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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Saturday 2 October 2010

Objectivity 1

Perhaps we could better grasp the idea of objectivity if we were able to better understand the Octave of Impressions or the table of hydrogens. In the Octave of Impressions it is fairly easy to verify that a clean room has a different impression on the individual that a dirty room would give him but the understanding of the objective reality of both rooms would also depend on the level of being of the individual experiencing them and what part of his being is affected by the impression. One individual sees the clean room and the dirty room and judges the owner of the dirty room and discards the possibility of relating to him because the room is dirty. Another individual can see through the façade of “cleanliness” in the clean room and understand that the cleanliness of the room nevertheless belongs to a dishonest man and that the state of dirt of the other man’s room reveals a man in a state of depression but an honest man nevertheless.

In this example there are different aspects worth considering.
Objectivity is not just in the appearance. If only the room is looked at, the reality of the situation is not grasped.
The individual observing can be as subjective as the appearance of the clean room that has been polished to give a particular impression.
The individual
The other individuals
The interaction between them
The physical, emotional, individual and social reality that envelopes them
All need to be taken into account to grasp the UNITY or Objective Reality of the situation.

Objective reality cannot be perceived objectively by subjective individuals but subjective individuals can unconsciously act objectively. The subjective state of an individual does not make his actions less objective.
A “conscious” mother would feed her baby just like an “unconscious” mother, the act does not necessarily change, what changes is the understanding of the action by the conscious and the unconscious woman. The “state” of consciousness of the individual completely changes the perception an individual has of the reality before him or her but not the reality.

Another aspect that needs to be clarified is the difference between subjective individuals, individuals in essence, in true personality, or objective. These terms are only talking about different “states” in the individual.
To be in essence and subjective does not carry the negative connotation that is being allotted to it in cults today discarding all human beings because they have not carried out intense inner work on themselves. It is very different to be in essence and subjective and ACT than to be in false personality and enter into processes of crime.

Another aspect that needs exploring is the objective quality of different realities be they objects, people, institutions or acts. The experience of observing a work of art has a completely different quality to it, no less valuable for that, to the experience of creating a work of art. In the experience of observing the work of art the observer is “touched” by the artist through the work of art while in creating a work of art, the artist is both touched by the means he’s using and “touches” it in a particular way that will affect the viewers. LIFE behaves in a very similar way to a work of art, touches and is touched by individuals experiencing and acting in it, affects them and transforms them and they equally affect and transform it. All other Objective Arts are but analogies of the Art of Living.
Thank you for sharing and allowing me to explore these things that are fortunately far from being fully digested.

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