The recent development in the US Presidential election has many layers and ramifications. New hope and awakening desire for change has been ignited in the breasts of the multitude, the poor, downtrodden people who love life, black and white alike but especially the marginalized races and cultures. This emerging hope is accompanied by a massive terror that questions whether this could possibly be real, for it remembers too many almost-miracles that resulted in ashes and bleached bones in the aftermath.
Could this change be real? Will this apparent change be followed by yet another reversal? These questions jitter in the background, skitter in the darkness of the collective consciousness without settling onto an answer.
There is no answer, merely terror that must move, for if the terror does not find its deep movement the answer cannot be what you want it to be.
One layer of what has happened is that the election was set up to turn out the way that it did by a cynical cadre of professional marketers, run by purple essence in the gap, which caused the republican party to sabotage itself and render itself unelectable. The choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate was a calculated move. It was seen to be necessary that the freedom-loving faction be allowed to have the illusion of victory for a time.
The intent here is that if you give the people the appearance of what they want, they will settle back down to their daily lives of television and beer, become docile and content, not march in the streets, not raise a ruckus, not become an inconvenience to the machine. The truth is that the system itself has become so deeply corrupt that there is little practical difference between one party and the next; they are right and left hands of a single body.
Barack Obama may be half African but he is not part of American black culture. His ancestors were not slaves. He is of the power elite, enough so that the powers that be allowed (and encouraged) his election (his wife and children are another matter, however; the implications of an American black woman becoming First Lady are, in some ways, more profound than Obama’s election). Still, his heart is consciously sincere and his ideals are as yet untarnished by hard experience. He believes in his mission for change, but he will soon learn the limitations of his position and the powerlessness inherent now in the apparent seat of power that he is about to occupy, and he is realistic enough to adapt (ie, become corrupted by the system) to the role that is expected and allowed by the entity which he is serving (ie, not the American people).
The corporatocracy that powers the world’s economic machine has a life of its own, and though there is not necessarily a consciously organized head in the form of a meeting room where such decisions are made, still, the guiding life force of this entity acts with a kind of integrity that gives the appearance of having been planned.
However, it needs not to be planned anymore than you need to plan the processes of digestion and cellular respiration within your own body. The corporate entity is made up of systems which contain individual people; these people serve as parts of the whole and do not guide the whole any more than any single part of the self does. A self, an entity, behaves as it does because of the dictates of its instinctive survival drives which cannot be explained and do not have a conscious controlling centre. A hive of bees, a flock of birds, a school of fish, a town or city, a culture, all have an identity and behave in an integrated manner in more or less functional ways.
While it is true that there are many meeting rooms in which cynical decisions which serve the corporate machine are made, they are not understood to be anything beyond self-serving decisions, and the whole picture is not seen by the individuals playing those roles. The people in those rooms act according to impulses which prompt them, and while these may be reasoned through according to what passes for logic, the actual underlying reasons for their decisions are not what they may think they are.
The corporate machine seeks survival of its own form of life, which is really anti-life from the point of view of the earth, and it sees human beings as pawns or pieces to be moved about, to channel human emotional energy in ways that will bleed off the will to action and sink into the illusion of satisfied desire. It hopes (if such an entity could be said to experience an emotion like hope) that a change in which figurehead appears to run the system will be enough to satisfy. It will allow certain cosmetic changes in rules and policies that do not threaten its inherent structure or nature, in order to tranquilize the collective will.
Barack Obama will find himself at the mercy of these corporate forces in the form of the intractability of the system and its resistance to change. Change is easy to declare, easy to intend, but seriously difficult to implement even on an individual human level. It is a rare person who is capable of moving at a deep enough level to make the profound changes that can result in transformation of one’s behavior patterns.
One a global scale, the mass consciousness is not yet integrated enough to undergo this transformation. Not yet, for the gap is still in ferment and all is in an unstable state of flux. One human will, even a personality as strong and committed as Obama, will inevitably find itself thwarted by the sheer inertia of the system and its many obstacles, red tape, bureaucratic snares and booby traps, some intentionally planted by the outgoing regime.
However, the deeper layer of what is happening is a very real healing. The mass eruption of emotion worldwide as a result of this election has resulted in deep movement on the part of many who have previously felt chronically sunk in apathy and hopelessness. Many willpolar beings see this election result as a sign of hope and even (in many cases) a reason to want to live. This movement is global and changes will result in the form of enlivenment of the grassroots entity, the emerging global consciousness, the life of the Earth and the beings who align with her.
All Earth-based beings are parts of the grand entity which is the planet itself. The corporatocracy is run by disembodied entities that are not based on Earth, nor do they share Earth’s values or value Earth’s survival.
In some ways this is a war between Earthly life, the life of the body and will, and the gapped alien form of anti-life which manifests as the corporate culture. But calling it a war implies battle, and battle is exactly what must not happen. The corporate entity cannot be fought without empowering it, for it thrives on confrontation and conflict. This is its element, its arena of power, and it cannot be engaged there without loss of life-force and will essence.
Instead, the war must be engaged on the inner of each of you, and on social and communal levels through empowering the individual desire for life, by empowering the individual creative fire, the draw toward collectivization of culture, tribal consciousness, co-operation and diversification of gifts.
Life is a dance of diversity, of individual flowerings and new evolutionary niches being filled by new forms as old niches are closed and old forms die out.
Corporate culture is an old form, akin to the dinosaur, which needs to die and is dying, but not soon enough to fulfill the desire, the outcry, for miraculous change that this election has stirred. Still, the dinosaur has its back against the wall, and rest assured that if it did not feel itself at threat, it would not have taken the risk of allowing the will to rise in such deep movement of hope, elation and empowerment. This risk will backfire on them in the end, providing that enough terror in the gap finds movement to prevent the very real possibility of a serious reversal here.
The hopes and joys need to stir, and so do the terrors, for there remains yet much to fear.
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