Here I go again. My heart is swelling with love and a deep desire to be with people that I love in a very special way. I first fell in love with these people back in late January 2011. At the time, I thought these people lived in Egypt. Day after day I watched them fill Tahir Square with their bodies and my heart with love. I was so inspired, I wrote a song about it, the End Of Fear. Each day I watched the courage of these people unfold as they stood for justice in the face of bullets and blood.
Soon the wave of human consciousness that arose in the Mideast made its way around the world. By the time it washed over the east coast of the United States in the fall of 2011, my heart was already gone, it was already there in Zuccotti Park. All that was left was to allow my body to catch up with my heart. And I did. I traveled from California to what became Occupy Washington, D.C. and from there to Occupy Wall Street in New York. My life hasn’t been the same since. And this is why.
For me, the new wave of consciousness that is now rising in Turkey and spreading around the world is inspiring. To me the uprisings signifiy much more than resisting government control and corruption. It is far more than a protest about jobs, environmental destruction or the lack of affordable education, housing and food. What we are seeing is the blossoming of the human spirit and the unfolding of a new way living, a way that supports rather than separates, a life that empowers rather than enslaves, a new form of existence that we have waited centuries to witness. A global shift in consciousness is underway, a recognition and an honoring of our shared humanity rather than the illusion of our differences.
I am again feeling a deep love and connection with the courageous people who are standing up for human rights, for social justice and for the planet that sustains us. The forces of domination and destruction continue to operate their tools of fear, seeking to intimidate and diminish our voice. But their time is passing, their last fetid breath is dying on the winds of change. We need not oppose them. We need only to stand and witness the birth of the new world that is unfolding before our eyes. This new world is not comprised of the spectacles of the past, the whine of machinery and the fear of death. The new world is an expression of the human heart, of the deep spiritual connection we share with each other which Universal Intelligence is expressing through us.
Yes, I would be in Zuccotti Park right this minute or in Ankara if I could. My heart is there already. Once again, I find myself transfixed, watching video feeds and twitter messages night and day. I am filled with the same love and connection that I experienced when I was at there in D.C. and New York. It is very hard for me to describe. In fact, I am still wrestling with the meaning of those experiences and how I can best express them for the benefit of others. I am working on a book in hopes of doing so, and I am writing and performing music with the same objective. I am expressing it right now. I want to speak to the world and ask everyone to abandon fear and allow the love in each of our hearts to flow without restriction, without resistance, in service to each other and to the world we have always wanted. It is here. It is now.
“Open up your heart and let the sunshine in” – by Stuart Hamblen, 1954, performed by the McGuire Sisters.