Walking the Path Towards the Next Manifestation

Do you know what you are creating?

How often do we act, pursuing intuition, strategy or vision, and find ourselves at a destination at the end of our efforts different then what we imagined when we set out?

Occupation is creating. It is building. It is manifesting something new. But from this viewpoint here, I see outcomes and end states that surprise me as much as a sense that they will inevitably surprise the currently entangled participants in the effort.

Recall previously the discussion about the desire to take power, and its ultimate uses? Rotten and diseased structures only produce contagion, no matter who captains them. A melting iceberg is still as doomed even if one Penguin Emperor replaces another.

The rallying cry to take back power - to re-establish control over government - to demand accountability - falls into that trap. The positive intentionality behind these efforts can only fully blossom when it embraces the creative evolutionary forces that subconsciously drive it.

And, unknowingly, it already is.

The crisis of this society resides most definitely with the unwillingness of its participants to PARTICIPATE; to engage with their ownership of it and their own lives. Too much of what it fundamentally means to be Human, to ourselves, to others, has been willfully abandoned by WE THE PEOPLE. The populace has traded (sometimes at gunpoint) demography and ideology for Humanity. And it is, and always will be, a terrible trade.

The creative evolutionary forces that are driving the changes we now see were only let loose because of the collapse of social structures and programming built towards the facilitation of the denial of our Humanity. Consciously, they have at this point manifested as protest and demand against WHAT IS. Unconsciously, they have brought the members of our society together to engage in acts of Common Humanity with one another.

The Occupation encampments are rebooting Humanity in this country in a sense broader than any yet seen before. They are empowering people to work together, to live together, to govern together, to fight together to preserve those things that are most important to them. The living lessons of Human society on display in these camps ARE the point of all of this. They are WHAT IS LACKING most glaringly in our alienated, numb and isolated society. It was only after the liberation of economic and political catastrophe that we could take the steps to re-engage with those most fundamental of Human truths.

It is what gives meaning to the things that we do, for ourselves and for the survival of those around us. Without that meaning, without that sense of Humanity held in Common, our actions become nothing more than hollow signifiers - void and valueless, a series of charades keeping us occupied between now and the grave.

The Occupation movement is evolving, and will hopefully continue to evolve. If the people participating in it, and those supporting it, allow it to run its Own course, there will be - in its own time - a more definitive manifestation of change in this society than the one that, at least most broadly, is currently advocated for by its membership.

And let there be NO DOUBT here: Societies strive for their own survival. This movement is an ardent cry for salvation by our subconscious selves. And this voice, if strangled callously by those fearful of evolution, will turn to Thunder.

And woe then to each and every one of us.

-Three Feather

Pain is the Medicine Working

Fear and Anger are a cycle. A terrible one - but a series of reciprocities. They are curious in their predictability within human manifestation, as a series of neuro-chemical triggers shaped by biological evolution; taking form in the decision to flee or fight.

The society of the American Republic is in the grip of such a cycle now. Faster and faster the gyre wobbles, from one to another. They feed off of each other, as a snake devours its tail - and the tail devours the snake from the inside.

Action, reaction, reprisal, response, action, etc. The amygdala - that piece of the brain that regulates emotional response and memory - performs its function with masterful efficiency within the population... and fear pheromones dance from one skin to another's nose, triggering group emotional responses in the slide towards automated mob action.

Remember - we are but apes after all.

But the first trigger of fear is stress. What caused the stress? What creates it now?

Imbalance, antagonism, alienation. Social dissonance. Cultural dissatisfaction. Economic disparity and exclusion. You can correlate compassion and inclusion within a society to its stress levels. And it is ironic that the more stress we feel, the less likely we are to be compassionate and inclusive.

The point? If the society be structured hierarchically (as ours is), the stressors begin with a transaction from those at the top to those at the middle. The agents of socioeconomic control (the elite, if you will) introduce stressors through their actions into those below them, and they spread out from there. So if the "elite" create stress - ask if it because they themselves feel stress. And then ask - what creates fear in the "elite" that the pass that fear down to us?

Perhaps it is because they feel that more change then they are comfortable with has already occurred, and as apes, are responding according to their evolutionary programming - withholding resources and acting outside of the realms of far-sighted rationality due to the emotive hijack they are experiencing.

And if that change has already occurred to create this First Fear - then how much closer are we to creating the New Way necessary for our survival? Disease fights hardest against the Medicine when it begins to realize that it is losing ground, as all entities do when threatened with the possibility of their extinguishment. If the disease was not fighting as hard as it is, it would be because the Medicine was not effective.

But the Medicine is working. Believe not in this - Know It. Continue to Be the Medicine in all that you do, and Health shall come to pass.

-Three Feather