A Spiritual Reflection
A Note on the Times: Spiritual Physics at Work
I hold an unpopular position about what is happening in our culture:
I am both for it and against it.
Not because I am confused—but because I am watching something unfold that is, to a degree, pre-determined. Written into the architecture of consciousness itself. As above, so below. As within, so without.
I can feel myself in the middle—opinionated about some things, neutral about others. I can see the motivations on opposing sides and understand why each believes they are right. I can also see the civil fracture forming beneath the surface, not unlike the tension that builds in a marriage when unexamined fear and unmet needs go unnamed.
What we are witnessing is not merely political or social—it is psycho-spiritual. A collective enactment of forces that have appeared again and again across history.
Systems, Entropy, and the Myth of Stability
Civilizations, like psyches, are not designed to remain intact forever.
Systems are meant to break.
This is not failure—it is law.
We are living in a time often described mythically as the Age of Aquarius: an era associated with disruption of hierarchy, exposure of hidden structures, and the dismantling of outdated systems. Whether one believes in astrology literally or symbolically, the pattern remains: old forms strain under the pressure of emerging consciousness.
This process is frightening.
It destabilizes safety, identity, and belonging. Fear increases. Sides harden. Trust erodes. People cling to those who feel familiar and recoil from those who differ. The human nervous system does not tolerate ambiguity well, and under threat it defaults to protection.
This is not a moral failure—it is conditioning.
Psyche and Entropy: The Necessary Tension
There is a force in the universe that dismantles: entropy.
There is also a force that seeks meaning, growth, and expansion: psyche.
They are not enemies. They require one another.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. No transformation without disintegration. Psyche uses entropy to evolve. What feels like collapse is often reorganization at a higher level of complexity.
Individually, this looks like breakdowns, dark nights, identity crises.
Collectively, it looks like polarization, unrest, and chaos.
The same laws apply.
Conditioning, Projection, and the Illusion of the Fight
Much of what we call “fighting for what’s right” is actually unexamined conditioning seeking discharge.
People rarely pause to ask:
Why does this activate me so strongly?
What am I protecting?
What am I promoting—and why?
At their root, human motivations tend to fall into two categories: protect and promote. Both sides of any cultural divide believe they are doing both. Yet without self-inquiry, we often end up protecting abstractions while harming real people, and promoting ideals that contradict our actual behavior.
This is as true in intimate relationships as it is in nations.
An untrained mind, coupled with heightened emotion, seeks “juice”—the charge of righteousness, outrage, belonging, or moral superiority. Anyone who has experienced a passionate argument or an unforgettable lover knows this energy. Multiplied collectively, it becomes combustible.
An unexamined psyche is easily possessed by unconscious forces.
The Both/And Perspective
The psycho-spiritual stance is not either/or but both/and.
It requires the capacity to hold paradox:
Order and chaos
Protection and harm
Awakening and destruction
This perspective draws from ancient wisdom traditions, mythic structures, and depth psychology. It places responsibility not “out there,” but here—within the individual.
Carl Jung suggested something to the effect that he did not have faith in humanity, but in the work each individual could do to confront their own shadow. That sentiment feels especially relevant now.
Until we understand ourselves and our Self—until we become conscious of the forces moving through us—we will continue to reenact them externally.
Full stop.
The Ones Who Sense It
There have always been individuals who sensed this dynamic early—often as children—who felt, Something about this doesn’t feel right.
They are given many names: seekers, sensitives, star seeds, the bird tribe, rainbow children. Labels matter less than the shared knowing: a felt sense that what is unfolding is part of a larger pattern, one that has occurred before and will occur again.
I am one of those children, now living as an adult, with a deep, bone-level recognition that what is happening needs to happen—not because it is easy or just, but because it reveals what has been hidden.
The planets, the myths, the psyche itself conspire toward revelation.
Why Fighting Perpetuates the Pattern
To fight unconsciousness with unconsciousness only feeds the same cycle.
Trickster energy does not belong to one side. It will appear as righteousness here and subversion there, only to reverse roles again. This is the pendulum swing. Infinity playing out through form.
Real change does not begin in the streets—it begins in awareness.
When individuals pause, inquire, regulate their emotions, and train their minds, the collective field changes. Slowly. Subtly. Inevitably.
This is spiritual physics.
And it does not ask us to choose sides first.
It asks us to wake up first.