Please allow me to offer an outside perspective: I am German and have been following the US elections closely, since the fate of my country is linked to it’s outcome. I will not venture to judge the internal affairs of the US - here I have no idea. But I saw what consequences US policies had for the region I live in. Let me start by saying this: I have met many Americans during the course of my life. I do not know what their political beliefs are, but I do know that all of them were thouroughly decent people. No exception. Maybe, Dear US Brothers and Sisters, this is what you should know about yourselves. You are, at your core, thouroughly decent people. Following the dictates of the American government blindly has led to disastrous consequences for my country. I live in one of the poorest parts of Germany. Jobs are scarce, and now many businesses had to close, people lost their jobs and are now loosing their homes. As a consequence of those policies the next German government will bring back the draft, which means that the boys and girls I watch going to school every morning will have a higher likelyhood to go to needless wars, kill, maim, be killed, be maimed and certainly be traumatized for good. And before someone points out that it is the other world leader who is responsible for this: maybe extend the curtesy of uncertainty to him as well? He is a human being, not Vlad the Impaler, and was a reliable partner to Germany for more than 20 years. To have a predsident elect in the US who at least is willing to talk (which the last administration categorically refused to do) is an incredible relief. My mother and father survived WW2 as young children, my mother was French, so she was on one side of the conflict, my father German, se he was on the other side. The trauma both of them carried was palpable - and never adressed which led to abuse and disruption in our family, and severe consequences for my brother and myself which we will have to carry for the rest of our lives. Wars have consequences which outlast those who wage them for generations. I pray for you. May you find peace, inside and out.
I am sorry for what our government has done to Europe. There was a middle path instead of what you guys have in Europe, but our side wanted dominance. It isn't what most Americans wanted. I have two sons in their twenties and I pray there isn't a broader war. All this is senseless.
trump is owned by Vlad. The reason your children will get drafted is because trump gives Vlad full reign and now you have to protect yourselves from his aggression. The last man in office was Biden. He is a good man. trump is evil.
Trump's presence is unlikely to lead to world peace. His support of Israel and many other policies can easily influence the world into a much less stable direction. I don't see wars ending any time soon under Trump.
just b/c you have met some Americans briefly does not mean they are decent even if they treated you nicely. Decency is a behavior, an action, you don't earn a decency card and keep it for life. It is not decent to condone the actions of a rapist. It is not decent to give power to someone who makes fun of others, who is xenophobic, who has stated he will harm others who he perceives have slighted him. Therefore over 50% of voting Americans have not behaved decently. It is not decent to become emboldened by the election of a faschist and threaten, intimidate and harm others.
Absolutely brilliant. I feel at peace. Open, free, and light. I hold all my preconceived notions lightly. I no longer identify with political labels. I release it all into the Void. Thank you so much. This was the most brilliant talk I've heard from one person in a long time, perhaps ever. Open your minds and hearts and be at peace, my friends. ❤
I am a 75 year old man who has a need of government stability, live on social security and if I need Medicare I want it available. Himself has from the start believed proclaimed chaos, confrontation and cruelty. For me to accept this grossness that exalts wealth above humanity is beyond my ability to accept.
@ Sounds good for younger people who are able to work and have resources. Not so easy for an older person lacking that who would be dependent on others. If those others were family members then maybe they would feel an obligation to help. I don’t have family to help and I live with a friend my other closest friends are gone. Not seeking help or sympathy just trying to illustrate that becoming part of a community is not possible for some of us.
With all due respect, I am also in my 70s and dependent on both of those. Who told you you were going to lose Medicare and Social Security? The wicked idiot box, 75% of whose budget is paid by global pharmaceutical companies? I believe the incoming government will do things I don't like - I believe they may, like the other party, give too much power to the technocrats. But I have read no credible source (and MSNBC is a propaganda organ - I say that not as a conservative but someone who believed in nonpartisan journalism) that says Social Security will be eliminated. The only reason I see it being cut or eliminated is if the economy collapsed, and if that happens, almost everyone will be affected, even those not dependent on them. And Medicare pays way too many healthcare professionals too much for them to agree for it to be eliminated. Collapsing complexity is right. I fear other things, not the Handmaid's Tale nor Project 2025, just as the Right's shibboleth of "Communists" under the bed is wildly inaccurate. With all due respect. But it would be good if there were more sense of community. We are in the house of unknowing indeed.
Disappointing. You want your own security and a continuation of the managed decline that is squeezing the life out of generations coming behind you. Death is coming soon so you might learn something about embracing the unknown.
I am convinced that our experiences of DUALITY are on the verge of reaching the extremes that will prepare Humanity to embrace the Unity of all life, a whole-hearted letting go and letting GOD.
I agree, we are all one. There is no us or them. Thus we are our own authority, no longer needing to place our power in the hands of others. This is a change of human consciousness. No more believing in the lie that we are separate from one another. We are all a fractals of the creator/god/source. Moving out of duality into unity consciousness ❤
@@margueriteellison3667you two are in a dream world! Sure we are all the same spiritual beings, but we're living in a physical world and those running the world, (who are pay-grades above the president etc) are pure evil and they treat us like sheep. The majority of people don't care and a large percentage are sitting around praying or meditating, or being present etc, and none of them are doing anything that will change the way we are treated like minions. We're all stuck in a dream world, where once the door's closed and the TV's on, nobody gives a damn.
@ankyspon1701 this is all the more reason to keep talking about unity and the illusion of separation. It's the only way to free the world by awakening it.
Every NDE (Near-Death Experience)experience that I have listened to returned to Earth not caring about worldly possessions, and money, only caring about Love. This is what GOD shows them; it is life's ultimate purpose. Greed is the antithesis of love, therefore it is against God.
Dont get too wrapped up in it. I had a NDE few years ago and it instantly changed my life (just like it does for almost everybody). Recently I researched peoples DMT experiences because I want to try it. I started to see many similarities to my NDE. Began slowly losing faith about my NDE. Then I read Rick Strassman's book DMT The Spirit Molecule. And now it is so obvious that my experience was just a endogenous DMT reaction created by the pineal gland, brought on because of near-death like symptoms. (Although, it looks like the pineal gland being the source is now under heavy debate. Who cares. Came from something in the brain... that's all I need to know)
You are one of the few minds I’ve heard share your thoughts about the election without talking down to people. I really appreciate that. We are suffering from a country seething with contempt for each other. I can get behind hope (or at least wonder) for the inconceivable shifts approaching.
This man who believes he has some kind of truth to teach is beyond absurd. Telling women their fears are not valid, oh but some are. OMG. Fella, get off your self-righteousness platform and go live your life; stop telling people what to feel or believe. Many of us were raised in the households of MAGA-type people. It is not 2 legitimate political views. It is good vs not good. WE DO NOT NEED THIS GUY'S BULL SHIT. We need validation that what we see, what we know, and what we feel IS THE TRUTH. I am 72 and have been around a lot of blocks and one thing i have learned: i know f---ed up people when they blather. And this guy needs to start a MAGA church. They'll love him.
As for me, I would not say; 'contempt for the other'. I would say it is more about uplifting certain principles. As an example, how we treat others. I recognize immigration as a serious issue, as an example. But my concern is that we will end up treating people like animals. And that is a spiritual issue. Calling humans "garbage" is an example of this. But you mentioned 'hope'. My view with that, is saying bad will come out, so that it will be recognized and dealt with. thus lead to a brighter future, lead by people with positive vision.
I love this. The important thing right now is to stay in the flow and believe that everything that is happening is of divine creation for the greater good. We need to zoom way out and see everything from an energetic/cosmic level.
Words can be imperfect containers for the ideas we intend for them to carry. I think in time humans will find the language to bridge elements of science with elements of metaphysics, and progressively more as time goes on. We're barely getting started : ) That said, I don't believe that belief is a choice, but emergent, rather, and that actions or thoughts based on belief are reflexive (e.g. stand in front of a car coming at you. If you get out of the way, then yes, you believe the car would hit you.. may have gotten that from Sam Harris, idk), but I do believe that we can train ourselves to believe things, which can be a powerful use of the mind. I'm practicing to widen my beliefs about love. I don't believe in divinity because it connotes 'God' which connotes a superperson, which connotes a mind with a personality and emotions (features of a biological brain), and then we have effectively projected ourselves onto the cosmos and thereby compromised our ability to think objectively. Unregulated, this can lead to nonsense quickly. "I don't know" are some of the wisest words ever spoken. I don't identify as spiritual because it connotes 'religious' which connotes trading critical thinking for ritual and groupthink and can erode the ability to differentiate good and poor reasoning. I don't believe in free-will but, rather, a deterministic universe that fully includes the brain and neural firings, that consciousness is a hologram that serves the brain's needs, and that the 'self' exists to more or less 'massage' the brain via the consciousness interface by reacting to the pain-pleasure spectrum. But somewhere in all of this I know that everything and everyone are connected through an elaborate and dynamic structure, that order and chaos are in a cosmic dance at every scale, that systems sometimes correct themselves (we get to enjoy the volcanic and tsunamic expression of it!) and that moments of awakening _happen to us_ when the conditions are right. I think something big is coming, and collectively.. hopefully not a theocracy, lol. My flavors of intuition and abstraction might be what others call spirituality ;) Words are that effectual! I hope this perspective was one of many that adds some value to the puzzle. -An INFJ with a head full of math.
I have one set of absolute Truths that I use to guide my life: If I see an enemy, I am living in fear. If I am living in fear, I am not perceiving reality. The Truth about reality will set me free.
TRUTH exists; 'reality' is a tricky word. The search for TRUTH will turn one's sense of 'reality' inside out in the purification process of letting go of all that is not true... every belief.
“ If I see an enemy I am living in fear” If I am a negro slave in chains on a boat from Africa to the US to be sold into slavery, separated from my family, my fear is reasonable human reaction, and unless I act on my fear, my life of freedom and liberty is over. If I am an Native American Indian living and hunting for generations, and I see the white Calvary soldiers coming into my village and shooting and killing my family, my fear is justified and a normal human reaction, and if I fail to act on my fear, my wife and children will be slaughtered.
this is ridiculous. fear exists. its a natural response to a threat. and these people have vocally laid out their threats. why are people so afraid of feeling all emotions except happiness. lets see how free the immigrants feel when they are rounded up into camps and deported. or should they just smile and say they have been set free? should we accuse the jews of being inferior because they couldnt smile their way through the concentration camps. again. this is ridiculous. i dont understand people who strive to live on clouds, trick themselves into thinking that we should work to remove all emotions and pretend that we are all just supposed to float around like non humans. Trust me: you have absolute enemies. They have TOLD YOU THEMSELVES that they plan to be your enemy. To turn around and say 'you are not my enemy' is willful ignorance, and actually quite dangerous. I wonder if you would say the same for an intruder who arrives through the window fully armed to do his worst at 3am. Would you say 'you are not my enemy'? lol. The truth about this reality: we are facing a theocratic takeover. THEY HAVE SAID AS MUCH. Just because you refuse to see it does not mean it is not so. It absolutley is. Let's ask the thousands of women who have died so far from complications in their pregnancies since the overturning of Roe. Get off your cloud dude. You are not a genie. Right now, you need to be a warrior. We all do. Human beings are flesh and blood, not floating balls of neutral energy.
