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So much of life seems
linear. We are taught to think in a spectrum that has start and end points.
Something is created and follows a path until that something must end or run
out. Consequently, it is simple to measure the rise and fall of multiple topics
pertaining to this matter. Just put them on a graph with the X and Y axis and
see a very two-dimensional way of existing. When it becomes easy to perceive
things as finite, the process of thinking cyclically disintegrates. But we must
not lose this.
Because if we lose
this, the reassurance that the mystical concept of infinity becomes smaller and
harder to understand. In a time like the present, if we lose that belief that
everything moves in a three dimensional pattern of harmony, we lose any hope
for a sustainable future. Our existence will become finite.
Consider this an
invitation. An opportunity to challenge yourself to think outside of the
gridlines and beyond the terminable pathway. If this can be achieved, suddenly
one starts to understand that the pattern that the sun follows is no different
than the growth and decomposition of a tree. Suddenly it becomes clear that
humans follow a similar pathway throughout years of history. We grow, we
decline, we rise and fall and repeat ourselves. Whether it be on a daily basis
or measurable throughout centuries. Charles Eisenstein believes that the only
way to break our fallible want to measure things two-dimensionally is to consider
this to be a time where we are being born into a new paradigm. “The present
convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil,
climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from
the old world into a new.” Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the
Age of Transition.
And is this is
understood, we can all act as components of change. We can provoke a movement
towards creating a better world, like many people have done in the past. By
supporting this new way of thinking, more of us will understand we do have a
say in how we perceive and conserve the natural world. We do have control in
deciding how we are going to relate to it and protect it. This is an invitation
to regain that mystical concept of infinity, of seeing things in 3D and doing
what seems impossible. And is with this kind of faith in a cause and direction,
that we will move towards a world without endpoints, where anything is
possible.
