George Floyd: A Legacy of Hope

The extraordinariness of ordinary people is a vehicle for raising humanity at this beginning of the new age. George Floyd is remembered today for the man that he was, a beloved family member, friend, colleague, and American.

His murder was a flashpoint for centuries of racism, brutality, and otherizing. In many ways, the sadistic killing of George Floyd was the straw that broke the back of America, one more senseless death that couldn’t be allowed to become a three-days’-wonder, swept under the rug and out of memory except for the grief of his family.

Mr. Floyd was a courageous soul who took on the daunting mission of his lifetime knowing he would face injustice and be publicly murdered. Those who undertake difficult life assignments do it because they want to be part of the growth of humankind. As spirit, they understand our divine interconnection, that what happens to one person happens to all. The advancement of his soul through this life raises all souls.

I was born in the 1960’s. When I became an adult in the 1980’s, there was a tug-of-war among my friends between honeyed nostalgia for a false and dreamlike past and the struggle for dignity and opportunity many of us faced with uncertainty. A woman of Jewish heritage arising from a family in poverty, working my way through college, and seeking my spiritual truth, I yearned for Utopia. Some told us it was there in the images of housewives in cocktail dresses vacuuming – but we knew we hadn’t seen it yet.

I became a Christian and ultimately a Gnostic Christian. I had black friends and gay friends and Muslim neighbors and Jewish family. The virtue preached in the 1990’s and 2000’s was tolerance. We're proud of the day we learned tolerating diversity wasn’t even close to enough. The goal has never been just legislation but recognition, not just civility but love - not tolerance, but true acceptance.

In metaphysical circles, we talk about the Crystal, Indigo, and Rainbow children born to elevate humanity – the children that shall lead us. Generation X raised a generation of young people who hit the ground running for equality of opportunity and respect, peace, and environmental justice. We’ve come a long way. Love is love and marriage is marriage. More women than ever before sit in Congress. We’ve had a black President of the United States.

Institutional racism and de facto segregation still rot our communities from the inside out. Women don’t get equal pay for equal work. Transsexual women can’t use public bathrooms in safety or basic human dignity. Nazis and the KKK march through neighborhoods. There are pockets of poverty in this country that rip the façade off ideas of equality of opportunity.

And so, the Age of Pisces passed. It’s 2020. We’re in the midst of a deadly pandemic, a social revolution, economic depression, and existential climate crisis. What in God’s name is happening? We’re reaping the karma of the past age, thousands of years of human experiments, victories, failures, and frailties.

This is the crossroads. Some believe there are spirits incarnate today who were on Atlantis when it sank into the sea, here to prevent a repeat performance. Whatever our past experiences, in this world or any other, we are called to make the new order. This is our chance to grasp at Utopia.

There is no going back. Our fellow men and women will not be dehumanized again. Tyranny, oligarchy, sexism, racism, greed, and bigotry of every kind have had their dark day. In vast numbers, we are here to move the world forward.

We are here to live and die in the Light. Americans are here to live our Constitution, and if any of our brothers and sisters are deprived of their God-given rights to do so, we are all denied. The Light is all of us.

The truth of God is a fullness of all spirits, sacred substance with no race, gender, religion, social class, or nationality. Each of us is indivisible from the totality of humanity and all that lives throughout the universe.

This is the path of the new age. We are riding the crest of a great wave of change, thousands of years in the making. When we can each see ourselves truly in the faces of our neighbors, in the joy and agony of all sentient life, we will have made the shore.

Some food for thought:

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Human beings are not on earth to be citizens, or taxpayers, or socially engineered pawns of other human beings; rather they are here in order to grow, to transform, to become their authentic selves.” - Stephan A. Hoeller

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” - Albert Einstein


Elizabeth S. Eiler, Ph.D. is an eclectic writer and the published author of three books about spirituality and metaphysics. She is an ordained minister, spiritual teacher, and healer. Her current works in progress are an epic fantasy novel and a poetry collection.

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