The End of the World
(image: some 2025 journaling of mine)
Here are a few ideas that I hope will uplift you in this moment.
1. “The End of the World” Is a Mythic Tale Told in All Cultures. This EPIC storyline has popped up many times in our lifetime, but Y2K (1999), the day the Twin Towers fell, 2020 (COVID) and maybe now come to mind?
Could this BE the real end of days- or the end of life, as we know (and love?) it? Are we becoming Russia? An autocratic state headed towards a genocide…many experts point to this. Other experts point to something else.
On one hand, everything is ALWAYS changing….so nothing ever remains the same. And, sometimes it seems more possible that everything that matters could unravel completely at any time.
They call this “Apocalypsis”. The word Apocalypse (revelation) is from the Greek meaning “uncovering what has been hidden.” In other words, the revelation of new truth.
And when it feels like the end of the world is near, I try to remember that SO is the beginning…..
“The times are dark and the roar of the world keeps getting louder; it is no time to be grazing in the fields of denial or seeking safety among the rocks of false certainty. As the outer world loosens, slips, and seems about to unravel, the inner archetype of apocalypsis rises closer to the surface. It brings with it a greater tension of opposing extremes, an increase of both hard attitudes and paranoid fears. The tendency to panic can strike at any time. At certain times, fear itself is the issue; not just the uncertainty of change or the threat of loss, but simply the presence of fear itself can erase the sense of imagination and vision needed for both survival and renewal.”
— Why the World Doesn’t End, Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss by Michael Meade
In these times, I’ve learned that it’s best to LEAN IN…
….to run TOWARDS what scares you (or goes bump in the night) rather than to hide.
Mr. Meade also says that in years like 2025, a year that many mystics +astrologers say is full of apocalypses and dark times of many, many kinds, that:
“….the creative energies of each soul become more important …… In facing up to the enormous problems of the world and accepting the troubles that knock on our doors, we can better learn what hidden resources, deep resolves, and surprising designs we have hidden within us.”
Are you noticing hidden resources and surprising designs within yourself?
I have noticed my strange new willingness to get politically involved and to amplify the voices of people who I think more people need to hear.
Maybe you are feeling like it’s time to STRENGTHEN the connection between yourself and your own soul?
Writing, painting, singing, dancing, collaging, or any other form of creative SELF expression is a VERY EFFECTIVE way to do that.
I’d love to have you join Inger Kenobi and I to BEAM together!
BEAM: A 30 day Mini Creative Soul Retrieval
I have SO MANY ideas percolating already for my 30 day project- a salty collection of mystical wisdom for dark times to satiate the Bevis and Butthead part of my brain is one! I need it! But, am I capable of creating such a thing? I
To have a firm persuasion, to set out boldly in our work, is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.
~David Whyte
2. Writing I admired this week.
WE WILL NOT STOP
We will not give up, go away, or be quiet.
We will remain here
Standing in the way of the victory parade
Spoiling the photo op
Embarrassing the guests at the penthouse party.
We will continue to resist repression.
We will not allow a return to a culture of closets.
We will not pretend there is no threat to the Earth.
We do not think we have all the answers
But we will never stop asking the questions.
We are the quiet people of the center
The struggling people of the margins
The survivors from the bottom rung.
We are the new community of faith
Unified by a shared vision of human dignity
Strengthened by a belief in the power of love.
Until history moves toward justice
We will not give up, go away, or be quiet.
– Steven Charleston,
former Episcopal Bishop of Alaska and Native elder
You can follow him on facebook here.
3. W is For WaterBoarding. I am re-sharing a story I wrote about facing my own fears as a creative person. I hope it resonates!
With time, we become grateful for absolutely everything
because we realize it has set us free.
~message from a spider 🕷 friend.
It sounded harmless. It was a book club, a group of women that had been getting together for upwards of 27 years. They had a phD psychologist, a social worker and a therapist among them.
The day before said book club, I’d been listening to David Sedaris’s Masterclass on writing. He said, “You’re never going to have experiences you can write about if you spend your days scrolling on your phone or glued to zoom or Netflix all day and night: Get out of the house and observe people.” I nodded with recognition and I realized just how isolated I’d been feeling this pandemic winter with work. Lucky for me, I had an invitation to book club lined up.
I doubt David Sedaris has ever participated in an Ayahuasca ceremony, and I’m sure he’d have a field day writing about one if he ever does. When you attend an Ayahuasca ceremony, it’s best if you can show…(cont. reading at this link)
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Sarah
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