The Three Taboos

Throughout much of the modern world, we have historically had three great taboos: sex, death and finances.  In recent decades these have been coming up for healing.  It is always best if we deny nothing.  We can push things away for a time, but in the end they will be made known.  Such is the case with taboos. 

When I was a girl, back in the 1960’s we collectively faced our sexual taboo.  It was so amazing for me to watch as 'The Summer of Love' raised itself up, with it's pinnacle at The Haight, in San Francisco, in my home state of California.  As this change swept over our nation, women’s liberation and gay rights were soon free to be born.  The environmental movement and AIM followed suit as the feminine principle began to rise.

Then in the 1990’s the taboo of death began to be addressed.  My father was wholly unable to face the reality of his inevitable death and he, like many others of his generation, could neither speak nor think of his death.  Death was the enemy to be avoided at all costs and the standard western medical model of healing was the savior.  

Then, the need to release that outmoded ideology began to surface.  Culturally, we could no longer deny the reality of death.  Exercises addressing the prospect of death and dying began to enter our collective minds.  These have grown in acceptance and in popularity as the years have progressed.  Now, with the Hospice Movement, death has re-entered the home and our loved ones and their time to go is embraced with dignity and allowance. 

But, our third great taboo, financial transparency has still not yet been culturally addressed.  We have great disparity of wealth, not only among our friends and family members, in our neighborhoods and nation-wide, but also, and grossly so, around the world.  This has resulted in untold amounts of personal suffering along with a separation from the love and oneness that we know we all share.  And that is the key here, we only need to learn how to share.

Even among my closest friends, I have little idea about their financial situations.  People can get fired from their jobs in this country if they even so much as discuss their income figures with their co-workers.  This is still the great and firmly entrenched taboo of the western world.
 
So, the other morning, I found myself up early, before the day was fully awake, sitting in the softest light of the soon-to-be rising sun.  I had been asking myself over the last few weeks what this new situation at the pinnacle of our nation’s government was about.  Knowing that Divine Creator has a hand in everything, I was hoping for an insight, and then one came.  Without a thing on my mind, in that still sleepy morning light, it dropped in to my awareness, and I heard the words, “Financial Transparency.”  Instantaneously I knew that this was the answer to my question.  The time has come upon us now for this last, final great taboo to rise up for its healing.

May we all be blessed in this Holiday Season with equality and love.

© Josephine Laing 2016