The Separation between State and Religion

In time we will realize that Democracy is the entitlement of individuals to every right that was in its times alloted to kings. The right to speak and decide, to be treated with decency, to serve and be served by people in a State of “love” that is, to serve with one’s work for the development of ‘life’. To belong to the Kingdom of Human Beings without racial, national, social or academic separations. To love and be loved. To die at the service of the whole and be honored in one’s death, for one’s life and work was legitimately valued. To be graceful and grateful. To have the pride and the humility of being One with the Universe, One with every realm of Existence, One with every living and deceased soul. To treat with dignity and be treated with dignity for One is dignified together with All others and Life itself. To walk the path of compassion, not in the sorrow of guilt but in the pride of being. To take responsability for one’s mistakes and sufferings and stand up again and again like a hero and a heroine and face the struggle that is put at one’s feet and in one’s hands. Millions of people, millions and millions of people might take many generations to realize the consciousness of our humaneness but there is no other dignified path for the human being.

The “work” as I conceive it is psychological and political. Psychology is the connection between the different dimensions within one’s self and Politics is the actualization of that consciousness in our practical lives. Religion is the ceremony that binds the connectedness between the individual and the Universe. The separation between religion, politics and science, the arts and sports is, in the sphere of the social, the reflection of the schizophrenia within the individual and the masses. The dialogue between individuality and the "human" belongs to consciousness. The tendency to develop cults resides in the shortcomings we’are finding in life as it is structured today. “Life” has become the private property of a few priviledged who cannot profit from it because as soon as it is appropriated it stops to be “life” or “life-giving”.

We are all the victims of our own invention and each one is called upon to find solutions. The only problem is believing our selves incapable of finding them. We are now free to use all Systems of knowledge objectively, sharing them without imposing our will on each other. To become objective about our lives means to understand that the institutions that govern its experience are critically important. That we are one with the governments, one with the religious activities that mark its pace, that the arena’s in which we move our bodies and the laboratories in which we explore our possibilities are ALL part and parcel of our own personal responsibility. That WE ARE ONE WITH EACH OTHER AND EVERYTHING AROUND US and acknowledge for ourselves a bond of love in conscious responsibility. That we human beings know ourselves part of each other and are willing and able to act on our behalf for the benefit of each and every individual. That we no longer allow governments, industries, universities or any other institution to run along unchecked by the objective principles of humaneness. That we do not allow gurus to abuse their power or governors to steal the taxes and use them to their personal advantage in detriment of the whole. That we do not allow abuse from anyone anywhere because life is too beautiful to do so and that we are willing to stop the rampant crime with the necessary compassion Conscious knowledge is every individual's right. Conscious action is every individual's duty.

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Sunday 29 November 2009

Elena- cults and concentration camps


243. Elena - November 16, 2009 [Edit]

There is one more thing I wanted to work on this morning and it’s about exploring why cults “work” as efficiently as concentration camps but upside down and backwards which is a process I’ve been trying to understand since we looked at THE RAPE OF THE MIND: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, by Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D. in the fofblog.
After realizing that we do apply “work” ideas in the cult, esoteric exercises that are extremely efficient, it is much easier to understand why the brainwashing process takes place so quickly and willingly in a cult. While in concentration camps the same things happen against the person’s will, in the cult they happen with the person’s blessing! In concentration camps all the vulnerable aspects of the human being are systematically attacked and finally make him or her “confess” and become emotionally dependent to his captors, love and hate them at the same time, desperately need them and desperately hate them all at once and these same things happen in the cult where the member is subjected to the same psychological conditioning that the prisoner is physically subjected to.
A prisoner in a concentration camp is physically separated from his family, friends, society and mankind at large while cult members separate not only physically but psychologically. These things might sound not too tragic when one hasn’t experienced them but they affect the human balance of functions in ways that we are only just beginning to understand as we deprive ourselves of them in the very imaginative institutions that we’ve developed in our massive aberrations.
Even if the member continues to work in society, he adopts and attitude of being emotionally and psychologically separate from the people s/he works with; even if the member continues to visit family or friends, s/he lives in an attitude of separation from them until severing completely. From there to fanatically surrendering to the guru and the cult as the only possible solutions to life is a very small step. It’s not that life has changed in any way, it’s that the member has effectively cut it off himself, severed it from his possibilities and left without options s/he concentrates on the only one that is left. Far from developing “unity” the member is separated into his former life and his present life creating a disassociation that s/he is consistently struggling with. Everything that he loved and longed for in the former life, becomes evil and aspects of the lower self while everything that is cultish and embraces the new life is the higher self.
We see the justification of this separation in almost every page of Mr. Burton and Mr. Haven’s works and in the open life-book of each Fellowship member.
When we understand this deeply, we’ll know why we need to help people get out of cults. The suffering experienced inside a cult is no less extreme than the suffering experienced in a concentration camp but it is “sublimized” as necessary sacrifice for “awakening”. People become trapped in the yezidi? Circle and cannot leave not only because the cult is holding them but because they’ve cut their own wings.
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