Dear friends,
We are each born into a collective “soul”, that is, the shared beliefs of our group. We come into a family, a culture, perhaps a religion, a country, a world that has already decided what is reality. We are quite influenced by them as children and might take the tribal beliefs into adulthood, or we rebel against them. The important aspect of collective beliefs is that they are always subject to creativity. It usually only takes one mind who perceives a new way of describing reality, and will not be silenced, to get the group to shift.
Called revolution, it is an evolution of possibility. Two events may occur in the midst of us trying to awaken our loved ones to new ideas. They could reject us and we may feel ostracized in a deeply spiritual way, as if we do not belong with them, or we might realize we can still love them, think differently, but need to move on, regardless. In extreme cases revolutionaries are threatened with violence or banished forever. Common examples are the mistreatment of adult children who “come out” to their parents with devastating results. Being homosexual simply is outside of the reality of such people, although with time, and as the culture shifts, they may see things differently.
In the early days of American culture, women and black people were not considered full humans. They were known as creatures. We could not own property or vote. Of course the African Americans were actual slaves and that was commonly seen as acceptable. Today it is a horrifying idea! Yet, in some parts of the world women still suffer at the hands of men who deem them objects to be done with as they desire. People of color are yet the recipients of mass prejudice.
Having said all that, we can change things for the better. But we need to speak up, act out, vote and make our voices heard. Everything we detest about society today is nothing but a cluster of ideas that began in fear. Think up! Affirm! Declare! We must use our minds to envision and insist on the higher nature of humanity. It’s in everyone of us.
Stay tuned in,
Carol Carnes
