God Blessing the World, Calamity, Dying, and the Birth of the Unknown

by Robert Wilkinson

I’ve been talking to people the last couple of weeks, and we’ve had some interesting conversations. One person asked me “What would it be like if “God“ blessed the world?” What you’re about to read was composed from that one idea. It naturally led me to contemplate many things.

What would it be like if God blessed the world?

The bombs would stop dropping on the children of Syria.
The birds would begin singing again
The flowers could grow again
People could celebrate again.

Put another way, “… Nothing to kill or die for … Imagine all the people living life in peace... And the world will be as one… No need for greed or hunger… Imagine all the people Sharing all the world...”

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The Dalai Lama once famously said he thought the world needed more picnics and celebrations.

That’s true. When I’ve been in my worst trials, sometimes lasting years, I always remembered I needed to make some good memories so that I didn’t have only bad memories along the way.

Some people are agitated right now. They want answers now. They want to know what to do now.

I remind them that there’s a pandemic going on which can kill us. When one cannot “do” then it’s an excellent time to learn to “BE.” At least we don’t have bombs dropping on our heads and leaving us with nothing but rubble for a home and nothing but dirt to eat.

Seriously. It’s not really time to resume “normal” life, whatever that is. It’s time to turn inward and examine our priorities, disconnected from the normal routines which distract us almost our entire waking existence. That’s why it seems meditators are doing better in solitude than those who want to party on the beach.

I’ve found “normal life” to be different almost every day. This is just another “abnormal” time challenging us to be creative in our use of time and mind. It’s certainly not time to go shopping so we can die and “help the economy,” nor is it a time to posit the stupid view that maybe the elderly should die to preserve the economy for the young. That’s the view of a death cult, not a civilized nation.

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There were times as a kid when we literally bunkered in for a few days as hurricanes blew over, living off canned beans cooked on a Coleman stove and drinking water drawn in the tub. I can remember sitting inside for days at a time when torrential rains hit Austin back when we actually had four seasons a year before climate change. I remember waking up at 4:31 am in Westwood feeling the world shaking apart at the Northridge earthquake.

Imagine being a grain of uncooked rice on a snare drum head. That’s what Northridge was like. An endless increasing number of ever more powerful tremors shaking everything making you wonder if the world will collapse on top of you and the earth will swallow you up. Lines of people outside grocery stores waiting to buy supplies they should have already had. Lines of people waiting to buy gas to go nowhere. Welcome to just another “pandemic.”

Of course, this problem is different, since even when we were in line, there was no need to keep at a distance from each other. In most disasters, we don’t have to keep our distance from each other. In this disaster we have people are dying by the thousands, reminding us we are all vulnerable to invisible forces we don’t understand which can kill us.

Americans are not as used to mass death as many other parts of the world, where war, famine, and disease kill hundreds of thousands. Here it’s good to remember that even if 10% of the world died as a result of this, a death count of unimaginable ferocity, we’d still have 6.3 billion people left on Earth. So this will not be the death of the human race.

Still, we all live with the knowledge that the bell could very well toll for any of us, at any time. I suppose that’s the advantage of my NDE back in 1984; I know that each day is precious, tomorrow is not guaranteed, and so I must live the best I’m able right here, right now.

Because I literally stopped breathing, died, began to go home, and then was given the chance to come back to life in this body on Earth, I know that there is nothing to fear from death. That said, I’m in no hurry to check out again. I believe we each need to live our lives to the fullest, each moment we can, realizing all we can realize, and having as much fun as we can while remembering each moment is precious.

Each of us chooses how we will experience each moment of our lives. Fear is a useless response and a dangerous disease. We have to power to focus our awareness on anything we want. That gives me power and freedom.

I choose to focus on eternals, on love, on wisdom, on understanding, and on the Oneness we are with “All That Is.” Funny enough, I find a lot of friends there, a lot of comfort there, and a lot of joy there.

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We are all One together living this strange experience called “being human on planet Earth.” Countless others have gone before us, lived through epidemics and pandemics, war and corruption, faithless public servants and greedy private profiteers. And yet we seem to be able to survive, and get by.

Because of the larger cycles in play, we stand on the threshold of an era unknown before now. The birthing of a new Age requires the water breaking, a period of contractions, a deep internal movement, and an appearance of a new Life.

Metaphors being symbols of reality, we have entered the upheavals which must accompany the emergence of any new form. This global crisis has increased our striving, whether for goods, for understanding, for connectedness, or Oneness with All-That-Is.

If we open to the potential for empathic connectedness with the transformation we’re all going through, on the other side of this passage we will find ourselves connected with Life and each other in ways we didn’t know before now.

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Each crisis confronted gives us the opportunity to intensify our striving to become more fit to fulfill the greater Destiny we are here to demonstrate. As peril intensifies the atmosphere, we find ourselves moved to transcend our comfort and address the challenge to understand more than we did, and become more capable than we were.

This is a golden moment. So much fear? Great for generating courage! So much uncertainty? Great for generating intention! So much desperation and grasping? Great for expressing the Self and its abundant distributions of the sparks of Eternal awareness!

Throw off any convenient references. Become dynamic in the NOW. If you need to do, then do. If you need to BE, then Be. As it was said in antiquity, if you cannot fish, mend your nets. If you still cannot fish and your nets are mended, fix your boats. If you still cannot fish and your nets are mended and your boats are fixed, then party. Celebrate. Enjoy the life you are and share with others.

Remember the moment. They are immediate and slip away quickly. Remember the NOW. It’s the only time there is.

Remember your heart. It contains the mystery of Self. Ask it to reveal your inmost desire, and when it shows you, prepare for an existence you’re only dreamed of for countless existences. It is the truth of YOU. Welcome to the adventure of the Fool as we all dance on the precipice of the moment.

“There is no death, matter’s merely just a state of Being-ness, coming early staying late, you are the best, to grow in each and every way, you are the blessed, growing stronger every day...”

© Copyright 2020 Robert Wilkinson

Comments

[Christina Morrison]

I love you. This made me cry. In a good way. I wish I could copy this a hundred times and give it to everyone I meet today. I have been smiling at hundreds of people a day, during the mass panic of grocery store purchasing, as the cashier ringing up/packing bags 8-hours-a-day, since day one. I have to go to work today and do it again, but now I can do it better!

[Nic]

Amazing! Thank you.

Blessings be to all.

[Cathy]

Beautifully written!!

[Margaret]

What the hell would we do without you Robert? You talked me in off the ledge many, many times. Thank you

[AK]

Absolutely wonderfully written. Thank you. And, how wonderful for the world you chose to stay. Look at the purposeful work you are sharing with the world.

[sue]

GOD said to LOVE, LIGHT and WISDOM you did your best
Let's send COMMON SENSE and ACCOUNTABILITY to complete the test

[Daisy]

Wise words, Robert. I have followed you for years but never responded before. There are probably many like me around the world who benefit from your wisdom but never bother to express appreciation. May you be well. Namaste.