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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Tuesday 27 April 2010

Refining understanding- love and power as objective realities

From this previous post I've tried to isolate specific areas that will need to be addressed over and over again as I develop a coherent structure of thought that can allow us to place the different phenomenon within its unity. The disconnectedness of all the phenomenon is not helping in their analysis and that disconnectedness is an aspect of the present schizophrenia. I would particularly mention the fact that the scholars I've found, valuable as their work is, seem to be able to pinpoint the ailment but don't know where to place it within the human context or address exactly what aspect of humaneness is suffering by the phenomenon in question.

A backbone is needed! A human backbone that will hold the "integrity" of our lives so that we can take a look at the patient as much as the suffering: the human being and our lives.

I am still far from that but not as far as I thought I was last week when just formulating these ideas seemed like it would take years. The scholars' work is so beautifully precise that it makes my work a lot easier. For that I am profoundly grateful. Being a Colombian housewife as I am, it is not easy to formulate the understanding that I carry inside and the problems are complex but not impossible to tackle.

I believe I am here presenting some notions that I have not yet found in other writers and continuing the strenuous labor of re-uniting our understanding. It would be of great help if others concerned with the subject, add to the incipient bulk of information that I have managed to amass here.


1.The realm of the SELF as the realm of Power. Note: I wonder if Foucault actually formulated this as such. He seems to be a genius in formulating the sphere of power but did he actually get down to the nitty gritty of the issue in the realm of each individual's self?
The relations of power between each other according to our positions in life (the play)? Class, nationality, race, gender, academic status?

1a. The following instance would be an aspect of the previous affirmation.

“For instance, a New Zealand writer, Kay Douglas, offers
this definition:

An abusive relationship is characterized by inequality. When one partner
consistently controls, dominates or intimidates the other by means of
manipulative, punishing or forceful behavior, abuse is occurring. (Douglas
1994: 24)

The advantage of this definition is that it suggests that the significance of a range of
behaviors lies in their use to consistently exercise power over another.”

2. The objectivity of “love”

This is of tantamount importance for it is the foundation to understanding the reality of the logos as an objective agent in our lives. If Foucault was able to detach “power” as an objective reality to which we are subject, we should be able to formulate “love” as an equally objective reality and in fact the main agent connected to the reality of power.



3.Couples as incarnations of social determinism. Marriages as implosions of the social order.


4. The law of recurrence in everyday life.
The “re-enactment” of abuse of power by those in positions of authority throughout the social institutions.

5. The social sphere
The sphere of the family
The sphere of the individual
And their interconnectedness and mutual conditioning
Love and Power-Power and Love

6. Women’s role within the family as “passive abuser” by the reality of her absence in the abandonment of old people and children.
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