Trusting The Process in Egypt Pt. 2

OK, so I was off by a few days. (See post pt. 1 prior to this post) It took a bit more than a week to oust Mubarak. But even so, it was an amazing demonstration of the power of ONENESS. The demonstrators were peaceful, patient, focused, determined and surprisingly well organized even though there was no apparent leader. They were acting as one. It was something to behold.

The future remains very uncertain of course, and it may well turn out to be far from perfect. No doubt those who led the French Revolution were just as euphoric for the first few days after the guillotine stopped doing its grizzly work. But France immediately descended into chaos and turmoil which lasted almost a century until Napoleon — another dictator — took over. Egypt remains a military dictatorship and still represents the old ways so it’s hard to be optimistic about what might come next.

That said, I am still of a mind to see this as part of the global ‘breaking down’ process that will precede the ‘break-through’ into the new consciousness we expect to occur around 2012. Perhaps this is how it will happen. Not a single transformation where we make an immediate shift on a certain date, but a series of push/pull events such as we are witnessing now in Egypt and all through the Middle East. People coming together as one to break down all the old physical, mental and spiritual structures that no longer serve, while others resist the change and fight to stay attached to the old paradigm.

And we in America don’t have to look beyond our own shores to see the same thing happening here. We are already in a massive breakdown phase and things are likely to get much worse yet. The only difference is that most Americans, unlike the Egyptians, have yet to wake up to that fact. When we do, perhaps that’s when we shall come together in ONENESS in order to shift our consciousness and change our world.

Trusting The Process in Egypt

As we watch the events unfolding in Egypt and marvel at how well (with the exception of some looters and more lately some violent government supporters), the apparently leaderless masses are handling themselves, it is tempting to imagine that some form of model democratic society will naturally and spontaneously emerge once the dictator, Hosni Mubarak, is gone. And gone he surely will be within a week at the most.

Dream on, though. It is a most unlikely scenario. I’ve heard a number of commentators utter the phrase, ‘be careful what you ask for,’ revealing the underlying fear that the kind of stability that Mubarak has been responsible for all of 30 years in that notoriously unstable part of the world will evaporate as soon as he is out of the door. Who and what will replace him? How will it effect the interests of the U.S. and Israel in particular? How will it effect our oil supply and movement of the same through the Suez canal? From a geo-political perspective, the future looks rather bleak to say the least.

But at the street level, what we are witnessing is an example of the transformation of consciousness where the desire for freedom has trumped fear and all that was previously repressed has come bursting to the surface. But transformation, no matter whether it be at the personal or collective level is always a matter of diving into the unknown and being willing to trust the process. That’s the kind of courage I see the Egyptians displaying as they demonstrate in the streets with only one insistent demand: that we break with the past. To that degree they are providing a model for the rest of us. They are doing what they are led to do without regard for what comes next. I saw one man say, "I have just written my will. If I die, so what!"

To utter the phrase, ‘be careful what you ask for,’ is to come from fear. To embrace transformation, trusting the process without regard to the outcome is to be attuned to the love vibration of Spirit. Thank you demonstrators for showing us the way. Let us release our own fears and be willing to trust the process in the same way. When we do that, the best outcome always emerges.