the calm before the storm

Is it me or does it feel like the calm before the storm. There has been too much disruption lately to assume that a storm is not in fact about to ensue. Oh sure - a cleansing, purifying monsoon burst of energy - but yes. a storm nevertheless.

the flow is disrupted.

why does this happen. Before I got here I always thought that the zone - the flow, the deep - was always smooth. that life just floated by as a series of meadows with me running through it in a flowing cotton skirt (organic of course).

but transformation doesn't exactly work like that and there's no where like the deep for witnessing transformation at its rawest, most efficient best. No noisy distractions here.

the seeds in the pod mature and mature. the caterpillar in the cocoon grows and grows. the water pressure behind the ice gets bigger and bigger. until suddenly in one seriously not very flowing way - there is what scientists call a step function change. Do the lemmings know just before they hurl themselves off the cliff? Does the tree know before it suddenly bursts into fits of blossoms?

I guess they do. Intuitively know. As much as a tree can. But in the case of us humans those of us who are bothering to listen surely know that change is coming. Individual lives are being effected by this energy everywhere.

Synchronicities abound. Inside our head neurons are connecting more and more rapidly as new data and environmental stimuli construct the networks and connections required to gain the clarity we need in the midst of all this confusion and uncertainty. For many this is happening at light speed.

On the earth people all over the world are connecting to each other - from movements of solidarity and occupation to friendships on social networks, cross border customers to far away family. And as we are connecting so simultaneously millions of people are twigging to the realisation that quite a lot is not right. Again, networks and connections are being forged at light speed and again confusion persists.

It is not until sufficient time and muddling around has passed that clarity begins to emerge. Dr. Suess calls this the waiting room. Coffee calls it percolation. Science calls it gestation. But make no mistake. When the clarity emerges the knowingness will too and that and only that is all that anything or one needs to take the next step required for transformation of any size or shape. And that is to ACT. And act I, we and they will. Because that's how my brain, and our brains and the planet and everything works. We're hardwired to change, to mutate and in doing so to survive.