By Jach

It Seems to Me …

‘The key to getting there, to shifting the paradigm so the world destined to be new, can be new: Chaos, Paradox, Complexity, and Enchantment.’ -Lazaris

Here’s what I have been thinking about in the midst of the current almost overwhelming points of chaos, crises, atrocities of violence, and human tragedies: Polarization, now too common in the politics in the United States, seems to have spread to become a global issue.

Polarization: Republican-Democrat; Sunni-Shiite; Palestinian-Israeli; Syrian-Rebel; Iranian-Insurgent; Russian-Ukrainian … are there more? Probably. I have been looking at this for awhile trying to understand what’s going on. What’s happening with all this polarization and why is it happening now?

Along with this, I notice that Lazaris has been talking a great deal about the between — the energy of the between, the power of the between, entering the ‘between’ of worlds. Years ago he touched on the Liminal, which is the between of things, but of late his message has been much more present and it’s about the between, in the workshop in the Lake District (Gathering Treasures from the ‘Between’ of the Worlds), in the Tuscany workshop which also focused upon the between, and the latest message from Lazaris describes a meditation to slip into the between of worlds to work our magic.

Rather than only looking at the opposing positions, I have begun looking between the various polarizations. This is what has come to me: It seems to me that the world is shouting at us, and our Higher Selves and Souls are shouting. I don’t know if God/Goddess/All That Is ever really shouts, but if Goddess does, Goddess is shouting at us, too. There seems to be a persistent message. I hear it almost like the beating of drums: Work with the between; go into the between; work in the between.

Oh, another call to the between: The two hurricanes approaching Hawaii … two hurricanes and there is Hawaii between. Beating drums. A rhythmic percussion. The message feels very clear to me: The power is in the between. Our power to work our magic, our power to change reality in accordance and compliance with our will, lies in the between. For me, a true OMG moment!

Lazaris has talked of the emerging new world, a world now destined to be. As he has talked of it, he has also talked of the role of chaos, essential to change, and of the emergence of a new paradigm. He’s pointed out that a new world and a shifting paradigm move and work together from creation to manifestation.

I understand that we are in the midst of a world becoming new. We are also in the midst of a paradigm becoming new, aren’t we? I don’t think of that too often, but it’s there.

For me, here’s the kicker. During a One-Day Workshop in 2012, Lazaris said of all this: ‘The key to getting there, to shifting the paradigm so the world destined to be new, can be new: Chaos, Paradox, Complexity, and Enchantment.’

What’s going on in the world? What is happening in so many places and what’s the why of it all? It seems to me that we are in the midst of the chaos and paradox phase. The polarization magnifies the opposites and the contradictions. The polarization freezes us when we are attached to or lost in only one side of the contradiction or when we focus on only one or the other position of the polarity. I have come to realize that I cannot settle for the either/or of paradox and contradiction. I need to find the between – the Between!

I am focusing my magic on ‘the people in the between’ of these various polarized expressions of paradox. I am focusing on the middle class in the United States, and the people living in the Ukraine, in the Gaza Strip, and the people in Syria and Iraq. I am focusing on the people being ripped apart by competing ideologies and their ideologues. It is there that I work my magic.

What else did Lazaris say?

‘The Power of Paradox is to allow the opposites to complement each other rather than contradict each other.’

This is difficult for me, and I don’t have the answers that satisfy me yet, but that’s not stopping me. How do the polarized Republicans and Democrats complement each other? I am not sure, but it seems to me they share passion, a vision of empowerment, a vision of freedom. The forms are in opposition, but what of the function?

How do the Sunni and Shiite complement each other? I don’t know enough to be precise, but it seems to me each is seeking dignity and freedom.

And of the others? It seems to me that each of these polarized groups, each of these contradictory and paradoxical positions have something universal in common: each is seeking to change reality in accordance and compliance with their will.

What’s in the between of each of these paradoxes and contradictions? Magic!

Lazaris also said:

‘Complexity is the integration of autonomous parts. Complexity is separate and indivisible … Chaos is a complexity, a complexity is a paradox. There is power in Paradox. There is power in Complexity.’

There is power in complexity. And with complexity we can lift to a higher octave. We can lift and our world can lift to a higher octave. The world, to become new, lifts to a higher octave.

I continue to ponder and savor. I continue to think and feel. While I do that, I am working my magic in the between of worlds — in the between of my personal world and in the between of the chaos, paradox, and complexity in the world. I am looking for the complementary elements of the chaoses, paradoxes, and complexities that seem almost overwhelming at this point. I am looking for the enchantment.

For example, I go into meditation and I face the contradiction. I face the proponents of each side of a polarized position. Without judgement I face them and work to understand each position. I work to comprehend, interpret, discern, and assess each side. I then work with inference and with appreciating and valuing each side. I work to hold, not the either/or, but the both. And then I move my consciousness in between — into the between of the paradox that the polarization represented. In the between, I draw in the energy that is common to both sides. I draw in the desire to change reality in accordance … I draw in the magic that each side is seeking. I let go of the form and focus on the function: magic. I draw in their determination, resolve, passion, and whatever else is common to each. I then turn to the people who are caught in the between, and I draw upon their desires. With all that energy, there is a unique resonance. In that resonance I work my magic. I do my techniques to dream and vision it in accordance and in compliance with my will, my imagination, and in accordance and compliance with my love. Then I flow the energy — the energy with a new resonance, a resonance touched and changed by my magic — I flow that energy into the people, into the people caught in the between.

This is what I have been thinking about and doing of late. I want to share it with you.