Message #94120

[Bianca]

The Political and the Spiritual

If we aspire to the Big Picture we must challenge this false divide. Thus from an astrological perspective, there is no difference between the political and the spiritual. Yet idealists of every stripe have labored under the assumption that the two worldviews are not just different (“Go to the demonstration with you? No thanks; I meditated for peace this morning.”) but in many ways polar opposites. This is one more false duality, one that has existed over the ages and left many seekers and reformers confused and dispirited.

To presume that these two perspectives invalidate each other, and that truth-seekers must choose between them, is a presumption it is time to dispel. The irony is that the two camps mirror each other’s prejudices quite precisely: many spiritual types who turn up their noses at “politics” do so out of the same sorts of misunderstandings that are held by those politicos who disparage spirituality on the grounds that “religion is the opiate of the people.” (4) But if we aspire to the Big Picture we must challenge this false divide. The plethora of urgent problems faced by humanity right now provides us with plenty of opportunities to explore a new geopolitically-informed spirituality; or, to put it another way, a more cosmic politics.

From a macrocosmic point of view, climate change is the Goddess’ gift to this epoch.... Chief among these is the issue of global warming, a phenomenon whose labeling by factionalists in the USA as a “liberal” concern is so misconceived that one imagines future generations shaking their heads in dismay when reading in their history books about the short-sightedness with which the issue was originally framed.



Earth Changes Afoot

From a macrocosmic point of view, climate change is the Goddess’ gift to this epoch: the sheer enormity of the situation is forcing humanity, in a gun-to-the-head way, to embrace universal thinking. With the fate of the Earth at stake it is easier to see that the conceptual distinction between spiritual vision and geopolitical awareness is obsolete.

Those of us with our feelers out during this tumultuous period are witnessing a far-reaching consciousness shift that is taking place under our very noses. An international consensus about the Earth’s meteorological changes has taken shape very quickly over the last couple of years, for which we have to thank not just Al Gore but the Saturn-Neptune opposition and other recent transits that have brought long-denied truths to light.

Less widely discussed but getting increasing media attention is the fact that the poorer countries of the world will suffer sooner and more severely from these climate changes than will the wealthier countries of the First World. What we must come to terms with here is more than an ecological issue. In the decades ahead, the rich, who created the problem by burning fossil fuels too heavily, will get off relatively easily compared to the millions of Earth dwellers who never saw the inside of an SUV. (5)

Informing ourselves of a reality like global warming through geopolitical awareness is a first step. But to maintain our sanity, as well as to be of some use to the world, we need to then press into service our spiritual awareness to make sense of it.