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Clearing the Path for the New Way of Doing Business
The Power of the Natural Law of Cycles
My
native country Iceland has been much in the news in recent years and
showcased a mini version of a much bigger phenomena that we in Iceland
call HRUNID or the CRASH. This has been breaking down the old structures
of people’s lives and leaving the nation bewildered, in ruins, and
facing rebuilding the battlefield.
No one can deny that the
whole world is in peril and going through a large-scale collective
transformation. Humanity as a whole is experiencing a breakdown of the
old systems; health-care, finance/economics, education, religion,
politics, and commerce. At the same time, new seedling like the
Conscious Capitalism Movement are sprouting up as catalysts for new
beginnings. But before the new can fully take over we first have to face
the death of the world and life as we known it. The times seem to be
signaling mother Earth’s shedding of her old skin and her need to renew
herself. That is her organic nature.
We talk about bringing in
new business models and updating organizational structures. We are eager
to learn about all the new how-to’s and measure the results of
application, and we’re doing a great job of it. But what we sometimes
forget to attend to are the personal, inner processes we all need to
take on in order to clear out and become the sustainable conduit for the
new ideas and the new ways of doing business. We cannot move forward
without clearing the pipes, dying to the old and surrendering to the
emptiness to make space for the new designs swimming in the ocean of
possibilities. Most of us hold on to the old ways like a shipwrecked
person holding on to a life raft.
That is human nature. We are
filled with outdated ideas, beliefs and concepts, and cling to
dysfunctional relationships; family and/or society’s imprints that are
no longer in alignment with who we are or our values; habits, routines,
and comfort zones we don’t want to give up; and a false sense of
security and power that we think is real. Not to mention all the things
we surround ourselves with. What if we consciously entered into the
process of letting go, of surrendering willingly and peacefully? If we
did, ancient wisdom tells us that we could accelerate the process of
birth and renewal and create a much healthier and stronger flow of
compassionate ways of bringing in the new paradigm for our times, while
inviting in a higher state of consciousness.
The good news is
we actually have an ally willing to guide us through this personal
process of inner transformation if we let her. This is the Dark Feminine
with her knowledge and wisdom of the natural law of cycles;
alternations of creation and destruction, growth and decay, birth and
death, light and dark, conscious and unconscious. These are cyclical
life processes which, if understood and honored, help us sail the ship
with the wind in our sails supported by magic instead of battling
upstream forces. This is the Great Goddess who in ancient times was
perceived as an organizing principle of the universe who embodied all
the forces of the three great mysteries, life, death, and rebirth within
her figure. The Goddess was the life force that animated all of
existence.
The Dark Feminine, often called, among other names,
Kali or the old wise crone, teaches us that endings are the precursors
to new beginnings, just like the cycles of the moon, waxing, full, and
waning, or the cycles of the seasons. She shows us the three
phases
of the cycle; creation, preservation, and destruction as seen in the
beginnings, middles, and endings in all of our life endeavors. We have
been in the preservation phase for a long time and most individuals and
institutions are trying to hold on to the old structures and their old
ways of doing things, as these make them feel safe. But the phase of
destruction is upon us, ready to demolish and turn to dust familiar
things in order to create space for the new just as when we bulldoze a
building in order to create a clear platform for a modern and
sustainable design, a new structure that is fitting for the times.
Reinstating
the wisdom of the Dark Feminine and surfing on her dovetail to the deep
and murky waters of the unknown, by letting go of the old, is not only a
smart thing to do but is, in fact absolutely essential. The times are
calling for it; the collective unconscious is calling for it.
Each
and every one of us has a responsibility to weed our own garden by
accepting, integrating and honoring these ancient, natural energies of
the pushing yang and the yielding yin, of flexing and relaxing, of
hardening and softening, of expanding and contracting. If we pause and
take stock of our lives, personally and professionally, and muster the
courage to throw obsolete attitudes, beliefs and structures with
outdated concepts on the bonfire we might eventually get to the zero
point where the natural and organic flow of pure and raw creative energy
will flow freely through to create our magnificent new world. This is
true power.
By Rúna, January, 2011
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