Saturday, March 29, 2025
No-one seems to enjoy a shake up. What are the ingredients of complacency? A preference for “don’t tread on me,” or “leave me the hell alone.” Some people shake up the status quo, some people think it’s just fine for all to be “business as usual.” But the universe loves “business as unusual” just as well.
One could argue that The Big Bang was business as unusual, “disrupting” the state of the union. The debris from the explosion were particles of division that seem to have been separated from their unitive state. Free at last, the particles think. And so, the One Intellect fragments into what might seem to be many intellects of varying degrees, choices, and directions.
In my own life, every time I have a big scare or a major shake up, I’ve learned something. Better days are emerging. Once the dust settles, and I am faced with a new state – I recollect something – more love and wisdom. And the cycle repeats. I’m lulled to complacency again.
Why are we afraid of the shake up? Elvis would say, “I’m in love, I’m all shook up.” I don’t know why business as unusual scares me. Why shouldn’t our democracy receive a shakedown? Why shouldn’t it implode, get precarious, or altogether fail? Your current state is not immune to the dangers of complacency. The universe falls asleep and alarms itself into a new state of being. But I think it’s just recollecting itself, honestly.
When you feel something is going to “last forever,” you’ve been lulled into status quo. And now, it might be time to be awakened in love, but first to be all “shook up.” Think of all the possibilities that lie beyond the status quo. Think of the state of the union, the recollection of Ground Zero, the Love from whence it all began and to which it all returns.