Monday, March 18, 2013

Bulgaria Self-Immolation. How Long Have We Got?




Bulgaria Self-Immolation. How Long Have We Got?
 
In the last month four people have set themselves aflame in Bulgaria. Three of the four are dead.
 
Please hear me.  These folks poured gasoline over themselves and set themselves on fire.  These people were so distraught by the injustice of the systems and circumstances in which they found themselves that, as a final act aimed at drawing attention to what was happening to them, they were willing to give up their lives.
 
Their last act was an immeasurably desperate attempt to make YOU hear.
 
Make YOU Hear.
 
You may write off these episodes as "Just crazy people who didn't know what they were doing," or "Ultimate exhibitionists crying out for attention," or "Some kind of radical extremists caught in some 'cultish' political cabal." But you would be wrong.  They were folks just like YOU who were caught in lives torn apart by forces greedy beyond understanding, and powerful beyond resistance.
 
They call to YOU.
 
YOU.
 
They meant their deaths to speak to YOU.  The flames that scorched their bodies and sucked the oxygen from their lungs, that shattered the rhythm of their hearts; the flames that killed them call out to YOU.
 
There is a message in each deadly fire meant to impact your individual life.
 
Look into the flames.  This is their message to you -
 
I am finished. I can no longer face, nor can I see a way to change what is happening in my life.
 
You may cling to the denial that keeps reassuring you that those who wield the power in your world cannot, or would not impoverish you.
 
They can.  They will.
 
More.
 
Should you stand in their way they will not hesitate to kill you.
 
And your children.
 
And your children's children.
 
I will fight no more.
 
I can't fight anymore.
 
The message to YOU seems without hope.  But who can know their hearts?  Was the striking of each match an act of hope?
 
Not for them.  For YOU.
 
For decades there have been whispers out here.  "We are the People." "We have the power. Together."  "We speak to the world."
 
And in the last decades we have been gifted with practical ways to exert that power.  You are reading this post.  It's real power.  We can, if we choose, come TOGETHER.
 
That's an invincible power.  One that has always existed.  But only as a potential.  Now with the confluence of technology, social and political consciousness, spiritual rather than religious awakening, that power in practically accessible.  In our time.

This time.
 
Will it be difficult?  Of course.  It is as complex as say, well, finding the Higgs boson particle?  No.  Really.  Not as complex.  Could we succeed?  Yes.
 
Are we speaking - 
 
 
 
Yes.
 
But as we have said for decades, we could, for the first time in human history create revolution without
 
 
 
Imagine a revolution without killing.
 
Imagine a revolution of awakening.
 
Imagine evolutionary revolution.
 
Don't imagine, recognize - an Evolution of Consciousness and Conscious Evolution.
 
How to recognize this momentary possibility?
 
While it's not as complex as finding the Higgs boson particle, it does require shedding illusions and denial, and shedding patterns deep, divisive, and destructive.  What illusions, denial, and patterns?

That's what we"ll talk about as we come together -
 
www.quicksilvertimes.blogspot.com - You're reading the 15th , Read the first 14.
 
www.sena.org - Read  Remembered Gifts and New Directions
 
Read - White Man Dancing - Grief, God, and a Unified Theory (when it's published during the summer of 2013.)
 
Do any, or part of any of the above.
 
Respond to this post.  Share.
 
Share YOUR ideas.
 
Make this the next First Step.
 
 
 
There is a crisis that is barely into a state of becoming.  But make no mistake, it is coming.
 
TO YOU.
 
Here's the bottom line.
 
To do this new thing, to create revolution without bloodshed, to move on to the next stage of human development, we must, YOU must, hear and decide.
 
Hear the message of the real Burning Man.  Nothing symbolic.  Nothing iconic.  Wish we could all have been there for just a moment.  You can even keep your eyes closed.  Just breathe in.  Yes.  That's what death smells like.  Eyes open now.  Look into the flames.  It's the New Light, and there's nothing illusionary about it.
 
HOW LONG HAVE We Got?
 
Understand.  If you begin today, there is no guarantee.  Oh, there is a promise . That in the balance you as an individual will discover, experience, and share, you will know transcendence, and peace will be the center of your moment even though in that moment chaos and darkness might drive the memory from you.  But for the world external, if the world and all its' myriad movements are precious to you - and if your are precious how could the world for all its' chaos, beauty, and frailty be less - understand the world and you are tied to time.  The rhythm measures beat by beat.  All is carried and becomes real in the heart of the Shabd.  What can be done this moment cannot be done in the next.
 
Not being caught in times illusion is an essential lesson on our unique, individual path.  The understanding that lesson brings allows us to see how precious the moment is.  Right action in the moment is the expression of our path and direction.
 
Understand.  If we fail to use this moment the possibilities of the moment too will pass.  The opportunity will pass as surely as darkness follows on the whispering shallows of temporal lights' dying.
 
What will it mean?
 
If we fail this moment, will another chance come?  Oh yes.  When?  Not soon.
 
So if we fail this moment what will it mean?
 
Depends.
 
If your seventy-three, maybe not much.
 
Ahh, but if you're three.
 
So, no guarantees.
 
But, for YOU.
 
And for your babies.
 
Do this thing.
 
People are killing themselves to send YOU the message.



 
 

4 comments:

  1. Not sure I get it.

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    1. You might have to read the other Blog posts to see what Quicksilver Times believes, supports and shares.

      The fact that four people have set themselves on fire as an act of resistance to the greed and denial underpinning our primary social, economic, political, and spiritual institutions draws our attention to how critical it is for us to come together to resist and redesign the foundations of our culture.

      As the paragraph at the head of this blog says -

      For the first time in human history the 99%, the Common Folk, the Masses (however you care to describe us) have both the power and the technology to create a World Community that can design and implement real change.

      The goal of Quicksilver Times is to draw together individuals and groups from every corner of the World Community to see to the dismantling of the dysfunctional and immoral social, political, economic, and spiritual systems under which they live.



      love,

      bill






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  2. Seems such a shame to have to commit a act of such harsh reality. What dont you get? We all need to wake up some and decide what is right for yourself and your community needs. We think things like this only happen in the 3rd world nations but what will you do when its in your own back yard. Love your friends family and even people you just meet. Everyone deserves to live a life of there own. Shop local and support one another..in this digital age it may be easier to spreed the word..but doing so in your own communitys is were progress really begins

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  3. Dealing Locally makes reaching out to the World Community meaningful. If we can't operate Locally how will we ever deal with World Community? lvb

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