Message to those of Resistance, Protest and Strife

I sent a message to humanity as I walked along the trail: “You who seem so shadowed, obstructive, evil and bedeviled – you are part of this beautiful creation. You are not separate, not apart from the wonder and love of this creation. You help us to do what we need to do.

Like an employer, friend, sibling or parent who triggers us to see within ourselves what needs to be seen and felt, accepted, loved unconditionally and released, you help humanity to see the larger structures and paradigms of ‘reality’ that need to be seen and felt, accepted, loved unconditionally and released.”

Breathing helps with all of this. Courage helps. The stubborn tension, resistance, contraction, fear, anger, anxiety and so on – all of this is serving humanity at this time. So many of us are either acting it out, or looking on with disbelief and incomprehension, shaking our heads and saying, “How can they be so blind, so obtuse?” Yet, the response that moves us through and into a new world is one of acceptance and compassion.

Acceptance does not mean that we agree with the ones holding the signs and pushing and yelling. Acceptance does not mean that we agree with the riot police holding their batons as assault weapons, nor with the politicians and chiefs who order those police forces into the streets. Compassion breathes with the full impact of it – the chaos, fear, anger, even rage.

We breathe in acceptance of the push and pull and ‘give me what’s mine and to hell with you, Jack.’ We breathe in witness of the suffering and fear that is always behind violence. As A Course in Miracles teaches us, “All attack is a call for help.” And the help we can offer is our compassionate acceptance that this is humanity and so this is us.

My message now is this: “You are not apart, not separate. You are with us in this vast project of trauma and the clearing of trauma, of suffering and redemption. It is as large as this galaxy and it is ours and we are all heroes, all of us. We are together in this – even as we seem to hurl invective and insult at each other in the face of seeming imminent collapse of all that gives us security, wellness and an ordered world.

It feels like chaos and collapse. Let yourself feel it. Let yourself feel the falling away of everything that you thought gave you solid ground on which to stand. You are actually the creator of every reality you have ever known and you will not fall nor falter at this time. The nightmare does end and the new day is one that you can make as lovely as you would have it be, for it is yours to create from the heart of you – the heart of humanity – which is infinitely wise, loving and brave.”