Are We in Labor?
Q: Are We in Labor?
A: I suppose it depends on who the ‘We’ is. If ‘We’ are the ones who are aware that the current systems aren’t working while recognizing we are living into a choiceless election for the President of our country, then yes. We are in labor. Labor of what? We are birthing a new reality. Regardless of gender, we each have the power to give birth to the new. And now, perhaps a new politic. New governing structures, beyond the polarized imprisonment of mind. A world where we’ve combust into flames fueled by the blame and projection upon one another and the outcome? A rising of the phoenix of the future from the ashes of the past.
Labor is a series of contractions and expansions. The ultimate goal is to expand so vastly that a new mind is born. Before each expansion is an equal or more intense contraction than the last. We pulse in a visceral dance between the mind-body connection. Mind = from where we create. Body = the consequences of our mind, creation.
Our old mind lives in the past. It resents and is revengeful. It is lustful and judging. It self-congratulates and is the ‘best’ and most ‘popular’ in its own eyes. Or maybe it is severely loathing of itself and others. Maybe it is destructive and killing itself slowly via addictions of alcohol, sex, smoking…self-doubt.
The world is a body, an earth body that is the canvas, a mirror reflecting us back to ourselves. We are natural and magical—yes. We are also dehydrated, and polluted…We are sick, violent, and deeply taxed.
Every birth is a death. Death to the old, death to the previous state of being. If we are in labor, what is dying? Can you feel the lies surfacing and brought to light? The darker realizations are yet to come as we are just beginning a process of deep guttural and structural change. Death isn’t pleasant, yet it can be courageous. In an effort to bring our hearts into this process, only humility can truly guide us into a noble death of our old mind.
What is being born? What new forms, attitudes, perspectives, arts, medicines, therapies, engagements, relationships, structures, policies, technologies, virtues, insights, literature, music, dance, expression, language, culture, wisdom, tactfulness…realities are pulsing through the collective birth canal at a “one-push forward, two contractions back” pace?
Let’s review the US election as an example. What is it to be choiceless again? A choiceless election is when you don’t feel a resonance or an inner halleluiah when listening to the voice, observing the gestures, or following the journey of either current geriatric white male candidate who has a difficult time using their words knowing that one of them will be the captain of the Divided States of America for the next 4 years. The Chinese torture tension between the democrats and the republicans will soon be forced to collapse into one another for any chance of reprieve. This process is one of contractions and expansions, with both sides revealing the ugliest reflections of our wounded psyche. In order to release ourselves from this gordian knot, we will have to metaphorically dissolve into a star-like explosion of gaseous fumes to become something new…still to be revealed.
We are in labor friends. You are not alone. There are many who are seeing beyond the labor pains into a brilliant and possible future. Be in the labor of birth! Waste not your tears in mourning the death of what isn’t working. Let’s go, we’ve got this. Stay strong. Stay clear. Do your inner work.
We cannot change the world until we accept we are the world. This is the new conversation.