The teachings you share have incredible influence on our humble community. We are holding firm a unified vision of a more beautiful world. Thank you for your bravery. We stand with you. ❤
You can visualise all you like, but without action you are wasting your time! Action doesn't mean hurting people, it means talking to others, writing emails and letters to the media and government etc en mass, to tell them that until we've sorted out the world we live in, we don't want them squandering our taxes on bombs, hadron colliders and space exploration etc etc. Those above the president are treating us like cattle because we are all sitting around praying and allowing them to do so. The only thing visualising or being in the present does, it make your own perception of the world better for that moment, it doesn't make the real world better for you and definitely not for anyone else! Prayers without actions amount to nothing!
In the aftermath of the election, I spiraled & got caught up in the narratives. Bombarded by all media outlets with fear, doom, horror, sadness, desperation. I had to find my center, for my sanity. And I realized when I did, underneath all of that superficial doom & gloom... my gut, my "SELF" was actually CALM. There is something going on now. A shifting of timelines & you are correct, is NOT what ANY SINGLE ONE OF US THINKS. Thank you for this message 🙏 Sending everyone love & blessings ❤
I felt and noticed the same things as you. Anxiety, anger, chaos and despair whenever I check in with MMS and more calmness when I disengage and check in with myself
Since I voted Independent I did not get caught up in the emotional highs and lows, but watched several channels adn internet news to see what was going on. In reality there are plus and minuses on both sides but some huge global machine wanted us to fight each other to reduce population so there would be more for the elites. We are shifting from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age and frankly a majority in both parties want to hang on for dear life to the old. What they want to hang on to is different and that's what some fight about but the underlying drive to hold on is the same. That creates some chaos in itself.
@@Cloudchopper-x1r It’s not about reducing population for them, it’s about keeping us struggling with eachother so we don’t focus on them as the wealth gap increases. They actually need a population to work for them and “defend” their country. They will take public land and pull all the resources out with the population of workers. They will financially reward people that have more babies to add to the population. And punish those that don’t. They need people, they need workers.
How synchronistic that I’m finding you today for the first time expressing the way I was feeling this morning. Unsure of anything I am seeing. Stepping back from what I think should have happened … what I was so sure would happen, but didn’t. Viewing it from a place of curiosity and holding space for the highest and best outcome in the next 2-3 years. Namaste and thank you.
Thank you for this. I'm slowly learning to accept and embrace my stomach-churning anxiety, and move ahead with it. I've also committed to greeting and chatting with everyone around me, neighbors, fellow shoppers, etc, as long as they're not openly hostile, and to getting to know one another regardless of how we vote. I want to be part of a new group: the middle. Purple. It's how my late mate and I were.
I also consulted the I ching post election and received hexagram 57 which advised me to stay balanced, detached, innocent and independent through all the changing events. Thank you Charles, this resonated deeply.
I don't have uncertainty. I saw what Traitor Trump did the last time and that was before the lying, corrupt Supreme Court members gave him immunity. Traitor Trump's not even in office yet, but already I'm hearing about children who are afraid to play outside because they aren't White, an 8-yr-old child who asked their Muslim father if they have to leave America now because the new president doesn't like them, disabled and LGBTQ people who are afraid for their lives, White men in MAGA gear throwing projectiles from their cars, yelling the f-word at people they assume to be gay and telling women "your body, MY choice from now on." Women have already died because they couldn't get help when they had a miscarriage; doctors are afraid they will go to jail for helping them under Traitor Trump's new rules. I'm so ashamed of my country for electing a hateful and cruel, racist, r*pist, misogynistic serial sexual predator, xenophobic child/parent separator, dictator-loving insurrectionist who is a traitor to America, who tried to overthrow our government and got people killed because of his Big Lie. Traitor Trump, who said he is willing to terminate our Constitution and plans to be a dictator on day one, is absolutely anti-democracy and un-American.
Serenity, curiosity, and possibility. You have become a sage of our times Charles. Thank you for your insight and attention to what most are unable to put into words! I appreciate you deeply.
I've been at I don't know for a few years now. My narrative has changed to something bringing us all together. Like a flash of something solar. Bright lights in the sky. ??? Then we all focus on that. I live in Sarasota Florida and hurricane Milton came over my house. We the people banded together before and after the storm. No one was asking what my political beliefs are. Not one person did I hear discussing politics
I am so happy to hear this as I’m the same place - resting in the unknown. It’s so much better than worrying or being afraid because we really don’t know what is happening (except something is changing) and we have no idea how things will go down or where we’ll end up. 😊
Thank you for bringing us back from the media generated soup. I imagined a metaphor while listening. The sickle. An amazing tool, an ancient tool, a tool of humanity. This tool is so easily converted from a sword by a blacksmith. Throwing down the sword can also be a metaphor for freeing the mind. Giving up the fight that keeps us in the past or the future. I will now keep the sickle as a symbol of a loving humankind free from the shackles of all influence.
I think the main thing to remember is that neither 'side' of the voters have malevolent intentions, on a group level. People may assume, probably incorrectly on the most part, that the other side are simply ignorant and blind to the consequences. However, on the whole, all of us want a beneficial result on a general level, it's not good vs bad
Thank you. What I like about your perspective is that it considers the state of being for all people right now. The hatred and division on both sides is so sad to witness. Humanity needs to be able to rise higher, communicate and accept we do not all have the same perspective.
The way you describe your curiosity about the uncertainty you feel really resonates with me. For the past several years now, I have been working my hardest to consciously carry an attitude as often as possible which is a lot like what you've described here Charles. Cultivating comfort with uncertainty is challenging, it requires the development a sophisticated confidence, a faith, no - it's optimism. Real optimism. Real optimism doesn't feign certainty about the future - it expects and says YES to both the comedy and tragedy of existence.
This quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj came up this morning listening to I Am That meditation on RUclips (Samaneri Jayasara Wisdom of the Ages ) “There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable for it means the Soul has cast its moorings and is sailing off for distant places. This is detachment when the old is over and the new has not yet come. If you are afraid the state may be depressing but there is really nothing to be afraid of. Remember the instruction - whatever you come across go beyond. Indeed Wisdom of the Ages! Great site for uplifting ageless wisdom! 🙏💚
Tens of millions of people will have their access to health insurance at risk - they have promised to repeal the affordable care act. How does one prepare to have no health insurance.
@@LouisBourgeois333 being highly evolved isn’t a substitute for medical attention. One doesn’t cancel out the other. Claiming health doesn’t cure an acute bacterial infection or broken pelvis from a car accident
fear is sensible. yet the voices calling for repeal remain human, and the idea of leaving people to rot and die that had prior coverage seems very unlikely. nothing happens in a vacuum. the fear mongering has been great. yet it seems that is what it was given the "he's not so bad now" offers for a smooth transition. if it was truly believed the world was going to end, would it truly be such an offer? breathe!!
how ironic that RFK Jr. will be in charge of vaccines and all the health issues that so many from this audience would have followed him for and also in charge of medicare which they stand to lose completely. we will see. i feel this was an absolutely disastrous election result and we will see cruelty and rule by force start to take control. it has already started. blessings to you.
Me and my children haven't had insurance for years. The "affordable care act" is defnitely not affordable for families like mine. And I'm also pretty ok with that because I know what the system offers and what it doesn't and how to work it if I need it.
Thank you Charles! What you said makes sense. I’m holding space for Peace, Unconditional love (non-judgement) and compassion for ALL. Perspectives change with experiences and witnessing events… here’s hoping truth comes to light and we as a collective are able to accept those truths.
Billions upon billions for genocide, ethnic cleansing, neo-nazi ideology of zionist and ethnic supremacy, torture, child-abuse, land-theft, cruelty, dispossesion, inhumanity, tribalist hatred , that is now being rebranded as "peace, compassion and light" in this new 1984 world of the GREAT CONSERVATIVE BILLIONAIRE INVERSION / FALSE AWAKENING.
Charles this is incredibly profound and with deep listening an invitation to the new world you are pointing to. Turning towards uncertainty and our relationship to it....who we are/become in that place will be crucial.
Serenity, curiosity, possibility. Beautiful meditation. I will use as a lifeline. Thank you. Being a theatre person, I have always had the typical actors dream of going onstage and not knowing my lines, especially during times of great uncertainty . Guess what? For the first time ever, I dreamed I was going onstage , I didn’t know my lines, and I didn’t care!?!! I did say to my co actors-“we still should speak loudly and clearly even if we don’t know what we’re supposed to say! Haha!
I am only alive because of the ACA. Without the medication I receive I will die. I don’t know how to not be afraid of that reality. I’m sorry. Maybe I am not big enough or calm enough or centered enough. I’m sorry But that is my existence.
I’m So sorry. I hope you will find a way to survive, sadly, the incoming administration will not help the vulnerable. Please find an alternative or move to a country that cares about people.
Fearing uncertainty is natural, in the situation you describe ACA could end up being replaced with a better system or more effective healing methods and technologies could be made available to the public. We can also uncover self-healing abilities that we all have. We are all "alive" in human form because our spirit self is immersed in the physical body until it detaches - which can happen at any time for anyone.
Thanks for your humbleness, your lucidity and clarity. Listening to your response increases my hope, because it reflects exactly the way I feel. The wisest thing for each of us todo now is to keep our hearts open, stay curious and in peace. ❤🙏
At this moment in time, I'm so very grateful for those words of wisdom that you have shared. Shared in such a loving, caring and thoughtful manner. Thank you. ❤️
Thank you Charles for being a voice for seeing the wholeness of this event and expressing a compassionate heart and reminder that our future it yet to be revealed on the path of Unity consciousness expressed here and now. Much love and appreciation.
I agree. Nobody knows, so I'm not about to portray that I do. All I do is envision a better future. I will continue to do the things that make me happy. Exercise, art, music and helping the community I live in. I pick up trash alongside the road, feed a feral cat that has no home and smile to possibly brighten someone's day. It's difficult to watch media, so I let go of television. This is about self. A better self, I believe. We are ONE.
Love your comment! It's like a sunray on a bright, beautiful day. People live in different conditions. But many things are a question of well-chosen priorities. The priorities the heart wants. Thank you for the beautiful reminder. 🙏🧡
@@morwenw2277 support for one another. What we ALL need. Thank you so very much. You are a fine example. I choose to see beauty. My best to you. Enjoy the moment. Not looking back or forward. I have nature to help show me the way. Animals have no opinions, nor do they judge.
