Awhile back, I read about Ilya Prigogine, a Russian born Belgian physical chemist, who won the Noble Prize in chemistry for discovering that as systems become more complex and reach a certain state of stress they will transform into a higher order.
YES! I thought, when I first read that. I had seen in my own life that most meaningful insights came at the end of a crisis of some sort. Usually after having been thinking about something I could not grasp no matter how hard I tried. Then when I least expected it, the insight/answer came to me in an instant.
We, all of us on Earth, are in a crisis at this moment. The ego process has brought us to the point of complete madness. Just look at what is taking place in our government, and all others, and you will see crisis. In business, far too many companies have placed profit above all other considerations and are destroying our environment. Only an ego mind could be so foolish. We are dumping millions of tons of toxic substances into the air we breathe, the water we drink and the soil we grow our food in. All of our bodies carry toxic substances, even our babies. Nowhere on Earth is free of the poisons that are the byproducts of our greed. Our government protects the polluters and pollutes just as much, if not more, than the businesses. We have been using depleted nuclear waste to make warheads that have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan. That waste has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. We have used the same weapons in test ranges off the coast of California and Washington. Then we eat the seafood from these same waters. If this is not insanity, then what is?
We have lost touch with reality in our social environment, as well. We have let ego created religions turn us into hateful killing machines that defend our beliefs from someone else's equally insane religious beliefs. We have one race hating another for no reason at all, other than ego insecurity and images. We live in lies so much that we have little or no idea of what the truth is. Our so-called leaders lie to us all the time. We even know they lie yet we do nothing about it. Most of us have become liars. Our children see the adults lie and they do the same. We are not educating our children to think freely and to be honest. How can we teach what we don't know or honor? We are teaching them to be mindless robots to fill the ranks of economic machines that are killing life on this planet. Religion is teaching our offspring to trust in GOD, for HE will save us. It is not going to happen. We are the only ones who can save the planet. As long as we remain apathetic, and look to others to help us, we are just letting the destruction go on until it is too late, if it is not too late already.
We are clearly in a state of crisis. If you don't feel it you are either uninformed or in complete denial. The question is: Will this state of crisis be enough to force a transformation to take place in the world that will wake us up in time to stop the madness and do all we can to end the destruction of our home? Spiritual awakening is a complete awakening. It has nothing to do with gods, saviors, cosmic dances, or anything other than seeing the facts of life clearly and honestly and realizing we are truly one Being. Will it take seeing millions more dying needlessly before we reach a deep enough crisis to bring about real change? Do we need to see our oceans die? Do we need to see no more living birds? Or our newborns so deformed as to not even look human, or everyone having cancer? This is all happening right now to one degree or other. Yet we sit back, watch our TV sitcoms and sports, and drink one more beer as over 40,000 children a day die of malnutrition in the world. Millions of people are going without medical care in this country as we spend billions of dollars carrying on wars against other countries in the name of profit. What will shake us up enough to act?
What can you do? Look! Look at how you function, what you spend your time thinking about. Try to understand and see directly how the ego works within you. See why you don't really feel love although you claim to love. See what it is that makes you feel so insecure while you are putting up a façade of being strong and powerful. Find out why you feel hatred. Why you feel you have to control everything and everyone in your life. Look at it all. Not just think about it; look directly at your own actions, thoughts and fears. If you really start to see what is taking place, it can bring about a transformation. As you become transformed, then speak to anyone who will listen and point the way for them to see also. Talk to everyone in your families and be honest, by all means be honest!
The crisis is clearly here. Will we change things or just lie down like apathetic fools and watch it all collapse around us? Will we seek some religious or spiritual mind games or see the facts of life clearly? Seeing the facts is the most spiritually enlightened state you can be in. It is within your reach because it is what you in fact are. You are not the weakling ego dream that can be controlled so easily; you just believe you are. Each one of you has integrity, you want to understand, or you would not be reading this, and you all know love. Apply that love and integrity and allow this crisis to awaken you to the next step in the evolution of humankind.
