Who Can We Trust In The Storm?
Well, here we are 5 weeks into the once in a lifetime lockdown! I’ve been pondering whether we’re finally getting the message that is being sent to us by Divine Love, namely that we not as self-reliant and invincible as we imagine in our Tower of Babylon, cultural mindset.
Sadly, I don’t think that we are – certainly not the significant percentage of us, both young and old, who are frantically clinging to our addictive desire for ‘normality’ – the previous status quo existence during which we can go where we please, and indeed do as we please! This dependency on our way and no other way, is fast becoming all too apparent as the ever- pressing pressure of lockdown continues.
Two facts have been reiterated to me during this somewhat unique isolation. They are as follows:
1) Most of our leaders, no matter what brand we’ve inherited , don’t really know which way to turn.
2) Human nature with its ego-centric skewness is definitely in need of outside help!
Firstly, let me more fully explain my thoughts on leaders, whether political, scientific, religious or whatever.
Most of these dear ladies and gentlemen have been pseudo-deified at times by their band of ardent followers – that is how they got to the top of their particular leadership ladder. In normal times they can get away with it by sticking to the normal script, and at other times by winging an answer to a particularly difficult question or circumstance. Yet, when a real storm comes, one not controlled by the power brokers of the staus quo, and with a seeming mind of its own, the cracks rapidly begin to appear. Our leaders are shown up to be flawed folk like us – with all too apparent feet of clay – that don’t know which direction to take. The egos of self-promotion and spun persona appear to melt in the heat of the blazing, crisis-sun. Sadly, trial and error attempts to fix things and keep us all happy only makes the shocking revelation worse. A case of the Emperor’s New Clothes fit for the 21st century methinks.
No, these dear folk do not have all the answers – in some extreme cases not even any! For the first time in our lives we can begin to see through the hierarchical games that have been played on the chessboard of our adoring minds. The realisation that we, together with our leaders, are all the same and pretty clueless in times like these, is paradoxically, a deeply upsetting as well as a potentially liberating one for those with eyes to see. If we are to find Wisdom it must come from somewhere else, from Someone beyond the confines of human consciousness. I’ll let you identify that One for yourself!
Secondly, we are being presented with the opportunity to observe the egoic survival programming of our human species in its reticence to take instruction from anyone in order to protect the common good . Denial, selfishness and a disturbing lack of awareness of others, particularly their personal space, and the world around us is becoming all to apparent. The human wiring that refuses to obey is laid bare for all to see. Of course, many great acts of selflessness and love have also occurred during the last number of weeks – sacrifices that stem from the profound depths of love within individuals. Yet, in general we all tend to put ourselves first in the great survival ‘hunger games’ of Covid-19, hankering after the return to normality like a drug-deprived junkie missing their daily fix.
Could this disregard for the safety of others, evidenced as it is by unashamed rule breaking, not the dysfunction within that the Nazarene laid bare for all to see. A revelation that got Him murdered along with all the other past ‘seers’ of human psychology. No, there is definitely something amiss within us that needs straightened out – a level of dysfunction that we can no longer deny amidst the enormity of the present threat. When the human species – us – is under great pressure, we automatically think of number one. When facing a tiger alone in some distant jungle, that is totally understandable, and an authentic function of our fight or flight response – best flight methinks! Yet, in an inter-connected social setting, one where we work, live and breathe the same air as others, perhaps not.
So what is to be done? Well. may I humbly and respectfully suggest that we let go of our unquestioning trust in leaders of all shades, as well as allowing our inner selfves to be realigned by regular times of silent contact with Divine Love. Discovering that a greater Wisdom is available to us all, a wisdom not springing from the need to be right, nor indeed from the desire to maintain a position of power, is a blessed relief, particulary as we stagger around in a 24 hour blitz of media-hyped fear. No, all we require in order to be ourselves, even in the midst of a viral storm, lies deep within us and Beyond. The Voice that comes to us, comes from the One who rides the storm clouds in an all-pervasive state of Divine Peace. Simply put, this is the One to be trusted!
As regards our shadow and often wayward self, best to let go and let Divine Love defuse our inner bombs of egocentricity. Once made ‘safe’, a compassion and power rushes in to fill our inner vacuum, making us channels of both confidence and humility, those with a greater and more Spirit-like awareness of others.
When we awaken to both these opportunites, the storm, though terrifyingly threatening to our temporal existence, will have resulted in a painful new birth of sorts, a practical experience of the One who leads us into Life via Shadow Valley.
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Writer Dylan Morrison 
This is one of the sanest writings I’ve read during this time, where religious imaginations and zealots seem on overdrive – exposing how many of our belief systems are nothing less than spiritual bypassing, covering up the deep seated fears of abandonment. Thanks Dylan, for being a voice of sanity in a world that seems to have gone mad with all kinds of blame games.