Christopher Hansard:[Politics]

The world runs in cycles and on the impulse of memory and regret. The patterns of our lives fill the voices of our politicians and their rhetoric, policies and admonitions of change emerge from our deepest dissatisfaction with ourselves. To look to those who we elect is to look to what it is that we wish for ourselves. The anger, frustration and environmental degredation of the planet comes directly from the inner anger, frustration and degredation of the global mind of humanity. Change however,comes about because the most base part of ourselves as a species suddenly reaches for the light of healing and illumination, and in that moment we all create an opportunity and a space for change to be expressed. The election of Barack Obama is not just the United States of America calling for change as a nation, but each individual American wanting to change their inner selves. Politics are a shadow of a higher order that exists within us all, this shadow can somtimes have less chill and density than at other times, but it is part of our evolutionary struggle to move from the state of reactionary suffering into a place where, by our minds and hearts we recreate our world and our place in it, through the augmentation of a higher consciousness.