When winning feels like losing
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
That Gandhi bloke said quite a few sensible things although I question his conclusion in the one above.
Anyone treading the path of conscious awakening over the past few years will be familiar with the "ignore you" stage. It is the inability to reside in the depth of ignorance of reality that is required to thrive in our dysfunctional society which catalyses most truth seekers. Any ripples your realisation transmit are pointedly ignored by those comfortable in their dream. Do not disturb the ignorance!
We laugh at comedians largely because they point out the absurdity of the illusion we adhere to. It is not uncommon for comedians to be privately depressed. In order to highlight our absurdity they have to be aware of it. For those awakening seeing through the illusion can be depressing, just as it is for the comedian. It can become even harder when, in trying to point out the absurdity to others, they laugh at you. Not in the way they laugh with the comedian, but they laugh at you.
The next stage is when your increasing awareness of reality threatens their comfortable space within the illusion. This is when they will fight you, isolate you, disown you even. Whole populations will war with each other rather than awaken to a deeper truth. Fighting and death is preferable to reality. Bizarre.
So Gandhi's observation of ignore, laugh and fight ring true. But what about his conclusion "Then you win"? In his context, Britain returning governance of India to the Indians may have felt like a victory, but did anything really change? The consciousness of repression and subjugation which Gandhi opposed did not really shift at all. Nor in reality the power. Nobody won.
Similarly, do not expect those who ignored you, laughed at you and then fought you to join you in your enlightened view of reality. It may sound paradoxical but the path toward unity consciousness appears to have a fork in it. If, in your version of reality, winning involves everyone taking the same fork, then you ain't going anywhere. This shift in consciousness is an all or nothing job, and holding onto the "nice" bits of an old paradigm locks you into that old paradigm.
Winning is letting go. It can actually feel like losing.
The period over Easter seems another "step-up" in the movement into a new paradigm and the passage has been far from comfortable. Some, like myself, have been bed-ridden with a deep seated cleansing and am still working through a visceral physical shift. Others, have been touching deep alternate realities in either the sleep space or more confusingly in the waking state, where time lines and physical reality is increasingly distorted. So many people are describing the bifurcation of realities in terms of intolerance of incoherent consciousness and even more feel like they are a bit part in a zombie movie where the general population are so obviously asleep. Any interface with that old matrix construct, through main stream media or "news" events are appearing almost comical in their fabrication.
For many years the shift in consciousness has been so subtle that it made you question yourself. The ignorant, the laughers and the fighters seemed to have a point. The reality is now so obvious that those people are just plain irrelevant. There is no duty to take anyone with you or wake others from their slumber. Simply hold your stability in your truth and trust in providence.
Subtlety is so last year.
Bill