The Year One

There is a way for the world to be in the future - to embrace being - and really it starts now. It is the way of creativity or creation. Essentially it is the only way: either our planet takes up its place as a shining star in space or it becomes, over time, a dead and barren moon. Human beings will decide this - not atoms, molecules, gravity or fusion. These forces follow patterns of thought not the other way round. The vexed question of what '2012' means and the end of the Mayan calendar - a question which will still be asked in ten years time - concerns this: Creation always starts with the year One.

There are two ways of working - the way of the living star or of the barren moon - and both have to do with the human brain. This is also a question of illusion. When we wake up in the morning we return to waking consciousness and the functions of the brain. In sleep, in night-time consciousness, we were free of this and able to experience the world of light on its own terms, albeit unconsciously. During the hour of twilight we come down towards the earth again, knowing it to be the great field of creation. I always think the dawn chorus - so strong in spring - is the supreme symbol of creation, the purest expression of natural praise. And then we wake, and very quickly find ourselves locked in the brain again, with all its illusions of worldly truth.

The brain itself is also a function of creation but it can operate in the two ways mentioned above. It can trap us in its pathways, in its grey folds - in which case our thoughts become moonlike. Or it can serenely open to reveal the heart of being, where birdsong begins and creation receives its praise. This is a question of orientation and openness - of attitude towards creativity. It is what will sustain or destroy the planet. In a sense the brain is merely like a curtain: it can ripple with thoughts and remain closed or it can open slowly to reveal the light behind.

This is where we stand now in the year 2012 - or the year One. This is the meaning of the new consciousness: always Creation and creativity. It lies within our capacities to open up the pathways of the brain. We need to stand ready and prepared for this adjustment, for this opening. It's something which happens by itself and which we cause to happen by our openness, by our loving praise and dawn chorus. It's not as obvious as it seems: '2012' is something you do and therefore a moral event. At the same time - as I believe - the brain itself is undergoing an evolution. For those who don't change their calendars in this way, the question will still be there in ten or a hundred years time. It's true also that the world is like a brain in its own right: if we will let it, it will take up its post in space as equal thinker with the shining stars.

Jay

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