I know nothing ever happens but...
Does anybody else feel that something really bad is about to happen?
I've had a strong feeling that the fireworks start this year in proper. It doesn't necessarily have to be a "bad" time, either. In fact, I'm far more confident in it being a very, very "good" thing overall.
I'm sure many of you have heard talks of being in a "dark time" in humanity's history. How we're going down a horrible terrible path, etc. The period many reference as the Kali Yuga, for example. Well, that doesn't inherently imply we end up in a worse situation in the end. An "ending" does not have to mean some bleak terminus; it's simply what happens before a new
beginning. That beginning can be much
better than what was experienced before, and this time
I am absolutely confident it will be.
We're not going to wipe ourselves out or cause irreparable harm to the world. We're going to (finally) break out of old..let's call them "spiritually adolescent behaviors"..that have caused this very cycle to happen over and over
and over. You can pick up any given ancient spiritual text (or most modern ones) and read accounts of this cycle from eons past up through predicting/knowing it would happen in the present..
..but
this time is different than the others.
This time, we finally realize how silly we've been and stop our irl slapfighting.
This time, we move beyond ideas that do not serve us
without contributing to their existence. A hatred of war does not bring peace, for example. It merely continues growing/feeding the proverbial monster. A hatred of those among us who deliberately engage in shit-stirring in order to increase the negative emotions in the world (suffering et al) will do much the same. We must become conscious of the fact we get caught up in these things, and in doing so? We inherently imply a need for their existence in the first place.
Many of us are ready to move on and become so much more than we have been, friends. Exciting times.