Winter is Here: The Coming Storm
Perhaps there was a time when it felt like society was guided by clearer rules, expectations, commandments, a code of ethics, or responsibility to some greater cause. And now, everything seems to be a free for all. We see our structures crumbling, our institutions dismantling, our belief and value systems under attack, and our way of life challenged. Circumstances feel chaotic. The path ahead to our futures may appear uncertain or tumultuous. Storms abound and we are at sea. Perhaps we aim to escape, adopt or create an alternate reality, tell ourselves everything is fine as we move through our days, or attempt to swim against the current back to the past. Difficult times can make one feel nostalgic, and it is easy to do so with rose-colored glasses. Needing to believe that there in the certainty of the past, was a better, safer, kinder time. Where the harshness and uncertainty of the world cannot harm us. But the past was just as imperfect as it is now.
In the present, we seem to exist in a part of the lifecycle that feels as if some great, destructive storm is brewing. And perhaps it has been for some time. We’ve seen glimpses of it far away, across the horizon, thinking, oh we have time. And as it nears and creeps closer, we adjust, thinking oh this is fine, this is normal. We could be in the storm and always find a way to be fine. Humans are incredibly adaptable, we can adjust to the shades of grey, even as we veer into the darkness.
Perhaps we are already in the darkness, even when it may seem we are not.
Let us ask ourselves and ponder our current way of life. For many, is it ‘fine’ to spend our lives and focus all of our energy towards jobs and work that doesn’t feel personally meaningful or beneficial? Is it fine to spend your life working just to pay for the numerous expenses people are constantly being advertised to? Is it fine to always feel tired and depleted? Is it fine to suffer from chronic, ‘incurable’ health conditions, or believe that chronic strees, anxiety, depression is a ‘normal’ part of life? Is it fine to exist in a concrete box, hooked up to a technology all day, devoid of nature, trees, sunlight, and fresh air? Is it fine to eat plastic, packaged food devoid of nutrients? Or how our only form of “health care” and “wellness” is designed solely to keep people in a cycle of disrepair, sickness, and dependence? Or that our idea of adult fun is to drink alcohol to suppress our immune systems, exchange sexual energy with people we do not trust or respect, and drain our energy via endless social media, netflix, and television? Or give over hard-earned money that people have exchanged their energy and life-force for, to buy objects fashioned out of plastic and waste because they were told it would make them feel better, fill a void, or make them feel seen, important or valuable? In this unconscious abandonment of soul and free will, unrealized talents, gifts, dreams, and beauty remain unborn and lay to waste.
Meanwhile cost of living expenses continue to increase astronomically, disproportional to living wages. Basic, life-dependent natural resources like clean air, clean water, clean land and food disappear. We’re told that nature does not matter and is insignificant, as it is bulldozed over with more concrete, more steel, more plastic. Human inventions like HVAC systems and air purifiers designed to purify the clean air that we once had for free. Water purifiers to purify the clean water, we also once had for free. Legal structures and money to buy the land that once was free to the benefit of all. Synthetic fertilizers and GMO crops to grow produce that looks like produce, but lacks all of the nutrients of one. We are creating a toxic, plastic world. Most people live in plastic, eat plastic, inject plastic, smother themselves in plastic, wear plastic, carry plastic, drive plastic, and bathe in micro-plastics. Grocery stores are lined with processed, petrolium-based foods. Living foods are pumped with growth hormones to artifically grow the item because the land is devoid of any real nutrients, and antibiotics and pesticides regularly showered because of inherent disease in the toxic process of industrial manufacturing. Not only are people eating petrolium, people are also slathering petrolium-based products, skincare, cosmetics, etc on their entire bodies, and willingly cut themselves open to even put more plastic inside their bodies through the form of fillers, injections, plastic surgery. This way of being is a version of hell, glossed over with a seemingly picture-perfect plastic package of an illusion. People are brainwashed to believe this is all good, to desire it, and to give anything to maintain it, including themselves. Plastic is a way of life. It is a symbol of the rejection of nature, of the intelligence of life. A false belief that humans can outsmart and separate themselves from nature. But behind the plastic illusion, is a disease.
The storm that is coming is a culmination and manifestation of this disease. Centuries, if not a milennia, of pent-up injustices, lies, repression, traumas, violence, and disrepect inflicted upon each other and our planet. Culminating in one great destructive storm, existing on a cyclical basis to break down the illusions we have created, and purify the disease from our hearts: the greed, the selfishness, the disrespect, the disconnection, the isolationism, the apathy—within and towards each other and our natural world. It comes to break everything down, no mercy. For it does not place value judgement on what we as humans deem good or bad, only what is unaligned with who we really are and nature’s needs. In the fire and chaos, it aims to burn down the illusion. To serve and trigger some dormant light within us to show up and fight. To remember and reconnect, and do what is true and right for ourselves and each other. Like a volt of electricity to awaken the heart, we can awaken to the truth of our true nature, and our true desire for a free, loving, and peaceful world to be in, without fear and sickness. It reminds us what is really important deep down, beneath the artifical layers. It reveals our most fundamental and universal beliefs and values as a soul and a human being, and it reconnects us all to each other to do better.