Transformation As An Invocation of Death

I am not sure I have given this any consideration before--at least not in the way that I am about. Nor have I heard it mentioned by anyone else in quite this same way: namely, that a call for transformation is an invoking of the forces of death.

Not life initially. Transformation is a call for reform or reorganization of the present elements and conditions of life as it is. Transformation is a desire for the Isness of Now to be other than what it, well... IS! And quite simply put, if we are desiring transformation (ITP, ILP, psychoanalysis, metanoia, enlightenment, satori, samadhi, social and cultural revolution, a New World Order, what have you) then we are in a position where we are invoking... asking for, begging, pleading, demanding... the death of what IS so that something 'Other' might come to replace what we have come to feel diminished and/or oppressed by.

So, in a nutshell, transformation is death. Real transformation comes in the guise of the ghosts and ghouls and goblins of our popular imagination; those creatures whose season is now--'All Hallow's Eve:' Halloween. Transformation is not--at least initially--all that is sweet and nice and cool and hip and fab. It may seem to be like that in the end--after our Resurrection. But it is not like that in the beginning--as the momentum of our Crucifixion builds, as the Days of Death mount, as the Four Horsemen saddle up and head our way, making a housecall that begins in our own plea transformation. That transformation we are all too shocked to discover coming in the guise of our own demise.

It is how we ask to die... when we say we want change in our lives. So don't be at all surprised when that Menace comes. You probably asked for it. You wanted it. You begged for things to be different. You begged to be slaughtered, sacrificed, dismembered. You prayed for the Angel of Death.