Your words are wise. These past months have taught me many things including the understanding that the present moment is the only place to live from now. The future and the past are filled with complete uncertainty and neither of those places will allow anyone to escape fear, folly, or a foolish false sense of security. This moment is bigger than any individual, or group of individuals. No one knows what this moment is really about. We must live into the answers to our questions. Only then will we know. Everything moving towards us is now in the realm of the unknown. Anyone that suggest otherwise is delusional. There is nothing harder to be asked to do then to simply sit still by the banks of the river and do nothing- create no narratives. To sit still even as the waters rise, the winds blow, the earth shakes. The only preparation for safety is to empty the mind and be present. That’s what my experience tells me.
Compassionate curiosity! That is available to me. I will cultivate it. I’m realizing the level of internal suffering many are experiencing & that the louder or more abrasive their voice is, there lies within a trembling heart.
Thank you so much for your comment! I think this is an important aspect, you are speaking about. To that trembling hearts Charles has to make an important offer here... But I fear, most of the loud and abrasive voices aren't in a state to recognize, even less cultivate it.
Add this to your watch list! Charles nails the collective energy reading again! Honestly, whatever is playing out at the mirco-level of consciousness and our own personal woundings patterns, plays out in the macro also. I love EVERYTHING Charles touches on here in this sharing; it's true for our polarised parts within our psyche, it's true for our polarised culture. There's a beautiful integration piece at the end to lead us forward in these turbulent times.
Despite having followed Charles' writing for years I was listening to this talk and feeling confusion and doubt. I noticed comments that Charles is spiritually bypassing, sitting on the fence, naive, or has gone over to "the other side". So I went to the website to explore his point of view a little more. (Link is in the description, I can't put it in a comment.) There is a lot of support available here for all of us who are concerned about world events and have been drawn to Charles' message. I fear that history is repeating and I have a narrative and evidence to support that belief! But now I have hope that here is a way forward and also how we can get back on track with living our deepest shared values instead of increasing division and extremism. Rather than rush to fight or defend, we can ask new questions without referring to preconceptions. Rather than being reactive, which is how history repeats itself, this is how we can act with wisdom empowered by our values. The invitation to enter the "unknown" is definitely not an idealistic way to disengage. If you're feeling doubtful, at least go to the website. I found a very courageous, practical, and engaged course of action.
I can't contain my joy - Joel Salatin, the grandfather of the organic, regenerative farming movement has been appointed as advisor (one of 6) to Secretary of Agriculture! I'm almost positive this is Bobby Kennedy's doing. Who got appointed as Secretary of Ag? Thomas Massie. This is beyond great news!!!!
So wise. So thoughtful. So profound. At times when many people are holding fast to their extreme beliefs - one way or the other - it takes guts to stand up and take the stance of the radical middle and express the need for being humble and just NOT knowing what is really going on. Just being open to the possibility that we may ALL experience change that takes us ALL by surprise. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I appreciate that you are presenting and acknowledging multiple narratives without declaring one or the other, and I think that’s exactly where our consciousness is asking some of us to be! Detached from the world narrative, and from the mind narratives in general, even to detach from our own personal story. To instead be stillness, or peace of the heart, or acceptance and contentment, release from mental narratives, etc. All these enlightened/yogic principles… I think that’s the right call. Time to drop our stories
I’d also add that from a strictly yogic perspective, the emotionality and war like mentality could actually be laughed at. Duality is not reality and the misery we experience is because we are caught in this world of duality and delusion. “We” meaning pure consciousness. So I think the amplification of duality should bring about an awakening of our innermost intelligence that says, “this is crazy, I can’t keep being crazy like this.“ In other words, the ego that is stuck in the perception of this illusion of duality has to get sick of itself to the point where the inner intelligence wakes up and transcends the world dream. That’s the gift of the apocalypse. The word apocalypse translates to unveiling. It’s the unveiling of the God self or pure being that has been asleep in a dream of duality.
@@jonmustang Love it. Beautifully said and very true! Please put this in a comment for its own, it should not only stay in this undersection. May many of the maniacs - agitating or in fear - read it!
@@morwenw2277 Glad it resonated; sure, I'll repost as a comment; I agree, these yogic understandings are the clarity that is missing for many. To be disillusioned is GOOD. Dis-illusion. Who would want to live in an illusion anyway? :)
This. Exactly this. Staying curious, not creating or buying anyone else's narrative. I agree with everything you share here, (except the part where you start creating a narrative LOL)...times are getting interesting, that is for damn sure. Prayers for the trees, the water, the Earth - may they be protected as the humans learn how to get along and listen.
Just this morning I understood that my narrative that I was clinging to was just too much! It was disturbing my sense of peace, blocking my resonance with brotherhood, with my ability to strive for harmony, unity. I just need to be open right now, watch and pay attention but remain open. Maybe there are things I’m not seeing. “Reason is always half blind” a favorite quote from a saint I love. And then I found this video! Thank you for your reflections! I will hold my narratives lightly and sit inside this pregnant pause, this uncertainty. 🙏🏼🕊💞
I note how you are completely renouncing your own agency, your obligation to take a stand in the drama, the battle. I urge you to deeply study the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna explains to Arjuna that he must participate in the war. Because it is his duty, his dharma.
After reading ALL the comments here, I really feel dizzy. So many different mindsets! I try to figure out, how to handle the mess. I love the idea that there are kind people out there trying to understand people with different mindsets than their own. This is so humanizing, shows the best in everyone. I love the breakup of society as it was. The confusion. I love the uncertainty because I know it will bring me so much further on. DON'T LET FEAR TAKE OVER! There will be solutions, right in the moment you will need them the most! Please, don't fear your neighbour. Let all others see you, let them really see your core!
We're NOT "in times of turbulence" because ONE PARTY said, "We will have a peaceful transfer of power!" ONE PARTY IS DOING that. If the other Party had won, the "times of turbulence" would be that they would ALL ask for recounts and accuse they were cheated!" One PARTY is making this a peaceful transfer of power.
absolutely have to disagree with you by the amount of people I talk to who are in huge distress over the results - signifying “times of turbulence”. if you look at 2020 the 20 million extra votes that were passed during that election that were not present this time, and neither in the previous elections which all ranged around 60 to 65,000,000 total votes, if you actually look for facts like this man is suggesting, without the agenda of any given narrative, you would see peoples distrust and claims of fraud in the last election are not only logical but have the direct evidence of pure math. engaging in a narrative that claims if Harris had one in a clear landslide, the opposing side would still have rejected the results, is exactly the kind of polarized and clouded thinking that he is referring too. It is claiming that you know something that is unknowable and clinging to that belief, the dangers of that is it prevents you from incorporating new information and developing a greater understanding.
@@loveszappa I have a customer that's a police officer,he literally told us on election day that if DJT didn't win something was going to be done about it.HMMMM I wonder what he meant ? Unfortunately for me I am involuntarily around many MAGA people due to our business and my husband's interest in cars and at the last car show before the election EVERYONE we spoke to mentioned the violence that would ensue if DJT didn't win.They assume they are speaking with people of like mind and we just smile and nod,amazing what you find out about others when they feel they can speak freely to you. That is my lived experience not "clinging to a belief" That is the information I incorporate to develop greater "understanding" Nice attempt at psychobabble though.
@@loveszappa I have a customer that's a police officer.He literally told us on election day that if DJT didn't win something was going to be done about it.HMMMM I wonder what he meant ? Unfortunatley for me I am involuntarily around many MAGA people due to our business and my husband's interest in cars and at the last car show EVERYONE we spoke to mentioned the violence that would ensue if DJT didn't win.(They assume they are speaking with people of like mind and we just smile and nod,amazing what you find out about others when they feel thay can speak freely to you. That is my lived experience not "clinging to a belief" That is the information I incorporate to develop greater "understanding" Nice attempt at psycobabble though.
Dearest Charles You bring sanity and love and wisdom and affirmation to my experiences and life. Been journeying with you since we unschooled our children together in early 2000s
So fucking good. Thank you for giving voice to a new and MUCH more useful, kind, real narrative to connect with at these times. Thank you so much. ❤️🔥
I agree we're in a liminal space and the future is uncertain. But if I immerse myself in the right wing narrative of hatred and intolerance, I doubt it will convince me that I was wrong about kindness, compassion and love. I don't see where I will ever be wrong about that.
If people could come out of their bubbles they would see that left people and right people are very similar. We mostly want the same things and are much more alike than different. Media propaganda is there to hypnotize both sides and create division. The powers that be want us to remain divided, so they can maintain their status, power, and control.
The literal only certainty that I have right now is that our communities need to band together and become the village and tribe that we've been missing for so long
Yes, 1000 times yes. Community is what the world needs. Like the community I have watched on youtube banding together and helping each other after Hurricane Helene.
Yes, we need to stand strong. Just because the communists temporarily lost doesn't mean they're done. They will never cease their evil. We must stand strong against them and not get complacent.
Although this is well meaning and kindly if a bit of a ramble, it IS the same old both sides-ism I have heard before. Oh, so free uncensored speech will thrive more now? Really? I certainly agree that equanimity is called for. There is a place for not knowing, in spiritual care of ourselves and others. There is also a place for lived experience and a knowledge of history, specifically the first hand the effects of national leadership that has declared itself to prioritize cruel and racist policies, and a party that has clearly rescinded any pretense of ethics. Does the past portend a horrible future? Sure I'll hold it "lightly". So far I have see lots of gloating from the "winners". To invoke a very apt quote from Texas Chainsaw Massacre "There's them that laugh and there's them that know better."
Beautiful. I personally feel absolutely lit up and centered, much like I did all through the pandemic. Not because I’m happy about the outcome of the election. I’m not unhappy either. I am open. I am grateful to be alive. I am here. Heart open, breathing deep.
Your observations are meant for those who have been trapped inside the western society paradigm. They have always believed the myths that they were taught. Those of us who were never really allowed inside western society, those of us on the outside, know what is to come. We have been watching and waiting with a careful eye. The pendulum always swings.
The only reality is pure consciousness, but we must act as if the Maya is true, play our roles, and surrender to the divine will. This means compassion, helping others, doing to others as we wish to have done to us, and loving Love. I like the idea of lightly holding the "narratives" to allow something new to arise. Very astute. I'm very sick, and if I lose benefits and medical support, I'll die a painful death. But this is the future, not the present, so I'll prepare as I need to take care of myself but trust the Higher Power. It's the only way I can function. I get anxious, but that's always a projection of the mind. I am not the mind.
