It's downright awful out there

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3. In times of deep crisis

Our most cherished beliefs about ourselves and the world are challenged and stripped away - even the things we've always "known" to be true. Maybe it's a spiritual experience for anyone who's really confronting what's going on out there.

Like a lot of you, I've been paying close attention to events in the world for many years. It's been a challenge for me to let go of outcomes I had expected and even hoped for at one time. I've had to completely reassess my personal frame of reality.

What's taking place on planet earth is possibly more complex than anything anyone can imagine or anticipate - even the mystics and seers among us. It may not look at all like what we see through the filter of the media either - or through our personal belief systems. It may not be good news or bad news. It may not even have anything to do with resolution or evolution, or any of a dozen linear concepts we've found useful until now.

These days I think of it all as a kind of Bardo we're going through collectively.

Maybe all bets are off and we need to learn to live out here in a more unconditioned state of heart without hopes or expectations.

Some of my thoughts lately.