A spiritual initiation happens when a person is ready to take the next evolutionary step, the transition into the next higher level of consciousness.

It is like a landmark or a tipping point on one’s life’s journey.

In hindsight, it is usually remembered as a time in which we changed our thinking, and therefore our way of life.

With each spiritual initiation, our potential expands. Therefore our actions take us on a new, more life-affirming and integrated path and our destiny changes accordingly.

Often, spiritual initiations are accompanied by experiences of great inner or outer pressure, drama, disruption and upheaval.

There is no way around that, we have to shed our skin to get thru the bottleneck.

In a metaphorical sense, the old me has to die to be reborn anew.

Now a powerful and unlikely spiritual initiation has arrived on Earth in the form of the Coronavirus. It is sweeping across the globe, affecting everyone and everything in its path.

This teacher is now successively interrupting life as we know it more and more, showing us the impermanence and fragility of our life and lifestyle – foreshadowing what we can expect, as climate change progresses. 

This spiritual teacher has the power to stop the whole hustle and bustle of the human world and progress, all of our entertainment, enjoyment and ambition, our plans and goals.

It brings us right to the present moment.

Just what is here now.

All across the globe – more or less – people are – more or less – confined to their homes.

All across the globe, people are speaking/hearing this spiritual teacher’s name: Corona.

The Coronavirus has the potential to kill millions worldwide very quickly. 

And the virus also has the potential of being a spiritual initiator, the impulse that is needed to bring humanity to the next level of a more functioning and human collective & unified society.

How so?

In our day-to-day lives, we are lulled into merely skimming the surface layer of what life really is in its full potential.  We can easily fall asleep into a habitual trance that preserves the status quo.

What can awaken us from this state of sleepwalking – usually – is a personal or collective crisis.

Often a personal crisis has the power to shatter our daily routine.  Cancer, depression, heart-attack, job loss, divorce, loss of a loved one or a near-death experience or certain peak-experiences can crack the shell of ingrained habits and initiate us into a journey of self-discovery.

A collective crisis has the potential to wake up the masses, to shift the collective consciousness. 

Climate change and global pandemics serve as potential species-wide initiations. 

Recognizing the possibility that Corona may kill millions can activate dormtant spiritual instincts, bringing into consciousness such powerful spiritual inquiries as:

Who am I?

What am I doing here?

What is my purpose, place and destiny?

What can i contribute to a new world that is better than the world we left behind, before Corona hit us?

At the time i am writing this, nobody knows yet how hard the pandemic will hit, how may lifes will be lost in tragic ways and how devastating it will be economically and existentially for individuals, families, businesses, companies and the rest.

Nobody knows which governments will be more and which will be less successful with their countermeasures.

And nobody knows how we will get back to normal, after the infection curve has flattened out and diminished.

And we can finally go back to our normal life.

But – do we really want to go back to “normal”?

It might be then to see it as a chance for a whole fresh start, think intelligently about all the things that are dysfunctional, disconnected, tangled, destructive, separating, cruel, ignorant … inhuman in our societies.

All the qualities of the good, the true, the beautiful that are inherent in a human being may be valued then.

And people who embody such qualities may be our leaders.

So be it :  )

Amen Amen Amen

Om Tat Sat

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