It's quite simple. When the PEOPLE begin to recognize their own power, they begin to wake up. When the people - the collective that is the human population - starts to stand up and fight for itself, this is evidence of a global awakening. 99 has become an easy slogan for us all to recognize and understand as the place where WE fit. "99" has become the term for the Great Human Awakening.
These are amazing times we are living in. I am one with the 19 year old Rastafarian at Occupy Wall Street just as I am one with the young, scared little girl in Taiwan trying to work harder in a sweatshop and not be punished. I am one with the slave boy in the waters off Ghana and I am one with the filmmaker trying to capture the story to tell the world. I am one with everyone else - all 99% of us. What I am not one with is the greed and the corruption held in that remaining 1% - the 1% that for countless years has oppressed, enslaved, stolen, abused and focused on only itself.
I do believe that the individuals behind that 1% are souls with a purpose just like the remaining 99% - and their purpose is being delivered to us right now. We are now awakened, we are now standing up and we will never, ever go back to the way it was.
No one knows what will tomorrow will bring but can you FEEL the collective global awakening happening? There's simply no way that we will ever go back to sleep. There's no way that the occupiers will give up, go home, or cease to care. This is not a headline we will stop reading about because this time, the headline is about US. The greatest element of design in our human condition is the next generation: there is always another generation with boundless hope for a better world that will carry on in this journey of awakening on planet Earth and we will continue to move toward it until we achieve it.
We *are* the collective soul on this planet. We are changing our own world. We ARE choosing freedom, equality, compassion and love. We are doing it. Right now. We are realizing how much dormant power exists in the love and concern that lies in the hearts of 99% of the human population - enough to realize that we need to fix just one percent of us. Just 1%. It will happen. Have faith.
Welcome to your awakening.
With love,
Amy, 99
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Sunday, October 16, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
It's okay, you're not the only one...
I just received an email from a very close friend who moved to the other side of the world a couple years ago to follow her dreams. She has. But it's not enough. It got me thinking (and writing) about how just about everyone I know is struggling right now. I don't mean to say that people's lives are falling apart, in fact most "strugglers" I know seem to be doing okay "on paper". They seem content and in most ways, they are FINE. But fine just isn't enough when your soul is knocking on your brain and saying, "Hello, it's me, your higher self. You're here for a purpose. A big one. And it's a big undertaking. You won't fail, but you will have to change a lot of things - let's get going."
Sound familiar?
That's all well and good if you know what that purpose is (or at least think you know - or have an idea) and it's easy enough to live with if what you need to change doesn't cause you too much pain, or financial burden... but I don't think that's the case for many of us. Maybe most of us. I think we are all releasing something huge... and in some cases, we are releasing everything.
At first I thought it was mainly happening to my "generation" (let's call that Generation X - fancy label isn't it?) - but even that isn't right. My mom is changing in ways I never imagined. Others her age are turning over MASSIVE stones in their own lives. At first, I thought my former students (who are now 18-24-ish) didn't face as many of these challenges - I thought they had a different perspective because of their innate open-mindedness - they grew up living and breathing a kind of openness that has existed in their world view because they were born into a world that is connected via the webosphere. They ARE the children of the global village. But that assumption wasn't right either. Many of them find the norms of society to be boring, redundant, pointless and un-engaging. And they're right. How can we lose them before they've even really begun the "grown-up" journey?
Actually, I don't think we are losing them, I think they are leading us on this journey into Change. For their generation, it's a default setting. For us Gen Xers, it's a kind of refusal to conform. For the once-radical baby boomers it's an overdue rebellion (they who got distracted raising us Gen Xers). For all of us humans though, it is a very personal and very difficult set of questions, doubts, worries, self-examinations and, in the end, a battle that can only be fought and won with love and honesty. Love and honesty with Ourselves. Talk about a tough audience.
I wish I had answers for my girlfriend but I feel as though my only advice to her is to stick with it. I'll stick with it too. (Mine is no less open-ended, unsettled, raw and inside out than anyone elses.) Not only will I stick with my own uncertainty, pain, loss and confusion, I will do it right beside her (thank God for the internet). And apparently I'll do it out in the open for the rest of the world to witness if they care to. I suppose a big part of the self-honesty in this is admitting that we are not alone in the uncertainties - and then reaching out to ask someone to stand by us while we go through it.
This great collective of individual struggles is part of a greater human struggle to find what is right for all of us. Collectively. The Collective Human Population. After all, we are all the same, aren't we?
Sound familiar?
That's all well and good if you know what that purpose is (or at least think you know - or have an idea) and it's easy enough to live with if what you need to change doesn't cause you too much pain, or financial burden... but I don't think that's the case for many of us. Maybe most of us. I think we are all releasing something huge... and in some cases, we are releasing everything.
At first I thought it was mainly happening to my "generation" (let's call that Generation X - fancy label isn't it?) - but even that isn't right. My mom is changing in ways I never imagined. Others her age are turning over MASSIVE stones in their own lives. At first, I thought my former students (who are now 18-24-ish) didn't face as many of these challenges - I thought they had a different perspective because of their innate open-mindedness - they grew up living and breathing a kind of openness that has existed in their world view because they were born into a world that is connected via the webosphere. They ARE the children of the global village. But that assumption wasn't right either. Many of them find the norms of society to be boring, redundant, pointless and un-engaging. And they're right. How can we lose them before they've even really begun the "grown-up" journey?
Actually, I don't think we are losing them, I think they are leading us on this journey into Change. For their generation, it's a default setting. For us Gen Xers, it's a kind of refusal to conform. For the once-radical baby boomers it's an overdue rebellion (they who got distracted raising us Gen Xers). For all of us humans though, it is a very personal and very difficult set of questions, doubts, worries, self-examinations and, in the end, a battle that can only be fought and won with love and honesty. Love and honesty with Ourselves. Talk about a tough audience.
I wish I had answers for my girlfriend but I feel as though my only advice to her is to stick with it. I'll stick with it too. (Mine is no less open-ended, unsettled, raw and inside out than anyone elses.) Not only will I stick with my own uncertainty, pain, loss and confusion, I will do it right beside her (thank God for the internet). And apparently I'll do it out in the open for the rest of the world to witness if they care to. I suppose a big part of the self-honesty in this is admitting that we are not alone in the uncertainties - and then reaching out to ask someone to stand by us while we go through it.
This great collective of individual struggles is part of a greater human struggle to find what is right for all of us. Collectively. The Collective Human Population. After all, we are all the same, aren't we?
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