MANIFESTO FOR A NEW BEGINNING
More questions than answers --
but how does transformation feel?
A soul swept overboard
on the swift
tide of transformation?
Please, listen,
we're moving now, fast
into liminal space.
The Earth herself is
changing us,
challenging us
to move into the liminal space.
Polarities shift, temperature
differentials unstable,
unstoppable, unpredictable
here in this place
-- just this --
and only questions.
Can this ever be enough?
Come with me
now we'll cross this
dark water together
bearing all of our questions
and keeping them
near to our hearts.
See, the natural structures
that have sustained us
for as long as
collective memory,
the vital, generous
endowments our
blue and pelagic Earth
Mother has offered of herself,
so selfishly squandered
by us at such great cost
to her children
-- and even to our own --
now they are giving way,
crumbling under the dead
weight, the dreadful
burden, the technological
appetite for insatiable
growth unstoppable
growth at any cost.
Please, don't
turn away now.
I ask you, what is this
lie called Progress?
We, who have mistaken
technology for progress,
who have swindled
our own children, and
bloated ourselves on trifles,
who have knocked
our own dear,
sweet Mother
to the floor.
This is what we call Progress?
We who dream our dreams
of acquisition, power, esteem
-- and death --
now there are only questions
a steady stream of questions.
But how does it feel?
Ask yourself,
what do we want to build now?
Do we want to build
walls? or bridges?
Which would you prefer?
Is a new reign of
understanding possible?
-- I'm talking unity consciousness now --
crashing through barriers,
sweeping away uncountable wrongs,
injuries the human heart
confines, can we ever
allow that to
just fall away?
I ask you -- fierce
and daring grace --
this is possible?
I have to believe it is.
Uncertainty, fear,
material Progress --
an evolutionary
dead end.
What's needed now is
progressive consciousness;
human ingenuity applied
to the project of consciousness.
What? How? I have
no answers for you.
Only more questions --
more questions than answers.
Only questions now
-- together
we'll shoulder this load.
12/20/21
