The Flower Power generation’s awakening spirituality
February is the month of love, and usually cold, white snow. To brighten the snowy white exterior, here’s a flashback to the chaos of color of the 1960s. The Flower Power generation’s awakening spirituality of the 1960s is something into which today’s society is still working to grow.
Although this particular video is an advertisement for a CD music collection of Flower Power generation’s songs, the video is also (in a very inclusive “Yes, AND!” way) capturing visuals from the 1960s timeline, as well as music clips by the original vocalists. Even when you watch the video, you get a sense of the different consciousness of the Flower Power generation, a consciousness that flowed more freely and openly then, than perhaps now.
And if the advertisement part of the video irritates you, what a wonderful opportunity to say to yourself: “Helll-lllo irritation. How are you serving me today? What can you tell me about myself that I haven’t been willing to hear previously?” Everything in life can become a spiritual practice, even irritating “Buy Me!” ads.
I’ve often heard it said by my own teachers or books that I’ve read: “The Universe is always on time and on schedule. We either wake up to that, or we don’t.” As a result, I try to walk through my life welcoming everything that comes onto my view screen. My mileage various, obviously, from day to day; but overall, this vantage point has helped equalize my daily struggles with life.
What’s in this Flower Power generation experience for me now?
Now I usually approach, almost anything, with the idea, or at least some form of the idea: “What’s in this experience, now, that has come directly to me today to be a pointer or a support to find the precise thing I am missing or needing to move forward to bliss.”
Of course, I also know that the move forward to bliss is not a single solitary move; and I know it is also possible to be that instantaneous drop into bliss. I know it’s both, “Yes, AND!” But more likely in my case, or until now, my experience has been my move to bliss is usually momentary, and has involved many, (perhaps many, many?) moves of varying baby-step proportions.
Thanks to King Star Direct Media for this Time Life: Flower Power – The Music of the Love Generation video, posted on YouTube:
Ponder your relationship to love this week
How do you relate to the Flower Power Generation’s version of love? Can you see it? Do you hate it? Does it have value for you? As Above, So Below: if it’s out there, then it’s in here too. The love outside of yourself, can also be experienced inside yourself.
The whole 1960s Flower Power generation movement was about love, perhaps more in the “out there” of the world way, but there were indications for the value of internalized love, or self-love.
Ponder your relationship to love, this week, and observe where you flow and where you get dammed-up. Join us next week for another stimulating Grounded Relating Monday Music selection.
(There are no full lyrics this week.)
