If you wish to begin to comprehend

to digest 

the state of your world

you must first be prepared

to digest the nature 

of your own death

for within this paradigm

you will find

the foundation and the decimation

of all life

Just as you will one day

complete the meal of this life

and you will exhale a final breath

and prepare to dissolve

to return to your infinite nature

so too must your whole world

come to an end

That which must depart

benefits from our relinquishment

All which awaits

must come in its own time

and we cannot impede 

what is ready to be born

Are you ready in your heart

to give yourself permission

for this new world?

For such is the time

into which you have been born

and this is the moment

you witness

as you look upon the nonsense

and the horror

If you wish to know rebirth

and you do

you are asked

to allow the old

to die

When was the last time

you took someone dying into your arms

to bring them comfort

as they said good-bye?

When was the last time

you bathed the frail body

of a loved one

as they wasted away?

When did you last stand 

beside their resting form

and offered prayers

held their helpless hand

and caressed the fingers

one by one

kissed their cold forehead

as the heat of the blood drains

just as the soul

takes flight?

Is your answer never?

Is it true that you know nothing 

of death

for if you do know its face 

you are a rare one

in a time of great denial

of pretence and ignorance

wherein so many have learned

to run from their own mortality

by turning away

giving away the processes of death

to doctors and nurses

and undertakers and others

who themselves have learned

the mechanics of dying

and yet

even in this

rarely looked Death itself 

in the eye

And oh the beauty that is lost

every time we give ourselves over

to this fear

the beauty

the truths

the magnificence of the liberation

when we discover

that by living the minute experiences

of physical decline

we are granted a vision 

of how the soul

can never die?

Now

take this world

of fragile spirits

the ones who suffer

the ones who run from suffering

and add the understanding

that we are not

in our electrical natures

separate from one another

And add to this the understanding

that we cannot be

in our metaphysical natures

separate from our species

and the multitudes of species

upon the Earth

and thus the very organism

of the Earth herself

and so as we are offered

the opportunity to learn of

our own deaths

collectively we are given

a profound experience

of preparing to witness

the global death

of the world 

as we supposed it to be

and because we live in an age

where every thought

every imagining

every fear is immediately

communicable to millions

the acceleration of our mutual process

increases daily

hourly

as the gift

of our deconstruction

and our liberation

is at hand

We witness Death in action

whether we like it or not

everywhere we turn

Is this new?

Absolutely not

Is the magnitude

intensity and interconnectedness

of the experience

greater than ever before

yes – a thousand fold and more

In this both the potential for immense confusion

and the possibility of profound awareness

are ripe

Both will be known

and they must both unfold