Phoenix Arising from the Ashes

It's been some time since I blogged and there has been so much happening in the world.

I was watching the news with a friend last weekend. The news items covered so many negative events...the shootings in Norway, debt and finances in the US, continuing events in the Arab worlds, more coverage from Afghanistan and on it went to issues closer to home. Conversations had between various business people talking about the inefficiency they meet day to day in banking, in industry, in government departments....

The person with whom I was watching turned round and made an interesting observation. He said...."there is no bringing our civilisation back to a reasonable standard of life is there? It's just too far gone the road of breakdown"

For him this was a really sobering and depressing thing to come to....and I could only agree with him about the direction he was detecting. However, I began to talk of living in times of transition from the old to the new...a time of a phoenixing ...and that the breakdown of one way of life was pre-cursor to another emergent one .......and yet he just couldn't see it or feel this new possibility. All he could see was the world as we know it falling apart, with no fresh hope appearing. I wondered how many people across the globe felt the same?

It made me wonder how is it that some people feel this new arising so passionately , attempt to respond to this new signal so intensely, whilst other people simply seem impervious to it? Is it the case that it is only those who are actively pioneering the new, who feel it ?