Awesome article, Open. Hugs to all that resonate with this message.

This is indeed such a great opportunity to let go of the old dysfunctional reality. As you said, all it requires is a direct confrontation within ourselves. Many are in a state of shock watching the reflection of who we have become as humanity. And, yes, it is a good thing as it is stirring up the old consciousness. The shocks we experience in life are like deep opening within the awareness. They do not last long as our brain is equipped in containment mechanisms that will attempt to reinstall the previous programming. This is really a brief opportunity to step through, shake off the lies we’ve been telling ourselves, face the disillusionment and fear and transmute it.

As you guys mentioned, some are escaping into a numbing love/light mechanisms, there are also many that dissociate through projecting and “fighting the fight”. As it feels to me, the true fight for humanity takes place outside of the political arena and the election result is just its symptom, a manifestation. I only perceive one fight right now and it takes place within our individual and collective consciousness. Humanity’s consciousness has been turned inside out and we’ve been disempowered, raised to believe in the manufactured reality. I'm so fed up with this. I've been feeling a layer of controlling something around me, hanging out there like a lampshade. It doesn't belong.

You said:
“I see the greatest challenge being, that humanity has been lulled into the idea that life is about the things that we want to have.” – Yes, humanity has also been lulled into the illusion of choice between political fractions. Chomsky has been pointing that out for years now. Why pour energy trying to "fix" the system, looking for a better leader or all kinds of political activism based on desperation and fear. Might we find the courage and turn around to challenge an illusion of national identification, political ideology, the “reality” as it’s been taught to us instead? Might we be brave enough to step into the new consciousness by sincerely engaging in self de-programming and inner alchemical transformation?

You said:
“Now is the time for a direct confrontation of the old consciousness, inside yourself, as a moment by moment way of being.” – I get this. Yes!

With love :-)

M.

PS. Just one more thing ... I feel it is important to be gentle not just to myself, but to others, to support their process too. May it be in an overreaction, in a distortion, or withdrawal. In all this chaos, I'm discovering new capacity for compassion towards us all.