There's a loss of level footing to even talk about what's going on. Artists/Energy workers are quite familiar with fractured, fragmented truths: the image of the Kaleidoscope as the Vision Tool/Metaphor of our age. Same Stuff, Jumbled and Re-Ordered over and over.Another image is The Grasshopper Mind
The Four Shifts:
TIME SHIFT Slow! Waiting, Allowing for things to appear in their time
Why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared. A where have they gone, the amblers of yesteryear? Where have they gone, those loafing heroes of folk song, those vagabonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under the stars. Have they vanished along with footpaths, with grasslands and clearings, with nature? Milan Kundera Slowness, HC 1995 p3
(Yikes, I just saw that I also posted this poem in 2013, a few post below!)
Keeping Quiet Pablo Neruda
Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still
for once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for a second,
and not move our arms so much.
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would not look at his hurt hands.
Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.
What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.
If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I’ll count up to twelve
Learning to consult, wait, listen. Resist the nudgy lure is to immediately organize and create new systems, to be Pro Active too quickly. If disappointment, frustration presents. Just be with them for a while. They are often disguised forms of something more interesting and nourishing.
SLOW reactions: have their own ways. “Organic” Implications always shifting, seasons Rhythmic, tidal, seeping, oozing, fermentation, techtonic
Artists/Energy Workers have to develop and extend our capacity to be “propassive” ... Championing the virtues of not being Active too soon. Pro Passive is related to the Positive NO
SPACE Shift Layers are emerging. This Social Distancing… Six Feet, Six Feet,
Most Interesting is the Re-centering on the House, The Home Before it was generally a waystation. Now it's a Center. Other Cultures, particularly older, slower ones knew something of Household Deities, small gods, helpers and tricksters at once. Creating both Order and Disorder
Since we are now At Home so much more, our encounters with these small gods is evermore likely. Get to know more about them. Here and Here
POWER SHIFT: SENSE OF SAFETY CONTROL, DIRECTION
Our Old ways, Categories, Labels, Sorting, Mapping don’t work as well or at all . We are vulnerable,
We worry Basics: food, toilet paper, ammo, but deeper ones: Awe , wonder, Feral,
Stories, Making .. Covid has forced its
way into consciousness. From Where? Other
times? Other responses: Covid is only
a manifestation of some inner turmoil we have felt. Entrophy.
LANGUAGE-BEHAVIOR SHIFT contagion, social distancing, Drive through testing, Not Enough, binge shopping, hoarding, 20-seconds, isolation. Please add your new words to this list
