The Light Show  

When we have a show that's primarily the three of us, we never know where our attention will move us.  Today as I contemplate our "conversation", I'm filled with a peaceful satisfaction... how lovely to have a context where I can stretch my awareness as far as I can find words...

As individuals we seem to be on an edge, where our own personal lives are inextricably tied to the collective... the play of light in our day to day world influences and is influenced by our sense of the collectives around us.  We're very grateful to have an evolutionary viewpoint in these times, and can't imagine the experience of those who are not oriented by this perspective... who are not alerted to Barbara Marx Hubbard's idea that "our crisis is a birth".
As Bonnie told it.. the caterpillar is actually threatened by the islands of cells that belong to the butterfly being born in its tissues.  It reacts strongly against them until finally the process overwhelms it, and the butterfly coalesces and is born.  The caterpillar sees destruction and the butterfly sees birth.

So we asked, in the midst of a collective woven with destruction and birth, more and more complex every day, how do we know where the birth lies in the array of information that comes our way? Like the human eye, which has the capacity to relax its focus or select its focus at any distance, we are presented with a buffet of possibilities and invited to choose where to focus.

But unlike the focusing of the human eye, which does the bidding of a rather unconscious flow of attention, and although the focusing of our larger attention sometimes has this sense of meandering flow, there is a consciousness being evoked.  Even the sense of overwhelming complexity can be seen as a quantum expansion of awareness that may initially overwhelm us until our perspective expands to meet it.  It takes faith in the process, the butterfly is being born, and no matter what pictures our minds hold about what it looks like born, we are standing on the edge of the unknown.