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.

Tuesday 10 August 2010

The value of Acts 2 (Work in process)

Going back to the value of acts what I am trying to get to is to the idea that each act has a different quality of energy and that the way it affects the I is of absolute significance to the “state” of that “I”. That is one aspect of acts. The second aspect is that an act has a certain power of its own but it will act for or against the individual in accordance with the aim of the act itself. In the cult every individual tried to perform every act most conscientiously but all those acts turned against those very individuals because the acts were disconnected from the community and the individual performing them. This is important! The aim of each individual was supposed to be “awakening” so we were supposed to act with the greatest effort and intention but our effort and intention only went as far as the act itself. The individual had to severe himself from the action and perform it for the benefit of the cult and disconnect his own self from the “creativity” within the action or the cult. This is very tricky to explain or understand because while the act itself was done with intentionality, it was not a “free” act, it was conditioned by the guru’s guidelines. This is important because the guru maintained the power and weakened the power of the members precisely by limiting them in the action. The action which in itself is creative was reduced to an act of repetition without creativity and the challenge of the actor became to act the act as if it were an act of creativity without the creativity which in the long run weakened each and every individual attempting it. 

In the cult no one does anything that is not imposed by the guru and THAT imposition is deadly. I don’t mean with this that any true authority imposing a guideline for an activity is deadly, I mean that the problem in cults is that what the guru is manipulating is the individual’s “life substance”, his and her I, and what the false guru manages to accomplish is the complete submission of the individual which will continue to work and live at his mercy without a will of his own. Devotees call this “LOVE” but this is the most pathological behaviour any human being can submit himself to. People’s Temple in Jonestown and the other suicide and homicidal cults are the most tragic examples of where this behaviour leads to.

After considering these things the question then is what is an authority? What is it that we can follow and obey if not our own consciousness? But within that consciousness, do we not need certain laws that we can abide to when our own will is incapable of living up to their ideals?

The subject is wide open still. An exploration is just that and it is normal to explore the whole region before one actually gets to the point. It doesn’t make the treasure any less valuable. 
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