May 2, 2020
If You Want Your World To Change, Reinvent It
What if…
…we stopped living in the year 2020 A.D. (ANNO DOMINI) and
STARTED living in the YEAR 1 #P.C. (POST CORONA)?
Yes, you read me correctly! A New Age!
There is so much talking, philosophising, and posting on social media going on about changing the world for the better, seeing the great chance to make a real difference. Now that we have reached a new awareness of our fragility, now that we can conceive and clearly grasp the notion of how we are all part of nature and of earth‘s cycles and powers, let us begin a NEW AGE!
The lizard sheds its skin, so does the snake, but there are animals who simply cannot do that. Since the beginning of our time, when the snake fooled Eve into getting Adam to have that apple AND eat it (or whatever it was that went on back then), man has lived through many ages and eras. If you think back to the beginning of the last era, i.e. that of Christian time recording, then a crack of ages after 2000 years, with 20 years give or take from the assumed birth of Jesus Christ until today , it seems just about right to be entering a NEW AGE right now. Don‘t you agree?
Following this train of thought, what if today was not 2 May 2020, but rather 2 May 1 #P.C.? Well, let us explore this idea! So, follow me into the year 1 P.C. …
Sorry, no, actually, a quick stop right here! Before we can look into the future, or even so much as think up our future history, we have to trouble ourselves to take a look at the past, the era that has just come to an end.
It is, of course, the Christian age of the cross that I am referring to. Us Christian folks we had been counting the days and years since Jesus Christ was born and later crucified, hence the cross became the symbol of this age.
At the end of the past age came #coronavirus. The word “corona”, when you look at it from an etymological point of view, comes from Latin and means crown. So, quite logically, we are now living in the age after the coronation, so why not call it #Post Corona ?!
“Didn’t Jesus already wear a crown?” you might care to ask.
“Well, yes!” I would reply. “You are right. At the beginning of the Christian age, there was Jesus; and Jesus wore a crown when his old life, his old self had to die.”
Only, the crown he had to wear was never that of a king. A crown made of thorns? Shear mockery! It was a crown his enemies had bestowed upon him, not his believers. In modern terms, you could say that he was being bullied into wearing it, when he was already at his weakest point, i.e. nailed to the cross.
My point is that throughout the last 2000 years Christians have been trying to implement Jesus Christ as rightful King. Now he has finally received his crown, through this virus called Corona. Seeing as Jesus is part of God, and God is the world, this very recent coronation marks the beginning of a NEW AGE — or it does to me, anyway!
Try to envision this, see, there you go, well done! What’s more, the coronavirus itself even resembles the world wearing a crown!
We all know what Christianization was about in the distant and not so distant past. Take Crusades, for example. Different rulers of periods and times joined power and forces with the clergy to send out warriors (the first) and missionaries (the latter) — and always in the name of God.
Similar goals were set by all other world religions, some more, some less brutal. So, now we get to establish new goals! Isn’t that just fantastic?
Why we Need the Beginning of a New Age
I can imagine you are not quite convinced that it is justifiable to call the time after coronavirus a New Age.
The justification lies in the following important changes that have taken place:
All living things have also entered the age of #P.C.
We are all living in the age of #P.C. now, so we are all wearing the Corona crown and the whole world seems upside down. Forget about bosses, kings and queens, (job) titles and crowns made of gold ( or $,€,…). Never mind religions, or ideologies separating us in the past. We are truly one world now, because we are living in the age #P.C., and we are all wearing the corona crown!
My definition of all entails humans, animals, plants, materia, atoms, the Universe! We have finally reached a point at which the whole world has been affected by something so powerful that no government, no leader, no institution could withstand it.
It does not, however, mean that all individuals are the same now, nor that differences do not exist between us, or that all the problems have vanished. To the contrary.
There is an English proverb that goes: A leopard doesn‘t change its spots. The same notion is expressed differently in different languages. I can name you two that I am familiar with, because I speak those languages:
In German you might say that “a cat cannot refrain from catching mice”. And in Spanish you might here people say that “the goat will always head up towards the mountain“.
All three expressions have got one thing in common:
They mention animals that are living creatures of this world.
What is my point? The point is that asking the right questions will lead you to all the right answers.
The answers, in turn, provide all future guidelines as to what has to persist in this New Age named #P.C., and what will have to be let go of…
Questions that shall be asked - my examples.
Questions to leopards: Hello leopards! How is it going today? Are you happy? Are you finding enough free spaces (habitats) in which you can roam freely, with dignity, where your spots are a useful asset, so you do not need to feel you have to change them? Do you find you can bring up your offspring, nurture it and participate in the cycle of life the way you would choose to do?
No? Well, what can WE do to change that?
[Back to reader: What do you think the leopards might answer?]
Questions to cats: Hello cats! How is it going today? Are you happy? Have you caught any mice today? What? There aren‘t any mice around, because the humans laid out poison to kill them? No way! You had to catch a bird instead, even though you do not like to feed on them for all the feathers they have — yuck! Are you happy with that?
No? Well, what can WE do to change that?
[Back to reader: What do you think the cats might answer?]
Questions to goats: Hello goats! How is it going today? Are you happy? Is the weather good on top of the mountain that you are running around on? Oh, you are living in a stable, you do not get to climb any mountains? Are you fine knowing you will never see a mountain, and that instead you have to live in a confined space?
No? Well, what can WE do to change that?
[Back to reader: What do you think the goats might answer?]
I think by now you know what I am trying to suggest. And no, it is certainly not that you should tell the cats not to hunt birds because they are very precious to us humans.
If you keep asking the right questions, then you will find the answers that are necessary to define what is worth keeping.
Questions to homo sapiens sapiens
Finally, let‘s turn to asking our own species. Actually, the following is the very first question each and every one of us should ask herself, himself, or itself:
WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE?
Why this question, and not any other? Well, because what makes us different from all the other animals is that we are actually capable of deciding who we want to be, and of becoming or changing into that being. This is not the easiest thing to do, as you may well know. But by determining who we want to be, we can make the right changes eventually.
Let us try asking questions directed at ourselves:
#Questions to Sue: Hello Sue! How is it going today? Are you happy? Is the food you eat healthy? Or is it going to make you ill, because it contains #pesticides,#herbicides, #parasites, #viruses, #coronavirus … ?
I will go on asking myself many more questions. Hopefully most of them will be relevant enough to make real changes and cause positive action in the world, the city I live in, the garden I get to spend time in, my family and friends, etc.
Now that I have understood that the whole world might be affected by my actions — remember how coronavirus has been able to affect the whole world — that is the least and the best I can do — apart from acting upon the answers, of course!
My thoughts in May of the year 1 #P.C.
Sue
