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Next Sunday is Easter. The way I understand it, in Christianity, Easter represents the day that Jesus Christ defied the confines of death and was resurrected. What does this mean? Did He become “alive” again, or did He share a secret pathway with those who would choose to believe?

But, before that, perhaps we should take a look at how He got there. He seemed to believe that being good to each other was the most beneficial way forward as we walk through this life, which makes sense because someone being an asshole to everyone is never pleasant for anybody. Assholes sometimes seem to enjoy it, but for the rest of us, it’s just frustrating. Anyway, for His viewpoint, Jesus was condemned, tortured, and murdered. That’s how right He was. He knew we needed a moral course correction and offered to be the One to demonstrate it. He offered Himself for the benefit of us all. Why did no one help Him? Where were the Apostles? Why did everyone watch Him be tortured? People watched Him die–the same people who felt it was important to recount His story.

Today, people worldwide continue to celebrate His rising as a holiday every year. We make a huge deal out of it. Yet, despite His suffering and ultimate sacrifice, we treat each other no better than we did then. And very few step forward to make a sacrifice–of any size–for the many. In fact, this story, a cornerstone in the story of Jesus, is told and re-told, and has been for literally thousands of years. The Stigmata, for instance, is memorized and recited as part of the tale to ensure understanding. Yet, do we understand? We have had 2000 years to correct our ways to realign ourselves with each other. How much more time do we need?

Most of us have heard songs that have transported us back to a specific place or time during our lives. But have you ever heard a song that connects you to a dimension that you’ve never been privvy to before? Take George Clinton’s “Atomic Dog.” To me, great music is the perfect marriage of a smooooooth groove and a tribal beat. Some music even reaches out to grab you. You can’t NOT move to it. I wonder: if enough people feel that groove and move, stomp, and dance to it, would we build a collective energy field? As we would be stepping or landing a stomping foot synchronously, wouldn’t we be feeling each other’s energy? Could we raise vibrations this way? If enough people on the planet could dance together–plugged in to each other’s rhythm-produced collective contribution–what could we achieve?

That may sound outlandish. It may even sound nuts. But consider: how can those bearing oars move in unison and power a ship across the ocean, or those organizing their strengths, dare I say, build the Great Pyramids?