This Crazy Campaign for the Presidency!
Humanity is now faced with a stark choice:
Evolve or Die... Eckhart Tolle
Traveling all over the USA and Canada this past summer on the 2016 Summer of Hope Tour, the campaign for the presidency was the buzz among people everywhere. If I had a dollar for every time I heard, “I’ve never seen a campaign like this before!” I’d be rich.
It can be a little daunting, to be sure with all the negativity, the lies and soon to be broken promises. Many wonder, “Who can we believe, whom can we trust? Who will listen to our needs and address our concerns?” We can appear to be a nation that is falling apart at the seams. But what if we are not falling apart at the seams at all? What if this campaign is just shaking us all out of our complacency?
Eckhart Tolle, said, “Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”
Maybe this crazy campaign is simply about the evolution of humanity, an unraveling of old illusions.
There is nothing new happening in the personal or political lives of either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, that hasn’t happened before in the political arena or the lives of everyday people for that matter. We have all played our own part in this subculture of secrets. It’s just that now with modern technology we have the means of uncovering and making public what has previously been held in confidence. However, the good news is that, It's in the revealing of the secrets that they loose their power. And while things get worse before they get better, they eventually we're set free! Yeah!
What if that’s all that is happening in this crazy campaign? Well, maybe not all that’s happening, but to be sure, secrets are being revealed, illusions are being dissolved and conversations are taking place about unacceptable behavior that will no longer be tolerated from our society and respect for everyone has to become the norm, not the exception for a few elite. We are saying no to things that have been a part of our underground culture for many, many years, and we are demanding honesty and change!
Generally speaking, we have become a society of non-informed, non-thinking people. “How can that be?” you ask. Because we rely on the opinions of the mainstream and social media and rarely do we go collecting our own information or checking the facts for ourselves.
Let me give you an example. I just returned from a four-month trip where I traveled up the west coast, across Canada to the Great Lakes and eventually finished up in Missouri before heading back to Arizona. When I began the trip, like many people, I had had it with both candidates and wasn’t going to vote for either and I was pretty clear about that. However, the fifteen hours that I drove from Missouri to New Mexico, I listened to talk radio stations like The BBC (British Broadcast Communications), NPR (National Public Radio), lots of Christian stations as well as local liberal and conservative talk shows. I was even able to hear a station where people from the United Kingdom were able to call in and give their opinion of what’s happening here in the states. By the time I got to New Mexico, I had decided that while I still wasn’t happy with either candidate, I was going to vote and I was going to vote for change!
When I arrived in New Mexico, I flipped through the television stations to watch the news. And after just one hour of mainstream media news, there was no way that I could vote for the candidate that I felt would offer change. Really? Fifteen hours verses one hour and I had totally changed my mind! Crazy huh?
So, what if this crazy campaign isn’t so crazy after all? What if it is all in Divine Order? What if all the negativity that has come into play has simply been a tool for us to begin to think for ourselves and not just rely on the opinions of others or the mass media? What if this crazy campaign enables us to see from different points of view and to gently place a toe out of our comfort zones and experience what it feels like to walk a mile in another’s moccasins. And just what if this crazy campaign got us to begin our own personal evolution and we started to love and respect ourselves, which in turn helped us to begin embracing the uniqueness of us each as individuals. Then… this crazy campaign wouldn’t be so crazy after all, now would it?
Let’s make a resolution to begin NOW… let’s change the world one person at a time and let it begin with me!
