No. You Don't Have to "Understand" the President or His Minions or His Supporters (You Already Do)

Issue 127

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As one who identifies as a new-consciousness person, one who believes that humanity’s consciousness is changing from whatever it has been into something entirely different, one who cannot seem to see the world through a different lens than that, it’s not surprising I would attract to my Self people who also resonate with that idea. It’s just the way of things, law of attraction being what it is and all. And within this collection of birds flocking together, I’m experiencing a great deal of not-together. What I’m referring to, specifically, is a belief that conscious politics practitioners are compelled to engage embodiers of the old, dying consciousness in dialogue, to understand what it is they are saying, where it is they are coming from, so they can join together “in unity” to the next place. Beautiful, right?

Wrong. That’s just not how we create the next thing; it’s not how we cultivate Conscious Politics. Remember, the old and new consciousnesses are not here to coexist. Remember that one is replacing the other. Remember that when we deign, as individuals, to create shiny, clear intentions for anything we want to be, do, or have, we immediately identify any and all beliefs we have that do not align with what we want. I want to be a billionaire and I believe all billionaires are evil. Hmmm. I then continue to focus on what I want (e.g., billions) and eagerly transmute and transform the non-serving belief I have into one that serves (e.g., some billionaires are compassionate and loved) — to smooth the way to manifestation.

This is why I respond to ostensibly like-minded people who believe we must understand “the other side” with a hardy, “no, we don’t.” Nor should we bother because embodiers of the old consciousness are, of course, holders of beliefs that are, for all intents and purposes, diametrically opposed to the beliefs that cultivators of the new consciousness have and need. You can’t get there from here. Besides, we already know everything we need to know about where they’re coming from. We can, as people conscious of our own beliefs, readily hear the beliefs of others, more or less. Off the top of my head? OK, I’ll go.

• People who support “drill, baby, drill” do not believe that the Earth is in peril; they do not believe that we humans belong to the planet, are part of it, and do damage to ourselves when we do damage to it. They believe fossil fuel corporations deserve tax subsidies. I’m going to spend exactly zero minutes attempting to get them to believe otherwise.

• A president who pardoned every citizen convicted of a crime at the capitol on January 6, 2021 does not believe in the rule of law, American style, plain and simple. He believes some people are above the law. Are you going to change his mind?

• Politicians and officeholders and administration officials who blatantly, knowingly, repeatedly lie believe that the ends justify the means. The president certainly does. His oligarchic friends certainly do. Do you?

• Any and all references from the president and his minions to “DEI” are based on the belief that some people (typically White, heterosexual males) are better than other people. I could be one hundred percent wrong but what would a person have to believe in order to make it a policy to attack the very existences of fellow humans, fellow Americans who…exist?

…when we see and hear and experience things that others in power are saying and doing that shock and appall us, we can begin to readily hear the range of beliefs that seem to/must undergird what they say and do.

It’s not good practice, of course, to assume we know what it is our friends, relations, co-workers, and others with whom we interact on a regular basis are believing at any given time. In all such situations, best practice is to inquire. “I believe this and it sounds like you believe that. Have I got that right?” It’s not complicated. But when it comes to life as a citizen on our political landscape, when we are moving about in the world, when we see and hear and experience things that others in power are saying and doing that shock and appall us, we can begin to readily hear the range of beliefs that seem to/must undergird what they say and do. So let’s make this a parlor game and all play What do you believe? all the time. At a minimum, it’ll help us know what it is that we believe.

People who believe they are better than others, that they are above the law, that incessant lying is acceptable, that the planet isn’t alive, that the ends justify the means cannot contribute to the project of cultivating the new consciousness. It’s not personal and there’s zero judgment. Indeed, as we say goodbye to belief systems that have carried us for the last two thousand years or so, it is our brothers and sisters who are (unconsciously) clinging to the old consciousness right now who provide the perfect foil for we who are eager to create a new way of being…politically and otherwise…by so brilliantly showing us what we do not want…so we can articulate precisely what it is we do want.

If a conversation from January’s Conscious Politics Free Monthly Training is any indication, however, many of us are getting tripped up by concerning ourselves with what the president/his minions/his supporters are doing and saying. I’m always harping on readers here to focus on what’s wanted. Period. But don’t take my word for it, here’s a ditty from the late author and futurist, Barbara Marx Hubbard:

“Those who attempt to maintain the old separatist stance, wishing to punish their enemies, will…harden, calcify, and eventually die of separation. [They] may impede the progress of those who love the world, but eventually they will either change or wither away through alienation, stress, and discouragement.”[1]

So, please. Your precious time and energy are needed to encourage and cultivate what’s next. Again, Hubbard:

“Create new ground for synergy, places where those attracted to building new worlds on Earth…can work together.” [1]

That is what Conscious Politics is all about. All aboard?

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[1] From the book “The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation: The Promise Will Be Kept” by Barbara Marx Hubbard.

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