“Jubilation” as to the political scene is being exhibited by these types of sentiments: Your body, my choice. I’m open to your experience. If you have another example, let me know. Joy and jubilation in general is another matter entirely. I feel joy daily regardless of external events. I know where we are headed ultimately. It is not negative. I agree, it is liberated. There has never been a question of it for me in my 70 years. I don’t come from a fear based mentality whatsoever. I also know that no one is more important than another, no matter the atrocities committed or the goodness offered. And I do know that we are in the times that changes everything we have known before. And perhaps, apparently, humanity needs some really big challenges that are coming. I don’t think it is true that it’s needed other than if it’s believed to be needed, then it will be created. Regardless I’m here for what that means to people individually. The reality of everyday life for each person is the reality of what they are living regardless of what they perceive. It matters and is not an intellectual exercise or an amazing unfoldment of the soul, as wonderful as these may be. By the way, it’s interesting to me that you mispronounce Kamala Harris’ name. It tells me who you have been listening to. I think if you were a black/Asian female who nearly bled out due to a forced pregnancy, someone raped at 12 years old, you may at least be aware of the ways Harris’ name became weaponized and pronounce her name the way she does. We used to understand that someone or a group who rapes and destroys others is clearly the aggressor and must be accountable and will be accountable. Even being provoked doesn’t give license but often there is no provocation specific to the aggression, other than misplaced aggression. So while there is NO one more valuable than another regardless of choices, behaviors, thoughts and intentions, there is truly accountability. I don’t mean “karma” or punishment, I mean that within the felt sense, the psyche, the soul, there will be the experience in it’s full range of tragedy of the tragedies committed by each one doing so and to the degree that they have done so. As to what has occurred and is occurring now and will escalate at least for a time: more propaganda will be dispersed than ever before. How we deal with it will define this linear timeline. Fear is not the solution. Disgust is not either although both can be part of an inner transition. Inciting and committing more atrocities is not the solution. I predict that if the challenges continue, there will be plenty of the latter. I certainly appreciate your attempts here to broaden our minds because again, ultimately, this is what it’s going to take to realize a whole new paradigm shift in experience. Calling out deception, living with good intent, being widely and wildly open to an entirely new way of being are all needed responses. Many different methods are embraced by me as to our responses. More agression and destruction is not. And although we can use aggression as fodder, it’s not welcomed by me or supported by me whatsoever. You came up in my feed, so likely I won’t see you again but regardless, I’ll leave you with this, there is no middle path.
I noticed his pronunciation of Harris's name too. And I think it's easy to talk about 'let's just wait and see' when you are not a person of color or a female. Horrific things have already happened under Traitor Trump--and with immunity now, he will only get worse.
Anything can be justified or rationalized over the sweep of time or history: slavery, the annihilation of the American Indian, dropping 2 atomic bombs on civilian targets in Japan. Of course, on the micro level, in the moment, if you and your family were negroes, or native Americans or Japanese living in Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1945, well the apparent wisdom of the macro view doesn’t mean anything to you does it?
@ Barbara, thanks for the compliment. No, they are not and have not been conjunct. My sister’s name was Barbara. She had 9 lives of being a well regarded and prescient healer in the dark ages. She struggled in this lifetime, left me her 4 children to raise. There are so many here with lifetime after lifetime to integrate so that they finally shine. I’m here for that, no games.
A very thoughtful commentary. I definitely feel uncertainty. I think there is a metanarrative that most of us don't quute see yet. I know in the past few years I have learned to doubt everything both past and present. It's like losing your identity. I feel like a refugee with no political home.
We see through a glass darkly. You present a reasonable view of the present unknowing for the personal and the collective. As events unfold revelation awaits so that we may see more clearly. The story is not over. The surprises of unexpected outcomes offer a great opportunity to choose according to ones Heart.
Isn't it remarkable, we are able to see the world not through our eyes but we are learning to see it through the comparison that is born in our hearts, our love of the world and each other. Thank you dear friend! Nomi 💖🙏
Such a pleasure to listen to your perspective. My new mantra- Welcome to the house of unknowing and uncertainty, yet the house of unlimited possibility. How can it get any better than this? Thank you, Charles!
I have so much curiosity. I’m baffled at my own shifts over the last few years, immersing myself in new information, which has required me to let go of old beliefs. From my activism against the Iraq war, supporting Dennis Kucinich in 2003, running for office as a Democrat in 2006 and 2008, community organizing around a Department of Peace, then shifting to a focus on sustainability and restorative practices, intentional communities working to create the more beautiful world I know is possible. :) Then the last five years have actually been so disappointing when I saw the Democratic Party did not represent me. I saw the censorship, propaganda, manipulation and corruption. Then I got excited about the Kennedy campaign, and I’m currently feeling hopeful with the changes he may be able to enact. Then his statements on Gaza devastated me. But, honestly your Zoom call was very eye opening, because I still found resonance with his stance on 90% of his priorities. But this crazy division, the digging in against the “opposition,” and shutting down of minds, closing ourselves off from the information and possibilities, which is what I’m seeing now, and it’s devastating to see my friends in this state. It’s like I’m not allowed to be hopeful in my circle of friends.
"I'm making a very bold prediction..." Yes! It's a rare person who can step into these spaces, speak into these spaces, indeed, to perceive there is a space we can stand in, of no place... More real in fact than anything we heretofore thought was properly real. You, Charles, are such a one. I wholly appreciate.
I’ve been feeling like I don’t know but there’s a pressure to “get to work.” I appreciate you encouraging us to hold our narratives lightly. Instead of duality, let’s hold the whole polarity. It’s being non-attached.
When you related the quote about speaking and referred to yourself as speaking, I was surprised to be brought to thought on the difference between speaking and what you are doing. I feel that you are teaching. But that's because I learned
This is incredibly helpful for me both from the perspective of the election and the recent passing of my beloved mother. I am in a place of unknowing in so many aspects of my life right now, and you’ve helped me to release some of the fear that has been gripping me
"I guarantee you whatever your political beliefs, if you spent a week in the information ecosystem of the other side you would see things very differently if you really allowed yourself...not just to not just to read their material but to actually immerse yourself in it, and say I'm going to try on this worldview." I feel this is such an important point. It's very, very hard to do, but possible if you force yourself to take a step back. What we see the other side as, has absolutely nothing to do with how that side actually sees themselves.
I work at the moment on echo-chambers and my personal bubble. Try to hear the other side. There could be so much more shades, angles and meta-planes to consider. It isn't necessary to take the whole package from just one side. Distinguish! Your comment, Charles, is very welcomed at this moment. Very encouraging for to not to get stuck in that propagandized duality scheme. Beautiful, important message!
I completely agree! And I believe this is an opportunity to discover and create new ways of being based on mutual cooperation that has nothing to do with the government. The disrespect thrown around on both side, the division, pointing of fingers and othering is the problem - not who the president is. We have the power to create ripples of positive change BECAUSE of the groundlessness.
Thank you Charles, there are not many I listen to these days, but I really enjoyed listening to you. I envision a beautiful world every morning where respect for ALL life, selfless deeds, good health and peace are a reality. I have no preconceptions, just waiting to see what next presents itself 🌟💗🙏🏽💗🌟
Saw a flag yesterday that said “choose freedom over fear” with no name attached and I realized that all “sides” have been saying the same thing so whose flag was it anyway?
Thank you so much for this, Charles.. I always feel soothed by listening to your authentic conscious soul . But especially today. It was just what Dr. Wisdom ordered. Listening to you and this beautiful brilliant conscious contemplation put me back in sync with Spirit and restored my somewhat anxious mind to a place of Peace. ✨ 🙏🕊️ I love what you say about being in a place of "not knowing". For me this is freedom from the tortures of the ego mind. Being in that place of not knowing, allows for possibility that, "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in [my] philosophy" to borrow from Hamlet. When I dwell in the space of not knowing I can lay aside my attachment to what I believe is the Truth and any intractable dualistic positions of judgment I may have going on. It's a relief to know there is a much bigger picture and a field of possibilities beyond the surface and I hope to cultivate a habit of dwelling there more often. Because when I surrender to this field, I let God into the equation ✨and unlimited miracles and potential outcomes that I may not be able to see now become possible. Being in that place of not knowing is like an incubator for unseen possibilities and miracles that cannot be conceived of by the ego mind. "Out beyond wrong doing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." ✨RUMI In gratefulness, Martha
I appreciate your talk. There are people I care about on both sides but I myself can't see a line. It is a strange place to be. I don't really know where I fit in and I don't know why I feel that it will be okay. I don't know of anyone in my life that I can relate to. But I do believe that there is something to it and there are many distractions to not see or understand. I don't understand. It feels like a waiting and a faith in something. It is a lonely, confusing place to be.
So appreciative of Charle's grounded view during all turbulent times. Also mixed with prophecy? Ha not sure how he knows about what coming but I'm here for it.
Please allow me to offer an outside perspective: I am German and have been following the US elections closely, since the fate of my country is linked to it’s outcome. I will not venture to judge the internal affairs of the US - here I have no idea. But I saw what consequences US policies had for the region I live in.
Let me start by saying this: I have met many Americans during the course of my life. I do not know what their political beliefs are, but I do know that all of them were thouroughly decent people. No exception. Maybe, Dear US Brothers and Sisters, this is what you should know about yourselves. You are, at your core, thouroughly decent people.
Following the dictates of the American government blindly has led to disastrous consequences for my country. I live in one of the poorest parts of Germany. Jobs are scarce, and now many businesses had to close, people lost their jobs and are now loosing their homes.
As a consequence of those policies the next German government will bring back the draft, which means that the boys and girls I watch going to school every morning will have a higher likelyhood to go to needless wars, kill, maim, be killed, be maimed and certainly be traumatized for good.
And before someone points out that it is the other world leader who is responsible for this: maybe extend the curtesy of uncertainty to him as well? He is a human being, not Vlad the Impaler, and was a reliable partner to Germany for more than 20 years.
To have a predsident elect in the US who at least is willing to talk (which the last administration categorically refused to do) is an incredible relief.
My mother and father survived WW2 as young children, my mother was French, so she was on one side of the conflict, my father German, se he was on the other side. The trauma both of them carried was palpable - and never adressed which led to abuse and disruption in our family, and severe consequences for my brother and myself which we will have to carry for the rest of our lives. Wars have consequences which outlast those who wage them for generations.
I pray for you. May you find peace, inside and out.
Well said. Thank you.
I am sorry for what our government has done to Europe. There was a middle path instead of what you guys have in Europe, but our side wanted dominance. It isn't what most Americans wanted. I have two sons in their twenties and I pray there isn't a broader war.
All this is senseless.
trump is owned by Vlad. The reason your children will get drafted is because trump gives Vlad full reign and now you have to protect yourselves from his aggression. The last man in office was Biden. He is a good man. trump is evil.
Trump's presence is unlikely to lead to world peace. His support of Israel and many other policies can easily influence the world into a much less stable direction. I don't see wars ending any time soon under Trump.
just b/c you have met some Americans briefly does not mean they are decent even if they treated you nicely. Decency is a behavior, an action, you don't earn a decency card and keep it for life. It is not decent to condone the actions of a rapist. It is not decent to give power to someone who makes fun of others, who is xenophobic, who has stated he will harm others who he perceives have slighted him. Therefore over 50% of voting Americans have not behaved decently. It is not decent to become emboldened by the election of a faschist and threaten, intimidate and harm others.
