We hear cries today of the urge to get the economy back on track. It’s collapsing or has derailed like a train that has come off its track. The macro-economist experts will tell you directly that the figures imply that the system is broken. Numbers no longer make sense in that they are going into territory in which they have never been, and that there are no presidents, or ability to ever steer the economy back into place on the same track again. It may slowly unwind over the coming few years. The 2008 Great Recession took at least two years to play out.
But more than that, we need to take this rare moment in our history as a people and a person in particular, to question our entire reality, or our paradigm of reality, particularly on the level of what we value. We need to question our values. At present it is not just our need to get food on the plate that is pressing but also our entire moral compass. In the west it is a relatively opulent life, but the east has caught up, so now it is more a question of haves and have nots, regardless of whether first or third world.
But when one re-evaluates our world, it is the wisest who have the most, because they have insight, realization, perspective, self-awareness. In short they have it all. They have the keys to the doors of consciousness, even if they are not carrying the treasures around all the time, or flaunting them or even relishing them. Nevertheless, those keys are theirs.
The key of perspective or perception, can shift your world, regardless of its outer appearance. A palace can become a prison and a cave can become a doorway to eternity. And when you’ve glimpsed eternity, all your needs are completely met, and there is no need...for anything. Those keys unlock a door to so much potential, that it could keep you fed for the rest of your life and still not diminish. How much can you possibly even contain at any one time of this commodity?
When men compete for power in the world, it suggests that they lack something and therefore strive to fill that emptiness. Is it a need to control? Perhaps a need to dominate humanity, the narrative, the market, for their sensory pleasure, yet we are all under the domination of the material elements and the hands of time, which lead to death. Some may even be striving to dominate the direction of history, of the course of humanity into the future. Civilization is being steered toward an alternative course right now for most of the planet all at once. The levers of power have seldom steered a vehicle this big or powerful or consequential before in modern history. That takes a moment to sink in as a concept.
And once we realize the circumstances of our world, of how it may be on the edge of something big, we may if we are lucky, take the window of opportunity it brings to question the entire journey. What does it matter about the quality of the champagne when the Titanic is heading for the iceberg? Swerve in time it may but sink it will when its time comes. So at this juncture we can always consider checking the life saving devices, the life boats may be required, and they include a standpoint. When the ship is sinking, when life is waning, we will need to understand who we really are, who is the consciousness observing the moment we are calling life.
The bling will fall, the senses themselves will collapse, the identity of who we were will leave us with the body, and so what will the mind think to itself at that pint? The mind, as subtle body is molded around the package, or certainly around a chosen self-identity. When the body goes, where does the mind stand? And go the body will, so what does your boat over the River Styx look like? Where is your mind at when the journey forever away from the current body ensues? Having those keys are the real treasures at the times like these. Not your keys, not your treasures. Or yes your keys, yes you have it. For the answers have been written down in texts thousands of years ago already, in different cultures, that talk us through the journey of consciousness. The manual came with the vehicle, but how many even know there is a manual. I use the Vedas, which are Sanskrit texts found in pre-historic Himalayan areas. Not just the tallest mountain in the world it seems.
Other cultures may have their own manuals that narrate the requirements or suggestions for understanding our true identity and how to thus act accordingly at the required moments. You can find our truth if you look sincerely enough. But look we must if we want to obtain the real treasures available. Seek, open the eyes to the light of the sun, investigate your identity, not just your current temporary external situation. This pause is our moment to trigger a shift in our consciousness like seldom before. Let’s take the opportunity like a sailor to a life raft as the old standpoint sinks away into obscurity.
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