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Comments (0) Apologies for not updating my site for over a year, but now with the very recent signing of Ashirvad to Times Music in India, this is not only a time for personal celebrations, but also an auspiciously appropriate moment to share some personal reflections.
As we approach the prophetic year of 2012, we seem to be building up to some sort of grand ‘Karmic Crescendo’ on planet Earth, with a wopping cast of 7 billion human beings taking part in the unfolding drama. We’ve just had the 2011 Arab Spring, and now we’re having the European Winter. Long entrenched and established political leaders are dropping like flies, along with their corrupt and dysfunctional regimes, we hope. The ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest movement of the 99%’ers . is building up momentum and spreading like wild fire throughout the main political and financial centers of the world.
Social changes always involve a certain amount of conflict between the old established orders and the heralders of new dawns, it’s just that the nature and rapidity of recent and present events, are happening on a scale that is unpresidented in our lifetimes. The massive shifts in social perspectives and realities that are occurring all over the world at present are telling symptoms of the imminent planetary crisis that we are all destined to face, one way or another.
The recent BBC documentary ‘How Facebook changed the World’, focusing on the ‘Arab Spring’ phenomena, provided amazingly in-depth research and detailed accounts, of how popular use of the internet, via computers and specifically mobile phones, was at the heart of the numerous uprisings. Without the use of incredibly modern internet facilities like Facebook, Youtube and sophisticated mobile phone interfaces that have only been in existence for a few years, none of this would have come about in the way that it has and will continue to do so. We now know that the world is a much more unpredictable place to live in than we could have ever imagined a few years ago, and the rapid rate of change we are witnessing and experiencing, is only going to keep on increasing until it reaches some kind of climax or amazing crescendo. And what’s more, we’re all part of it somehow. We can’t escape our communality with the rest of humanity and all the other gross and subtle life forms on earth, what to speak of the multitude of beings that inhabit other dimensional planes of existence – we are all links and threads within the intricate web of life.
Will the unsettling turmoils that are sprouting all over the world at present, eventually lead to a unification of the people towards a common cause that is for the good of all, or will the mighty 1% attempt to halt the tides of change, by clamping down on the revolutionary zeal with excessive draconian measures? But what we do know, is that millions of people around the world right now, are also busy with speculating and prophesying about the various outcomes that may or may not befall our collective lot. Through living in Glastonbury, the New Age spiritual center of Britain, throughout the spring and summer seasons this year, I became consumed to the point of suffocation, with all the latest conspiracy theories and cosmic prophecies that are doing the rounds. And as with most info. these days, it is all coming via sources on the internet. Though the most popular trend amongst my circle of friends has been to start building up stores of dry and tinned food in preparation for the imminent world wide crisis that many of us are expecting, whether it be through economic collapse, cosmic catastrophe, natural disasters, war, massive social upheaval, alien intervention or through a mixture of causes.
Everyone is talking about change as if it were some new phenomena, but change is the most inevitable aspect of reality that we have to encounter on a daily, or moment to moment basis – But the reasons why we’ve become so obsessed with the notion of change in recent times, is because everything in our realities is shifting with such rapidity that it has become unsettling for many and a new cause for wonder, plus there are a host of tangible reasons, why the human race must radically change it’s lifestyle orientations as a must for the very survival of the planet.
Meanwhile the cosmic clock is ticking away, moving us all towards unknown futures. In actuality, we have no control over the outcome of our desires, actions and wishes, all we can do is choose what type of thoughts and actions we would like to contribute towards the well being of our souls and others, perform our dharmas and strive to achieve those goals, but ultimately everything will rest in the hands of the gods.
