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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Monday 26 April 2010

Power over life!

What we can start getting glimpses of (for all this that I am working on are just glimpses of the problem but it is very good to start getting a more rounded picture after talking about it for the past three years), is that what power has power over is the things that give us life, that keep us healthy, that allow our self to flourish. Speech is one of these things. Speech and freedom of Speech and this is why the internet is such a precious invention: because we can speak to each other. Whether and when we reach each other is yet to be seen but the medium already offers us a possibility that we didn’t have before and it is still a terribly poor tool for what is needed. Hopefully it will bring us to dialogue in our actual lives, real dialogues and not mediated by computers. Our lives are changing so rapidly because we can communicate. I speak of speech as an objective reality, “giver of life” and when I say “Life” I mean a particular invisible substance (is this the “substance” you were talking about Spinoza?) an invisible substance that fills our lives with vivifying energy that I am calling the logos as in: The Gospel of John identifies the Logos, through which all things are made, as divine (theos), ] and further identifies Jesus as the incarnation of the Logos, which is similar in the stoics: The Stoic philosophers identified the term with the divine animating principle pervading the Universe. We experience this vivifying energy in emotions such as gratitude, grace, joy, trust, awe, love, sympathy, empathy, enthusiasm, curiosity, pride, dignity. For people who have difficulty with Christian language, the stoic definition is more suitable.

In every period of our lives, the possibility of experiencing these emotions is determined by our position in a particular institution: family, school, university, industry, corporation, cult, church, government, nation… and in every one of these institutions our freedoms to think, speak and act are limited and conditioned by the status quo of the institution. We are starving each other of life and life giving activities. We are starving our children and our old people who can no longer talk although they are the one’s who know best and suffer most with what is going on. We are starving them of LIFE. We are starving each other in jobs aimed at the production of money and not culture even if in art we continue to exploit the old formula of the hero or, more realistically, declare the death of the hero in such vivid characters as the chief woman in prime suspect who, besides being a superb human in resolving the crimes is an alcoholic without hope or life of her own. Yes, she is the hero of our times: a superb human without a human life, talking of which, I should give my self some dinner!

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