Election Results in the US and Deeptime

by Orla Hazra, PhD, Vice President, Deeptime Network Board

The presidential election results in the US have many of us stunned, disappointed, angry and bewildered.

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Many in other countries are in disbelief, knowing the systemic aftermath will affect them along with their bioregions. A foreboding sense of cataclysm has set in.   Having heard the intentions of the winner and his supporters on the campaign trail, we fear the arrival of the next administration.

Across Earth In the midst of recent increasing social injustices and climate change, we can no longer deny we are in a pattern of a threshold moment, an invitation to still ourselves, discerning our next steps.

From a Deeptime perspective we know cataclysm to be a fundamental aspect of the Universe’s unfolding. Looking back through our 13.8 billion years of developmental thresholds, we have witnessed these moments of grace in the long time developmental cosmology of Cosmogenesis. Following catastrophe and cataclysm, the Universe draws itself back with greater complexity and diversity. We notice this pattern in our own personal lives as we begin to develop our own autocosmologies.

Brian Swimme quotes Thomas Berry in his book Cosmogenesis: an Unveiling of the Expanding Universe:

The classical civilizations regarded the cosmos as a whole as unchanging, 
but we today find ourselves in a developing cosmogenesis. 
This is a thrilling revelation with enormous promise for unifying humanity,
but we cannot pretend that this story is small or tame in its dimensions. 
It’s terrifying.  It will not be domesticated. 
There is a grotesque aspect pervading cosmic evolution
that cannot be covered up or ignored.  Nor should it be.

Gathering together with us on the Deeptime Network and at home in your communities, we encourage you to call upon the ancestral wisdom’s of science, religion, women and Indigenous to guide you forward.  In discernment how are you experiencing yourself being led across the threshold, groping in the dark sensing potential, held by hope?  Could there be a convergence happening in unexpected ways?

We quote from the newly released book The Story of the Noosphere by Brian Swimme and Monica De-Raspe Bolles:

The convergence happening now
is the ongoing unification
of humanity at the planetary level.

Potencies that have swirled about each human
are being actualized by this convergence,
giving rise to qualities just as surprising
as the emergence of life
out of rocks.

Qualities such as mutual understanding,
comprehensive compassion,
forgiveness —
these potencies have been hovering 
in the extraordinary realm

since the beginning.
Now is the time they arise
and ripple throughout the planet.
This convergence of peoples
into a unified humanity
will change everything.

A lot of us know we’re on the right path and we need to stay strong.  How are you pulling from your well?  How are you forming new partnerships to bring about the new?  Please share with us from wherever you are.

We invite you to share the wisdom from your cultures and communities for coping and moving forward.  How do you see what’s happening inside an emergent Universe? 

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