Absolutely brilliant. I feel at peace. Open, free, and light. I hold all my preconceived notions lightly. I no longer identify with political labels. I release it all into the Void. Thank you so much. This was the most brilliant talk I've heard from one person in a long time, perhaps ever. Open your minds and hearts and be at peace, my friends. ❤
@@forestfairy4828 Yes! This s my daily practice for the last few weeks💞
I felt that initially but in the last few days everyone else's needless nattering and complaints have been pissimng me off and throwing me off my game
And let the evil ones who are seeking power over everything in your life get away with it. ....Or get angry and fight back.
I started to feel more peace a few years ago by reading the Bible and exploring Christian apologetics.
@@notnotneutral15 Don't listen
I am a 75 year old man who has a need of government stability, live on social security and if I need Medicare I want it available. Himself has from the start believed proclaimed chaos, confrontation and cruelty. For me to accept this grossness that exalts wealth above humanity is beyond my ability to accept.
I have to agree with you!!
WillFinch.We must form communities where we help each other. You shouldn't feel alone and frightened,
@ Sounds good for younger people who are able to work and have resources. Not so easy for an older person lacking that who would be dependent on others. If those others were family members then maybe they would feel an obligation to help. I don’t have family to help and I live with a friend my other closest friends are gone. Not seeking help or sympathy just trying to illustrate that becoming part of a community is not possible for some of us.
With all due respect, I am also in my 70s and dependent on both of those. Who told you you were going to lose Medicare and Social Security? The wicked idiot box, 75% of whose budget is paid by global pharmaceutical companies? I believe the incoming government will do things I don't like - I believe they may, like the other party, give too much power to the technocrats. But I have read no credible source (and MSNBC is a propaganda organ - I say that not as a conservative but someone who believed in nonpartisan journalism) that says Social Security will be eliminated. The only reason I see it being cut or eliminated is if the economy collapsed, and if that happens, almost everyone will be affected, even those not dependent on them. And Medicare pays way too many healthcare professionals too much for them to agree for it to be eliminated. Collapsing complexity is right.
I fear other things, not the Handmaid's Tale nor Project 2025, just as the Right's shibboleth of "Communists" under the bed is wildly inaccurate. With all due respect. But it would be good if there were more sense of community. We are in the house of unknowing indeed.
Disappointing. You want your own security and a continuation of the managed decline that is squeezing the life out of generations coming behind you. Death is coming soon so you might learn something about embracing the unknown.
I am convinced that our experiences of DUALITY are on the verge of reaching the extremes that will prepare Humanity to embrace the Unity of all life, a whole-hearted letting go and letting GOD.
I agree, we are all one. There is no us or them. Thus we are our own authority, no longer needing to place our power in the hands of others. This is a change of human consciousness. No more believing in the lie that we are separate from one another. We are all a fractals of the creator/god/source. Moving out of duality into unity consciousness ❤
@@margueriteellison3667you two are in a dream world! Sure we are all the same spiritual beings, but we're living in a physical world and those running the world, (who are pay-grades above the president etc) are pure evil and they treat us like sheep. The majority of people don't care and a large percentage are sitting around praying or meditating, or being present etc, and none of them are doing anything that will change the way we are treated like minions.
We're all stuck in a dream world, where once the door's closed and the TV's on, nobody gives a damn.
@ankyspon1701 this is all the more reason to keep talking about unity and the illusion of separation. It's the only way to free the world by awakening it.
Every NDE (Near-Death Experience)experience that I have listened to returned to Earth not caring about worldly possessions, and money, only caring about Love. This is what GOD shows them; it is life's ultimate purpose. Greed is the antithesis of love, therefore it is against God.
Shame trump hasn't had an NDE then.
He's the Beast With the eyes of a swine.
Well trump will destroy this country. Maybe after he's gone we can have a better world.
Dont get too wrapped up in it. I had a NDE few years ago and it instantly changed my life (just like it does for almost everybody).
Recently I researched peoples DMT experiences because I want to try it. I started to see many similarities to my NDE. Began slowly losing faith about my NDE. Then I read Rick Strassman's book DMT The Spirit Molecule.
And now it is so obvious that my experience was just a endogenous DMT reaction created by the pineal gland, brought on because of near-death like symptoms. (Although, it looks like the pineal gland being the source is now under heavy debate. Who cares. Came from something in the brain... that's all I need to know)
You are one of the few minds I’ve heard share your thoughts about the election without talking down to people. I really appreciate that. We are suffering from a country seething with contempt for each other. I can get behind hope (or at least wonder) for the inconceivable shifts approaching.
This man who believes he has some kind of truth to teach is beyond absurd. Telling women their fears are not valid, oh but some are. OMG. Fella, get off your self-righteousness platform and go live your life; stop telling people what to feel or believe. Many of us were raised in the households of MAGA-type people. It is not 2 legitimate political views. It is good vs not good. WE DO NOT NEED THIS GUY'S BULL SHIT. We need validation that what we see, what we know, and what we feel IS THE TRUTH. I am 72 and have been around a lot of blocks and one thing i have learned: i know f---ed up people when they blather. And this guy needs to start a MAGA church. They'll love him.
As for me, I would not say; 'contempt for the other'. I would say it is more about uplifting certain principles. As an example, how we treat others. I recognize immigration as a serious issue, as an example. But my concern is that we will end up treating people like animals. And that is a spiritual issue. Calling humans "garbage" is an example of this. But you mentioned 'hope'. My view with that, is saying bad will come out, so that it will be recognized and dealt with. thus lead to a brighter future, lead by people with positive vision.
Well said!
I love this. The important thing right now is to stay in the flow and believe that everything that is happening is of divine creation for the greater good. We need to zoom way out and see everything from an energetic/cosmic level.
Or zoom in, and do your own healing work and focus on yourslef
@@mgn1621 well it’s both, right? 👍
Words can be imperfect containers for the ideas we intend for them to carry. I think in time humans will find the language to bridge elements of science with elements of metaphysics, and progressively more as time goes on. We're barely getting started : )
That said, I don't believe that belief is a choice, but emergent, rather, and that actions or thoughts based on belief are reflexive (e.g. stand in front of a car coming at you. If you get out of the way, then yes, you believe the car would hit you.. may have gotten that from Sam Harris, idk), but I do believe that we can train ourselves to believe things, which can be a powerful use of the mind. I'm practicing to widen my beliefs about love.
I don't believe in divinity because it connotes 'God' which connotes a superperson, which connotes a mind with a personality and emotions (features of a biological brain), and then we have effectively projected ourselves onto the cosmos and thereby compromised our ability to think objectively. Unregulated, this can lead to nonsense quickly. "I don't know" are some of the wisest words ever spoken.
I don't identify as spiritual because it connotes 'religious' which connotes trading critical thinking for ritual and groupthink and can erode the ability to differentiate good and poor reasoning.
I don't believe in free-will but, rather, a deterministic universe that fully includes the brain and neural firings, that consciousness is a hologram that serves the brain's needs, and that the 'self' exists to more or less 'massage' the brain via the consciousness interface by reacting to the pain-pleasure spectrum.
But somewhere in all of this I know that everything and everyone are connected through an elaborate and dynamic structure, that order and chaos are in a cosmic dance at every scale, that systems sometimes correct themselves (we get to enjoy the volcanic and tsunamic expression of it!) and that moments of awakening _happen to us_ when the conditions are right. I think something big is coming, and collectively.. hopefully not a theocracy, lol. My flavors of intuition and abstraction might be what others call spirituality ;) Words are that effectual!
I hope this perspective was one of many that adds some value to the puzzle.
-An INFJ with a head full of math.
I have one set of absolute Truths that I use to guide my life:
If I see an enemy, I am living in fear.
If I am living in fear, I am not perceiving reality.
The Truth about reality will set me free.
TRUTH exists; 'reality' is a tricky word. The search for TRUTH will turn one's sense of 'reality' inside out in the purification process of letting go of all that is not true... every belief.
I love this!!
“ If I see an enemy I am living in fear”
If I am a negro slave in chains on a boat from Africa to the US to be sold into slavery, separated from my family, my fear is reasonable human reaction, and unless I act on my fear, my life of freedom and liberty is over.
If I am an Native American Indian living and hunting for generations, and I see the white Calvary soldiers coming into my village and shooting and killing my family, my fear is justified and a normal human reaction, and if I fail to act on my fear, my wife and children will be slaughtered.
this is ridiculous. fear exists. its a natural response to a threat. and these people have vocally laid out their threats. why are people so afraid of feeling all emotions except happiness. lets see how free the immigrants feel when they are rounded up into camps and deported. or should they just smile and say they have been set free? should we accuse the jews of being inferior because they couldnt smile their way through the concentration camps. again. this is ridiculous. i dont understand people who strive to live on clouds, trick themselves into thinking that we should work to remove all emotions and pretend that we are all just supposed to float around like non humans.
Trust me: you have absolute enemies. They have TOLD YOU THEMSELVES that they plan to be your enemy. To turn around and say 'you are not my enemy' is willful ignorance, and actually quite dangerous. I wonder if you would say the same for an intruder who arrives through the window fully armed to do his worst at 3am. Would you say 'you are not my enemy'? lol.
The truth about this reality: we are facing a theocratic takeover. THEY HAVE SAID AS MUCH. Just because you refuse to see it does not mean it is not so. It absolutley is. Let's ask the thousands of women who have died so far from complications in their pregnancies since the overturning of Roe.
Get off your cloud dude. You are not a genie. Right now, you need to be a warrior. We all do. Human beings are flesh and blood, not floating balls of neutral energy.
i am my own worst enemy; I am my own best friend.
The teachings you share have incredible influence on our humble community. We are holding firm a unified vision of a more beautiful world. Thank you for your bravery. We stand with you. ❤
You can visualise all you like, but without action you are wasting your time! Action doesn't mean hurting people, it means talking to others, writing emails and letters to the media and government etc en mass, to tell them that until we've sorted out the world we live in, we don't want them squandering our taxes on bombs, hadron colliders and space exploration etc etc. Those above the president are treating us like cattle because we are all sitting around praying and allowing them to do so.
The only thing visualising or being in the present does, it make your own perception of the world better for that moment, it doesn't make the real world better for you and definitely not for anyone else!
Prayers without actions amount to nothing!
In the aftermath of the election, I spiraled & got caught up in the narratives. Bombarded by all media outlets with fear, doom, horror, sadness, desperation. I had to find my center, for my sanity. And I realized when I did, underneath all of that superficial doom & gloom... my gut, my "SELF" was actually CALM. There is something going on now. A shifting of timelines & you are correct, is NOT what ANY SINGLE ONE OF US THINKS. Thank you for this message 🙏 Sending everyone love & blessings ❤
I felt and noticed the same things as you. Anxiety, anger, chaos and despair whenever I check in with MMS and more calmness when I disengage and check in with myself
Since I voted Independent I did not get caught up in the emotional highs and lows, but watched several channels adn internet news to see what was going on.
In reality there are plus and minuses on both sides but some huge global machine wanted us to fight each other to reduce population so there would be more for the elites.
