the extent and method of reaction

[Lowlight]

What should be the extent of our reaction to the eschatological age we live in? should we work on ourselves in this reaction or work externally to bring forth a new aeon? In doing one do we do the other? Personally i think there has to be a balance. Self transformation should go hand in hand with public protest at the harm done to the global community by those who hold gross power over the world.

[michael heany]

It's my belief that everyone has his or her own path. As the Transformation happens, it will be experienced by each individual very personally. Some will become monks; some will protest; some will devise entirely new ways of spreading Consciousness. I would say that it's entirely unpredictable what path an individual will follow. I do believe, though, that the inner transformation must guide the outer, and Outer without Inner will come to naught. From my own experience, it seems that my life up to this point has been a preparation. Things that happened to me in the past, both good and ill, were there so that I could learn things, or rather so that my Consciousness could learn things (Rilke wrote "It's is in Man's heart that God learns"). It's all been preparation for what's happening now, and what follows.

I also believe that Belief will become an irrelevant thing, left behind as something that divides the race. People will transcend their world views. E.g., Christians won't become evolutionists, nor the other way around. We'll go beyond that, somehow.

[Lowlight]

To what extent should we publically protest and raise awareness of injustice and planetary harm? should be do a mario savio and 'put our bodies upon the gears, and upon the levers, and upon the whole apparatus' to testify?

[daniel]

perhaps we are still waiting for the right mode of protest to constellate... i suspect it will happen as a subliminal groundswell. I envision a global Gandhi-esque nonviolent movement, self-organizing and self-directed.

Everyone has to work in their own world - people in the media or communications fields can help to "produce subjectivities" by getting transformative memes past the cultural censors. I think that people cannot separate who they are from what they do, taking the full ramifications of their actions into account.

Anyone can become a carrier of an alternative world-view, finding their spots and their moments to assert it.

[Lowlight]

daniel, i am not as optimistic in the ghandi sense, though i think that type of protest will play its part. I think we will also see growing violent protests like seattle a few years ago as more people realise how much they have been lied to and how much they have been led astray. to some extent things in certain places may become quite anarchic/lawless before the new aeon truely begins.