Inauguration’s Power of Authenticity Moved the Nation and World

This was because of three factorsSeeing history happen live has a way of changing consciousness into what I call the Observer state It39s a highly attentive stateFrom the standpoint of being a television production it was world class The skill of the oncamera quottalentquot secondbysecond coordination of the video and audio the choreography of all the movement was largely Flow state They were in the zone Lady Gaga nailed the StarSpangled Banner in Flow state every secondBut the most powerful factor was its authenticity It was real The people were for realWhen President Biden said his quotwhole soul is in itquot into his job quoting Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address anyone without severe inner walls got itThis was not a con This is the man He is doing exactly what he wants to do by taking leadership at a time like this It39s what he trained for He has no other agendaHe has his hands full with our agendaOn a logical level and felt on an emotional level the message conveyed was that each of us needs there to be unity or we will fail to fix AmericaquotWe do so take oath of office at a moment of great peril and promise for our nation A onceinacentury deadly pandemic A historic and deepening economic crisis Calls for racial justice some 400 years in the making A climate crisis with force and fury We also feel the rise in political extremism and domestic terrorism unleashed just days ago on our Capitol the citadel of freedom but brewing long before that we must confront and defeatquotAll these problems we face cannot be overcome without unity And what39s to become of us if we donamp8217t conquer all these problems Obviously we must stop abusing each other and get down to the problemconquering togetherThe President constrained himself to saying only the unarguable truth This was wisequotThe Truth Well Toldquot is the motto of the advertising agency Wunderman ThompsonThe truth spoken with deep empathy by a person for whom the words are heartfelt that resonance has emotional powerThat is the power of authenticityHard to argue with To me it felt like being gently chewed out by your grandfather for having treated your brother like an enemy and given a checklist of how to make it all betterThe one thing that I like best about President Biden39s speech is when after listing all the challenges we face standing at the Capitol where America made its decisions from the year 1800 until now he reminded us of the many times we39ve been in deep trouble before backs to the wall and we always won in the end Whenever we have unity we can conquer anythingHe almost made me feel like we are lucky to have this historic challenge on our watchThe individual people appearing afterward greatly augmented the President39s already impactful speech Each added more authenticity and Flow state to the cumulating emotional and logical effects These are ideal conditions to get stuck people to reopen their mindsA year of uncivil war quotcan be set asidequot as USA Poet Laureate Amanda Gordon recited with the expressive gestures of a storyteller or shaman Her personal uptotheminute poem ended with a stirring reminder of our common American Mission and the exhortation quotBe Brave Enough to Be Itquot To be who we are the dream of equality and freedom the unfolding heroic American Story the American Dream Coming True That is usquotStep up to being itquot time hear the drums and the trumpets in your heart This is a Calling of True Americans Simply to cooperate in a polite manner Thatamp8217s the true patriotism and heroism called for at the momentThe Reverend Dr Sylvester Beaman prayed to God asking for the specific help that we need to work and coexist together as neighbors and to give up sowing divisionThis televised historic event was exactly what we needed to experience The right way to wake us up out of the divided delusion It is not easy to do but this production and these authentic and dedicated people achieved it I cannot think of any television special in history that was as important to get right And prayer works they did get it rightWe will see what its effects shall be I for one was moved I39ve given up talking about last year or any form of pessimismThere used to be too much of that before the InaugurationNow the rest is up to all of us We are each being called to set aside our differences and agree to disagree but to otherwise go back to what the Bible tells us to do about other people And to cooperate to get new laws passed as fast as they are needed And to stopping being dragged back into last year39s way of looking at things The time now requires courage cooperation respect creativity law abidance empathy unity We are being called to rise to that level to being our very best because our backs are against the wallWe need to be able to hold empathy confidence courage determination hope faith in ourselves and cautious optimism in scope all at the same timeClick the social buttons above or below to share this content with your 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