A Bridge to the Future!

It was once said that artists are our prophets. In fact, we can look at art to see the trends that are leading us into the future.

Creators of such art dig into their unconscious to connect with elements others cannot yet see. It is a place where their depth connects with the depth of the world. Analytical Psychology calls this place the collective unconscious.

There, in the collective unconscious, one experiences Humanity's entire existence, moving around like a soup, the cosmic soup of the internal world of each and every one of us.?

That is to say, it is a journey the artist makes into the depths of the unknown. Those who enter and return bring back a significant boon to humanity. A boon unlike any other, which allows them to see the hidden connections between phenomena. What Czech president Václav Havel once called, a real education.

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena

- Václav Havel

Some of these artists have different mediums: theoretical science, poetry, innovative thinking, and/or entrepreneurship. They are the few who can trend into the future by creating what comes to them in dreams, visions, and symbols that spontaneously arise in their world.

Famously, Einstein kept a dream journal bedside to make note of solutions that came to him in dreams - solutions to problems he could not solve in conscious life.

That is also to say, these folks can take a walk and find arrangements of things, people, writing - symbols that collectively tell a story; One that S/he recognizes as having seen before while journeying within.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

- Albert Einstein

Remember that time when you walked into a situation that felt like, “I’ve felt/seen/heard this before…I know I've experienced this!”?In a sense, we are all artists and foretellers of time. This is because we are all connected to the collective unconscious, we peek into it, sometimes unwillingly, in dreams.?It is those who are experts in making the journey into it and back that can bring about a transformation in themselves and in their environment by communicating what was sought, seen, and lived in those depths.

Who are these people?

Eleanor Roosevelt. Einstein. Michelle Obama. Carl Jung.?

You.

They tend to be leaders who can tap into the unconscious to bring about a collective, collaborative frame of mind, a way to connect with that which means most to a people, a nation, a world.?

Think Barack Obama.?Change is possible. Yes, we can. Hope. Audacious hope that brings about transformative change. They impact humanity in a way that cannot be undone. Their progress remains emblazoned in our courage to be, to grow, to contribute.?

They are the leaders, the mentors, the architects of a future that improves upon where we’ve been.

The opposite??

Those who tap into: not the collective unconscious, but?rather the disconnected collective conscious, which we otherwise know as “the lowest common denominator”

Those who operate on the level of skimming in an attempt to get to the whole of humanity are easily recognized. They bring about chaos, drive people away from their own internal compasses and appeal to not depth; Instead, to addictions, fixations, and habits that form in us when we are not looking. For example, irrational fear or unhealthy dependency.

We can sum up the existence of these people as chaotic.?Their work is in breaking down a society, taking it apart.?

In the grand scheme of life, their function is just as valuable. Sometimes a thing must be broken to be analyzed, reevaluated, reformed, and improved for all.

Then, there are times when the discovered Depth is not connected to the whole of humanity in that it has no ground beneath it, it is a castle in the sky.

By definition, depth needs to be grounded in a reality common to all, say the reality that Love exists even though we cannot define it - which means that, it is a depth that has not reached full maturity. A FisherKing story, yet to reconnect with a sense for the ground of all being.

“If?you?have?built?castles?in?the?air,?your?work?need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

There are many steps along the way to becoming a Gandhi, Jose Rizal, Mother Teresa, Georgia O’keefe, James Joyce, or Abraham Lincoln.

Know that when they reached wholeness, there was no question they had arrived. Still,?not everyone saw it.?

Those with a drive to reach that whole inevitably know and celebrate them because at the end of it all, there is only one truth, and that truth is Singularity.?

The apparent separation you and I experience is an illusion into which we all fall until we arrive at a state of wholeness.

Defeating our dragons along the way, we must know the end goal is to see the light that shines from within each and every one of us, like electricity flowing through a strand of light bulbs, as the truth of what we all are, and what all IS.

Here’s to the future!