Reality has been lately approaching so close to the world of illusions that my glimpses of the unreal have become almost unreadable. What can be more unreal than a descendant of black slaves from Kenya becoming the 44th President of the most powerful country in the world? What could be more paradoxical than a nation, whose founding Fathers declared that “all men are equal”, built its power and wealth on the blood, sweat and suffering of millions of slaves and then chose a true American mulatto as its Leader? And how very simple and yet penetrating to the very core of human longings were his electioneering slogans “Hope -Change -Yes, we can!” It was not an illusion that millions of people all over the world , black and white, yellow and brown, listened avidly to his inauguration speech. They believe in their heart of hearts that -Yes! We can change the world if such is our belief, based on true longing. But even that reality was giving me a glimpse of something out of this world. A weird introduction to this changing world was the suddenness with which the deceptively solid and safe world of finance started to disintegrate before my eyes. Banks became overnight a symbol of greed, recklessness and instability. Governments all over the globe started pouring money into that black hole where it simply disappeared without leaving a trace. The soothing words of the media and spin-doctors sounded more hollow than ever. Their masters couldn’t accept the truth staring them in the face: that their cosy, but unreal world came crashing down and it would never rise again in the same shape or form. All material forms have a built-in obsolescence and they have to perish, because you cannot pour “new wine of change into old bottles”. They could not withstand the powerful fermentation process of change. What next? There will be many changes in our complacent acceptance of everything that has been blocking the growth of human mind and spirit for much too long. The new world order is still too misty in outline to allow me a clear glimpse of what is to come. But I believe that millions of people are waking up and repeating to themselves the Obama slogans: Hope –Change-YES! WE CAN DO IT! Just be patient and go with the world of flowing changes. There will be no revolution. There will be only a Transformation.
