I felt the same wave of hope
and soul resonance that I felt when being a teenager and herd President Kennedy
giving his first speech. I shed then and today tears of relief, affective closeness,
coherent inner experience and feelings of energetic truth. Tears to accompany
the wisdom and positive discourse toward unity desire and improved future for the
children of the world.
We cannot deny that the
United States have been "the model" of Democracy for the whole world
since 1789 when George Washington was elected President and leaving his mandate
in 1797 went back to his civil life assuring a peaceful transition to the next
President, John Adams that was federalist and not republican like him (peaceful
transition that we have not seen in this unfortunate leaving mandate).
This US modeling has come
from what Joe Biden has empowered in his speech today -even citing Abraham Lincoln- the goodness,
truth and beauty of the deep significance of many paragraphs of the US Declaration
of Independence, above all the second, that has been used as the most clear example
for Human Rights principles:
We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness.
Even though I'm integralist, knowing that the development of consciousness
trespasses diverse levels of growth including
& trascending(*) the previous one; accordingly,
recognizing that an infant's
consciousness is not equal to a highly developed wise adult, I do know as well
the truth that lies in that declaration of equal rights for all human beings,
because it's true that nobody can be set aside for his race, religion, social
status, culture or gender which are the basic identities in anyone's life. In that
basic stand we are all equal and must be treated therefore equally !!!
(*) Ken Wilber's Integral Theory
So far, Joe Biden has been the perfect example of a wise man -not only
by his ample experience in overcoming great turmoil and pain in his own life,
but because of his behavior during and after the campaign for the Presidency. I'm
sure that he's going to perform a historical mandate, as historical has been
the celebration of his sacred vow today.
During his inauguration speech, he's shown a poise with naturalness at
the same time, a firm conviction without an atom of pretentiousness or
arrogance: He's a man that has won his
own personal battle many times and has nothing to lose, at his 78 years of age.
That's why he said that he is not going to govern for individual interests but
for the benefit of all !!!
Calmness, consistency, kindness, dignity and generosity (in his recognition
of former presidents, congress partners and the actual reality of a woman for
the first time in the Vice-Presidency) have enhance his best personal asset:
his authenticity. You may like him or
not, but you could never say he's phony or fake.
"We must restore the soul of
America", Biden has said; and yet another time he referred to the
"soul" and to "better angels" in his discourse,
may be as a way to remark that it's about time that after so many elections
since G. Washington, it's only the second time in the history of the US that a catholic
man goes up so far, arriving to the top of the ladder at the 46th mandate. J.F. Kennedy was murdered, probably, because the people was not yet ready for the
universal values of such a religious doctrine.
On the contrary, now, such values
are more than ever needed to generate and propel deep changes and transformations
that the country are so desperately demanding, above all after seeing the great
divide among its people that is more than political.
May be this four years of disruption, of a man like Trump in the
Presidency of one of the most powerful nations in the world, and the clear fact
that the chasm of the civil war is not yet healed, has some kind of spiritual
meaning, if we look at it from a higher perspective. Something cannot be cured, if the wound is
not seen and treated with proper care, and I don't know a "better" way to care than love, and that
sounds very catholic to me.
It seems that Biden is that man who can start the healing, not only for
all his personal qualities, skills and vast experience but because he has
surrounded himself by the most diverse president's cabinet which for the first time
in its history will have gender parity, different races and an Afro-American
leading the Dept. of Defense. Transformation
it's not going to be easy, it's not going to be quick. Biden and his cabinet need great doses of
CREATIVITY to generate a new story that would successfully address the many open fronts that are at
stake, in order to suit the greatest quantity of his fellow citizens. Something that he probably won't even get to see. Nevertheless and without a doubt he will make
history on his own, but definitively Trump/Biden
will be the best couple in the Modern History of political shake.
The changes President Biden has started to do, like the battle against Covid, show that he's willing to cure first some
inner wounds, but also the outer as he has signed for returning to the Paris
agreement to fight Climate Change and has stop the wall with México, stating
also in his speech that he's going to recover good relationships with the
allies, what it may relieve the tension created in External Politics.
I very well know that many think differently and I'm sure that for their
own honourable reasons what it makes me pray for unity, agreeing with Joe Biden
when in a line at the inaugural speech
of today he was calling for acceptance, calmness, tolerance and will of
listening to others -even though they may be different- in order to get the
best of all perspectives.
Raquel Torrent
Psychologist, Integral Therapist, Personal and Transpersonal Teacher, Ontological Coach and Consciousness activist.
