Transitions for the USA and the World
The election yesterday of Barack Obama as the next President of the United
States is a milestone on many levels. The obvious one, the beginning of true
reconciliation of humans regardless of skin color, is of course long overdue.
No human can or should be judged or have their capacities suppressed due to
race, sex, or any other truly meaningless distinction, when the real values
lie within.
But the significance goes far deeper. America, and with it the world, has
been undergoing a long and painful national nightmare where the forces
that represent
greed and grasping for power, that play upon fear and division to rule and
extort, have held the entire world in its vice-like grip and squeezed. We
have seen unnecessary wars and suffering as a result; we have seen the
fouling of
our environment, and the deterioration of our civic discourse into aggressive,
“winner take all” type partisanship based on fear-mongering and the stirring
of hatred, while the “victors” essentially looted the national treasury and
mortgaged our lives and the future. Many people have suffered, and many more
will suffer until we can resolve the deep wounds that the last eight years
have left on all of us.
It is interesting to note that there are places in the world where progress
is measured in ways other than strictly monetary. For instance, the country
of Bhutan is famous for its position that rather than measure Gross Domestic
Product as the yardstick of success, they wanted to measure Gross Domestic
Happiness. If we apply that yardstick to the USA, we have seen a dramatic
deterioration of Gross Domestic Happiness over the last eight years. Last
night, with the
results of the election, we noted an enormous outpouring of happiness that
not only reached into every corner of the USA, but spanned the globe. Clearly
the results of the election unleashed a wave of happiness that has not
been seen on the planet since the start of the new century. This is a clear
sign
of an opening of the heart chakra (4th chakra) and the characteristic wave
of deep joy that accompanies that event, on a world-basis!
To understand why this occurred one needs to look deeper to the underlying
transition that this country is struggling with, representing a wider
struggle throughout the world. If we look at the energetics of the society
using
the chakras and their characteristic actions as our guide, we see that
the last
eight years (at the very least) have been totally in the grip of 2nd
and 3rd chakra energies. These energies want power for its own sake, seek
self-aggrandisement,
and manifest pure greed, for money and for power. At the same time, they
work
on the level of fear and resentment. All these things can be clearly
seen in what has happened for the last eight years.
The last eight years did not occur out of context. America has long struggled
to raise the energetic level and has always had something of a conflict
between the higher chakra energetic of harmony, peace, goodwill, understanding
and
the lower chakra energetic of power, control and greed. This thread runs
through the entire country and led to expressions such as the Declaration
of Independence
(we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal)
and a type of idealistic helpful spirit that has surfaced on many occasions
in
our history. While at the same time, some of the worst abuses of humanity,
such as slavery, the genocide of the Native American people, and the
repudiation of treaty obligations and outright dishonesty that led to
the seizure of
land and resources from innocent and simple people, also occurred during
our history.
The see-sawing of these two distinct energetic threads has been part
of our national psyche for several hundred years. With the drawing
together of the
entire world into the awareness of all being part of one humanity,
one eco-sphere and one small planet, the demand for a definitive transition
to a foundation
based on 4th and higher chakra energetic has become essentially one
of
survival for humanity. We cannot go on simply seizing assets, destroying
the environment
and greedily grasping after the resources that are meant for all beings,
for all time, and sucking the planet dry in one or two generations.
That means
that the 2nd and 3rd chakra powers need to give way if humanity is
going to find an answer. The forces that represent these “lower” energies
fight
harder
when they feel threatened, and clearly, they have felt threatened!
It has
been a tough, bruising and unforgiving chapter in our country’s history,
to the
detriment of us all. But maybe it has had a role in making possible
the transition that we need to make, as it has made the choice very stark
and defined, in
a way that perhaps we could not have seen previously.
The election of Barack Obama clearly represents a step forward towards
the definitive change that must take place. It is, as his campaign
so clearly recognized “The Change We Need”. His message of harmony,
reconciliation
and
good will,
his clear unwillingness to win the election based on the historical
tactics of fear-mongering and name-calling, his care for the welfare
and benefit
of all people and the environment, his calm and reasoned approach
to issues,
and
his clear and powerful communication skills evidence an opening of
the 4th chakra (heart chakra), 5th chakra (throat chakra ruling communications)
and
6th chakra (3rd eye, representing the integration of knowledge and
will,
the “wisdom eye”).
The fact that Americans have chosen hope over fear, and have taken
the step to wake up from our nightmare of hatred, greed and fear-mongering,
is a positive
sign. It is now up to us to rise up to the occasion and support
this change through the tough challenges we have to meet, to help heal
the wounds of
division, reign in the dogs of war, bring balance to our relationship
to the earth and
the peoples and other living beings populating the earth, and at
the same time solve some of the worst imbalances that we have been
left
with
as
a result
of the recent past.
The entire world is breathing a sigh of relief with the results
of our election. We see tribal dancing in Africa, Shamanic healers
praying
in
Peru, and Ayurvedic
priests in India undertaking prayer and thanksgiving ceremonies.
The Europeans are relieved to see us start waking up from this
nightmare. People all
over the world are hoping and expecting a new day and a new tomorrow
as America
begins the urgent, essential transition to a foundation based
on the
energetic of the higher energy chakras. The planet is already
feeling the new energy.
Santosh Krinsky
Racine Wisconsin
November 5, 2008