Soulful Reflections

Reconceptualizing Satire... Anyone around the world who has ever read/listened to English stories couldn’t have skipped Jonathan Swift’s  Gulliver’s Travels (1726). A book usually understood to be an amusing tale of some comic adventures actually becomes  seriously relative to the present situation —a most progressive civilization facing a daunting collapse! Often unduly taken to be a misanthropist, Swift has his finger laid on the most common human flaws. He only hates the pseudo-intellectualism and self-aggrandizement. Swift’s naive gullible protagonist is too honest to cover up thus exposing the human flaws...unfiltered. Everywhere and anywhere Gulliver finds a human tendency to put personal pride and egoistic stance ahead of seeing the bigger picture! Sadly enough most of the economic and scientific developments are egoistical and megalomaniac. Gulliver’s travels to four different lands, though amusing are a cynical perspective on mankind’s inequities, idiosyncrasi...

Each to its own territory! These empty streets n quiet cities! Blessed ! there is life behind these locked doors n windows! That’s a Blessing There are families ...some happy some in distress some savouring food prepared in leisure n warmth some worrying about the next meal some enjoying the togetherness some irritated by too much of it.... Yes there is poetic justice here Humans  herded in , feathers n fins out in air and water sans pollution n human intervention None usurping the other’s... A perfect situation for some deep contemplation Rewind, re-engineering, recharge, recreate, revitalize n recharge The soul at this moment is ready for it all Here is one chance to break bend n churn the spirit to rise anew... https://stillnessstirs.blogspot.com

Tough Times Some pondering... At this time of peril n uncertainty a majority of us humans are in a state of sheer skepticism . A fear has gripped us all...each trying to fortify n protect our bodies from other humans! However what we need to understand is most of collective revivals have been preceded by vast upheavals n the ensuing sufferance. The Universal laws regulate the awakening of the collective consciousness. Keep in mind that this suffering is not inflicted by the Universe ...it is just a reaction to the inflated human ego’s vain attempt to empower “ all “. It is the human narcissism that is causing its own discomforting pain n vulnerability. Nature thus finds its ways to protect that “all” from the obsessed human aggression. The awakening of the collective human consciousness may rely on “some”humans (not very few in number) whose consciousness has evolved to find peace through surrender n acceptance of the flow of Nature....