An important question divides the consxiousness of men today; a question to which two opposite interpretations are given.
Is our Western society, and its culture now spread throughout much of the globe, going through a period of “readjustment” in its progressive path towards an increasing and efficient demonstration of the ability to control the environment, satisfy its most hidden desires and, last but not least, technically improve its genetic possibilities; or, is it facing disintegration and collapse because it has failed to realize what it was potentially capable and destined to realize, abusing the powers and possibilities that the new evolutionary development of its mind had released?
Everything we do and think now and in the years to come depends on which of the two modes of interpretation we, individually and collectively, consider correct. The way in which we evaluate our traditional way of life, our deepest responses to the social and political events and trends in which we live these days, and even the basic psychological attitudes on which our spiritual beliefs are based, all of this and our planning for the years to come, depends on how we instinctively or intuitively answer the above question.
Also, it is evidently possible to believe that humanity is still capable of counteracting what many today feel to be a powerful tendency toward various kinds of disintegration and dehumanization, and that, through an almost sudden “change of mind,” perhaps as a result of some divine, or even alien, intervention, our society can fundamentally renew itself without having to experience a total collapse.
When we speak of Western society, we do not refer to the individual human beings who live in this society. When a society collapses, as has happened many times in the past, many of the human beings who are born and die influenced by its archetypes and its concrete institutions suffer irremediably; but for those who survive, this collapse of the established power that has governed their lives, their thoughts often coercing their feelings, to the point of disposing of their body, can reveal itself as a liberation, or in any case a collective catharsis of great value.
A “global crisis” of this magnitude, at various degrees of experience, cannot fail to profoundly affect individual and collective consxiousness, calling into question both ethical and moral and therefore essential values.
Everything has a meaning.
Death is implicit in life, and life in death. What is sad is that death often comes after much suffering, yet existential crises may be necessary to repolarize our consxiousness away from the failures of our idea of life and the limitations of our corporeal existence. Likewise, the tragedy of revolution, defeat or disaster may be necessary to “force” the people of a particular declining society to realize that they have held on too long and too stubbornly to material existential values and religious, cultural and social institutions that have become almost empty shells. This is especially inevitable when a frightened aristocracy or middle class, confronted with profound changes in its social, economic, cultural and religious models, projects onto the stage leaders who, rigidly opposing the great flow of human and planetary evolution, and cementing around themselves an inert mass of human fears and invalid hopes, are able to use power over the multitudes in a deceptive and negative way. Eventually the dam of lies and deceit is bound to collapse. In the evolutionary process there are countless paths: and this is the tragic path.
Death in any context it is experienced means Rebirth. We can take a positive attitude, we can opt for rebirth, as “seed men and women” on whom to rest the tragic burden of the paternity of a new culture, not tomorrow, but the day after many other tomorrows. We can open our entire Being to the “vision” of the Archetypes and to the powerful forces that call for a new culture and civilization.
These powers are not far away, they are the dormant talents of our very Essence. They are not outside our mind and our heart, if our mind is clear and free from prejudice and our heart is lightened by discouragement, obsolete values, and fear of tomorrow. These lashing winds of renewal have been imagined by few, but dreamed by many. However, those few dreamers are already on the horizon of our consxiousness and open the doors for those who aspire to a prosperous and equitable world, renewed in the fundamental spirit of life.
All we need to “be” is to have the courage to see and no longer take anything for granted.
We are children of the Truth called to follow the Way of Life to be “Alive”. Imagining a new world is the prerogative of dreamers and fools, and being the Work of the pure of Heart for now it is destined for a few.
“No one take my life waay from me, but I lay it down by myself”
John 10, 18
