The world should have ended yesterday, May 21, 2011.
The fact that you're still here and reading this means that those people with their predictions about end of world times were wrong.
It gets me thinking about how many other predictions we make on a daily basis that simply do not happen and are just wrong.
We get to the point in life where we think that we follow the rules of life and certain things are bound to follow.
Live long enough and you realize that things are not necessarily that well ordered. In fact, you get to the point where you know the "world" we're living in is being "created" as we move along from family to family in generation to generation.
Yet, we're still doing a great pretense of acting with certainty about the world.
But cracks are beginning to appear in the carefully erected facade in the world that we have been living in.
If you look closely...through the cracks...you can see the crumbling and falling down. Not only the walls we've erected to separate ourselves from others...the outside wall...are falling, but the very foundation of the facade is begin to erode and erupt and crack!
Every time a Soul breaks from the tradition of doing "evil," as the world is having some do, then a little crack appears. More individuals moving along that "fault line" add to the widening of the crack...until eventually that part of the wall falls down.
Look carefully around you...and more and more...you should see little "cracks" appear in an otherwise normal wall.
The thing is that it is "ordinary" men and women...who are causing these little cracks to appear...all over the surface of this facade.
The pretty picture that was painted already was beginning to look old...and faded...and now, with the cracks, there's no going back to that old picture!
The World Needs a Face Lift!
A New Order Must Be Put In Place!
The carefully erected world those of us who are of the Baby-Boom generation grew up in has long been discarded.
We know that certain "truths" we took for granted have been spat upon and broken down.
First, it started with a new generation of parents teaching their kids that they don't have to live segregated from each other because of race, color, creed or religion.
So the children of those Baby Boomers now are integrating in ways those parents never, ever could have foreseen as youngsters, though the consciousness had already begun with their parents' parents' parents.
As a result of those set of rules changing, we are now witnesses to an ever evolving, changing world.
*Barack Obama is president of the United States, elected by a coalition of people of all races, creeds, colors and religions. His parents, one black one white, could not have imagined or dreamed of this when they dared to strain the rules of integration by coupling up as college students.
By saying "NO" to the world that made interracial dating taboo, they said "YES" to the possibilities of tomorrow and the reality of today, where Barack Obama, an African-American, was elected president in 2008.
In more ways we're seeing the "old world" order fall apart.
But the world always has been falling apart. We just had the illusion that it was all permanently pasted together. The world has never, ever been stationary!
Each generation of people has had to deal with the changing world and "the illusions."
Today, many are waking up to the illusion of predictability in the stock market and real estate market. The old rules for money making and growing prosperous and rich that worked for earlier generations are now no longer a guarantee of a secure future or for "old age."
Many people are afraid. They are very, very afraid about their finances.
Job security?
Totally a thing of the past, except with very few organizations and entities.
In Egypt and in Middle Eastern countries we were witnesses this year to major changes. People born into hierarchical systems that kept average citizens enslaved to the wealthy, and women subjugated to men, began saying "NO" to those ways and "YES" to freedom.
As a matter of fact, this year alone we saw the toppling of several entrenched regimes, as people took power into their own hands and said "NO" to the old ways.
This was evidenced first, in Egypt, then Syria, Yemen, Baharain and Libya and other countries that had long histories of hierarchical and patriarchial rule.
So the evidence is clear.
What is not clear but still is central to our understanding of the changes occurring in our world is the mass consciousness that has developed and declared "war" on the old ways.
People have said "NO" to old ways for a long, long time. This was imbedded into the consciousness of each new generation that was born. It took decades...but eventually, the old ways of thinking, being and doing have given way to our new and evolving world.
Our parents' parents' parents did not live to see their consciousness interplay in their world for their generation. But their children's children's children are now beneficiaries of those "new thoughts" they imbedded.
Even though we may never directly reap the benefits of our current thinking and actions, we leave a legacy of those thoughts and actions for those following behind.
Since the old world did not give way and crumble as predicted yesterday, there's a question now for us all as we move into the "new world." What legacy are you leaving for the world?
What crack are you putting into the world's wall as you go forward in your life?
These are important issues as day by day, in what we may consider our limited way, we make a crack in the wall of "old" thinking and actions.
Your crack becomes the opening through which an entirely new universe emerges for yet another new world.
Think on these things. Then...
Get Cracking!
Namaste',
Che'
*NOTE: Oprah Winfrey also defied the odds by becoming the Number One Talk Show host of a day-time television show. After 25 years, on May 25, she's finally ending her top-rated talk show, begun in May 1986. Over the 25 years of her program, Oprah Winfred inspired millions to change their lives.
