| Carpools, Bumper Stickers and Harmonic
Divergence by Sheryl Grassie This all started for me on a rather ordinary day in November. I was carpooling home from school with my friend Julia and our collective group of six children. Enjoying the casual banter about the day and maneuvering through the rather heavy traffic, I found myself stopped at one point and reading the bumper sticker in front of me, ATTACK IRAQ NO. All of a sudden and completely out of the blue, I flew into a frenzy and at the top of my voice started swearing and erupting about the ignorance and complacency of people with these bumper stickers. I literally had no idea where it was coming from. I hadn't given the topic of the Middle East even a moment's thought. From the seat behind me, my nine-year-old daughter asked (and rather too casually for the amount of profanity coming from her mother), "Julia, what is my mom so upset about?" Julia immediately explained that I was distressed over people choosing to adorn their cars with a message that is helping to create war, which is the opposite of what people with these bumper stickers think they want. That to say "no" to war is the same as promoting war, because it draws people's attention to it and what we put our thoughts on happens. I turned to Julia, knowing full well she had no particular agenda regarding this topic and said, "You really get this, don't you?" I was surprised that we were on the same page having never discussed it with her, and that the children as well could so readily embrace this concept. I didn't think too much about it immediately following my outburst, but I did become cognizant in the days that followed of numerous signs and bumper stickers throughout my area. I began to wonder what that episode in the car was really all about? What did I think about this topic? I'm not aware of supporting war on any level and yet I must, for it is ever present in my world. I wondered was it possible that we needed this conflict? Was there a destiny to be played out here? Perhaps our own duality needs to be mirrored back at us in an amplified way to blow things open in consciousness, shift things on the plant, how did I know. I ruminated about the new millennium energy. So much has been predicted for the year 2012, the end of the Mayan Calendar, the progressive acceleration in the planet's vibratory rate reaching a new apex, the thinning of the veil between worlds, the rumors of a new world economy, etc. I juxtaposed those kinds of things against the recent electoral outcomes, Sen. Paul Wellstone being moved on, my read on the general state of love and consciousness on the planet, etc. and it felt as though things might be building towards some kind of shift. But have we as humans backed ourselves into a consciousness corner? Is there no other way to create change other than through major conflict? Maybe the concept of war could be equated to a good fight in a marriage; sometimes the barriers need to be exploded to get back to a place of love. Maybe all these well meaning activists with their signs and bumper stickers are serving some directed purpose to help promote war, doing us the favor of bringing it more into consciousness so it can be created for a greater end purpose. Still, my own belief system would say embody unity, live it, be it. We need to hold in our hearts what we want to see in the world, create peace in our own lives so that it can be mirrored back to us. In the weeks and months following my episode in the car, I have given considerable thought to our current state of world affairs, prompted in large part by the ever increasing plethora of anti-war signs and bumper stickers, lapel buttons with mothers for peace, e-mails about demonstrations, etc. Recently I've felt almost transported back to the '60s with this kind of activism surrounding me, and it has made me ponder. A number of different factors come into play in my thinking, some more far-out (to further that '60s image) than others. First, I think about the simple things, the ones my children can understand. That what we put our attention on grows, that when we think about conflict, we draw it to us. I repeatedly tell them that love is the only energy that transforms anything, and if we are going to effect change on our planet, it can only be through the sending of love. We are "called" to love this situation in the Middle East, love the turmoil on our planet, so that it might transform. This is a very elemental approach, but I do hold its truths as a foundation from which I operate. On a somewhat more-sophisticated level, my consciousness shifts to other dimensional influences and the duality in our world. The promoting of factions, the solidifying of these dualities (which I don't support or believe in). Pro-peace, anti-war, pro-war, it's all the same coin, for this situation not to exist we need to go to some other level, create some paradigm shift, move on the Photon Belt. If I respond by joining a faction, don't I further promote those divisions in our world? So how do we bring about unity, certainly not in the form of protesting? As a dear friend said to me recently "you can't transform battle energy with battle energy" and I concur. I realize that the planetary influences during the 1960s dictated protest as an appropriate response, but in no way is that my take on what the current planetary energy is calling for. So, if we really want to create change, what is appropriate for 2003 and the foreseeable future? The world is certainly mirroring our own internal splits at present and I see change as always generating from the individual. What does this duality on our planet, in us as individuals represent and where does it come from? I operate on the assumption that our world is largely influenced, if not ruled, by the fifth dimension. That Oversoul realm at present is reenacting the Lucifer vs. Armand split. Perhaps the Angelic Wars are bleeding through. These energies are being channeled to the planet and we as individuals are tuning in. I realize the activist liberal factions are well intended, but perhaps quite limited in their vision of what can change things at present. But I guess I would thank them for the role they play in progressing us forward, no matter the cost. I still, however, get a queasy feeling when I see those signs and bumper stickers, and wish I had the answer to what it will take for my rather utopian conception of a world based in love to manifest. I believe it comes down to us as individuals holding a vision, an intention of the world as whole, healthy, and healed. I believe the shifts we make internally can manifest in profound change in our world. Siphoning off the energy of that internal work with focus on exterior protesting seems wasteful to me. Do people not realize that our government and its actions are a direct reflection of us, and I mean all of us. Trying to change "them vs. us" furthers the duality split. This is our consciousness that is mirrored in the governmental mindset, not the guy next door's. Changing ourselves is the only thing we truly have the power to change. I somehow thought this kind of thinking had already permeated the consciousness, but these signs and bumper stickers would indicate otherwise. So, until it does, I'll just continue to chop wood, carry water, trust, surrender, love, and maybe we will be able to usher in "the age of peace" without major conflict or planetary destruction. Sheryl Grassie is a local ghostbuster, ghostwriter, writer and editor. She has worked extensively with Echo Bodine and was editor for her book, Echoes of the Soul. Sheryl has a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology and maintains a private consulting business. She can be reached at (612) 922-2200. Copyright (c) 2003 Sheryl Grassie |
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