Pilgrimage ~ Day 1

I would like to celebrate the beginning of a New Year with a choice to embark upon a pilgrimage.

I have been sensing a change of energy about me for a while now. So in truth, my decision to embark upon a journey of some sort is more akin to surrender in a process already underway rather than it being an act of spontaneity on my part.

I shall endeavor to communicate my vision and interpretation of the territory that I am finding myself in as I narrate my journey.  Even as I begin to write, I notice a shift of focus or of awareness taking place. I write: 'Finding myself in', as if this is an act accomplished instead of a journey of which I am scarcely cognizant.

What I sense mostly is restlessness within me ~ dissatisfaction with the way of the world around me and of my interaction with this world. One manifestation of this is that as I begin to read news articles in the mainstream media, I stop reading before I am halfway through, as I feel out of touch with a value system that appears to be paraded before me. I am not interested in the latest tweets, of any soap drama or reality TV. I am not seduced by any vision of a world that pays homage to a hierarchy of human potential and of artificial value.

As comical as this sounds, there are times when I feel as if I should be knocking on people's foreheads whilst at the same time looking into their eyes as I ask 'is anybody in? As if this might miraculously arouse them from some slumber which has been obscuring authentic human nature. It is always a question of value and of what is being accepted. As I look into the mainstream, I observe a system, a stream of energy even, which moves from wanting to possess tangible items of escalating value to wanting to be seen as a vessel itself of great value, but that requires a competitive and distorted vision of  reality as a medium in which it can thrive. It is a value system which is unsustainable and is therefore unhealthy.

I cannot wrestle with or change the whole world and it follows that I must find a way to adjust the way in which I observe it ~ and so begins a quest or a desire to embark upon a pilgrimage.