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Health Care Reform -Reforming the Nature of Who We Are

Posted on March 7, 2010 by thirdspacechronicles

Health Care Reform wars

It is easy to get pretty ‘whigged out’ about some of the rhetoric flying in the media these days. It seems as if there are segments of the population of America who have reverted to their instinctual natures and are living from some encrypted prehistoric guidance system that bears no resemblance to civility or our supposed evolutionary progress of the past few thousand years. The focus of their derision is, of course, the hotly controversial issue of Health Care Reform. At its most superficial, it is ‘anti-government interventionist who wants no federal or state interference and resists any change to the status quo’ pitted against ‘those who believe that health care is a right of citizenship and should be extended to everyone..something which only the government can mandate. On a deeper level, it belies more esoteric principles of self-interest versus compassion for the needs of others.

As a country, the Health Care Reform process has led us down a twisted and tormented path that has unleashed fear of epic proportions, has torn away any semblance of unity and common ground for mutual respect, has emerged some of the most twisted logic, obstructionist behavior and outrageous lies and has left most of the population aghast at the whole spectacle. In the midst of the furor, it might be difficult to imagine a possible outcome of all this venom. When we observe the health care debates over the past year we realize how confrontational and disconnected we have become. When we add to that the jagged landscape of the political arena and the protests, anger and global issues, it is less of a stretch to entertain that we are indeed on the highway to hell! than it is to try to pull something positive out of this morass.

Indeed, discussions around our kitchen table often turn to sharing the sadness at how we have traded our potential for deep compassion towards each other and soul awareness of our singular human endeavor on this planet, for a greedy, fear-based fortressing of ourselves against anyone who would even try to take the possessions we have amassed. Accompanying this we have developed a distrust of all but our ‘like-brethren’. If nothing else, we are being awakened to who we are through the back-door – by encountering the stark and shocking truth of who we have become as a consequence of our fears.

If one ascribes to the belief that there is wisdom in all things, what are we being asked to uncover in this experience?

We are shifting in spite of ourselves and it is toward an expansive truth about wellness

If we look underneath the surface of these eruptive times, there is a movement afoot that sits just out of view. Like seeds germinating in winter, it sleeps just out of sight gathering energy and growing, waiting for the optimum time to poke through into consciousness – to grow into a mature force that aligns with the transformative truth that vectors us toward a new paradigm of existence. Today, there is a general understanding that we are governed not so much by the tangible world we can touch as by the unseen that is the source of what we touch. That it is time for shifting away from old ways is clear. We can no longer sustain our unconscious ways and expect this planet to support our ravages forever. The vehicle of this change has been gathering momentum. It grows stealthily in group discussions. It emerges quietly in leading edge discoveries that suggest we are way more powerful than we have been lead to believe. A not-so-quiet billion dollar industry in alternative health and wellness is the vanguard of this wave of change. Not fully a citizen of the health care world yet, its growth is slowed by status quo processes that are more about profit than about well-being for all even though they purport to support health. Nonetheless, it grows as a consequence of the new direction we are guided toward.