I've been in contemplative mode the last few days, helped out by being in the country again. It was an active choice allowing time away from news and chattering external input. The only input? Grandmother trees blowing, and hawks sitting on branches or telephone poles waiting for their prey, and rain turning to snow...and the dawns of the latest mornings of the year.
That doesn't mean I am unaware of the dust storm of monstrosities facing us. Because I have seen it coming for several decades, I may be less surprised than many people, is all. Once again, I've thought long and hard about the war of "good versus evil", and realize anew what a terrible misunderstanding it is, conceptually.
Today, forget the whole feminist thing -- and, of course, as usual, politics and even the specifics of religious constructs. This is pure practicality, and personal perspective. I am one of those people who simply cannot "kill" anything bigger than a fruit fly or mosquito. In this lifetime, I could not function in our competitive world, or take up the kinds of careers (such as law) for which I was intellectually suited but not spiritually suited. I cry when I see people or the earth being injured and trashed. I want all of us to love each other and get along. I want people to honor and protect Mother Earth. I want (even though I find it hard to adjust to!) to be surrounded by love and beauty and harmony. While I am not a saint in the traditional sense of the word, I suppose I am pretty high on the "goodness" scale, but I am hardly alone. There are probably many millions (and perhaps billions) of others in this world like me.
Our traditional constructs tell all of us to "fight" evil -- indeed that good must fight evil and triumph. And yet here's the problem. If you place many of us on that battlefield -- even knowing the complete cruelty and inhumanity of the foe just over the hill -- we cannot fight. We simply do not have it in us, the will or desire to kill anyone or anything. This is not unawareness or lack of understanding. This is not fear, or putting our heads in the sand, or being unrealistic. If anything, it may be understanding the reality too well. In a duality construct, so-called "evil" will probably always "win" against "good" because good people find it entirely too hard to go against their authentic natures. We simply cannot pick up weapons as wholeheartedly as the other side does, if at all.
So what do we do in the face of the dust storm? We stand tall in our goodness, and use our best gifts to support an emerging, more unified, post-duality world. We create beautiful writing, and visual arts, and songs, and home-grown or home-cooked food, and we care for our neighbors, or family, or pets. We care for the earth. We do it to unite with people and planet. We do it in the midst of the dust storm. We withstand the dust storm. We will come out the other side into a world with no concept of "versus". And it will be a new, loving world we have helped create by being 100% true to ourselves.
