WikiLeaks is a destroyer energy. Its actions perform a valuable public service in helping to reveal and tear-down outmoded forms. A wiki is a collaborative website designed to provide knowledge, and Julian Assange and his team are providing us with information we need to know.
According to some Assange is a hero (see Ted Talks interview), while to others, like the White House he is irresponsibly threatening national security.
In the confusing and chaotic times we live in, many of us are wondering what’s really going on – we don’t believe what we’re told in the news, by politicians or CEO’s – but how do we find out the truth? Not, I suggest, by shooting the messenger. Assange is like electricity: he’s a potential source of light – useful in helping to reveal many dark and dusty secrets that need to be shared by all humanity, but what he reveals needs rational, scientific, not emotive, handling.
Wikileaks provides an important source of information that helps us put the soothing, soma-inducing and apparently benign voices of those in power into a bigger, clearer perspective.
The leaks are helping many to question these voices or maybe they’re just adding to the already jaundiced view we have of ‘authority’. Many are now saying it’s time to destroy or at least take the best from, the old, outmoded institutions and belief systems so that they can make way for the new.
There’s another form of energy we can call the builder energy. Those working with this energy are taking their cue from the destroyers. Now’s the time for the builders to get really busy. They’ve been quietly creating the forms for many years, waiting for the time to come when the new age is ready to be revealed, and by now they’re not just isolated individuals but groups and they’re building in numbers.
The builders are the non-government organisations, groups and organic collections of individuals who are working to help create an equitable, sustainable and purposeful life for us all. They are the environmentalists, educators, scientists, financiers, businesses, philosophers and spiritual groups who are working with different but complementary methods and all with the same aim.
These groups of builders rely on the destroyers to dig out the dying, decaying debris that’s no use to us anymore. The destroyers are clearing the path so that the young, green shoots of a strong, beautiful and harmonious new world can emerge. It’s embryonic and experimental because that’s how all new life begins, and this gives us all cause for joy because we’re all needed to help in the rebuilding.
We can listen and perhaps support the destroyers if we feel they are destroying in a way that will benefit the many, rather than the few. And we can each decide how we can do our bit to help create a new way of living life on our shared planet – a way that enables us all to share resources, engage in meaningful activity and better understand our individual and collective purpose in being here.