So the United States government has gotten rid of one of the biggest booygeymen we’ve had for the past ten years. This is a big shift significator, because it means the may have to relate to the general population differently.  Perhaps even talking to us like adults, something that has not honestly happened in quite some time.

For those of you who do not know, my background includes a degree in politics. I try to keep that out of this blog, because that’s not what my work is about these days. But this shift in operating procedures for the United States government is significant to things I have been talking about. It weaves into the changes that are going on in the Middle East in general. What we have been seeing these last few months is looking more and more like the changes that happened in the early 1990s in Eastern Europe. Osama Bin Laden has been as much of a conceptual structure as the Berlin Wall was. As a man, I can’t speak to how effective he has been of late, but as a symbol of something to fear, a personification of that which the American people have been rallying against, he remained quite powerful until last night. Whenever Bin Laden made a statement, the media and the government would seize on it and we, as a population, would be reminded of the boogeyman.

That boogeyman is gone.

And it feels just as odd to me as it did when the Berlin Wall fell.

Everything changes. From this point on, things cannot remain the same. It is impossible. Mark my words, this will turn out to be more of a push to Shift than the earthquake in Japan.

…But I don’t think it’s over. I feel more changes coming, perhaps even more rapid fire. It’s hard for me not to hold my breath.

So I ground.
And I breathe.
And I burrow into my daily practice.

I encourage you to do the same.