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Opportunity in Crisis

Revolution or stagnation?
Comfortable or challenging?
Too soon or just in time?
Illusory or tangible?
Virtual or biological?
… or permanent remodeling?

It looks like the rush, the sprint, the ‘as soon as possible’, the ‘as much as possible’, the ‘more successful’, this eagerness to achieve anything have already become the narrow frameworks of a society in crisis.

We are living through a time when the pain threshold is reaching an all-time low by surrendering total personal power to the chemical promise of a pill or medicinal formula, just like AI (artificial intelligence), one of the notorious topics of the day, is seemingly saving us from the “labor” of acquiring knowledge by providing quick and free answers to all that is unknown.

Following the same pattern of immediate resolution, today’s education is less and less about a dedicated path, about authentic points of reference and models built on development-enhancing tradition, and more and more about quick results and certifications to go along with them. The immediate reality seems like a spinning wheel out of control.

We are dealing, in fact, with a natural transition from one stage of existence to another, a transition that the contemporary man translates into the perception of crisis, loss and nonsense.
How can we navigate this transition as mindfully as possible, both individually and collectively?
Are there solutions or should we look for them?

We spoke earlier about The Identity Crisis of A Society and showed that “The crisis itself is the very lack of Life-aligned focus”.

In fact, it is not about solutions, just as it is not about a problem (even though part of the human mind is used to seeing things that way and addressing them as such), but rather about expanding certain perspectives and perceptions, about becoming more mature, about elevating the consciousness of the human being and about their natural evolution.

The “solution” is a correct focus, a close look at the only authentic and viable model: Life, existence itself in all its senses and manifestations.

We are part of It, but we do not see ourselves, we do not think of and perceive ourselves as such and, of course, we do not act as such.

We are Life’s children, human beings among countless other beings, and as many ways in which Life just is.

We exist and we are part of Existence.

Unseparated and interdependent in the reality of Life, separated and longing for adolescent independence, in the fantasy of superficial human mental processes.

The teenager dominated by “I want”, with a focus on the Self and on experiencing, seems to be in the crisis of transition to young adulthood.
The crisis is one of identities undergoing trans-formation, of self-identifications in continuous deformation.
Humanity is at the peak of a sufficiently nurtured ego that once forged in the identity-crisis furnace can transform into a mature ego, thus facilitating the shift of focus from Self to Life and its guidance.

We have the opportunity to learn to look wider and deeper, to deform outdated forms into viable ones, to shape limited meanings and structures into mature meanings, sense and significance attuned to Life.

It is enough to look closely at the atom, the molecule, the cell, the organ to understand how they relate to the whole body, how the tree relates to the whole forest, and the forest to the whole environment.

Mycelium is mutually dependent. It sustains and it is sustained by all that is.

“I want” does not exist in nature. There is the all-encompassing Life, manifested moment by moment, with each adaptive growth, with each strand of humus transformed into the illuminated root, with each pulsating cell and each passage from non-being into being.

The human being has the opportunity to know the landmarks of Life and to tune in to them, if we learn to look deeply, widely, comprehensively.

Together with Anamaria Sănduță, www.anamariasanduta.com, we deform forms, meanings and expressions by seeking to reshape them in accordance with Life.

See you soon!