we have all been those things one way or another at some time and place.

Now for the apparently harder question. How do we stop them from misbehaving and taking us all into the toilet with them? Well, here is the deal. We can’t necessarily do much to stop them. It’s just not very much of a doing thing. What it is, is more of a being thing. Recall that amnesia has an expiration date so that huge numbers of people start to find it a little easier to remember that all is divine all the time, in other words infinitely and eternally. Even so, trying to go it alone is almost an impossible task. You will fail repeatedly and fall into fear and loathing that we cannot do shit.

Remember that if all is one then there is infinite help from the universe in many forms such as spirit guides, helping spirits, sages, saints, totems, power animals, teachers and whatever we want to call them. We ask them for help and they are at the ready, have been for a long, long time. They know what is happening but they have been waiting for you and I to ask for their help because that is how this process works.  So,

• You ask them for help to remember who and what you are as much as you are capable of.
• You ask them for help seeing that who and what is around you is all Spirit. It’s always all okay even if it does not look that way. In this way, simple little you joins a powerful army of beings working toward setting things right, not by pressing levers, lifting heavy machinery, storming Washington, but simply by knowing what the truth is and aligning your will with Spirit’s will that all will be set straight even when it appears doubtful or is going though stages that look ugly like when the scab forms after skinning your knee. Just because it doesn’t look the way you think it should look right away means nothing. You stay the course and no matter what happens, you persist, you trust the power of Spirit to set things right because you know that outside of time, that has already happened.
• Then, you follow your intuition and as effortlessly as possible do all the little things that you are urged to do internally like e-mailing your congressperson or adding your name to a petition or joining a protest or a march or whatever is possible.
• Finally, you remember the power of asking “What if ….? questions. What if events took place that made it impossible to suppress freedom? What if dramatic discoveries took place that were to completely change the direction of current events leading to the end of oligarchy, the end of suppression, force, and criminal activity? And what if all this led to the end of warfare and a new wave of cooperation among all countries of the world? And what if this were to happen with the least amount of suffering, struggle, and violence? Remember that asking the question sparks a reply from the quantum field.

These approaches will have a much bigger impact if they are done from a neutral place of trust that it’s all working the way it’s supposed to work. So, in other words, get out of struggle and hopeless mode and get into effortless and confident mode and you will have a much more powerful impact on where things are going. You have to know you are not alone and that you have power and you have to know that you have friends in powerful places. Shamans know that they can do little without their allies and helping Spirits. Take a page from their book and get rolling and just remember that it is not what you see but how you see it that matters. Happy Trails everyone.