There are many ways in which we participate in world events, both actively and passively.

One thing is certain: while we are in the world, we are participating. Our circumstances obviously change and our souls may become conditioned unconsciously by others' limiting beliefs. The apparent helplessness of our individuality alongside the power-mongers of oppression and personal profit need not depress our individual human spirit if we grow strong enough to sustain impeccability. World events mirror the individual soul and rear up before us as a many-headed teacher if we are willing to learn.

We may wonder at Marie Curie who famously said: One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.  

Reincarnation suggests that we have participated in preparing current events as we hold old wine in new bottles. Reincarnation also suggests that we will be back after this party to do the cleaning up and imbibe the vintage wine and vinegar laid down today. Rudolf Steiner suggested that anthroposophy leads us all to bear individual responsibility for the continuing evolution of the world.  

A Haida saying tells us: We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors. We borrow it from our children.

An elegant switch of an old cliché (I have not looked up its author) says: don’t just do something, sit there. Action and contemplation are both participative. What have we learned from anthroposophy about participating in world events? I invite you to step through the needle’s eye of world symptoms and consider potent remedies.