Recently, I attended an exhibition at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver entitled Safar/Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists.
One of the installations was a video depicting people at the beach, shadowy figures, sepia on white, ghostly. The film captures them as though through the lens of a dreamscape, children running here and there, parents bustling close by. It begins with the unraveling of a kite on the edge of the screen as we watch it slip dreamily into the sky above the crowd.
A figure of a child walks towards us and slips off the screen forcing our attention back to the assembly once more. And then we see the same child coming back into view only now the figure is rising, head bowed, off the Earth. He (she) ascends slowly with the only viewer watching this progress being the camera itself. Eventually, the child drifts up and beyond our consciousness altogether.
I was captivated by this film and watched it several times because I think that this definitively captures what is happening right now.
Fundamentalist Christians believe in the "Rapture" at the "End of Times", where the righteous, the beloved of God, will be taken out of the maelstrom of the chaos of the world in its last gasps, turning their backs on Earth as it were, a supposed reward for being faithful in the way that they perceived God wanted them to be.
What they fail to realize, of course, is that if their hearts and souls, their minds, their actions, are not are pure as their customized and perfectly packaged faith they are going nowhere, as God sees all. But never mind, that is their belief.
In fact, they are right, but not in the way they believe. There is a mass awakening of souls on this beloved planet right now, not just Christian souls but souls from every tribe, every dialect, every faith and every walk of life, many of whom do not attend a religious institution at all. And yes, the world is in chaos, but it is not dying the way these folks believe.
It is being re-born, we are in a profound state of rebirth. What we are seeing is the Earth in the paroxysms of giving birth to something much more profound than the stupefying violence that we see around us in what we have deemed to be our "superior" civilization.
Of course, this birth and the ultimate changes that are being wrought have already begun. The evolution of this new consciousness will take time to unfold as it is a complete reformation of not only the Earth but of our entire Beings. But what is starting to happen now and in increasing frequency is the rising up of pure souls to the heart of the great Creator. Eyes and hands reaching upward to Heaven, feet planted firmly on Earth, the perfect union of Father/Mother God, the absolute union of Heaven and Earth.
I am willing to bet that if I watched this video a month or so down the road, a year, ten years, the number of pure souls we would see in this ascension process would have expanded exponentially. Perhaps there would be more reaching upward to the light whilst working to create Heaven on Earth than those that remained scrabbling in the dirt of Earth alone.
One of the installations was a video depicting people at the beach, shadowy figures, sepia on white, ghostly. The film captures them as though through the lens of a dreamscape, children running here and there, parents bustling close by. It begins with the unraveling of a kite on the edge of the screen as we watch it slip dreamily into the sky above the crowd.
A figure of a child walks towards us and slips off the screen forcing our attention back to the assembly once more. And then we see the same child coming back into view only now the figure is rising, head bowed, off the Earth. He (she) ascends slowly with the only viewer watching this progress being the camera itself. Eventually, the child drifts up and beyond our consciousness altogether.
I was captivated by this film and watched it several times because I think that this definitively captures what is happening right now.
Fundamentalist Christians believe in the "Rapture" at the "End of Times", where the righteous, the beloved of God, will be taken out of the maelstrom of the chaos of the world in its last gasps, turning their backs on Earth as it were, a supposed reward for being faithful in the way that they perceived God wanted them to be.
What they fail to realize, of course, is that if their hearts and souls, their minds, their actions, are not are pure as their customized and perfectly packaged faith they are going nowhere, as God sees all. But never mind, that is their belief.
In fact, they are right, but not in the way they believe. There is a mass awakening of souls on this beloved planet right now, not just Christian souls but souls from every tribe, every dialect, every faith and every walk of life, many of whom do not attend a religious institution at all. And yes, the world is in chaos, but it is not dying the way these folks believe.
It is being re-born, we are in a profound state of rebirth. What we are seeing is the Earth in the paroxysms of giving birth to something much more profound than the stupefying violence that we see around us in what we have deemed to be our "superior" civilization.
Of course, this birth and the ultimate changes that are being wrought have already begun. The evolution of this new consciousness will take time to unfold as it is a complete reformation of not only the Earth but of our entire Beings. But what is starting to happen now and in increasing frequency is the rising up of pure souls to the heart of the great Creator. Eyes and hands reaching upward to Heaven, feet planted firmly on Earth, the perfect union of Father/Mother God, the absolute union of Heaven and Earth.
I am willing to bet that if I watched this video a month or so down the road, a year, ten years, the number of pure souls we would see in this ascension process would have expanded exponentially. Perhaps there would be more reaching upward to the light whilst working to create Heaven on Earth than those that remained scrabbling in the dirt of Earth alone.