The Call to Prayer refers us to making decisions that lead us to a state of vibration that allows us to avoid rupture, avoid confrontation, avoid dispersion, avoid adversity… and to be a balm that fosters the possibility, the possibilities of reunion, of proclamation, of the virtuous experience of goodness.

Humanity's current trajectory is a state of decay; of an imbalance that is not the active imbalance that it promotes, but rather an imbalance vertigo, of confusion, of radicalism.

The Call to Prayer reclaims our nature of harmony, of seeking attunement, of collaboration, of cooperation, of bearing witness, of helping, of providing assistance… while the general clamour of those in power incites us to confusion, confrontation, pointing the fingers, distress, and the continuous statistics of… “so many”:“out of every so many people, so many have anguish; out of every so many, so many are depressed; out of every so many, so many are anxious; out of every so many, so many suffer phobias; out of every so many, so many suffer from panic; out of every so many, so many…”.

If we were to add up all the so many, there would be no "out of every"; everyone would be "so many”.

And these aren't false figures, no. A little inflated, yes. But folly prevails. Disorder takes hold. And certainly, the struggle for life, the struggle for balance, the struggle to feel... normal becomes visible. 

How far away that word seems! What is the reference?

Yes. We can resort to the clichés that in other times there was the religious reference, the reference of the charismatic political leader, the reference of the imposing political system, the reference... and now there is not.

The struggle and the fight against that generated new developments, that led us into digression, into mediocrity, into action merely “for the sake of doing what was required”, without the eagerness to discover, to modify, to shape, to mould what was disturbed, what was altered.

The so-called "advanced" societies are routinely dependent on psychotropic drugs.

Less advanced societies suffer from a lack of vitality. 

There are no societies in between.

Moments in history are remembered as movements organised around livestock, the harvests, the housing, labour… Now we are in an inter-dependence that competes to gain pre-eminence.

Complaining is a way of being in tune with the environment. And complaints are gathered to protest –for example-, but without offering solutions, without proposing projects with demands for handouts, without understanding the situation of the surrounding environment.

And this information about the environment is becoming increasingly diffuse, more deceptive, more manipulated, and more difficult to interpret.

And just as –for example- Cuba is suffocating under the US embargo, at the same time solar panels are being installed on the island to solve the problem of electricity supply. And at the same time, electric cars are being introduced so that they don't depend on the wonderful, black fluid, oil. For example.

And when it comes to analysing this process –for example- we are left without resources to interpret what the strategy is.

The same thing happens with another country, like Venezuela –these examples are important because they give us a perspective on how human intentions operate-: A dictatorial country is invaded, its president and his wife are removed by eliminating their entire personal guard, and the rest of the government remains. And the one who was destined to be the successor –the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize- is trying to decide whether or not to enter her country.

And we ask, and we investigate: what is the strategy?

It's easy to answer that “the empire, the domination, what it wants is…”.

It already has it. Nothing more is needed.

But the worrying doubt, as members of a society of humanity, is that what is happening is so camouflaged that we cannot… not even “know”, but interpret what the trend is and why.

Why is a country like Brazil, the largest in Latin America, debating, in its elections, between a politician who has borne the full responsibility of the workers –the “Workers’ Party”- a politician with experience, with knowledge... and another one who is the son of a convicted father, who can barely string together a coherent speech?

And for now, the evidence points to election results that would defy logical reasoning.

.- Where is it?

.- Who?

.- Where is logical reasoning?

Yes. The Prayerful Call uses examples; examples that are not foreign to us, even though they belong to other places, but rather we’ve experienced those same examples here: with COVID, with the torrential rains, with the railway, with Ceuta, with...

What do we know? What's happening? While a square like Puerta del Sol is full of protesters demanding housing status, at the same time, two people facing eviction –a man and a woman- commit suicide because of the eviction, and nobody takes to the streets.

And this is happening simultaneously.

How can we interpret, within a community, –despite its differences- that it reacts in such a distinct, such a… painful way?

No; we are not strangers, anywhere, to these distortions that lead us to anger, to rage, to the search for… solutions?

No. A solution isn't even expected. No. We go “against” because… let's see what happens. Today, when we have measurement standards that can “guarantee” –in quotes- a forecast of systems over a not-so-short, rather long, term, the opposite occurs.

The Russian president is threatening that nuclear weapons could be used at any unexpected or unforeseeable moment. For example. And we might say: “Well… so what?”.

Not so much because of what might happen –which is no small matter, is it?- but because of the vanity of the powers that dominate our spirits.

And that is where the Prayerful Call comes in; it emphasizes and insists: on maintaining our integration, our communion with Creation, our firm decision to the creative, innovative research; to promote an urgent – “urgent”- promotion of healing.

That healing that resides in the soul, in the mind, in the intellect… Place it at whatever level you wish. But let it flow from our actions, our thoughts, and our words, promotion and development that is universal; let it provide that touch that unites us, that makes us understand each other, that bring us together and enables us to share.

