Tomorrow: Finding Unfoldment In Uncertainty
Reflections and a poem for our current moment.
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A survey in the UK from 2019 found that across all age groups, 80% of people found life to be meaningless. The feeling is greatest in younger generations. Keep in mind, this is before the COVID era.
The primary reason people felt their lives were meaningless was that finances were holding them back from fully living. I would challenge this. I think something much deeper is going on.
The meaning crisis is emerging from a greater metacrisis. The convergence of global challenges, societal collapse, and human suffering are all interrelated and driven by complex connections.
On a deep level, most of us sense that something is not right with the way our world functions, and we’ve reached a point where this truth is so loud we can’t ignore it. As I’ve often stated, it’s an uncomfortable and uncertain evolutionary pressure. It’s exactly what we need to push us to evolve.
Yet with all of this ‘change’ unfolding across every layer of society - including in our minds, emotions, consciousness and relationships - uncertainty for the future can feel heavy.
The more we resist the more suffering we experience. Instead, can we meet the uncertainty and how we feel about what’s happening with curiosity? Can we sense deeper into what we are feeling and find acceptance in the process of unfolding?
During a conversation with a friend about this whole process, he wanted to offer a poem for your enjoyment. I thought I’d share it below as an artistic contribution to our work here.
- Joe
Tomorrow - By Jamiel Conlon
The space between worlds
The space between dreams
We awaken in a world
that is not what it seems
The clocks turn their hands
As we turn our backs on the past
Time slips through the glass
And here we are at last
A planet caught between places
caught in the middle of it all
trappings in spaces
causing humanities fall
We can rise again to meet the day
We can rise again and find a new way
What we do ourselves now can give us a chance
and we can snap right out of this age old trance
You see we cannot see with absolute proof
Staying stuck in the future keeps us aloof
Only now can we know
through the movements we create
the way forward for our planet
and determine its fate
The stars will align
as we get in tune
and before you know it
tomorrow will be here soon
May be the current Lack of meaning is also the result of years of Social engineering and the destruction of spirituality. Remember the materialistic consume, tittytainment, hedonistic Features, Social Media, Peu a Peu alianating the Human being
What we resist persists. The key is to embrace all as the path, even the uncertainties that we encounter along the way. Joseph Campbell once said when asked by Bill Moyers in an interview in the 1980s, what the meaning of life is: "Life has no inherent meaning," Campbell said. "We each bring meaning to it."