01-10-2017, 04:47 PM
(01-10-2017, 04:33 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-10-2017, 03:49 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(01-10-2017, 01:51 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: "Clinging to the second turning" sounds like a pretty good description of boomers in general.
The 2T was the Awakening. Maybe we can describe Xers as those who refuse to be awakened by it. Some Boomers realized the Awakening, and remember that it's the key to the new world unfolding potentially in the 4T and beyond. To remember the Awakening, is to stay awake. To disparage it, is to remain asleep.
In the Awakening, many Boomers learned to live in the present, and not cling to life. So to cling to the past is also to remain asleep.
Eric, all we ever knew during at least part of childhood was the Awakening, none of us knew the High. Especially for us 1st half Atari X, the Awakening was an overwhelming thing. You would never understand, since you viewed it through adult eyes, and those adult eyes were comparing it with the High, which we X had no inkling of. In the case of the Awakening, it's all we knew from our first sentient moments. I would say most X have a love - hate relationship with the Awakening. Look at my prolific use of Sesame Street emoticons. What's not to like about that aspect of The Awakening? Look at how many X are complete music nerds (granted, you don't like all of it, but you have to admit, we X are true natives when it comes to rock and all its flavors).
What did we not like? Self absorption of adults was kinda sucky, dontcha think?
Everyone here is different, and has a different relationship to the Awakening.
What many people forget is that they are not limited to the experiences of their own lifetime. I have learned and experienced many Awakenings, because I read about them, read the literature and the history, listen to them in music and absorb them. The Awakening of this saeculum is quite available to everyone. Listen, read, watch and absorb.
The Awakening of Bach's time is available by listening to his music, like the Toccata in F. The Christian Awakening is available in The Bible and in cathedrals. The social gospel and art nouveau awakening of circa 1900 in Europe and America is available in all the history, literature and music of that time. I absorbed it very well. I play some of its music. The Romantic Awakening is available in similar ways. Read Wordsworth and listen to Beethoven. The Buddhist Awakening is available in Buddhism. And so on.
And, the Spirit is available at any time, eternally now, within you and without you.
Some Xers have a very limited view of music, because they are too confined to their own time, which lacks inspiration. Do not wish to argue that point. But if you ARE a rock nerd, then I'm sure you know all the rock and other Awakening music and can therefore appreciate the Awakening, because it's communicated there, and that's where the heart of rock is.
Most Boomers did not experience the Awakening as "adults." We were teens and grew into it as it happened, and it transformed some of us.
Transcend your own physical experience, and view and listen to what is availiable on its own terms, not in terms of your age conditioning.