With President Biden’s halting performance in the Presidential debate with former President Trump, followed less than a week later by the Supreme Court decision to grant complete immunity to a President for crimes committed while executing “core Constitutional functions,” the Presidential race has taken on even greater drama and urgency. Depending on who you are, both the fear and the expectation of a Trump Presidency and its consequences have risen.
For most of my life, I have been able, by observing flows of energy within the subtle realms, to know, sometimes weeks in advance, who the winner of a Presidential campaign would be. This time, however, when I tune in, all I see is the subtle equivalent of a fog, a swirling turmoil that does not resolve itself. It’s as if the question of the future of the United States—that is, what kind of country will it be moving forward—is still unresolved and being debated.
It’s important to understand that, at least in my experience, the subtle realms are not monolithic, possessing a single vision and perspective on everything, but they are diverse and pluralistic, with many agendas about the future. I often sense unanimity about the overall spiritual objectives in a given area while being aware that different “factions” or soul groups have different ideas on how to achieve those objectives.
To put this into a larger context, Gaia itself is undergoing profound spiritual changes—a topic I shall write about in a later essay—with a particularly intense inflow of spiritual energies over the next two or three years. One effect of these energies is to stimulate the Light within individuals, which will be liberating and empowering for some and disorienting and discombobulating for others, depending in part on how open a person is to change. Again, I’ll write more about this later, as it’s an important topic all on its own. My point right now, though, is that established institutions and structures of all kinds will be challenged by this and by a need to adapt to provide more openness and freedom for individual expression.
In other words, these new spiritual energies are not being channeled into and through organizations but into people within organizations, which may lead to pressure being put on the organizations to change. Obviously, many organizations and their leadership will resist.
This can be a scary situation, both for established institutions and for individuals whose sense of safety and power is invested in those institutions. It’s important to understand that these new energies, as I understand them, are not antiestablishmentarian or against institutions and organized structures per se. They are for embodiment and expression within individuals. This can certainly take place within organizations but only if the organizational culture and structure is open enough, and courageous and flexible enough, to allow it.
What we will likely see—and are already seeing—is a growth in conflict and turmoil between new vision and ideas and older institutions and structures, especially if those new ideas arise from a pluralistic view of humanity—one that honors all people, nationalities, religions, genders, and so forth—and the institutions are the kind that include some but exclude others through arbitrary distinctions.
When I attune to all this in the subtle realms, I’m often aware of two influential groups, each of which has a different vision of how the United States as a nation may meet the changes occurring in Gaia. Interestingly, both groups share an overall vision that America’s destiny is to be a “planetary nation,” but they are very different in how they seek to achieve that vision. One group sees America as a place where many different types of people representing all of humanity can come together to create a pluralistic and holistic nation, thus demonstrating a unity in diversity: E pluribus unum, as it says on the Great Seal of the United States: “out of many, one.” It sees America as an inclusive place, part of a global community. It is the nation as a brother and sister to other nations. It is more “people-minded,” viewing power as residing in individuals.
The other group sees power as focused through organization and structure. It honors American exceptionalism and sees America as a “nation on a hill,” an “apex nation” that stands alone in its spiritual destiny and greatness and by its accomplishments inspires (or imposes upon) other nations to be like it or to follow its values, to do what it says (whether it fully embodies those values or not). It is the nation as a parent to other nations, telling them what is for their own good.
It’s important to understand that neither group can force anyone to believe or do anything. They can inspire, and they can offer energy to those who resonate with their perspective, but the choice rests with us. We who are incarnated as citizens of the country are the responsible parties, the ones who must decide the country in which we wish to live—for we are the ones who must then live in it and experience the consequences of our choices.
The group with whom I identify and with whom I have worked for many years is one that honors the individual as a source of sacredness in the world. The persons within it see the spiritual power and destiny of America as focused within and arising from its people. Their philosophy is summed up in the Declaration of Independence, that all people are created equal and endowed by the creator the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Indeed, some in this group were involved in creating this document in the first place. For them, America’s destiny as a planetary nation is grounded in its ability to be a pluralistic society, not dominated by any one group. It follows what I call a “galactic model,” a system made up of equal stars, each and all shining bright.
The second group—and some of these were involved in the creation of our country as well—sees safety and the protection and continuation of American society as rooted in organization and hierarchy. It sees America as having important gifts to offer the world but in a paternalistic way. This group is really responding to an ancient impulse, one that has always championed the importance of structure and leadership, which usually is hierarchical in nature. It follows what I call a “sun-satellite model,” a system made up of a central sun or source around which everyone else orbits like a planet and receives illumination and energy.
