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By Scott Grasso
Practice Subversive Self-Care Don’t worry, Dear Ones. If you are asking yourself “WTF is going on right now?”, I have good news. It’s just the end of the world as we know it. Don’t worry, Dear Ones. If you are asking yourself “WTF is going on right now?”, I have good news. It’s just the end of the world as we know it. Like many spiritual seekers and practitioners, I am deeply unsettled about the current state of our planet. It seems like the ugliest aspects of humanity have sprung out of their hiding place, presenting themselves unabashedly for our consideration. A stampede of selfishness, hatred, racism, sexism and dishonesty. A cavalcade of callousness.
How can this possibly be consistent with all of my teachers, who say that we are on the precipice of a new world, The Age of Aquarius? People like Lorie Ladd, Phil Good, Jennifer Hoffman and Celia Fenn. When they say that Love is winning, why doesn’t it feel like that? Where is the evidence? Before we can choose the Light, we need to see the Darkness. I ask you to consider something truly radical. What if all of the fugly in the world right now is actually
instructive, not destructive? What if it is a massive wake-up call, divinely orchestrated to snap us out of our self-centred reveries, our routines, our disconnect from ourselves and each other? What if things had to get this bad to get our attention? What if we are being forced to choose sides? Do we endorse the polarisation of society, or do we cry out that we want something more loving and connected? I am a recovering alcoholic. Twentyseven years ago, my life was a total shit-storm. Fearing that I was going to die, I cried out to a God that I
