The looking glass: Gabriel Parlour’s Thought for the Week
‘Is Trump a mirror for us?’
There is that of God in everyone. Therefore, there is that of God in Donald J Trump.
How hard is that to recognise? He is a wounded animal; the childhood wounds real and deep. We may have enough compassion to see these, but we must shine light upon them, too, dealing with them and their consequences, which are producing destruction everywhere.
Is Trump a mirror for us? After reflecting hard on this, I wonder: could he be a catalyst? A reckoning? An awakening? Casting his shadow on the old paradigms and extremes which have slowly, gradually, become accepted over the decades? Could he have arrived to push just about everything to its limit, leaving us no choice but to go deep and determine to begin something new? Is he making ‘bad things’ impossible to ignore even in our (sometimes) wilful blindness, in this age of hierarchy, secrecy, controversy, elitism, hubris and ego? Where reactions such as rage, fear, anger, exhaustion and division are becoming normal?
‘Have we reached a time of transition?
More importantly, have we reached a time of transition? And could/should that transition be our own transformation – part of a collective shift, looking into a world in which we wish to live and what fills it, not accepting the one in which we live? If we are heading for a void we must remember voids get filled… and our world is being filled with things we don’t necessarily wish for.
No one has truly ‘bottomed’ what/where consciousness exists. But most know of the possibility of a higher consciousness; of an expanded consciousness where, perhaps, lies the possibility of a deeper awakening/remembering of our true being-ness, which could be developed and expanded out into the world. Many spiritual writings tell us we have chosen to be here at this exact time. And be part of the solution by working on a deep transformation, contacting the ever-spoken-of light within, which, surely, connects with the divine. And we cannot, must not, ignore our own shadow selves. Jung spoke of it: not confronting our own darkness blocks true consciousness and awareness.
In our Quaker silence, or in meditation, being firmly connected to our hearts – being an authentic presence at all times, staying anchored in unconditional love – may be our pathway for radiating peace and becoming beacons of light. I see the aerial pictures of countries in the darkness where bright lights shine in spots all over. Growing and growing and joining up?
Can we now be active and powerful participants for a new awareness? Can the future be actively shaped by individual, then collective, awareness and by our own transformations? Can we create something beautiful out of the chaos by creating ourselves?
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