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04/10/2002 Archived Entry: "3/18/02 - Survival"

Survival: One of my dearest friends, John Steiner, has indicated that he wants to do a presentation at the COF Memorial Weekend Workshop on fear, both of death and of the possibility of species extinction. The unthinkable has become thinkable.

I have been saying for many years now that we are in a race between our increasing ability to destroy ourselves, and enough of us raising our consciousness to allow for us to survive. I have been saying it, and thinking it. Now, I am able to feel it.

It is early on a Monday morning. There was a frost last night. It is crisp and clear. Sunlight has just reached the orange tree outside my window. The grass is a little too high, but vibrant with spring vigor. Is it really possible? Are we capable of destroying ourselves? Certainly it is possible. Did we not do the holocaust? Have we not had a sort of rolling holocaust around the planet the last many many years – Cambodia, East Timor, Burma, Uganda, Bosnia, China, Tibet, Russia? Are we not a desert building species? Will the planet decide we are a form of cancer, and cast us off?

Am I grim, full of fear? No, I am not. Perhaps, it would be healthier if I were, and if you were too. I have become a yogi, or, somewhat of a yogi. Or, at least, a practitioner of yoga.

I am happy to say that I am not alone in the work, or in the understanding of what the work is. It is what Creating Our Future is about, and there are others, many others. There is a collective understanding of what is needed, and various and diverse people working to achieve it, in a variety of different ways and efforts around the planet. As I go more deeply into the work, I hear of them, read about them, meet them, and work with them. Are we enough? Shall we learn how to work together?

We need to raise our own consciousness to that place, as Yogi Bhajan, has said so often, that, "when you walk into a room, people’s destinies will change because of your presence." Why do we have to do that? How is it relevant? First, there needs to be a rapidly growing number of us who live our lives as radiant examples if how to live on the planet.

What will cause a shift in planetary consciousness? What will make people aspire to live a different kind of life than they are currently living? Would they not respond to examples of others in their midst, who live such lives? Would not young people, respond to the call of other young people who seem to be living life fully engaged? Would not aging and weary baby boomers, wondering what happened to their dreams, respond to the call of peers who seem engaged, in community, leading meaningful lives?

There is always the possibility, as has happened in the past, that they would want to do the equivalent of burning us at the stake. America is still wallowing in fear since September 11th. Fear is the father of hate.

How shall we speak to America in such a way as to be heard?