In this time of Rapprochement, of Progressive Fusion, guided by the I-Ching, we are especially “obliged” –in quotation marks- to heed the Prayerful Call, which urges us –not for the first time, certainly, but each time with different tones, with different sensibilities- towards the development of a humanity of solidarity, a humanity capable of sustaining itself, of supporting itself, as an example of balance, of communion, of supportive presence with all living things. Not only with its own species!, as usually happens and as is usually the source of disasters in all environments.

Yes. We must place each being, each group, and each social element with whom we live and share, within a healing intention.

And this implies an adaptation, initially a willing one. This requires a sense of Compassion and Kindness, especially towards that which grates on us, that which dissociates us, or that which tries to dissociate or grate on us.

I am not the indifferent consumer in the market of trinkets, dependent on this or that product. I am not a consumed consumer. But at the same time, I am in the market.

And the merchants try to sell, to extract resources from their goods. And they see us as consumed consumers.

And we don't have to run away. We have to “agree”. We have to share. Knowing that we need for one another.

Making this simple situation known sets healing mechanisms in motion. Because if I need you, I have to take care of you. If you need me, you will take care of me. If I need you, I will take care of you. Because I need your support, your help

That… position of adaptation, of creativity, of pleasure, and of interdependence –which we have spoken about on other occasions; we have also prayed about it-becomes increasingly necessary: ​​becoming aware that I am needed and that I need others. And this implies modifying attitudes, rethinking positions, discovering where –where, where- the inconveniences lie, so that we may awaken to the fact that we need each other.

Taking this into the universal. Not leaving it at: “I need Joseph” or “I need Mary” because I get along well with her, but I can't stand that she does this, or that he does that, so…

 But no. Taking it to this universe.

 “I need”… I need to feel created! I need to discover myself in the Universe. I need to fall in love with life! Because life, the Universe, and the Creator Mystery... all need me. In a very different way from the way I perceive it, no doubt.

And I shall have to discover that way. It will be prayer, meditation, and contemplation that will show it to me, reveal it to me.

And when I bring this to the planes where I’m directly involved, as structures, and find myself “in need of” and see that “they need me for”, I recall the previous moment when I realised I am in need of Creation, of the Universe, of Life.

And each of the others, both like me and unlike me –like minerals, like plants, like microorganisms- need me and I need them.

And at the same time, simultaneously, I am Creation, I am Universe, and I am Life.

No, no, no, no, no! Don't try to reason it out or make it logical. Stay with the vibration of what is being said.

If you try to understand it rationally now, you will fall into the indolence of rejection. It will be too much for you, far too much!, and you will ask for an instruction manual, materials, and methods. No!

To pray is to feel oneself on the threshold of Creative Love, which seeks its resources to send us, through prayer, suggestions and impulses so that we may be in its image and likeness.

And may we see in the other that Creation, that Universe, that Life.

And may we see that, by seeing it this way, we need it. And it will see us this way too.

Today we talked and discussed what our microbiota needs for us to be healthy. We are talking with bacteria, with viruses.

We’re asking them what their best food is, because we know they affect our cognitive abilities, our immune system, our hormonal system, and our mood.

And they, in turn, tell us what they need through their "dysbiosis" –their imbalance-, which throws us off balance.

We are in need “of”, and they need us. And we are talking between human beings –Homo sapiens-sapiens- and bacteria!

What is this? Weren't we the centre of Creation? Weren't we the icing on the cake? Weren't we supremacists?

Do I have to dialogue with millions of bacteria?...

What is this?...

And it is also a dialogue in which the sapiens must “submit” if he does not want to be disturbed, altered, or made ill.

It is not, therefore, a relationship of “I help you and you help me”. No. It is submission.

 Undoubtedly, this is one way of seeing it. Of course! But that's the one that the Prayerful Call shows us. Perhaps to help us realize how we've created hegemony over our being, our existence, without actually being hegemonic at all. And how, thanks to this self-proclaimed hegemony, we're generating an astonishing, unprecedented imbalance.

There is no need for a meteorite to strike. No. Not even an earthquake or a cyclone –although these exist too-. Or a volcano, which also erupts lava.

No. It is we, ourselves who, in our eagerness to be interpreters, owners and masters, have ceased to see what the other needs and what others need from me. We have lost that bond of complicity in solidarity.

And therefore, if we reclaim that… –let's say it in capital letters and quotation marks- “HUMBLE POSITION”, we will be willing to see beyond our self-interest, beyond our comfort, beyond our dominance…

To see beyond our self-sufficiency, our libertarian position, our feeling of being one with all living things.

And may our interdependence be a constant motivation that fosters that dynamic equilibrium that constitutes healing; that transforms the experience of living into a celebration, a joyful experience, a mysterious delight.

Let's not diminish any of these proposals.

Being, we are Creation, Universe, and Life. And in our mysterious existence, we contemplate an astonishing Mystery that captivates us, that we love.

Yes, yes, yes.

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