Eschering A New Enlightenment

ESCHERING A NEW ENLIGHTENMENT

In the dark of my night,
I dreamed of peace,
I awoke with joy,
As I know dreams can come true,
When you are true to your dreams.

Our World is in crisis,
As many engage in business-as-usual,
Unable to see beyond deals,
For they are blind to prophets,
As they seek to maximize profits,
For they do not realise the future shock,
As business schools teach market theory,
At the highest social and ecological cost.

I have sat in boardrooms of rolling stock,
I have listened to speakers without interaction,
I have worked with the wealthy elite in sand castles,
Walked the halls of Parliament in silent reflection,
Worked in prisons without maximum security,
Observed the subtle perceptions of inclusion and exclusion,
I have heard the rhetoric of feel good mission statements,
As business men are good at sales,
But unable to navigate the winds of change.

Democracy gives me the right to speak,
But I am not heard as actions speak louder than words,
One can pretend to be fair and smile,
Yet if democracy is not internalized,
If it is not deeply felt,
Then it becomes a talking head,
Or a silent stream,
That flows silently in the opposite direction,
Eventually it becomes a flood of discontent,
As all humans are equal,
As the façade of self importance fades away,
In favour of reality.

I dream of a world at peace,
Where conflict promotes internal inquiry rather than defence,
Where inequality evokes redistribution rather than class struggle,
Where injustice evokes fairness rather than winning,
To find balance over slavery,
To be a clear voice over dumbing down.

Learning is the path to higher awareness
rather than text book knowledge
hooked up intravenously
online,
Education is a process that enlightens true self interest
as it educates for best interest
across curriculums.

Why not learn cooperation over competition?
Contrasts over debate?
Truthfulness over deceit?
Inquiry over denial?
Where we no longer use others to further our careers,
To be seen to be ‘professional’,
Rather to be and work for the highest good,
A public good,
Where ethics are not employed to market a product,
But highlighted as the purpose of why we are productive.

The crisis in Our World is to find civilization over excessive capacity,
An economy serving society,
Yet if it becomes the promotion of greed as business-as-usual,
Selling images over substance as the driving priority,
Where does that leave those who can shine the lamp?
The talents to discover re-new-able illumination is not been seen to be
but living authenticity,
Are they rendered unemployed?
Excluded as they don’t play the game?
Labeled as free radicals?
As hexagonal pegs can’t fit square holes of conformity,
Yet they can envisage the future,
Free from control.

For we were never meant to be the same,
Each is unique and of value in this shifting mosaic,
For life paints the spectrum from Rembrandt to Escher,
As we move from a still life to surreal,
For it is only in the metaphor that truth is found,
As the foundation stone of peace.

Diversity was to promote friction, wonder and energy,
How else do we discover infinite possibilities?
Yet when you suppress freedoms by listening to some and not others,
Ignoring justice as the balancing point of shared responsibility,
What becomes of our knowledge decoupled from truth and reconciliation?

For this is the question of our times,
It is the real Question Time in an Agora of dynamism,
For when it is illuminated by contrasts, integrity and visibility,
The veils of silent indifference are lifted,
As we experience the dawning of a new common era,
A golden epoch,
Where the greatest potential of humanity is liberated and seen,
Ushering in the Escher of a re-new-able enlightenment,
Beyond perceptions and belief.

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Mohandas Gandhi

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

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