Inaugurations, protestations, conflagrations, confrontations, intimidations, separations, deviations, mediations, vaccinations. Isn’t it the most? All we are saying…

There was a time when songs, statements, hair, placards and demonstrations were the mainstream peace-weapons of choice. But that time is coming to an end now, for a great shift is getting underway and more direct action seems to be the order of the day. Let us hope that, rather than attempting another ill-advised stroll down Trannsylvania Avenue, the True American Patriots have stayed at home to polish their bibles and gnaw on their God-given semi-automatics.  But really, it’s the letter Q I feel sorry for; another innocent consonant hijacked, anonymously compromised and appropriated. Shocking business.

That said, even if they have stayed at home you’d have to be living in a hobbit hole to have not picked up on the wider atmosfear beginning to crackle. Close up, nothing makes makes much sense at the moment or explains anything and so we feel adrift, and in a very real way are being cut loose – from from the past. If we are having a hard time with the current world situation, this is surely to be expected. But the way we approach it can make a big difference. In the larger scheme, there is really not that much to worry about – au contraire.

We are at the very beginning of something utterly new. So newly new that we are still at the very end of the old, and the dark ways will not loosen their grip so easily. We are, after all, self-interested creatures, and puppets of habit. We’ve been doing what we do for a good few millennia now and would defend our ways and cultural traditions to the death. We only need look at history over the last few thousand years to know the truth of this. We smashed and burned the ancient knowledge and routinely misunderstood and/or killed the world teachers that came to remind us of the higher verities.

Indeed, a study of the last 6,000 years indicated that only 290 of them were free of conflict, and that’s considered a generous estimate. What does that tell us about really where we’re coming from? And we’re still at it, given half a chance. We may ask ourselves how far we’ve actually come when violence and suffering is such a staple of entertainment. If it bleeds it leads. Why then should we be concerned about leaving behind such a mindset?

What we are seeing now is open, but futile, resistance to an inevitable process, just as we did in the 20^th century with totalitarianism. The 20^th century was an overture, but now the game is not merely afoot, it’s putting the boot in, and for no other reason than it’s time. Things may not look great at the moment, but how could they? Such a great transition as we are entering now has no historical precedent – unless you want to go back 12,000 years or so… but that’s another conversation and one so far beyond our current perception of history as to be almost irrelevant. Almost.

What we are seeing is a squaring up of the tired old and the nascent new, a new no longer content to merely protest against the establishment, for the old order is coming down now. Ironically, now it seems that the old order is protesting against the emerging new. Although it feels as if the past is being consigned to history, we still know that wresting top-down power from those who have had it for so so long won’t be easy. This is not to say that ‘the people’ know what they’re doing either, because we clearly don’t, but an equalising is coming as a first step along a path with hopefully a better surface, signposts and refreshments.

The even split between those who are invested in the old order and those ready to embrace the seriously unknown tells us where we are in the process. You could say it’s a fundamentalist stand off between fear and courage, closed and open, rigid and flexible, rules and no rules, self and other, greed and altruism, nationalism and the cosmic and, if you want to go down that road, particles and waves, even. Really, choose any old pair of antonyms and away you go. Fun for all the family.

Love Hz? The Schumann Resonance, which measures the natural level of the earth’s electromagnetism, used to hover around 7.83 Hz – (very, very) interestingly the same frequency as emitted by the human brain. However, of late, the earth’s Hz has risen to 30Hz. We could stop right here and spend the rest of the week stroking our chins and analysing not only the electromagnetic correlation between humans and our environment but why this figure has so recently spiked so spikily. We might refer to the passage of the Solar System through space (cue more stroking). Whatever the planet thinks its up to, the vibration is wildly high. This may manifest there being only 14 hours in a day or the sense of a blizzard of fragbytes and information blowing in from everywhere and everywhen.

This very week, a study has concluded that a quarter of young people in the UK have felt ‘unable to cope’ in the pandemic. Never mind millennial snowflaking and never mind the rest of us either; it’s been a test all round for everyone on many unseen fronts. And really, why would everyone be able to cope, especially if they haven’t been on the planet that long? Our ability to navigate the world is usually based on previous examples of how to do it. But those examples, don’t – can’t – really take into account the scale and complexity of what is going on – of what is only just beginning to happen. How could they?

The world wars were awful but at least they happened in context. This time the context itself is going so it’s ok if we feel a little motion sickness. However, the still mind and the wise heart remain untouched. They know that we’re going in the right direction whatever instability visits us. It’s just a larger wheel turning. So, let us be of good cheer because, as Mr Cooke once advised, it may have been a long time coming, but a change is gonna come.