Imagine a new world

"It seems absurd, yet it is exactly true, that because all reality it is nothing, there is no other real or anything of substance in the world that illusions". (Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone) 

If you want to speculate on this beautiful statement: what remains of the concerns about the euro and the fate of the world economy? And when it comes to wake up, now that you are awake, it's so obvious what you should do or not do?"

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What is happening right now in the world is a rare opportunity to wake up because never in the known history of our planet we have been so close to create a dream of horror and destruction like this. Not only is there the threat of a worldwide economic collapse that could well be followed by a repression and  mass control to "save us", but the earth itself trembles and cries for the pain of her children animals and humans, for her mountains raped and valleys, rivers and seas poisoned. 

On the planet the most of human beings (something like 98%) are abused, hungry, thirsty, or reduced to extreme poverty by the 2% of the population that holds all the wealth, the comforts, the technological means, war tools and energy. You and I are just lucky to be born in that 2%, although in turn a still smaller percentage of people, the so-called élite, decide and govern much of our material life and indirectly through the manipulation of religions and beliefs also the spiritual one. In short, there is a scenario that perhaps never as now seems to show how fragile our lives are, how easily we can lose everything, or at least how death is a real possibility despite our best efforts to grant us safety and protection. Now more than ever what happens in the world reminds us that we can self-destroy us at any moment as a human race and how that control is exercised on the masses, because of fear, cause suffering and iniquity. 

What we see in the mirror of Life, if we are not afraid to open our eyes and look at it, it is the fact that as creatures we are impermanent, that we may die at any moment, and no matter how much control we seem to be able to exercise to exorcise this fear of death (through attachments to things or people or situations), the security we seek in the world is not there. And remember, those who exercise the biggest control, the so-called élite, are the most frightened of all, much more frightened than you or me! They need absolute control in order to feel at peace, because in reality they are not at all!If you can take a step back and see all that this is an opportunity to really live life not from fear, but from the joy of living, then this mirror does not need to manifest as it is doing now. Its task would be, so to speak, exhausted.  

If you go on the streets in indignation against what is happening and you fight you are still trying to clean the mirror from stains that you yourself are reflecting there. If there is still fear in you because there is still a sense of separation, if you try to hold off the fear with control strategies, that will be the fear and control that will be reflected in the world. If, however, you can use the mirror to get in touch with fear and control then the mirror will be used to its best and the reflected image will change. If, however, there is stubbornness to think that the image is real and you fight it as such or you close your eyes not to see the horror, then the mirror will reflect that conflict and also the system of covering up that we act on ourselves. The horror of it will be hidden, because we hide something from ourselves. 

Everything you see in the world is always and only yourself, what you love what you hate it is you. If you see this and there is no conflict about it, or if you wake up to who you are then there is no concern. I'm not worried about what happens in the world, but I do not even close my eyes not to look at it, or go out on the streets to protest, but I am OPEN to this information even if it can be unpleasant. I see what it is its position in the global scene, as the action needed to create a mass awakening that otherwise might not happen. 

 You see, the mechanical response of the mind to certain informations is "Well, but I what can I do? Better not even to care about it, do not tell me anything, it makes me just worried or sad. " This reasoning is based on the idea that you are a someone separate from what is happening and a someone that can or can not do something and because is feeling to be helpless choose to ignore it alltogheter. As long as this behavior is mantained the mirror of the world will become more and more controlling and scary because that feeling of helplessness and fear could be felt at the end. What creates the world is not the person you think you are, but the Dreamer of the Dream of life. As such you want to wake up to this fact and you will use all means necessary to do, including horror, war, famine etc.If the situation is extreme and hopeless, then the control mechanisms of fear break up and what the mind calls fear, which is actually our own joy and radiance repressed, can be felt fully. When you go in this way beyond the fear then you can live from joy. 

In reality for the human consciousness this is an incredible opportunity: to let go of control of fear and then radically change our way of way of living. A change that begin not as an act of will, but as a consequence of the fact that living in fear is too painful. A new way of living that springs from the realization that the trading of our happiness of today for not being afraid tomorrow is something that creates only suffering. You can only be in joy NOW.If you're awaken to what you are, you are not even afraid of what is happening, but you take it for what it is: a reflection of the ignorance and suffering still present in the human consciousness. If you're awake, you know that the only true revolution is that inner one. You will not be scared, however, to be exposed to informations that reflect that ignorance and fear. In fact you will be happy to talk about it, if the occasion presents itself, because you know that this information can cause a vital shock in those who still have their eyes closed to the world and so this will be an opportunity of awakening.

Think about it: when do we feel most alive? It happens in situations of extreme joy or, paradoxically, in situations that seem to be hopeless and therefore shut off our control mechanisms and security. It could be a serious or fatal or a grief or a divorce, or the loss of a job. Sometimes these vital shocks are the Life call that normally, as we stay numb in our torpor of false certainties, are not able to hear. This moment in human history, more than ever, is the opportunity to be called to let go of our false beliefs, to cross fear without repressing it anymore and live out that birthright that is joy. As children we are never fear: we called it excitement! 

