The World is Going Mad & So Must We
I just left a message for my agent and said please can you call me back - its not urgent - but it was both urgent and pointless.
He called back and I opened with: What do we do about Palestine. Not really his remit. He’s more Light Ent focused. He’s very good at negotiations but they haven’t got him in to the Middle East yet.
The images of this genocide just lie inside you and it’s all too much to bear witness to. The pig arrogance of saying that, safe, from my house.
Safe because of where I was born, and yes because I’m white and now quite middle class. The UK is however heavily flirting with fascism: Palestine Action is now ruled as a terrorist group, so even wearing a badge in support of Palestine Action can have you arrested as a… terrorist. On the upside, finally white people CAN be called terrorists!
The world has gone fully mad, America’s Doctor Dump might be up for a Nobel Peace Prize. I would write more on that, but I need a visa for something. And that’s how easy it is to silence people… mind you I will take a punt that none of my subscribers think (wind emoji) he’s a perfect candidate for a big old badge of peace.
It’s hard to think about anything else with these images of babies blown in to bits, so I did what I always do in these situations - tried to make sense of it by engaging my healers. One healer called me he is in a state about it too, we agreed that madness doesn’t seem to have any point spiritually and its just incomprehensible. We are told the light will prevail but where the heck IS the light because she needs to get in there now. We agreed to put some more prayers their way but that’s not seeming to do a whole lot except make us feel like we are doing SOMETHING.
Nowadays when I see some pretty girl on TikTok talking about manifesting it makes me roll my eyes, as if people in war zones are just not manifesting hard enough.
But we are all just trying to get by in our own little lives as we watch others around the world be decimated.
I emailed another energy worker and said, apart from praying and donating what the heck do we do. She’s not got back and doesn’t really speak English so once the conversation has gone through a couple of translation systems, it’s anyone’s guess.
What do we do? Is what I chirped again to my agent as if anyone knows. If this is a computer simulation someone else needs to drive the game. We agreed that if it was a parallel universe or a simulation, it’s all the same experience it feels real very very real.
My agent come on, lets call him what he is… friend at this point. He said we’re not designed to see all this devastation around the world. And there’s so much of it, so many people limping on in the worst possible conditions with everything ravaged from them, it’s too much to process.
In the end I find myself googling ‘will the aliens save us.’ Then I asked my agent to see if he can look into booking some, because he has got good contacts. Unfortunately he thought I was joking.
All we can do is donate, write to our MPs, march, post, do fundraisers, pray and keep on keeping our vibration as high as we can, we are no good to anyone in the gutter.
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💯this!!!
I've just come back from a Buddhist retreat in France (Plum Village), this was a big theme obviously. I'm scared to paraphrase (my words not proper Zen stuff).
What I got from the discussions with the nuns and monks who spend a lot of time contemplating this and are from a lineage of Vietnamese Zen that was born out of the suffering and designed to support social workers in the war, was we can be aware of the suffering and cultivate compassion taking as much action as we're able (which is the things that you mention) and we can hold joy for the beauty of the world and cultivate loving kindness to the world around us.
One thing I noticed is I got so caught up in being online and scrolling horrific images I was a disengaged and numb parent and shit friend. So I need to consciously consume and be present to my life AND hold the suffering in my awareness. Two things can be true simultaneously, there can be joy in the world and hell. The energy I bring to my connections with the bus driver and the love I bring to my friends counts. It doesn't diminish the suffering and isn't spiritual bypassing.
I now am careful on how much smartphone scrolling I do. Our brains aren't designed for such horror. I consumer news carefully and make sure I take care that I don't get too overwhelmed as that makes me not present for the people and beauty around me. I can be grateful for that knowing that there is great suffering in the world that I have little control over. The one thing I can do is not be a dick (again not a Buddhist word for word teaching). Anyway what do I know.
I feel the same and then got flamed by some buddhist dude online for trying to say this so hey... its a crazy time. Thank you for being you and making me feel less alone.