The President of the United States
These are times of accelerated change, when patterns ingrained deep within the psyche of many Nations are rising up, magnified and dramatized on the stage of the Earth. Such trying times have recurred throughout history in the life of many Nations.
In all such instances, Nations are meeting themselves. They are forced to look within, and most importantly - choose. The choices create divisions and polarities, revealing groups aligned to separation and fear, as well as those aligned to unity and hope. This is an important function of Reality, embodying the
Principle of Reflection - that every Nation may express and meet itself and thus know itself
better. This knowledge leads to choices, which every nation and group
must make for themselves. It is these choices that make a nation great or
otherwise. A nation's constitutional framework is built to guide its people through certain foundational choices, so that each nation can reflect its own individuality, and show other nations what its core values and choices have led itself to.
The US has always been the epicenter of global change in modern times. After much orchestration of events from higher levels, the country has been given the opportunity to choose, by almost a narrow margin, a black President whose presence and policies further accelerate and bring to light existing divisions and polarities within that nation. America is meeting itself. It must be recognized that a country of the caliber of the US, carrying a constitutional framework that greatly values liberty and freedom of the individual, cannot be given the choice of a President who is also not an evolved soul - for too much is at stake in the evolution of Nations and human ideals. There are many other Nations where other types of values and choices are tried and tested.
The current US President functions as a catalyst in this self-expression and self-discovery in times of upheaval and crisis, for these are opportunities for much soul searching. It is hoped that this nation at large will choose unity rather than divisions; hope and openness rather than fear and isolation - and offer its hand and heart magnanimously to other suffering nations, just as it did during earlier times in history where it opened up to the poor and the homeless outside its borders, who then found shelter, sustenance, freedom, liberty and wealth in its open arms
(1). These acts of America have been karmically responsible for her rise to power, riches and leadership. America in more recent times has moved away from her calling, and this has sounded the beginning of her downfall. In many ways she is an embodiment of paradoxes, for she is more than the land of opportunity and dreams. Because she wrenched that land away from the hearts of the native Indians, a people who had a very sacred connection with their land, she is also the land of broken hearts. And her people are wanderers unable to truly settle down anywhere on the land, or find lasting relationships.
(2)(3)But now she is given another opportunity to make her choices anew and redeem herself, as events and circumstances will continue to materialize throughout the world, while forces and interests on various sides battle for the hearts and minds of her citizens. These forces and interests will be allowed greatly increased access to her citizens like never before, to truly test her discernment. It is in difficult times, when the odds are stacked heavily against, that the heart is truly revealed. This self discovery through Temptation
(4) is a very important function of Reality. With Europe rising, those choices will determine whether America will lead other nations into the coming age, or be relegated among many of the has-been nations and civilizations in the annals of history.
It is not the function of the current US president to make these choices, but to bring them up before each and every one of its citizens so they may choose. Some presidents, like Lincoln, have had to agree before incarnation to the possibility of a violent exit from the presidency - if only to help galvanize the nation behind certain desired guiding principles. America is now called to choose her destiny.
(1) Reflected in that noble engraving mounted within the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore; Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door." The poem by Emma Lazarus (1883) was aptly and prophetically titled "The New Colossus".
(2) See also '
National Karma'
(3) The native American Indians were a sedentary people till the arrival of the settlers, upon which they were continually displaced from wherever they settled and literally became wanderers. They soon developed into mobile warrior classes which were decimated, with war casualties estimated between 20,000 to 40,000 and European diseases taking their toll in the millions.
(4) See '
Genesis'