If you feel this call, and the fact that you ask questions means that you do feel it, this moment in history is a fascinating moment in which finally our spiritual and material life can meet and cancel each other out. In other words, there is nothing you have to do, because as imaginary separate individual you already do nothing. There is no "me" in the body that produces thoughts, actions or feelings, they are all just witnessed by I, the One Consciousness that gives rise to everything and that lives through and as all forms. If we imagine to be a separate me from the world, then we want to have control over it because we are afraid, if we see that the separation is an illusion, then the dream world that is NEVER separate from us will reflect this understanding of Love. 

John Lennon said:

 "Imagine there is no heaven, 
it's easy if you try, 
No hell below us
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people living from today ... 
Imagine there's no countries
 it isnt hard to do  
Nothing to kill and die for
and no religion tooImagine all the peoplelive life in peace .. 
You may say I'm a dreamer
 but I am not the only one
 I hope someday you will join us
 and the world will live as ONE ... " 

A dear greeting,

Shakti

War and peace

Years ago, when I worked as a financial journalist the world changed forever. Watching live images on CNN to launch updates for the agency I worked for it seemed to watch one of the usual action movie, except that it just was not a movie ... Or maybe it was but at the time I did not understand it that way!

My job was to cover Wall Street news and my agency was one of the first to break the news that the United States had been attacked in their territory, that the WTC was exploding, melting as a piece of butter on itself while men and women in despair threw themselves from the high floors of the building to escape a death in the flames. The Pentagon was pierced by what seemed like the hole caused by a missile, but the White House quickly told us that it was hit by a plane, although there were no signs of burnt grass on the lawn in front of the building, and no signs of any aircraft crashed on it. The world changed and I with it, losing faith in the fact that what I was doing was information ... it was DIS-information.

I realized this over time, at first I was just stunned and incredulous that the very newspaper I worked for (which by accident it was chaired by the new mayor of NY) did not want to publish the news that the giants of finance Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers showed - looking at the data - that someone KNEW what was going to happen weeks in advance of the event. They surprisingly had exchanged billions of dollars on the bet that the shares of the airlines companies involved in September 11 would have collapsed. But the newspapers did not have any interest in investigate about it, because you were told to write just that some rogue states in the Middle East wanted to destroy the Western world, and it was better to exchange freedom with security. All it was needed it was some minor surgical wars that would have taken place in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and maybe Syria. No worries guys, Americans would have been very little in Iraq, maybe no more than two weeks ... it had to be done since that Iraqi were holding weapons of mass destruction! I felt that it was not that way at all and that if until that moment I thought that the social system to which I belonged to had created the best of all possible worlds now I was struck by the fact that sensation we were the "bad guys". I felt also that if we stayed silent and in agreement like sheep without asking any questions we would have ended up supporting the game of those who got rich working on oil wells of others countries and creating new weapons that would have killed and poisoned even the soldiers who used them to massacre innocent and unsuspecting people. The world has changed and I with it, or at least the sign of a change seems to arrive.

Today I know that the war on terror only creates more fear and terror. Wars are not meant to be won, but only to keep the supremacy of those who earn from the war business and the maintenance of the dominant system. The wars are not made to fight for the keeping of peace or justice: the act of killing another human being or invade or destroy his house is not an act that can bring peace.

War is not an inevitable action, it is not the only alternative: in a global society every man is called to respond of the pain of others like him, mourning with his brother as if that grief, hunger and poverty were his own. Because the other is I. We are a Single Consciousness, that lives through all bodies, including those who seem to want to hurt you, or have a skin color that scares you, or that threaten to destroy your wealth and health. This is the realization that destroys the old paradigm of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and instead opens a different dimension, the only one that can really transform fear. It is the dimension of Love.

As long as we dont understand this we will be dominated by fear and terror and we will obey their laws to the point that it seems impossible to live in any other way than that to protect and defend or attack in order to have more otr keep what you have. The eyes of fear do not see that the pain that drives someone to do evil is the same that burns in your heart. The eyes of fear are unaware of the fact that the tears of a mother whose son died in a war are always the same, no matter which flag was sewn on his uniform. The eyes of fear they do not know that God is always by your side even when you call it Allah or Krishna. The eyes of fear point the finger against the shames of the world because they are too ashamed to show their own fragility and contradictions. The eyes of fear want to be right, they want to explain to you how things are and do not know to listen to the fact that their desire for truth is the same that animates the ones that seem not to agree with you.

The eyes of love are open to injustices seeing that they are only a reflection of their inability to live following what we know to be true of us, the inability to honor our heart. The eyes of love does not ask peace to makes a war, but they offer it at any time without imposing their ways. The eyes of love see no separations, do not recognize borders, do not ask what is your belief or currency or law to be able to love you.

Until we are ruled by fear and not follow the laws of love that are written in our hearts we will not thrive in joy. Joy is our birthright, and it is for every living being on this planet, every man or woman, every elder, every child, every animal or plant, or rock or crystal.

Open your heart and if you do not know how to live from love, then ask to be shown. It will happen instantly. You will feel the heart that breaks open, the pain that melts in tears. Ask to learn how to live from love, and your deepest Self will show you how. It is actually already doing it, since always.

With Love,
Shakti Caterina Maggi