In celebration of the release of my newest book, I am sharing 10 short snippets from it for your perusal. I have even been so kind as to provide you a link at the end where you might purchase it, kind person that I am.
In our quest for achievement and progress, we have walled ourselves off from joy. Joy requires a certain amount of leisure and silence in which to work its magic, whereas our society has killed silence and replaced leisure with never-ending distraction. We toil ceaselessly in order to chase a happiness that is ever illusive, or else fritter our restful hours in consuming externally-produced information and entertainment that serves only to sell another’s narrative. The voices from outside drown out the one within that alone can experience joy and make us aware of all the joy that is available to us, that is our right as human beings.
Often we seek to be good, ignoring Oscar Wilde’s advice that when we are happy we are always good but when we are good we are not always happy. We feel the need to be something other than what we are, and forget the miracle of our own being, instead pursuing fantasies of what we should be. We seek to be good, valiant, noble, self-sacrificing, when in truth simply by being human we will be all that and more. It is in our nature. That is what it means to be human, but we have somehow come to believe that being human is not good enough.
We struggle to acquire wealth, and once we have acquired it, we need to justify our struggle by purchasing things we don’t really need. We spend on lavish dinners while we forget the joy we experienced from harvesting from our own little gardens. We purchase berries out of season at the crowded supermarket, forgetting the miracle of chancing upon them while hiking on an early summer day. Convenience is convenient, but no substitute for joy.
What joy does society give us today? It seems so many of us dread the company of our fellow human beings nowadays, since the sharing of joy seems to be a thing of the past. We shop at stores that don’t offer us human interaction, giving us convenience and speed at the expense of joy. We joylessly interact with machines rather than face each other, seeing in the eyes of others the joyless reflection of our own souls.
Joyfulness is not only our default setting, it is our destiny. If we do not look towards our future with the anticipation of joy, we are severely off-track. Regardless of the incessant call for individuality and freedom that is used to promote the path we are on, no group of free individuals wants a future bereft of joy. No free thinker looks forward to a time when we are all ruthlessly competing to see who can become the joyless king of a joyless planet. If joy — true contentedness in both being and working towards becoming the human you were born to be — is not part of the equation that formulates your world view, I would humbly suggest you are walking a needlessly painful and ultimately futile path.
More than a cup of coffee or anything human civilization has been able to create, staring up into a bright blue sky with the sight of the occasional bird soaring high above is the best way to start the day.
Another world exists. I have seen it. I see undeniable evidence of it daily. The more clearly I am able to see the matrix for what it is, the more beauty and rightness I am able to see outside of its confines. This other world consists of all living things, of all history and culture that has been able to live outside the corporate-created matrix that so many never stop to question. There, miracles exist. There, beauty is more than surface deep but incorporates spirit and soul. There, is a connectivity and sense of belonging we shall never experience in a corporate matrix that exists to create discontent and desire for more, always more.
Even after you begin to realize what is taking place, you will need a good amount of faith in human nature and the inevitability of change not to be freaking out a little. Because what is happening cannot be placed in convenient little boxes in order that we might understand it. Something big is happening, the situation is very fluid, and our intellects are not the tools we think they are that can get us through every problem we encounter.
Donald Trump was the first huge manifestation of the change roiling within. He is an ugly crack on the dead epidermis that we mistook for what is, but has only been covering what is becoming. Trump is no reflection of what it is that’s coming, merely a warning that something is indeed coming. But Trump is enough to terrify those who do not see change as necessary and positive. They wish only to patch up the shell, because they are terrified of what lies beyond their superficial understanding. They would allow what is being born to die rather than lose their simplistic notion of what life is.
Trump is not the face of the transformation, he is but the death rattle of the existing order. And Democrats are not the answer to Trump and to outmoded ideas, they are the life support system that is keeping the existing order alive longer than it naturally should be allowed to live. Democrats are the existing order, Trump an echo from the past that seeks to be an answer to that existing order. Between the two you have the insufficient present and the past that needed to be replaced fighting it out over the future. Neither is the future. Both are preventing the future from being born. It’s like a Grandpa arguing with his daughter about how his granddaughter ought to behave.
As promised, here is a link to Essays On Awakening. I assure you that this is but a taste of what you can find within those pages: https://www.amazon.com/Essays-Awakening-James-Rozoff/dp/B0FS274XXB/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
