A revolution is at hand. It isn't showing up initially like a revolution. It's showing up like a desperate situation, where things on the planet just can't go on anymore, and something's gotta give. But that's how revolutions begin. That's their early pre-revolution stage.
What is the revolution?
The revolution is that we find a way to be who we are with ourselves and each other.
In modern times we've been very
lonely and isolated, to a devastating extent. Living far from truth produced a culture of artificial connection on the surface and isolation down below. We now know how to share on superficial levels, but we don't know how to go deep and far with ourselves and each other at all. We lost the feel for genuine connection with self and other.
The revolution is that we find a way to be in this world based on who we are rather than who we pretend to be. Why is this so unbelievably hard? Why's it taking so long?
Because there are a million rewards for self-betrayal and very few for self-honesty.
When we've been living a lie rather than dropping into sacred space, it takes a revolution to be real. How will we discover that? How will the revolution occur? In stages. The revolution won't look quite the way we thought it would in the sixties. It won't be so much about exchanging love and light, which is what we got so turned on by in those early days. Although that's part of it. Primarily it will be about experiencing everyday life as something that actually works, rather than pretending to work.
The simple, sober, ordinary, basic approach to human existence on planet Earth is the main thing up for grabs. Daily life is on the verge of being overthrown by a guerrilla force of spiritual outlaws banding up around the planet to steal complacency from the world and replace it with radical intimacy.
To join the revolution, take up the guerrilla position of sticking with what you know to be real. As Joseph Campbell famously said, Follow Your Bliss.
Wouldn't that be something? Imagine if everybody suddenly decided to be who they are.
