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

fofblog - A river without stones: a club... a cult


306. Elena - November 28, 2009 [Edit]

Ames: …and my right to protest if an Elena comes along and dumps on us (her new blog has reached 156,000 words in over 250 posts on one—very long—page!).
It must be all that matters: the length of the posts!
No wonder you don’t write here! Sounds like Robert who wouldn’t allow us to speak about the same thing more than two minutes so that we wouldn’t grasp anything well enough! And neither of you seem to understand the point that Daily Cardiac is making that has nothing to do with the System so he continues to drill the dogma without being challenged.
And the fofblog seems like a river without rocks but there’s no dialogue in it either. No struggle, just nice people like in the Fellowship, giving up the dialogue as long as they can all post! You’re by far more successful than I am with this blog but that is not a model I would like to imitate either. It’s like in the Fellowship: everyone giving an angle on the same subject without discussing it but the beauty of a dialogue is that moment in which two people confront each other’s ideas and one helps the other move beyond him or herself and they do it because they love each other enough for the dialogue to be possible. Maybe you just no longer do that in America or Europe? No “sobet” as Rumi calls it? It isn’t much better in Colombia. People are too afraid to talk in public. That simply shows how much we’ve allowed for the public space to be alienated from us. How afraid we are of intimacy in a public realm. It is a benign world and if we can trust each other and show others that that is possible it too could spread. Love is contagious! Well, I don’t expect you to do that here but you might try it in the fofblog if you find it more suitable for your liking.

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