the fourth of the 10 Cs of being human is chaos.
chaos screams disorder and discomfort.
chaos energy creates a dance between order and disorder. chaos can teach us to recognise this dynamic, moving force is intrinsic to nature. could it be that too much order is as dangerous and deadly as too much disorder? do we need to be shaken out of our complacency? this time of pandemic has upended our normal routines and challenged many long-held attitudes. can we, within chaos, also prepare new visions and new habits of dwelling on the earth—a “new normal” where we can become more human?
gabrielle roth, the creator of “5 rhythms dance” tell us that chaos “is the gateway to the big mind.”
she goes on to say that chaos “liberates us from all ideas about who we are.” this freedom allows us to live from our big mind, that spacious, open-hearted space of love.
as elders we have the opportunity within this chaos to remain poised and to find the still-point at the centre of our being. with fewer distractions we have more quiet time available to let go of the known and receive the unknown. our decades of life experience enable us to sense new possibilities. because we have lived long enough to have known many changes, we also know that life rarely disappoints us in providing opportunities to grow. when we surrender to the rhythm of chaos we find a growing comfort in life itself, in the simple joy of being alive.
the ancient greeks saw khaos as the first of the primordial goddesses. she is
the vacant and infinite space which existed previous to the creation of the world. it was within this infinite space that all was created.
today we see chaos theory as an interdisciplinary theory. according the font of all contemporary knowledge, wikipedia, the theory states that, “within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnectedness, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals, and self-organisation.”
within the spaciousness of chaos there is order and connection. there is communication and familiarity. there is our internal organisation that can keep us poised as the world we live in continually offers us change.
elders are best poised to maintain balance in chaos between the known and the unknown, the finite and the infinite.