Ode To The Counter-Culturalist

What we, the youth, (the young-of-Heart and the flexible-of-mind, quite apart from

biological age) are willingly participating in, with what we may call a Revolution of Consciousness, (this opening up of ourselves to birth the truth of who and what we really Are), to birth the much-needed Light of Presence on this planet, is not exactly a counter-culture; for what we are countering is more fundamental than culture. (As ultimately we are not really 'countering' but rather shedding and embracing.) We are sacrificing ourselves, our conditioned selves, burning in the fires of consciousness for the good of ourselves and the good of the Whole. We are misunderstood, so we learn to understand; we are judged, so we learn to hold space; our sanity is questioned, so we learn to see ourselves through the eyes of Unconditional Love herself. 

Today I am grateful to all who paved the way for this beautiful and miraculous metamorphosis that it taking place within us and manifesting throughout the World. And we have all the brave souls throughout Time to thank, who dared to buck the trend and counter the culture. The spiritual transformations that are taking place en masse in these times, would not be possible without those who were and are willing to fight and sometimes sacrifice their very form for the sake of spiritually progressing the human continuum when it comes to human dignity, equality and basic freedoms. 

Know it was all for you, it was all for us and our vigilance and alertness is demanded more than ever in these times. So let us live in and act from the high vibration that it is our birth-right to experience, and our duty to stand tall in, for the sake of the New Paradigm that we ourselves are helping to birth.

- Maha

WATCH OUR VIDEO SHORT of David's poem "Ode to the Counter-culturalist", which is also posted below.

ODE TO THE COUNTER-CULTURALIST (by David)

Bhagavan Das

Thank God for you dear Soul,
The restriction and limits of the structure shook the day you were born.
The chains of gender were broken although not yet known.
For even after a chain has broken,
Some time it takes to comprehend;

The Freedom you invited the World to feel,
The Freedom you gave yourself,
The Freedom you demanded.
None of it lost and,
Forever I am grateful,
For the projections you took,
The ignorance you stand against, stood against,
And all of your offspring, we are still fighting!

There will be no oppression of the Soul,
For any being on Earth in the future,
We create from the seed you have planted.
And, dear Beatnik, Hippy, Truth Seeker, Truth Speaker, Environmentalist, Boundary-Pusher, and all those who rage against the machine; 
you know who you are.

You are not a color, a statistic, a consumer or a generation,
Some of you smoke, some of you don't
Some are into yoga,
Others incognito,
All of your a dear Soul who know:
There is something in you,
Stronger, wiser, and more Free,
Than the structure you were born into...
That you were made to break.