We are shifting from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age and frankly a majority in both parties want to hang on for dear life to the old. What they want to hang on to is different and that's what some fight about but the underlying drive to hold on is the same. That creates some chaos in itself.
@@Cloudchopper-x1r It’s not about reducing population for them, it’s about keeping us struggling with eachother so we don’t focus on them as the wealth gap increases. They actually need a population to work for them and “defend” their country. They will take public land and pull all the resources out with the population of workers. They will financially reward people that have more babies to add to the population. And punish those that don’t. They need people, they need workers.
I think you are wise enough to understand there is literally nothing you can do and you fully accept this is the end.
@@Maggie-zr2ow That too, but Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab and other s have talked many times about population control being necessary.
How synchronistic that I’m finding you today for the first time expressing the way I was feeling this morning. Unsure of anything I am seeing. Stepping back from what I think should have happened … what I was so sure would happen, but didn’t. Viewing it from a place of curiosity and holding space for the highest and best outcome in the next 2-3 years. Namaste and thank you.
Was good timing running into Eisenstein’s video this morning for me, too.
Thank you for this. I'm slowly learning to accept and embrace my stomach-churning anxiety, and move ahead with it. I've also committed to greeting and chatting with everyone around me, neighbors, fellow shoppers, etc, as long as they're not openly hostile, and to getting to know one another regardless of how we vote. I want to be part of a new group: the middle. Purple. It's how my late mate and I were.
Perfectly said “Give a little space during this time of transition and hold currently held narratives lightly”
I also consulted the I ching post election and received hexagram 57 which advised me to stay balanced, detached, innocent and independent through all the changing events. Thank you Charles, this resonated deeply.
sounds like good advice in general :)
So value your integrity and willingness to engage at such deep levels
You’ve just described my personal process. Becoming curious about opposing views as a way to find understanding.
same!
This is without a doubt the wisest commentary I have heard about what's happening that I have heard to date. Thank you.
I don't have uncertainty. I saw what Traitor Trump did the last time and that was before the lying, corrupt Supreme Court members gave him immunity. Traitor Trump's not even in office yet, but already I'm hearing about children who are afraid to play outside because they aren't White, an 8-yr-old child who asked their Muslim father if they have to leave America now because the new president doesn't like them, disabled and LGBTQ people who are afraid for their lives, White men in MAGA gear throwing projectiles from their cars, yelling the f-word at people they assume to be gay and telling women "your body, MY choice from now on." Women have already died because they couldn't get help when they had a miscarriage; doctors are afraid they will go to jail for helping them under Traitor Trump's new rules.
I'm so ashamed of my country for electing a hateful and cruel, racist, r*pist, misogynistic serial sexual predator, xenophobic child/parent separator, dictator-loving insurrectionist who is a traitor to America, who tried to overthrow our government and got people killed because of his Big Lie. Traitor Trump, who said he is willing to terminate our Constitution and plans to be a dictator on day one, is absolutely anti-democracy and un-American.
Serenity, curiosity, and possibility. You have become a sage of our times Charles. Thank you for your insight and attention to what most are unable to put into words! I appreciate you deeply.
I've been at I don't know for a few years now. My narrative has changed to something bringing us all together. Like a flash of something solar. Bright lights in the sky. ???
Then we all focus on that.
I live in Sarasota Florida and hurricane Milton came over my house. We the people banded together before and after the storm. No one was asking what my political beliefs are. Not one person did I hear discussing politics
Wise, humble, neutral, peaceful, beautiful response. Thank you brother 💗
I am so happy to hear this as I’m the same place - resting in the unknown. It’s so much better than worrying or being afraid because we really don’t know what is happening (except something is changing) and we have no idea how things will go down or where we’ll end up. 😊
Thank you for bringing us back from the media generated soup.
I imagined a metaphor while listening. The sickle. An amazing tool, an ancient tool, a tool of humanity. This tool is so easily converted from a sword by a blacksmith.
Throwing down the sword can also be a metaphor for freeing the mind. Giving up the fight that keeps us in the past or the future. I will now keep the sickle as a symbol of a loving humankind free from the shackles of all influence.
HOLDING Space for ALL is the LOVE we need to move forward. Serenity, optimism, loving the UNKNOWN...
I think the main thing to remember is that neither 'side' of the voters have malevolent intentions, on a group level. People may assume, probably incorrectly on the most part, that the other side are simply ignorant and blind to the consequences. However, on the whole, all of us want a beneficial result on a general level, it's not good vs bad
Thank you. What I like about your perspective is that it considers the state of being for all people right now. The hatred and division on both sides is so sad to witness. Humanity needs to be able to rise higher, communicate and accept we do not all have the same perspective.
The way you describe your curiosity about the uncertainty you feel really resonates with me. For the past several years now, I have been working my hardest to consciously carry an attitude as often as possible which is a lot like what you've described here Charles. Cultivating comfort with uncertainty is challenging, it requires the development a sophisticated confidence, a faith, no - it's optimism. Real optimism. Real optimism doesn't feign certainty about the future - it expects and says YES to both the comedy and tragedy of existence.
This quote from Nisargadatta Maharaj came up this morning listening to I Am That meditation on RUclips (Samaneri Jayasara Wisdom of the Ages ) “There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable for it means the Soul has cast its moorings and is sailing off for distant places. This is detachment when the old is over and the new has not yet come. If you are afraid the state may be depressing but there is really nothing to be afraid of. Remember the instruction - whatever you come across go beyond.
Indeed Wisdom of the Ages! Great site for uplifting ageless wisdom! 🙏💚
love her exploration of master's teachings
Tens of millions of people will have their access to health insurance at risk - they have promised to repeal the affordable care act. How does one prepare to have no health insurance.
strengthen your energy body and claim perfect health.....
@@LouisBourgeois333 being highly evolved isn’t a substitute for medical attention. One doesn’t cancel out the other. Claiming health doesn’t cure an acute bacterial infection or broken pelvis from a car accident
fear is sensible. yet the voices calling for repeal remain human, and the idea of leaving people to rot and die that had prior coverage seems very unlikely. nothing happens in a vacuum. the fear mongering has been great. yet it seems that is what it was given the "he's not so bad now" offers for a smooth transition. if it was truly believed the world was going to end, would it truly be such an offer? breathe!!
how ironic that RFK Jr. will be in charge of vaccines and all the health issues that so many from this audience would have followed him for and also in charge of medicare which they stand to lose completely. we will see. i feel this was an absolutely disastrous election result and we will see cruelty and rule by force start to take control. it has already started. blessings to you.
Me and my children haven't had insurance for years. The "affordable care act" is defnitely not affordable for families like mine. And I'm also pretty ok with that because I know what the system offers and what it doesn't and how to work it if I need it.
Thank you Charles! What you said makes sense. I’m holding space for Peace, Unconditional love (non-judgement) and compassion for ALL.
Perspectives change with experiences and witnessing events… here’s hoping truth comes to light and we as a collective are able to accept those truths.
Billions upon billions for genocide, ethnic cleansing, neo-nazi ideology of zionist and ethnic supremacy, torture, child-abuse, land-theft, cruelty, dispossesion, inhumanity, tribalist hatred , that is now being rebranded as "peace, compassion and light" in this new 1984 world of the GREAT CONSERVATIVE BILLIONAIRE INVERSION / FALSE AWAKENING.
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Charles this is incredibly profound and with deep listening an invitation to the new world you are pointing to. Turning towards uncertainty and our relationship to it....who we are/become in that place will be crucial.
Serenity, curiosity, possibility. Beautiful meditation. I will use as a lifeline. Thank you. Being a theatre person, I have always had the typical actors dream of going onstage and not knowing my lines, especially during times of great uncertainty . Guess what? For the first time ever, I dreamed I was going onstage , I didn’t know my lines, and I didn’t care!?!! I did say to my co actors-“we still should speak loudly and clearly even if we don’t know what we’re supposed to say! Haha!
I am only alive because of the ACA. Without the medication I receive I will die. I don’t know how to not be afraid of that reality. I’m sorry. Maybe I am not big enough or calm enough or centered enough. I’m sorry But that is my existence.
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So sorry. I hope you will find a way to survive, sadly, the incoming administration will not help the vulnerable. Please find an alternative or move to a country that cares about people.
I expect that good people will come together and help people like you bc you matter. Maybe it’ll be a private or state program but it will happen.
@jamesparks4893 sending you love and blessings and prayers for healing.
What is true and real cannot be feared. There is no fear in truth.
Fearing uncertainty is natural, in the situation you describe ACA could end up being replaced with a better system or more effective healing methods and technologies could be made available to the public. We can also uncover self-healing abilities that we all have. We are all "alive" in human form because our spirit self is immersed in the physical body until it detaches - which can happen at any time for anyone.
@@jedshlackman2362 GTH
Thanks for your humbleness, your lucidity and clarity. Listening to your response increases my hope, because it reflects exactly the way I feel. The wisest thing for each of us todo now is to keep our hearts open, stay curious and in peace. ❤🙏
At this moment in time, I'm so very grateful for those words of wisdom that you have shared. Shared in such a loving, caring and thoughtful manner. Thank you. ❤️
Thank you Charles for being a voice for seeing the wholeness of this event and expressing a compassionate heart and reminder that our future it yet to be revealed on the path of Unity consciousness expressed here and now. Much love and appreciation.
I agree. Nobody knows, so I'm not about to portray that I do. All I do is envision a better future. I will continue to do the things that make me happy. Exercise, art, music and helping the community I live in. I pick up trash alongside the road, feed a feral cat that has no home and smile to possibly brighten someone's day. It's difficult to watch media, so I let go of television. This is about self. A better self, I believe. We are ONE.
Love your comment! It's like a sunray on a bright, beautiful day.
People live in different conditions.
But many things are a question of well-chosen priorities.
The priorities the heart wants.
Thank you for the beautiful reminder. 🙏🧡
@@morwenw2277 support for one another. What we ALL need. Thank you so very much. You are a fine example. I choose to see beauty. My best to you. Enjoy the moment. Not looking back or forward. I have nature to help show me the way. Animals have no opinions, nor do they judge.
Thank you especially for feeding the poor cat. 🙏🏻🐈⬛
Your comment speaks to where I’ve landed.
I feel very certain in my heart that we are on a beautiful timeline!
Allow your heart and mind to open to this inner knowing. ✨🙏✨
Your words are wise. These past months have taught me many things including the understanding that the present moment is the only place to live from now. The future and the past are filled with complete uncertainty and neither of those places will allow anyone to escape fear, folly, or a foolish false sense of security. This moment is bigger than any individual, or group of individuals. No one knows what this moment is really about. We must live into the answers to our questions. Only then will we know. Everything moving towards us is now in the realm of the unknown. Anyone that suggest otherwise is delusional. There is nothing harder to be asked to do then to simply sit still by the banks of the river and do nothing- create no narratives. To sit still even as the waters rise, the winds blow, the earth shakes. The only preparation for safety is to empty the mind and be present. That’s what my experience tells me.