Structure is important. But structure can take many forms and can, where there is love, be fluid and dynamic in its nature, rather than rigid and dogmatic. The future is not an either/or between what these two groups represent but most likely a blend of the best of each. In the subtle worlds, dialog and cooperation takes place between the two, something we have yet to achieve here.
I should also say that these two are not the only forces at work from the subtle realms, and we need to be careful about reducing the complexity of the situation to a simple polarity. There are also those in the shadowy dimensions of human energy whose motives have little to do with spirit and much to do with division, separation, and destruction. They have no interest in any form of spiritual destiny for America—or for any other nation. They work to tear down, to manipulate, and to control, and they feed off anger, hatred, fear, and suffering. They have little or no interest in the good of any larger whole but only in meeting their own selfish needs and hungers. This group, if I may call it such, is an expression of humanity’s karma and its shadow and is not particular to any single nation, Party, or people. Its influence is international and seeks only to diminish or extinguish the Light. It can work through tyranny and structure and through anarchy and the mob. Its identity is Chaos, and its influence can be seen in our history in acts such as slavery and the decimation of the Native Americans, an influence that has acted regardless of which governmental philosophy or Party was in control.
Here is what one of my subtle colleagues, a member of the first group I mentioned, had to say:
Our “faction,” if you wish to call us such, seeks to support those individuals who are attuned to the spirit of America and the Declaration of Independence, regardless of their partisan affiliation. We are attuned to those who have hope, not fear, love and not hate or discrimination. But our soul brothers and sisters in the other “faction” are not necessarily acting out of fear or hate but out of an honest sense that, in the midst of turmoil, what will save America is a strong and clear structure, led by a strong leader. Hierarchy has served and saved people in the past, and they believe it will do so again. These differences in approach and methodology can be found in both your political Parties, although at any given moment in your history, one Party may embody one vision more than another. But the new energies emerging present humanity with a different challenge than anything you have met before, something beyond your familiar and habitual ways of doing things. They challenge you to become a creative and flexible part of the planetary community of all beings, a conscious part of Gaia, and to participate in wholeness, which is not a structure, not a political position, but a process of life itself.
In my opinion, neither the Republican nor the Democratic Party understand or embody the vision of new kind of “galactic” polity that is an embodiment of wholeness; both are still beholden to “sun-satellite” ideas of hierarchy and structure. However, the Republican Party at this time is more caught in the glamor of hierarchy and the imposition of a structure and leadership that is fundamentally separative, inclusive of some and exclusive of others. It looks to what worked in the past rather than to what will work in a more holistic and pluralistic future. This gives it a rigidity at the moment that will make it less capable of responding gracefully or effectively to the changes that are happening in the world. Light is emerging in and through the people, and this will challenge structures, no matter who controls the Presidency and the government.
Turmoil is ahead—indeed, has already started—but one approach to government and structure will be able to respond with less fear and with more adaptability than another. Attempts to impose and protect a hierarchy will only increase the turmoil, as suppression will prove incapable of creating obedience and order and will only aggravate the situation. Love and trust, not fear and coercion, hold the solutions we will need. This is particularly true when it comes to resisting the influence and encroachment of those beings who interest is primarily or only in conflict, division, and destruction.
This election is a crucial point for America, a moment of profound choice between two visions of who and what America is and can become, much like what we faced in our Civil War. The reason there is a fog in the inner that obscures the outcome of the election—at least as far as my capabilities of inner vision go—is that it’s not clear what we, as a people, will decide. Which America do we want?
To dispel this fog, we must choose the way we wish to go and those who can inspire us in that direction. For myself, I look for those candidates able to articulate a vision of the positive future, who do not look to the past, either in nostalgia or in listing accomplishments, but who speak of hope and call forth to the creative possibilities within us. I look for the candidate who does not claim that safety and hope lies in him or her, or the structure he or she will provide, or who demonizes and diminishes his or her opponents. I look for the candidate who sees the future of America alive and powerful in each of us, whoever we are, whatever our gender, our race, or our religion, and who knows that the life and power of America emerges best when we reach out to support and trust and work with each other as Americans, whatever our surface differences may be. I look for the candidate who does not manipulate me but respects and uplifts me as a citizen and thus as essential to the fulfillment of this country’s destiny. I look for the candidate who offers a vision and practical steps to take us beyond conflict and division and towards unity. I look for the candidate who, though love and largeness of soul, can diminish the power of hatred and shadow amongst us and open us to the wholeness.
My subtle colleagues had a final word to say:
Fear has a momentum. If you wish to halt and change its influence in this election, then you must do the work to provide a counter-momentum, one based on a positive vision of what is possible and a vision of trust and collaboration. To base all your efforts on eliciting fear of what will happen if the other Party wins is ultimately to serve fear itself, which in the end will only serve the turmoil in your lives and those who wish to destroy all that you have gained.
©️2024 David Spangler