A Meditation on Destruction

What is this Destruction you speak of?

I was asked this question by an beautiful soul regarding my last writing. And in receiving that question, I understood the need to clarify and explore it in greater depth. And so I have striven do so here.

Destruction as a concept is filled with intense negative connotation in contemporary English. It is a word that implies violence, the use of force, with overtones of anger and hatred embedded in the intentionality behind it. 'To destroy' a thing is, often in our minds, a terrible and negative act.

But Destruction does not need to be, nor fundamentally is, violent. Destruction, as the opposite component of Creation in the Creation/Destruction duality, simply a part of the reciprocal cycle that allows change and transformation to take place. Rotting wood (destruction) allows for the growth and sustainment of lichens, fungus, worms and grubs (creation) that are then eaten (destruction) to allow bears, birds, insects and eventually people to survive (creation).

Yes, the duality is an illusion. Yes, they are in the end One Force arbitrarily divided by human consciousness into two separate forces. But it is an illusion that we GIVE MEANING TO. And this allowance for MEANING in this duality, as arbitrary as it may be, is one that we are best served to consciously recognize. For by doing so, with full cognizance, we can apprehend Intention in the manifestation of these forces in our reality, in our society, and in ourselves.

What we are aware of, we can consciously participate in: shape. What we are ignorant of, controls us.

We speak often of the New Sun, the New Age/the Age of Aquarius, the New Paradigm, the New America, the New World. Yes - there is something that we have been building together for quite some time! Something not quite like what we have had prior, or have now.

But HOW - how does one manifest the new Creation in a space filled with an old one?

How does one pick up a ripe apple when one's hands are full with rotten cores? Gingerly? Timidly? Balancing the new fresh fruit on the backs of brown and blackened skeletons of decomposing pomes? Or does one put down the old, allowing the energy and matter in them to compost back into the soil, and pick up the new apple firmly, with confidence and power?

Destruction is letting go; it is a means of relinquishing. Nothing more. The Ego lets go of the Body in Death - the Self lets go of the Ego in the moment of Transcendental ecstasy. A mother lets go of her child in birth. We let go of our deceased loves ones through grief.

But intention. THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE. The Destruction of the Old Paradigm need not be one fraught with blood and peril. It need not be one filled with hatred, anger, fear and ruin. And know this - that the actions you undertake are each one participations in that Destruction.

What is the Intention of your actions? Do you think/feel/believe that actions with negative intention will create a Paradigm of positive intention? That you can pave the road to some peaceful paradise with corpses, flaming ruins, and broken souls?

The New Sun is being created. You are one of the creators. It will be as you, as I, as they make it. Nothing more, nothing less. If you seek peace - act with peace. If you seek love - act with love. If you seek compassion - act with compassion. If you seek justice - act with justice. You will manifest only what you manifest into the world. For how can it be otherwise?

MUNAY, my brothers and sisters.

-Andrew Three Feather