Lamplight

We might expect the new consciousness - if we expect it at all - to be infinitely muscular and equal to all the crises of our age. (And isn't it strange how people have stopped mythologizing 2012 now it's here?) There is always this reality gap between the fantasy of salvation and the demands it might make. It's precisely into this gap that the strong, muscular saviours will step. We are faced with choices between ideas, religions, regimes and somehow fail to trust the energy of our own longing - the longing for peace and truth and justice. These are not simply abstractions - they are powers to be found somewhere if we can keep our mind on them for long enough.

The bewildering truth (and it is bewildering) is that it's not power at all that establishes world harmony - it's not the rush of a 'new consciousness' or a 'great shift' and it's certainly not the control of a muscular ideology or dictator. (In this respect we're only substituting traditional authorities with more insidious belief systems.) Neither is it the rule of those who come like the lamb but have the heart of the wolf. Peace - if we can find it - is like the lamp at the end of a secluded passage. We have to be quite still to reach it. We have to go together, if possible, or at least come back for those who are left behind. The lamp holds no expectations - it doesn't promise to answer the darkness of the world. It's like a spring of clear water in a moss-lined cave. You can reach it and drink or not. Yet strangely this small lamp also stands above the whole world and fills every crevice with light. So much depends on not taking your eye off it - on not being trapped or lured or deceived by external powers.

Peace is not glamorous but it is glowing. And lastly this lamp knows every step of darkness you have ever taken. It has kept its eye on you unfailingly since time began. It's only demand is that you do the same.

Jay


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