You know, I’ve been thinking and talking a lot lately with people about like the sort of fucked up state of things right now. And yeah, if you think about it a lot, it can get kind of overwhelming. Just like this huge weight and a constant struggle always trying to envelop you. And it can get sort of scary.

Scary, but nothing to be scared about. I think as soon as you’re scared, its like youre surrendering some part of yourself or your ability to live freely to some outside force, by putting the power in other hands. Whereas if you hang onto this life-force, or whatever it is, if you hold it in your heart and your mind, it will take root there, blossom, and move through you into those around you.

I also think this fear and tension is helping to bring up a normally only latent or dormant aggression and anger that’s always been around in our culture. This passage from latency into cultural expression is in some way a gigantic release of energy. And an extremely important one.

Maybe this is just my closet Taoism coming out, but I’m of the mind that any time you move or release destructive energy, you’re going to automatically simultaneously release a corresponding amount of creative energy into the world. It’s just impossible to do otherwise, because that’s what energy is: a wholeness consisting of opposite/complementary parts. You can’t have one without the other.

I believe that as the level of destruction, greed and mindlessness increases, so too will the intensity of creativity, love and consciousness. Everything’s just being taken up a notch. Several notches. And with this shift, everything and everyone is transformed in some subtle and some overt ways, to accomodate all this new energy circulating out in the world and in us.

I think the main task in front of everybody is to take some responsibility for how this energy is going to manifest in their lives. The possible shapes and forms and ways this all can be expressed are absolutely infinite. The key thing is to move forward with awareness and not surrender your life-giving, love-directing and decision-making powers to fear and anger.

It’s like we’re all catching some huge cosmic wave. Surf’s up.