As the Holiday Season arrives and we prepare ourselves to enter this first Winter of Covid, it is time for tales, new and old, told in ways new and old.
The attack of the Coronavirus has thrust humankind in an evolutionary moment! A statement surreal, yet all too true. An ancient Greek poet named, Hesiod gave the world the story about Pandora’s Box to warn about what can happen when Humankind strays too far from ‘home’; home being one’s inner knowing, one’s wisdom. It is not too far-fetched to say that’s where we Homosapients find ourselves today.
At the same time Darwin reminds that we need to adapt, or risk disappearing in everything we do. So an adaptable mindset is literally essential today.
“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
Applying this theoretical concept to us as individuals, we can state that the civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to adapt to the changing physical, social, political, moral, and spiritual environment in which it finds itself.”
And because we know those ancient Greeks were wise, we’re not surprised to remember another amongst them named, Aesop, who brought to us his famous fable of the doings and goings-on of the Ants and the Grasshopper. ‘
He reminds us that it is wise to gather your Winter Larder, within yourself and without. Gather what you’ll need and want in your pantry for those times when the power goes out for a while. Gather in your Chi — your awareness of your Body/Heart-Mind-Spirit. Become aware of the days getting shorter darker and colder. Until we arrive at Winter Solstice, late December, when a New Cycle begins again and we begin to see more and more Light again …
Hope’s perennial promise to all who live:
“I alone stayed behind at home when evils fluttered all around.”
– To Pandora
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