What we have is a generation of people who are working on
themselves. Have you noticed this? In unprecedented ways: in seminars, through
therapy, though church, though things like this. And we have resistance to
that.
In fact, I went to a wedding some years’ ago and sat next to a woman who was
in her late 60s or early 70s and we were talking a little about the wedding and
she said, “I don’t get it.” She asked, “What’s going on here? Why is everybody
in therapy? We didn’t need any therapy when I was a kid.” She said, “Why is
everybody drugging up their childhood? Let it lay.” She asked, “What is it with
these women? What do they want? Why don’t they stay home with their kids where
they belong? She asked, “Who let the homosexuals out of the closet?” She then
asked, “What do the animal rights people want?” She said, “Every time I look
around, I see a starving kid on the television. The world’s going to hell.” And
you know for her, the world is going to hell. For me, it’s going in the other
direction.
Because what we are doing as a society is exactly appropriate
for the observing consciousness. We’re looking at it! We are as a society
conducting a fearless moral inventory and we’re drugging it up. All the
humanity, all the poverty, all the problems, all of the ugliness, we are
holding it up and as is the want of human beings, we’ve gone way too far. But we’re
doing it and for that I think we can only be grateful.
There have been people observing
for a long time. The poets, the Saints, the philosophers; this is nothing
terribly new. What is new is the scope of it. What is new is that it is more of
a mass consciousness; particularly in our society and other societies throughout
the world. And what happens when you observe? Well, what happens when you
observe is you start to see connections. And what are connections? Love. And that’s
what I see as the next level of consciousness.
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