Compassionate curiosity! That is available to me. I will cultivate it.
I’m realizing the level of internal suffering many are experiencing & that the louder or more abrasive their voice is, there lies within a trembling heart.
Thank you so much for your comment!
I think this is an important aspect, you are speaking about.
To that trembling hearts Charles has to make an important offer here...
But I fear, most of the loud and abrasive voices aren't in a state to recognize, even less cultivate it.
Add this to your watch list! Charles nails the collective energy reading again! Honestly, whatever is playing out at the mirco-level of consciousness and our own personal woundings patterns, plays out in the macro also. I love EVERYTHING Charles touches on here in this sharing; it's true for our polarised parts within our psyche, it's true for our polarised culture. There's a beautiful integration piece at the end to lead us forward in these turbulent times.
Bang on
Despite having followed Charles' writing for years I was listening to this talk and feeling confusion and doubt. I noticed comments that Charles is spiritually bypassing, sitting on the fence, naive, or has gone over to "the other side".
So I went to the website to explore his point of view a little more. (Link is in the description, I can't put it in a comment.) There is a lot of support available here for all of us who are concerned about world events and have been drawn to Charles' message.
I fear that history is repeating and I have a narrative and evidence to support that belief! But now I have hope that here is a way forward and also how we can get back on track with living our deepest shared values instead of increasing division and extremism.
Rather than rush to fight or defend, we can ask new questions without referring to preconceptions. Rather than being reactive, which is how history repeats itself, this is how we can act with wisdom empowered by our values.
The invitation to enter the "unknown" is definitely not an idealistic way to disengage. If you're feeling doubtful, at least go to the website. I found a very courageous, practical, and engaged course of action.
"Rather than being reactive, which is how history repeats itself, this is how we can act with wisdom empowered by our values."
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I can't contain my joy - Joel Salatin, the grandfather of the organic, regenerative farming movement has been appointed as advisor (one of 6) to Secretary of Agriculture! I'm almost positive this is Bobby Kennedy's doing. Who got appointed as Secretary of Ag? Thomas Massie. This is beyond great news!!!!
Please, God let it be so.
Why is Thomas Massie beyond good news?
He is an actual farmer, not a bureaucrat or operative, and is not owned by Big Ag.
Turbulent times are here. Keep preparing.
A lot going on behind scenes.
Chaos is the goal.
@@cindyw7008 Only rumours of Massie to date
So wise. So thoughtful. So profound. At times when many people are holding fast to their extreme beliefs - one way or the other - it takes guts to stand up and take the stance of the radical middle and express the need for being humble and just NOT knowing what is really going on. Just being open to the possibility that we may ALL experience change that takes us ALL by surprise. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I appreciate that you are presenting and acknowledging multiple narratives without declaring one or the other, and I think that’s exactly where our consciousness is asking some of us to be! Detached from the world narrative, and from the mind narratives in general, even to detach from our own personal story. To instead be stillness, or peace of the heart, or acceptance and contentment, release from mental narratives, etc. All these enlightened/yogic principles… I think that’s the right call. Time to drop our stories
I’d also add that from a strictly yogic perspective, the emotionality and war like mentality could actually be laughed at. Duality is not reality and the misery we experience is because we are caught in this world of duality and delusion. “We” meaning pure consciousness. So I think the amplification of duality should bring about an awakening of our innermost intelligence that says, “this is crazy, I can’t keep being crazy like this.“ In other words, the ego that is stuck in the perception of this illusion of duality has to get sick of itself to the point where the inner intelligence wakes up and transcends the world dream. That’s the gift of the apocalypse. The word apocalypse translates to unveiling. It’s the unveiling of the God self or pure being that has been asleep in a dream of duality.
@@jonmustang Love it. Beautifully said and very true!
Please put this in a comment for its own, it should not only stay in this undersection.
May many of the maniacs - agitating or in fear - read it!
@@morwenw2277 Glad it resonated; sure, I'll repost as a comment; I agree, these yogic understandings are the clarity that is missing for many. To be disillusioned is GOOD. Dis-illusion. Who would want to live in an illusion anyway? :)
@@jonmustang We live here always in an illusion 😄
A beautiful one, may I say...
@@morwenw2277 Right you are ;)
This. Exactly this. Staying curious, not creating or buying anyone else's narrative. I agree with everything you share here, (except the part where you start creating a narrative LOL)...times are getting interesting, that is for damn sure. Prayers for the trees, the water, the Earth - may they be protected as the humans learn how to get along and listen.
Just this morning I understood that my narrative that I was clinging to was just too much! It was disturbing my sense of peace, blocking my resonance with brotherhood, with my ability to strive for harmony, unity. I just need to be open right now, watch and pay attention but remain open. Maybe there are things I’m not seeing. “Reason is always half blind” a favorite quote from a saint I love. And then I found this video! Thank you for your reflections! I will hold my narratives lightly and sit inside this pregnant pause, this uncertainty. 🙏🏼🕊💞
I note how you are completely renouncing your own agency, your obligation to take a stand in the drama, the battle. I urge you to deeply study the Bhagavad Gita where Krishna explains to Arjuna that he must participate in the war. Because it is his duty, his dharma.
After reading ALL the comments here, I really feel dizzy.
So many different mindsets! I try to figure out, how to handle the mess.
I love the idea that there are kind people out there trying to understand people with different mindsets than their own. This is so humanizing, shows the best in everyone.
I love the breakup of society as it was. The confusion.
I love the uncertainty because I know it will bring me so much further on.
DON'T LET FEAR TAKE OVER!
There will be solutions, right in the moment you will need them the most!
Please, don't fear your neighbour.
Let all others see you, let them really see your core!
We're NOT "in times of turbulence" because ONE PARTY said, "We will have a peaceful transfer of power!" ONE PARTY IS DOING that. If the other Party had won, the "times of turbulence" would be that they would ALL ask for recounts and accuse they were cheated!" One PARTY is making this a peaceful transfer of power.
You should believe one's actions, not words.
absolutely have to disagree with you by the amount of people I talk to who are in huge distress over the results - signifying “times of turbulence”. if you look at 2020 the 20 million extra votes that were passed during that election that were not present this time, and neither in the previous elections which all ranged around 60 to 65,000,000 total votes, if you actually look for facts like this man is suggesting, without the agenda of any given narrative, you would see peoples distrust and claims of fraud in the last election are not only logical but have the direct evidence of pure math. engaging in a narrative that claims if Harris had one in a clear landslide, the opposing side would still have rejected the results, is exactly the kind of polarized and clouded thinking that he is referring too. It is claiming that you know something that is unknowable and clinging to that belief, the dangers of that is it prevents you from incorporating new information and developing a greater understanding.
@@loveszappa I have a customer that's a police officer,he literally told us on election day that if DJT didn't win something was going to be done about it.HMMMM I wonder what he meant ? Unfortunately for me I am involuntarily around many MAGA people due to our business and my husband's interest in cars and at the last car show before the election EVERYONE we spoke to mentioned the violence that would ensue if DJT didn't win.They assume they are speaking with people of like mind and we just smile and nod,amazing what you find out about others when they feel they can speak freely to you. That is my lived experience not "clinging to a belief" That is the information I incorporate to develop greater "understanding" Nice attempt at psychobabble though.
Commenting again as it seems my last one was deleted.
@@loveszappa I have a customer that's a police officer.He literally told us on election day that if DJT didn't win something was going to be done about it.HMMMM I wonder what he meant ? Unfortunatley for me I am involuntarily around many MAGA people due to our business and my husband's interest in cars and at the last car show EVERYONE we spoke to mentioned the violence that would ensue if DJT didn't win.(They assume they are speaking with people of like mind and we just smile and nod,amazing what you find out about others when they feel thay can speak freely to you. That is my lived experience not "clinging to a belief" That is the information I incorporate to develop greater "understanding" Nice attempt at psycobabble though.
Dearest Charles
You bring sanity and love and wisdom and affirmation to my experiences and life. Been journeying with you since we unschooled our children together in early 2000s
So fucking good. Thank you for giving voice to a new and MUCH more useful, kind, real narrative to connect with at these times. Thank you so much. ❤️🔥
I agree we're in a liminal space and the future is uncertain. But if I immerse myself in the right wing narrative of hatred and intolerance, I doubt it will convince me that I was wrong about kindness, compassion and love. I don't see where I will ever be wrong about that.
The presupposition here is that ‘the right is hateful and intolerant’.
The 2nd presupposition is that you are the one with kindness, compassion and love.
If people could come out of their bubbles they would see that left people and right people are very similar. We mostly want the same things and are much more alike than different. Media propaganda is there to hypnotize both sides and create division. The powers that be want us to remain divided, so they can maintain their status, power, and control.
The 2nd presupposition is just a false dichotomy.
The first assertion looks like a hasty generalisation.
Your sentiments were so beautiful, so powerful and so needed at this time. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
That’s a good way to look at what we all just experienced watching this excellent piece.
The literal only certainty that I have right now is that our communities need to band together and become the village and tribe that we've been missing for so long
LOL! We don't "band together" with communists. LOL!
Yes, 1000 times yes. Community is what the world needs. Like the community I have watched on youtube banding together and helping each other after Hurricane Helene.
true!
Yes, we need to stand strong. Just because the communists temporarily lost doesn't mean they're done. They will never cease their evil. We must stand strong against them and not get complacent.
@@Yesica1993 othering much?
Although this is well meaning and kindly if a bit of a ramble, it IS the same old both sides-ism I have heard before. Oh, so free uncensored speech will thrive more now? Really? I certainly agree that equanimity is called for. There is a place for not knowing, in spiritual care of ourselves and others. There is also a place for lived experience and a knowledge of history, specifically the first hand the effects of national leadership that has declared itself to prioritize cruel and racist policies, and a party that has clearly rescinded any pretense of ethics. Does the past portend a horrible future? Sure I'll hold it "lightly". So far I have see lots of gloating from the "winners". To invoke a very apt quote from Texas Chainsaw Massacre "There's them that laugh and there's them that know better."
@ironhare yes!
just to say thank you from my heart, where, at this moment, i feel deeply connected to what is .
I welcome your invitation to step into uncertainty.
Thank you so very much for this Charles
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Thanks Charles. Your I dont know reflect authenticity and leads us to be open and connected with our hearts
Beautiful. I personally feel absolutely lit up and centered, much like I did all through the pandemic.
Not because I’m happy about the outcome of the election. I’m not unhappy either. I am open.
I am grateful to be alive. I am here. Heart open, breathing deep.
I am so thankful there is another person saying they don’t know. I often feel like I am the only one.
I bow in deep gratitude for you and your perspective.
Your observations are meant for those who have been trapped inside the western society paradigm. They have always believed the myths that they were taught. Those of us who were never really allowed inside western society, those of us on the outside, know what is to come. We have been watching and waiting with a careful eye.
The pendulum always swings.
