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.