"So now we are living in a time when we must create love, it is no longer
given. We must develope this ability quickly. We must counter the
corporate
domintion of our lives through our creation of love and we can enjoy this, a
new paradigm. These energies are real and present. The use of genetic
engineering is on the brink of dominating our food system and our childrens
diets. The womb is at risk of becoming an inaequate place to raise a fetus
to birth into the world. But we shall overcome this through our creation of
love." (S Storch)
Michael Moore's movie Bowling for Columbine has touch a nerve. It gives
voice to the total irrationality of the gun culture and its source the
pervasive degree of fear that American society is uniquely suffused with.
Moore's says that the underlying reason is the racism that still exists in
our society. This is the love of nationalism, blood love, a form of love no
longer needed in the world. It is in the melting pot of America that this
now destructive form of love is being worked through and hopefully left
behind. If we are to 'overcome through our love of creation' it seems to
me we will need to be able to grieve deeply. Giving voice to the injustices,
and the doom and destruction all around us isn't contributing to the
'negative vibes' but part of our necessary process of grieving. There isn't
a day that goes by without my heart being heavy with the loss of life
somewhere. Developing the capacity to allow all the suffering to come in
isn't easy. Robert Sardello has been a voice in the wilderness for me. From
his book Freeing the Soul From Fear:
" ...if you've grieved, some very interesting things occur. Grieving is a
complete bodily phenomenon. It is not the same thing as sadness or
depression. Every cell of your body cries out in pain. Partly that is a
purification of soul life that makes possible the making of the soul as a
vessel that can be radically receptive. That can only come about by taking
in the suffering of all our fellow human beings.
When we go that deeply into grieving there is this amazing, paradoxical
phenomenon that all of the world suddenly becomes alive. The flowers are
vivid, the sky is vivid. That's a kind of turnaround of soul life where soul
is now open.... It is a task in which it may look like everything around us
is breaking apart,but I don't think that's what is happening. What is
happening is this movement toward developing the capacity to learn how to
create love in the world."