The only reality is pure consciousness, but we must act as if the Maya is true, play our roles, and surrender to the divine will. This means compassion, helping others, doing to others as we wish to have done to us, and loving Love. I like the idea of lightly holding the "narratives" to allow something new to arise. Very astute. I'm very sick, and if I lose benefits and medical support, I'll die a painful death. But this is the future, not the present, so I'll prepare as I need to take care of myself but trust the Higher Power. It's the only way I can function. I get anxious, but that's always a projection of the mind. I am not the mind.
“Jubilation” as to the political scene is being exhibited by these types of sentiments: Your body, my choice. I’m open to your experience. If you have another example, let me know. Joy and jubilation in general is another matter entirely. I feel joy daily regardless of external events.
I know where we are headed ultimately. It is not negative. I agree, it is liberated. There has never been a question of it for me in my 70 years. I don’t come from a fear based mentality whatsoever. I also know that no one is more important than another, no matter the atrocities committed or the goodness offered. And I do know that we are in the times that changes everything we have known before.
And perhaps, apparently, humanity needs some really big challenges that are coming. I don’t think it is true that it’s needed other than if it’s believed to be needed, then it will be created. Regardless I’m here for what that means to people individually. The reality of everyday life for each person is the reality of what they are living regardless of what they perceive. It matters and is not an intellectual exercise or an amazing unfoldment of the soul, as wonderful as these may be.
By the way, it’s interesting to me that you mispronounce Kamala Harris’ name. It tells me who you have been listening to.
I think if you were a black/Asian female who nearly bled out due to a forced pregnancy, someone raped at 12 years old, you may at least be aware of the ways Harris’ name became weaponized and pronounce her name the way she does. We used to understand that someone or a group who rapes and destroys others is clearly the aggressor and must be accountable and will be accountable. Even being provoked doesn’t give license but often there is no provocation specific to the aggression, other than misplaced aggression.
So while there is NO one more valuable than another regardless of choices, behaviors, thoughts and intentions, there is truly accountability. I don’t mean “karma” or punishment, I mean that within the felt sense, the psyche, the soul, there will be the experience in it’s full range of tragedy of the tragedies committed by each one doing so and to the degree that they have done so.
As to what has occurred and is occurring now and will escalate at least for a time: more propaganda will be dispersed than ever before. How we deal with it will define this linear timeline. Fear is not the solution. Disgust is not either although both can be part of an inner transition. Inciting and committing more atrocities is not the solution. I predict that if the challenges continue, there will be plenty of the latter.
I certainly appreciate your attempts here to broaden our minds because again, ultimately, this is what it’s going to take to realize a whole new paradigm shift in experience. Calling out deception, living with good intent, being widely and wildly open to an entirely new way of being are all needed responses. Many different methods are embraced by me as to our responses. More agression and destruction is not. And although we can use aggression as fodder, it’s not welcomed by me or supported by me whatsoever.
You came up in my feed, so likely I won’t see you again but regardless, I’ll leave you with this, there is no middle path.
Thank you for articulating that.
I noticed his pronunciation of Harris's name too. And I think it's easy to talk about 'let's just wait and see' when you are not a person of color or a female. Horrific things have already happened under Traitor Trump--and with immunity now, he will only get worse.
Jupiter must be conjuncting your Mercury.
Anything can be justified or rationalized over the sweep of time or history: slavery, the annihilation of the American Indian, dropping 2 atomic bombs on civilian targets in Japan. Of course, on the micro level, in the moment, if you and your family were negroes, or native Americans or Japanese living in Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1945, well the apparent wisdom of the macro view doesn’t mean anything to you does it?
@ Barbara, thanks for the compliment. No, they are not and have not been conjunct. My sister’s name was Barbara. She had 9 lives of being a well regarded and prescient healer in the dark ages. She struggled in this lifetime, left me her 4 children to raise. There are so many here with lifetime after lifetime to integrate so that they finally shine. I’m here for that, no games.
A very thoughtful commentary. I definitely feel uncertainty. I think there is a metanarrative that most of us don't quute see yet. I know in the past few years I have learned to doubt everything both past and present. It's like losing your identity. I feel like a refugee with no political home.
Your words resonate in my heart as Truth. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. One thousand times. 🙌
We see through a glass darkly. You present a reasonable view of the present unknowing for the personal and the collective. As events unfold revelation awaits so that we may see more clearly. The story is not over. The surprises of unexpected outcomes offer a great opportunity to choose according to ones Heart.
Isn't it remarkable, we are able to see the world not through our eyes but we are learning to see it through the comparison that is born in our hearts, our love of the world and each other. Thank you dear friend! Nomi 💖🙏
Such a pleasure to listen to your perspective. My new mantra- Welcome to the house of unknowing and uncertainty, yet the house of unlimited possibility. How can it get any better than this? Thank you, Charles!
I love that saying...those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak
I have so much curiosity. I’m baffled at my own shifts over the last few years, immersing myself in new information, which has required me to let go of old beliefs. From my activism against the Iraq war, supporting Dennis Kucinich in 2003, running for office as a Democrat in 2006 and 2008, community organizing around a Department of Peace, then shifting to a focus on sustainability and restorative practices, intentional communities working to create the more beautiful world I know is possible. :) Then the last five years have actually been so disappointing when I saw the Democratic Party did not represent me. I saw the censorship, propaganda, manipulation and corruption. Then I got excited about the Kennedy campaign, and I’m currently feeling hopeful with the changes he may be able to enact. Then his statements on Gaza devastated me. But, honestly your Zoom call was very eye opening, because I still found resonance with his stance on 90% of his priorities. But this crazy division, the digging in against the “opposition,” and shutting down of minds, closing ourselves off from the information and possibilities, which is what I’m seeing now, and it’s devastating to see my friends in this state. It’s like I’m not allowed to be hopeful in my circle of friends.
This was very, very refreshing to watch, and a great reminder to detach from narrative and just *be* in the story, and love it ❤
balance of opposites through words codes = ascension
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"I'm making a very bold prediction..." Yes!
It's a rare person who can step into these spaces, speak into these spaces, indeed, to perceive there is a space we can stand in, of no place... More real in fact than anything we heretofore thought was properly real.
You, Charles, are such a one.
I wholly appreciate.
Stay focused on what you want to create & don’t be driven by outside influences
I’ve been feeling like I don’t know but there’s a pressure to “get to work.”
I appreciate you encouraging us to hold our narratives lightly.
Instead of duality, let’s hold the whole polarity.
It’s being non-attached.
It’s the shifting of an age and everything is in its perfection. I’m so excited after 30 years of consciously waiting.
8 minutes in and i sit shaking my head yes yes yes to this contemplation. Thank you for bringing forward this consideration
Thank you, Charles, for reminding us we are more than our narratives; that is very helpful.
When you related the quote about speaking and referred to yourself as speaking, I was surprised to be brought to thought on the difference between speaking and what you are doing. I feel that you are teaching. But that's because I learned
This is incredibly helpful for me both from the perspective of the election and the recent passing of my beloved mother. I am in a place of unknowing in so many aspects of my life right now, and you’ve helped me to release some of the fear that has been gripping me
May condolences from friends ease the hearts of the grieving.
"I guarantee you whatever your political beliefs, if you spent a week in the information ecosystem of the other side you would see things very differently if you really allowed yourself...not just to not just to read their material but to actually immerse yourself in it, and say I'm going to try on this worldview."
I feel this is such an important point. It's very, very hard to do, but possible if you force yourself to take a step back. What we see the other side as, has absolutely nothing to do with how that side actually sees themselves.
Their world view is they hate the world , me first.
I work at the moment on echo-chambers and my personal bubble. Try to hear the other side. There could be so much more shades, angles and meta-planes to consider. It isn't necessary to take the whole package from just one side. Distinguish!
Your comment, Charles, is very welcomed at this moment. Very encouraging for to not to get stuck in that propagandized duality scheme. Beautiful, important message!
Love and light to you, dear Charles ✨✨✨
“A time to be in the unknowing; a time to hold my narrative lightly.” Yep, that.
Much gratitude 🙏
Reality is a strangeloop ♾️
I completely agree! And I believe this is an opportunity to discover and create new ways of being based on mutual cooperation that has nothing to do with the government. The disrespect thrown around on both side, the division, pointing of fingers and othering is the problem - not who the president is. We have the power to create ripples of positive change BECAUSE of the groundlessness.
Thank you Charles, there are not many I listen to these days, but I really enjoyed listening to you. I envision a beautiful world every morning where respect for ALL life, selfless deeds, good health and peace are a reality.
I have no preconceptions, just waiting to see what next presents itself
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I 100% agree with your prediction. I sense it too. "It's not what I thought it was".
Saw a flag yesterday that said “choose freedom over fear” with no name attached and I realized that all “sides” have been saying the same thing so whose flag was it anyway?
Finding common ground is our way through this. Thank you.
Thank you so much for this, Charles..
I always feel soothed by listening to your authentic conscious soul . But especially today. It was just what Dr. Wisdom ordered. Listening to you and this beautiful brilliant conscious contemplation put me back in sync with Spirit and restored my somewhat anxious mind to a place of Peace. ✨ 🙏🕊️
I love what you say about being in a place of "not knowing". For me this is freedom from the tortures of the ego mind. Being in that place of not knowing, allows for possibility that,
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in [my] philosophy" to borrow from Hamlet.
When I dwell in the space of not knowing I can lay aside my attachment to what I believe is the Truth and any intractable dualistic positions of judgment I may have going on.
It's a relief to know there is a much bigger picture and a field of possibilities beyond the surface and I hope to cultivate a habit of dwelling there more often.
Because when I surrender to this field, I let God into the equation ✨and unlimited miracles and potential outcomes that I may not be able to see now become possible.
Being in that place of not knowing is like an incubator for unseen possibilities and miracles that cannot be conceived of by the ego mind.
"Out beyond wrong doing and right doing there is a field.
I'll meet you there."
✨RUMI
In gratefulness,
Martha
I appreciate your talk. There are people I care about on both sides but I myself can't see a line. It is a strange place to be. I don't really know where I fit in and I don't know why I feel that it will be okay. I don't know of anyone in my life that I can relate to. But I do believe that there is something to it and there are many distractions to not see or understand. I don't understand. It feels like a waiting and a faith in something. It is a lonely, confusing place to be.
So appreciative of Charle's grounded view during all turbulent times. Also mixed with prophecy? Ha not sure how he knows about what coming but I'm here for it.
May truth be revealed and justice served... we must become the best version of ourselves to live in a better more loving world.
This is the most cogent clear voice I have heard in the longest time. Sure I subscribed and I’ll be back. Thank you very much most helpful.
Beautiful expression, dear Charles, thank you for your incredible perpective and expression. Much love and many blessings dear friend. (Subscribing)
These sentiments have been stirring in my mind, and you put words to them
Such healing balm Charles. We are so blessed to have your serenity, curiosity and compassion to inspire our own. Thank you for your beautiful work.
Yesss hold it lightly ❤