"Inspiration is not garnered from
litanies of what is flawed; it resides in humanity's willingness to restore,
redress, reform, recover, re
The people of the New World Rising are all
about living out this kind of sacred act. Of getting high on the course and the
contents of our individual and global lives, of talking with passion and acting
with purpose so bold that it makes people laugh, cringe and cry in response.
This has been the way of humans who are bold, for countless generations. Same
story, different day and age. Yet, modern life has taken the wind out of many
people's sails. We the people of the New World Rising stand and offer you a
hand up to join with us, to rise up and live.
We are concerned with wholeness, with
restoration, with a sense of meaning and relevance in a world gone crazy. We
collaborate to find what is truly of value to us, and we seek to resonate with
it in ways that make sense and effect change on every level. In other words, we
walk our talk. We talk the talk and we walk the walk. It's not always easy, but
its always good to know, when facing down the demons at the steering wheels of
chaos, that we are doing our part to hold on to the plough and keep the faith.
That's one of the things that a tribe like ours does for one another. And we
invite you to be a part of it too, to actually BE the change you wish to see in
the world. And to do it with love, courage, and creativity.
We see the hurts in the world, we see the
irreversible destructions, and we see the burdens of meeting the demands of the
"world" that do not feed our souls. We stand up and say "Enough!
I've had enough of this. Its time to go, time to do something different".
And we seek to create those opportunities, to grow those spaces that can
insulate and empower us for a time, so we are strong enough to make the changes
real.
By discovering and strengthening and shining
our core truths, we awaken and empower you too, and you reflect that back to us
and we experience it, too. It all comes down to what you do right now, how you
choose your thoughts and reactions, what you choose to spend your money and
time on, what you are willing to fight and even to die for. Let those things be
good things, things that create a good future for the next seven generations,
things that honor the previous seven generations by evolving and improving,
things that work to protect the world like we are active, peaceful warriors of
the Light. Its not just words we are sharing here. We are living it.
We understand that the world is moving at an
incredible, overwhelming pace, that many people are barely hanging on to
survival, and that they feel there is not enough time or energy to move in a
new direction. When this happens, you can just LET GO, let it go for a moment
or two, let things flow until they make sense again, and let your troubles just
settle for a moment and see what arises. With some space in which to gain a new
perspective, you see that you do indeed have the freedom and the power to
choose again. And again, and again. As many times as it takes until you get it.
The important thing is to keep a forward motion, and to keep your funk alive,
because you and I both need it. We need you to be alive and awake and aware. We
need you to feel your passion and to live your purpose.
It doesn't matter if you are homeless, or a
nomad, or a service worker, or a power broker. It doesn't matter. You can shine
your Light and make a difference no matter what your life story is, no matter
what has happened to you. You can turn it into something powerful and beautiful
and meaningful. The Light only shines through broken vessels, not through
perfect vessels, unless those vessels are transparent as a result of cleansing
and purification. So embrace your brokenness that has happened as a result of
the things we are protesting, expose your slavery, oppose your oppression, and
turn it around, use it and play it up for the Movement. We love you, and we
honor your presence of mind to take on such an endeavor. It makes fertile
ground for changes that we can only imagine when we first plant the seeds with
our words and actions.
We the people of the New World Rising implore
you to just focus for awhile on loving and laughing, polishing your diamond
self, and crafting the consciousness of your daily decisions. WE implore you to
take whit it is that causes your fear, your poverty, your pain, your
hesitation, your doubt, and turn it into mantras and tremendous heart songs,
turn it on its head and infuse it with magic, so we can all see past these
crippling distractions, and get to what is REAL, and allow peace to happen, no
matter what. To embrace peace within chaos, to be a flash of light in the
darkness.
We the people of New World Rising believe in
revolution and revolutionary acts. Revolution implies a return to source, a
return to the beginning, a revolving back around to what is real and what
resonates and what matters. It's a revolutionary act to allow yourself to feel
happy in the face of pain, to be calm in the face of drama, and to feel
adequate and sufficient in the face of the world's demands to be more and to be
better and to achieve endlessly. To accomplish this revolutionary act, you
commit to staying on a path, and to being a part of something like the New
World Rising or the Occupy Movement is a good path to do that on a daily basis.
The world is careening into all kinds of
personal and planetary crises, and what do you want people to do in the midst
of a crisis? It's most helpful when someone steps in who is calm, who is kind,
who seems to understand what is going on. Even if they don't, their calm gives
a steady vibration to everyone else, and somehow, the crisis is worked on and
resolved to some degree. Unfortunately, the never-ending crises have caused
apathy and inertia that is hard for many to awaken from. The way we awaken from
the inertia and the apathy is to step up and have mindful thoughts, and to
choose conscious words and actions. Collaborating with fellow activists such as
New World Rising and the Occupy Movement help a lot with that. We remind each
other of our hopes and dreams, and we don't give up on each other for failing
to make progress or for being stuck or for not knowing what to do next. We are
just there for each other, encouraging and lifting one another up so we can see
clearly again. Having friends who care helps you get through the roughness of
life.
The key to all of this is making a personal
commitment to live a life that matters deeply to you, not just getting by and
surviving. You can be who you truly are, no matter what your circumstances,
even in jail or poverty or a hospital. A life that matters deeply will resonate
with your true purposes, principles, and values. This is a process that takes
time, as you replace one thing after another with what works, as you search for
and find your tribe, as you make the choices that shape a path for yourself
that has heart, that gives you some measure of bliss and satisfaction. It can
be a moment-by-moment journey of starting over again, endlessly, for some time,
and that is ok. Its the effort to do so that matters, that accumulates the
power to finally get you over the obstacles to freedom into the spaciousness
beyond where you can choose what you really want. We honor you for considering
that, or for making that commitment, for taking on the effort to awaken and to
choose again and to move in a positive direction, to help build a just and sustainable
world for us all. Its that kind of collaboration that changes the world, one
person, one heart, one mind, one community, and one nation at a time.
As you grow in your mastery of this path of
activism, your awareness widens, your actions strengthen in their impact, and
your life becomes a kick ass testimony to the power of walking your talk, on a
path with heart, following your bliss where it truly takes you. Then, fear,
poverty, oppression and other distractions lose their power over you. You gain
strength, those things lose strength. They still exist and demand to be dealt
with, but they have no say in what ultimately happens.
These revolutionary acts are all about shape
shifting, about mastering your circumstances, by taking what is dark, painful,
offensive, and meaningless, and turning it on its head, inside out and upside
down, like organic matter in a compost pile, so it becomes fertile soil for new
ideas, new paradigms, new ways of being, that actually work and will continue
to evolve perpetually into the future. This is a HOMEGROWN revolution, because
it's up to you and to me and to all of us together. It's up to us to encourage,
nourish, awaken, empower, heal, transform, and tempt each other with joy,
opportunities, inspiration and the richness of life lived in tribal solidarity,
the kind known to activists and artists who live with passion and purpose.
Won't you join with us?
