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 13 June 2010

The "Hierarchy"


Max Stirner, in his book The Individual and What Is His (Der Einzige und sein Eigentum), published in 1844, demanded of the “I” in a radical way that it finally recognize that all the beings it has set above itself in the course of time were cut by it from its own body and set up in the outer world as idols. Every god, every general world reason, is an image of the “I” and has no characteristics different from the human “I.” And even the concept of the general “I” was extracted from the completely individual “I” of every single person.
Elena:
I can’t agree with Stirner because the place of man in the Universe is not, in my humble understanding, at the top of the “hierarchy”. To experience the “hierarchy” must be the greatest experience one can ever have, the most humbling and yet, the greatest one. When a human being experiences the “hierarchy” it is possible for him or her to “place” him and her self in the Universe. It is not an experience of “inferiority” as such “complex” is usually understood but an experience of the greatness, the vastness, the majesty of “Universal Powers”. The Oneness of a human being with that power is Real but the human being as we know our selves today is an innocent child when confronted with such vastness. I believe that there is nothing unique about me to have had such experience. I believe that every single human being eventually experiences “wholeness” and the “hierarchy” no matter how THAT may be called in the different traditions. 
Human beings cannot “submit” to such “powers” because those powers do not “submit” beings. They are in fact voluntarily “submitted” to other beings like us. They ACT only through grace. They are not “Gods” in the sense of external beings beyond man that man has to submit to, they are forces in the Universe that cannot do harm. I could say that they act through love but our understanding of love, the word, the use of such a word in our time, has nothing to do with how love lives itself out in other realms. It is an aspect of being. It is not a “separate” quality but THE inherent QUALITY of such beings.
Perhaps the only one who is unconscious of the beauty and the love that impregnates the Universe is man himself. That is the main characteristic of our unconsciousness. 
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