SL02-13 From The Deceptive Call to Liberate to True Liberation

Here in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown and social distancing mandate has entered its second month.  The economic and humanitarian impact of the virus is unfathomable.  States are slowly beginning the process of “re-opening” as protests occur across the country asserting the right to reopen and that all stay at home, shelter in place, social isolation measures taken by the states have gone too far.  Even the president, tweeted last week for protesters in key states with governors who have been vocal about their opposition to the White House’s response to the pandemic to “liberate” those states.

The death toll in the United States from the COVID-19 pandemic now exceeds 52,000. 

The social isolation and shelter in place actions taken by most of us, the alarming news of the protesters across the country and our government’s ongoing misinformation and misleading responses, the continued media coverage of the blaming for equipment, testing, and overall critical analysis of the response taken by our government, it’s enough to make one worry, feel oppressed and lose hope if we let it.

The COVID-19 pandemic indeed calls each and everyone of us to liberation -- liberation from our dependence on all forms of news media and expecting commercial news media to provide rational truth for us to follow and base our own understanding upon, liberation from placing all our trust in a capitalistic fueled technocracy to meet the needs of all citizens when in such a government some citizens are always deemed collateral damage or canaries in a coal mine when facing such tragedies as this pandemic, liberation from the religious extremes which expect us to throw our support behind leaders who only nominally support their views and whose actions continue to to harm humanity and the cosmos, liberation from the fear aroused mob mentality stoked by the leaders of the technocracy and commercial media outlets — each with their own agendas serving their own needs and not the common good of all citizens.  Lastly, and most importantly, liberation from modern rational thought that drives actions from the mind and focuses consciousness solely on that which can be scientifically proven leaving no room for expanding heart consciousness.

The desperate need of this time, of what we can learn from this COVID-19 era and carry with us as life post COVID-19 begins to unfold, is to be liberated from this head centric consciousness that has proven so harmful to ourselves, to some of our brothers and sisters, to humanity and the earth and grow in heart centric consciousness that opens us up to the awareness of how we are all one, of how the suffering of one impacts the all, the hoarding of one impacts the all, the selfishness of one, impacts the all, the misunderstanding that my actions only impact me and no one else to the awareness of how my actions reverberate and have impact on others as well as theirs on me.  

This liberation then is a liberation from the darkness and deceptions of the self centeredness of empire and the technocracy it controls that keeps us bound to finding the enemy, the other, those not like “us” to a liberation in the Light of living from the heart, living out of love and compassion, living in hope as we recognize and acknowledge the importance and value of each other.

We are never truly alone, even when we think we are in total control and definitely when we are down and think we can go no further and our efforts are useless in changing the dynamic around us.

The world, the news media, the technocracy manipulated by corporate profits and influence wants us to think we are alone and that we cannot make a difference.  They want us to think that some people in our society are collateral, are pawns to be sacrificed as we step lightly into reopening our economy because the economy is more important to their bottom line than the humanitarian impact of the social isolation guidelines implemented to save lives.

We are never alone.  We do have a voice.  We have a purpose.  Each and every one of us carry within us the spark of the Divine and each and every one of us has a guardian angel to guide us in our journey.  Paul Levy wonderfully summarizes Henry Corbin’s teachings on this when he describes Corbin’s teachings as “we are not only battling “along with” the Angel against the darker forces that obscure the light of the world from shining, but are at the same time battling to ultimately re-claim and unite with our Angel, our true and perfect nature.”

I thought today’s imaginal prayer exercise would be one that nurtures our understanding, awareness and hopefully our experience of this angel and help to liberate us from the forces in the world, especially during this COVID-19 pandemic, which would seek to keep us oppressed to mob mentality driven by the fear mongering of the technocracy which wants us to continue to be distanced from our true and perfect nature that uniting with our Angel helps us to shine, reflect and achieve.