A Wider Perspective on Our Moment

Preparation for What Lies Ahead

I feel called to start this week by sharing something I very, very rarely share.

Since I was in my early 20s I have done a form of automatic writing that enables me to get higher guidance on situations, which is often quite helpful. I see the process as accessing a mix of my own higher consciousness and input from other beings. I do my best not to judge, analyze or edit what is coming through but to dial down my personality and mental activity and simply receive something.

The quality of the information should not be judged as special because it’s from elsewhere but simply whether it feels true and useful. It typically comes to me in the form of “you” as in a guiding intelligence advising me. I did that on Saturday night about our current situation in America and the following is what came:

“America has entered its initiation into planetary leadership. Until this point in time, it was often playing out its own need for aggrandizement rather than wise stewardship of the earth’s resources and people.

Several key areas of karma have long been unaddressed, including the destruction of Native culture, the violent schism with England of the Revolutionary War, the enslavement of Black people, and the participation in a form of colonialism that has compromised the sovereignty of other countries.

Those dimensions of America have been mostly in the subconscious of the country. Trump and his allies have taken it upon themselves as souls to demonstrate what is in the shadows to a degree that it forces you as a country to come to terms with those aspects of your history. His egotism, grandiosity, racism, sexism, classism, and overly aggressive version of masculinity have all been part of who you are that you haven’t wanted to see. He is the embodiment of that which you have denied.

To end his rein of power requires a critical mass of your culture to see those tendencies not only in him but in the culture and in yourself, which is what is required to release him spiritually from this task. For he is correct that he was ordained to play a certain role for the country, which is to offer a caricature of that which you need to now outgrow.

America has not wielded planetary power in a way that is evolutionary, wise, and just. You have prevailed with force and economic dominance rather than alignment and partnership. You have subjected other nations to your will, which compromised the full expression of their dharma.

And now it is time for that to change, for a planetary era is dawning. America is to offer a bridge into the planetary era. In order to be adequate to the leadership that is required, she is now undergoing a deep initiation into her shadow. The feminine is used with intention, for the soul of your country has a more feminine quality but it has been oppressed by the masculine dominance in your culture. There are important feminine virtues that America is here to embody that have not been able to be sufficiently expressed in a way that counterbalances the masculine virtues and qualities. So that has made you a more arrogant and self-interested leader, which is no longer adequate to guide this next phase.

Trump needed to be an exaggeration of all those belligerent and entitled male qualities in order for you to see what is unhealed in the collective psyche of your country. He offers a recapitulation of the traumas of masculine oppression ranging from King George to the slaveholder to the rapist. He offers a version of the masculine that takes what it wants, even through the use of violence. Trump has not been a builder, he has been a taker of the genius, creative output, and energy of others. He started with vast wealth, leveraged that into fame, and put his name on things in a way that built attention for himself while often mistreating those who contributed and eventually casting them aside.

That is a picture of the shadow of America. Trump is your avatar of avarice.

The truth is that all of you live on land that was conquered. White culture prevailed over the indigenous culture that thrived here for millennia. Indigenous culture had many important innovations and ways of understanding that were quite spiritually mature. It had a depth of reverence for Creation in many of the tribes that inhabited this land. So you all have to face that you live in a land that has been stolen from its original stewards.

It is also the truth that despite some clear moral arguments against it, you still chose to allow the practice of slavery, a direct affront to democracy, to be accepted in your early design, which eventually planted the seeds for your first civil war. Slavery must be banished from the planet in order to enter a phase of planetary abundance. This was an error in your source code that needed to be corrected by the Civil War. Black people have remained significantly impeded in your society from contributing their full gifts to the culture and have been too often treated like a lower class. Like the indigenous peoples before them, black slaves carried the DNA of important African cultures into America and the white culture sought to enslave those cultures rather than learn from them.

The phase you have entered is a kind of collective repetition of the karma around the Revolutionary War. Donald Trump is playing the role of King George, only now he is here to provoke an American Evolution in rebellion against the rule of one. He is catalyzing a maturation into your sovereign power individually by taking it away collectively as an aspiring dictator.

This is creating a karmic bonfire for unfinished aspects of the American psyche that are an impediment to the work now required to unify the world. That is the Shift. It is to a unified and peaceful world that is far more abundant than what you have now.

To be a leader of that process, America has needed a collective reckoning to face its shadow, diminish its pretenses, and heal its traumas. The soul of Donald Trump had the right skills to deliver the provocation. He incarnated to unearth the unpleasant truths and neglected history of your country so that you could ultimately mature.

That’s why you shouldn’t hate him. His soul incarnated to help you by creating something fearsome to oppose. By embodying what is dark and destructive, he is calling out more of your light.

