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.

Saturday 24 July 2010

Organic "social" life

One of the problems seems to be that life and not just organic life, is a lot more “organic” than I had ever realized. That actions people perform tend to repeat themselves and condition the inner world of individuals without people realizing that they are sculpting themselves from the outside in as much as from the inside out, hence the importance of “social” life.

It seems so obvious but the way it feels obvious today is very different to what I had always taken for granted. And the problem is that people do actions then we justify those actions and one way to justify our actions is repeating them over and over until they seem normal no matter how abnormal they actually are. And then if everyone seems to be doing the same thing it looks ever so normal. That’s how cults work but society also works very much like that. And the problem in the short run is that people are hardly responsible because they are all just aspects of our unconsciousness. Perhaps when someone starts screaming about it and is called crazy, it is because it takes a long time for others to come to terms with the fact that what is happening is actually not normal at all and that is precisely the role of whistleblowers.

This idea that life (social life, that that we call life and not just biological processes),  is a lot more organic than we tend to perceive, seems relevant because being such it is under a lot more laws than at least I would have wanted to admit. Processes take a long time and the trouble with impatience is that it simply turns back against one’s self. That’s why anger, disappointment, frustration and all the other expressions of horror at the speed with which most people deal with problems like cults is just an expression of my own lack of understanding of the laws we’re under.

It’s good to think about these things again.

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