Posts tagged CHANGE
Express It Forward—Intention Part 2: Visualization & Action
Visualizing your intention… storyboards, collages… they’re guideposts on a map, instilling constant contact with the epicenter of your Intention!
July 12, 1887 The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was founded as an independent black community by formerly enslaved people led by Isaiah Montgomery. Montgomery led the town through the 1920s. The population according to the 2000 census is 2,100 and 98.4% African American, one of the largest African American majority populations in the country. (Source: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History)
I share this in hopes of reaching the #OWS stream…
Change in the face of what seems impossible, is possible. Revolution isn’t always about destruction… sometimes you have to bravely go out there and create something NEW, as you imagine. This is a decade before Plessy Vs. Ferguson (legalizing segregation, making way for Jim Crow laws).
I’m sure it wasn’t perfect, most likely dealt with some unsavory’s… but the place still exists today.
More insight on creative potential: http://ulaeinstein.com/culture,%20art,%20future,%20living/the-daily-stimulator/Trust that still, small voice that says, “This might work and I’ll try it.” - Diane Mariechild
The Evolution of Agency
“…we can do things, we can change things… we can create things.”
By Jordan Luftig "As with God, So with Money"—compelling look at #Occupy Movement
Jordan was one of my Professors at JFKU… he has a way of eloquently breaking down, what sometimes appear as conundrums. From loaded subjects like Phenomenology, POST-metaphysics, and the current state of the Occupy Movement.
As with God, So with Money? Luftig reminds us that Modern Revolutionaries dethroned the fear [the “rule”] of God, in its place came Capitalism. Inquisitions, [Monarchies], Holy Wars—the Founding Fathers had enough. In the New World would be free markets, [the demise of serfdom], and the rise of free minds.
There was a total rejection of a system of living—although elements of God and religion remain—but not with the omnipresent oppressive power of late.
Jordon closes the article with a rejoinder to criticisms that the Occupy Movement lacks direction and purpose. As with the Founding Fathers, so with the Millennials (et.al):
The Occupy movement has made a point of operating independent of existing institutions of power because it protests our entire institutionalized way of life. It rejects the materialistic values and the coldhearted, self-interested, you’re-either-a-winner-or-a-loser culture of business, politics, modern life. Period.
That the Occupiers have made no demands has prompted observers to criticize the movement for failing to offer a new vision. The confusion is understandable, and the critics can be forgiven. No demand is big enough for the Occupiers’ intention. The Occupiers envision a true revolution. Their movement has a mission: dethrone the corporate kings of modernity. Give birth to a new, post-modern age of humanity.
This is the real, incredible, unfolding story.
These are amazing times we live in, truly amazing. This is OUR First Family…(is there truly any ‘wonder why?’ we have political backlash?)
As much as I wish it could be like the movies, where the Leader or Hero, bats down the bad guys like flies…or like Superman—darts into the sky and flies so fast around the earth, reverses the effects of time, and saves the day…
Let’s face it… amazing times require a lot of effort… there’s a lot of objection to change, and Obama has to deal with that obstinate position too.
And remember, Obama is the closest we have to an Integrally informed leader…
Change—Why we might fear it
The drive towards perfection has permeated our relationship to the experience of life. Have we forgotten, or ever really known, that all of this is only true upon mutual agreement? As the creator you are free to introduce any element to the story, and all of your creations are subject to judgement. Yet fear of judgement is no reason to halt or slow the process—it is the nature of this stage of manifestation’s perspective. We fear change because of its unknown qualities. Because in our familiarity with today we face a loss of navigation, if we change the status quo for tomorrow. As a society we have grown comfortable with a way of knowing life, and the kind of changes we need to make will require us to let most of that go and simply be with the uncertainty… the imperfection of learning to walk again.
In authentic truth and judgement there is pure uncertainty. Even at the very edges of the explosion that is continually giving birth to life, there exists no glance of future, only imagination. The explosion is the birth of time, and all else that follows. The only moment, for sure, is happening right now. Perfection is Nirvana. Yet if life is never-ending, Nirvana is limited only to our relationship to life—but life itself will always be imperfect. Embrace this, and embrace change.
