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The power of events. Defining moments. With today's global media coverage, we're all tuned into today's news very quickly, all together. One day, I was busy working and the phone rang. A friend says: "Stop what you're doing and switch on the TV immediately. Something's happening. Just do it, right now!". I watched those planes crashing into the Twin Towers and, like everyone, I was flabbergasted. Immediately I saw implications spreading out from that point in time. It took time to catch up with this unexpected yet strangely inevitable event. A large rip appeared across reality as most people saw it. A new map had suddenly been placed on top of the old one. A defining moment had taken place. New possibilities wriggled through the cracks. At defining moments, history's train changes tracks. |
"The average person is either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, they become a persecutor or a victim. These two conditions are prevalent as long as one does not see. Seeing dispels the illusion of victory, or defeat, or suffering." don Juan Matus, from A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda, 1971.  |