Who’s in control?

Philip Allum contemplates the beautiful chaos of creation

by Philip Allum 21st December 2018

Just about the most disturbing sentences in the current Advices & queries are in number 11, and they stick with me for days whenever I hear them spoken in Meeting. They read: ‘Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading?’ In my personal case, there are lots of these, both of the unpalatable and evaded variety, but, collectively, one of our most evaded truths is that we, in modern Western society, love the illusion that we are in control of everything. It’s conveniently neat and tidy.