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.

Friday 23 July 2010

Thinking about cults

It's interesting that doctors are willing to amputate a leg when not doing so will kill the patient but the laws today and that is, society at large, is unable to amputate cults out of life although they tend to annihilate the people inside, psychologically first, then physically, through suicide or a slow deterioration of the body out of lack of vitality.

It shows how lost everyone is, including the so called leaders who cannot really respond for the people they have in charge. It's an interesting period to be living in because next to the horrors are also the wonders and everything is changing so rapidly. The internet is an amazing leap into a more democratic world... So good to be out and about!

The great thing about having been in a cult must be the wonder of being out of it and allowing for life to flower again. It's an amazing experience to be numbed to the world for so many years and then slowly let it be as if it opened up in one's self. The wonder of people! The wonder of the things people do to survive their difficulties. And the possibility of creation. Nothing is more hurt in cults than one's creativity. The cult eats away one's self and with one's self precisely one's creativity. The lack of trust in one's self doesn't allow for creativity to develop and THAT is exactly what the cult has to manage against each member to make the dependency powerful enough to keep the member inside, working for it. Those in the inner circle develop a particular kind of creativity against other members which is what makes them hasnamusses acting against the well being of other human beings. It is a terrible tragedy for them as much as their victims. They are worse than people in concentration camps because in concentrations camps they kill the victims and physical death is more merciful than psychological death. To manipulate individuals to such a point that they no longer exist for themselves but for the guru and his agenda is a despicable crime. 

How far are ex cult members including those in the fofblog and the other Fellowship that has nothing greater about it, away from deeply understanding and not avoiding this truth? How can people live with such truths and do nothing about it but reproduce a similar club in another context? I wonder what it is that keeps people from calling crime, crime and doing something to stop it. The lack of consciousness of the fact that we are all connected is what stops us. Those without consciousness think they can get away without getting involved, they can separate themselves from the horror and pretend it has nothing to do with them but their silence is what makes it possible and that is what makes us all accomplices of the crime.

The one beautiful thing about seeing how life is at my age, is realizing how incredibly naive people also are. One of the reasons that people don’t call crime, crime, is that they don’t want to see it, they want to believe that everything is fairly alright and under control by God if nobody else! They or us for I have also had a huge amount of this naivete. That innocence is beautiful because it remains in people even after they’ve much suffered. It doesn’t help a great deal which is perhaps why we end up suffering so much more but the power of such innocence is worth all the beauty.  I don’t think it’s healthy to be that naïve because in its dark side it hides so much fear and at some point it’s good to face the horror and look at it straight in the face. Even the horror can be looked at and when one does it is not nearly as bad as one feared… if one is still innocent enough, as I am, to believe that everything can be recovered, everything can be healed, now or later, in this or another life.

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