The more of you that embark on this initiation and see this as your time to marry your inner spiritual work with your concern for your fellow human beings, the quicker you can traverse America’s Dark Night.

Put simply, America’s Dark Night will endure until America shows that a critical mass are ready to go through what is necessary to lead the way forward in a humble yet courageous way. That can’t happen on the sidelines. It requires bringing the wisdom honed by inner practices and applying that to the leadership required in the outer world. Now is the time for the embodiment of higher truths in the public square versus the private sphere alone.

So the soul of Donald Trump has come to menace you into the awakening of your creative power to help America fulfill its sacred destiny. By creating a nightmarish version of the past in which you lose your freedoms, he is bringing to full conscious awareness the reside of that past. Your job is to stop him non-violently with truth, love, and power as well as to illuminate the higher path for the country.

Your modern-day American Evolutionaries are those who realize that courage, commitment and right action are necessary to prevent the oppression of the country by an aspiring dictator but recognize this uprising requires a spirit of love, healing, and generosity. Early American Revolutionaries were caught in the aggressive version of masculinity that predominated in the men of the day. They did not find the peaceful path to independence from England, which would have left behind much less karma.

In the process of meeting the challenge of Donald Trump’s aspiring dictatorship, each nation will need to summon its higher capacities as well. Too many have been subservient in relationship to America rather than empowered. Each will grow its own guild of evolutionaries. Each guild commits to work together on evolving democracy towards a unified planetary phase of existence where war and violence become a thing of the past.

So the completion of your unresolved karma as a nation is important. By being deeply humbled, ashamed of your leadership, stripped of some of the economic benefits that have accrued to you, and frightened in your own land, you will each go through a version of your own dark night, having to face demons inside you had wanted to avoid. Perhaps you had a Trump-like figure in your family. Perhaps in your workplace. Trump’s presence in your life, which will become more intrusive the longer you allow him to remain in the White House, is meant to be triggering so there’s a collective purgation of what must be seen, acknowledged, and completed.

And you also need to learn how to stop lower consciousness from misusing power in harmful ways. That is an important skill which requires organization and movement building skills that many of you have not cultivated. They are part of the embodiment of higher truth. Too often, those who become more conscious diminish their ability to wield real power. Wielding power non-violently is necessary.

The end stage of all of the unearthing that is being catalyzed is a revitalized and renewed America. In that future, those with the greatest consciousness will operate the levers of power in the society and ensure that it is a wiser, more just, and collaborative place to live. For that is a prerequisite for the culture that is coming.

Simply put, America is to create a more spiritually awakened, consciously connected, collaborative, and just society that supports the realization and betterment of the greatest number of citizens.

And it will require going through this Dark Night to get there.

It is best that you do not attach to how long it takes as that will be determined by the collective ripening. There are pathways out of this initiation in ten months. There are pathways out that require years. Which pathway you traverse is a product of how deeply America engages in the maturation that is required internally and the organization that is required externally. The first stage is humbling, which is already beginning and should culminate by this summer. The second is healing. The third is co-designing. The fourth is co-creating that new design. It’s not a simple process as this is the most important initiation of your country since the founding.

This is when you begin to step into your adult, mature, loving qualities on the world stage without losing the special flair that makes you compelling. The world will need to be influenced to evolve. It’s not going to happen from imposition. They need to see America’s sincere commitment to do better. Militarism against other countries will undermine this new era and lead other nations to conclude that they would be victimized by you, as dictatorial regimes do. The world knows how Putin treats a brother culture; he attempts to subjugate it with bloodthirsty force. That kind of leadership will never allow the Earth to blossom into its beauty and glory.

The Earth is meant to be a glorious place to live. That’s what you’re going to build out of the ashes of destruction that Trump leaves: an America that reflects its higher purpose as a country.

But do not think this will happen without your participation. Stopping him is going to require your full strength. But it is also necessary to understand why he exists and do the inner work he is requiring. How long this process takes is up to all of you. If you are fully motivated, you can enlist thousands into the cause of becoming fellow evolutionaries.

The evolutionaries will eventually have chapters all over the world but it begins with an evolutionaries school that is focused on grassroots organizing skills as well as courses that impart skills for healing schisms and building peaceful resistance.

This is not an overnight process but it can happen quickly as the provocations are moving quickly.

The tendency in spiritual circles is to trust in the unfolding rather than to trust in your capacity to change things. That passivity needs to shift now so that the most conscious individuals are the most passionately engaged. That will ensure that the evolutionary movement is wiser and more peaceful, which will make it more effective and shorten the length of this Dark Night for America.”