SL01-013 From Reactional Polarity and Outrage to Collective Consciousness and Responsibility

Over the passed 10 days, the news cycles have fueled the polarity between the American people from the the detailed coverage of the 35 day government shutdown where political grandstanding and name calling between congressional leaders and the president to the sensational story MAGA hatted teens purportedly taunting the Native American elder right after the right to life march in DC.  As that story unraveled, the American public would learn ever so slowly that there was to the story than the 20 seconds or so initially publicized showing white teens confronting the elder.  There were far more players in that story than just the teens and the Native American elder, yet the third group of instigators in that scene got little to no air time.   Your loyalty to a cause was quickly assumed by whether you sympathized with the MAGA hatted teens or the Native American Elder.  Few had an opportunity to consider the contribution, much less sympathize with, the third group that perhaps were the most vocal instigators.  It's as if our media sought to erase the contribution that this third group made to the furor and wanted us to choose only between the teens and the elder.   In both of the major news cycle stories mentioned above, we saw the worst of American media and directly experienced first hand the media's corrosive impact on our individual consciousness.  Neither the shutdown coverage nor the MAGA hatted teens and Native American elder coverage were broadcast to raise up our consciousness but to keep it's hearers and viewers and readers imprisoned and bound in their emotional reactions to the stories.   Luckily, I had the opportunity to end the week on Saturday learning about Robert A. Monroe and The Monroe Institute in Faber, VA and their contributions to expanded consciousness exploration and meditation through attending their 1 day open house program.  Experiencing first hand the effects of binaural beats and Hemi-Sync technology helping stimulate both hemispheres of the brain and move into beneficial brainwave states was the perfect antidote to all that reactionary media blitz over the shutdown and the MAGA hatted teens.   I thought we would use these two news cycles — the coverage of the longest government shutdown in American history and the coverage of the White Teens and the Native American elders as the basis of this weeks imaginal prayer exercise.