A Matter Of Perspective (Deutsch)
By Jo Mooy 
The simple act of turning the calendar page from the old year to the new is like buying a lottery ticket. As the old year is put to rest, the New Year opens wide to endless possibilities. It conjures up anticipation, hope and belief that things are surely going to be better. That expectation is even more pronounced as one decade closes and another opens, affording a brief window of time to reflect on the past decade and brace for the new one. How we interpret events and changes is a matter of perspective.
Was it only ten years ago that we held our collective breaths wondering if the world would come to an end at midnight on Dec. 31, 1999 when all the large computer systems on the planet crashed? The apocalyptic prophecies of a Y2K disaster fizzled when January 1st dawned and the lights were still on. The Y2K scenario was the start of a decade of fear and double-speak as a tool to control human behavior; the turmoil and upheavals unbalanced institutions, governments, and the environment, worldwide. Our safe little world had not come crashing down in the way we thought. But by the end of the decade computers, social networks, twitter, texts, and smart phones were in fact controlling our lives even more. Whether those changes were good or bad was simply a matter of perspective. Or age.
"Hanging chads" called into question a presidential election in 2000? Black Americans were delayed at roadblocks so they were unable to vote in that election. But the orderly transfer of power occurred despite the chads and politics, ten years later, the first African American has been elected President. The Gulf of Mexico was at the top of international news at the start and end of the decade. In 2000 a little Cuban boy found floating in the Gulf was caught up in international politics before being returned home to his father. Ten years later the Gulf was again in the news as millions of gallons of oil floated on the water creating an environmental disaster.
That oil spill showed that ecological management had not much improved since hurricane Katrina devastated the region. Global climate changes now routinely show the effects of human mismanagement on all the ecosystems of the planet. In the last ten years the polar ice caps receded so much Hudson Bay was void of sea ice. And the Amazon River, largest in the world, is in an alarming drought paralyzing fishing and transportation on the river. Some say it's climate change, others that it's a normal cycle. It's still a matter of perspective.
Despite the embarrassments, WikiLeaks showed that government "secrets" were only secrets in the minds of the beholders. We learned that open countries really wanted to cooperate with one another towards peace as behind the scenes they diplomatically reconsidered their sponsorship of closed regimes. We always sensed that Gordon Gecko type greed was behind the financial crisis affecting everyone on the planet but WikiLeaks revealed the documents. Through technology the "little people" had access to any type of information instantaneously via the internet, satellites, and social media networks. The promised governmental "information age" had been delivered but it was only a matter of perspective as to whom or how it was interpreted.
On a personal note, feelings of optimism and hope abound since turning the calendar to 2011. Our recent holiday travels included a return trip to NYC where we visited Ground Zero for the fourth time. You might wonder why it was necessary to continue returning there. It's because that place holds special significance in my life for I was supposed to be at a meeting in the north tower on the morning of 9/11.
The recent visit to the site however felt so energetically different from previous visits. Instead of the blanketing feelings of death, sorrow, and sadness that always seemed to permeate the area, the "hole" as it was called, resonated with new life. A massive rebuilding effort is underway day and night, as thousands of workers construct the new memorial, museum, and the five sky-scrapers to replace the Twin Towers.
Ten years after 9/11 there's a palpable feeling of vibrancy, hope, and pride at the site. You can see it in the faces of the hard-hat workers, the police officers standing duty on the streets, and even the tourists who mill around the area. While dozens stand in line to sponsor a cobblestone for the memorial, many more stand respectfully at the shrines of the fire-fighters honoring their sacrifices not with tears but with admiration. All look expectantly at the 48 stories that have been completed at one of the towers.
The same feelings of optimism that happen when turning the page of the calendar from the old year to the new are happening at what has become a world monument in NYC. The reflecting pools that now stand in the footprints of the old towers, the gardens and the memorial museum are scheduled to re-open on 9/11/2011. The silver spire of the tallest skyscraper, World Trade 1, will pierce the sky at 1,776 feet, standing as a symbol of the eternal spirit of humanity. It will proclaim to the world that the Trade Center has been rebuilt and that out of anguish and grief the page has been turned to one of new life. This spire affirms that it's much more than a matter of perspective.
Through the endless wars, we've lived in a decade where some have chosen to paint all Muslims with the brush of terrorism, even though the vast majority is law abiding and abhor terrorism as much as we do. Those who see the world as dangerous and fearful live in a state of constant siege. Meanwhile, others have seized the opportunity to embrace diversity by bringing the two sides together. With the New Year and a new decade dawning, we have a magical opportunity to bring forth a bright new consciousness in ourselves and thus into the world. The choice is ours! It's all a matter of our perspective.
About Jo Mooy
Jo is a visionary artist, lecturer, writer and a national award-winning photographer whose work has been published in magazines and books. She has a BA in advertising design & studied painting with the Cape Cod School of Art. Her landscape paintings and visionary mandalas are in collections around the world and carried at several galleries on Cape Cod and in Florida.
While spending 30 years in middle management at a Fortune 100 corporation, her spiritual studies & practices continued as she traveled worldwide and lectured across the US. She's studied with many mystery and esoteric schools including Builders of the Adytum — The Rosicrucians — Lucis Trust — The Association for Research and Enlightenment — Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship. She's studied with Drunvalo Melchizedek, Gregg Braden, Tom Kenyon, Jamyong Singye and is currently an initiate of Shahabuddin David Less of the International Sufi Order.
Jo's devoted more than four decades to meditation, dream journaling, writing and art. Her spiritual mandalas which come while in meditative states of consciousness are used by alternative healers, as well as allopathic dentists and doctors in their practices. Her soul-interpretation mandalas, which are like an intuitive reading, are available by private consultation.
As a visionary and community organizer, she and her life partner lead community ceremonial gatherings, teach spiritual workshops in Sarasota, including the highly acclaimed Purpose Presence & Vision and offer counseling. Jo writes & publishes a weekly online nationally-distributed newsletter called Spiritual Connections. She's a frequent guest on many radio programs and is founder of a very large Women's Meditation Group in south Florida. She's also Director of Spiritual Cinema at Unity. In her spare time she's working on two books: The Messages of the Mandalas and one with her partner called Synchronicities Out Of Time and Space.
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Latest articles by Jo Mooy in Spirit of Maat:
April, 2012: LIFE DO-OVERS
March, 2012: Two disks One message - 2012
February, 2012: What's Love Got To Do With It?
January, 2012: Archangel Visits
December, 2011: Next year it will get Better
November, 2011: The Meaning of 11:11:11
October, 2011: WHAT IF THE WORLD ENDS THIS MONTH?
September, 2011: Leaving an Impression
August, 2011: The Georgia Guidestones
July, 2011: In Alignement
June, 2011: Each Position is North
May, 2011: Keep the Candles lit
April, 2011: Sound Healing a Tree!
March, 2011: REMEMBER MIKE!
February, 2011: Archangel Visits
January, 2011: A Matter Of Perspective
December, 2010: Ascension Revisited
November, 2010: The Carrier Waves
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