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.

Monday 8 August 2011

On A. Goldman's Suicide and Pathway to Presence Cult

And will Robert have Abraham Goldman's name erased from every paper in the Fellowship Cult aka Pathway to Presence like he has done with the other members that committed suicide? Because it shames him to embrace the people that supported him and that he turned his back on? Because all in the inner circle are willing to back him up and hide the horrors of the Fellowship Cult?

This death will not be forgotten as easily as they forgot the death of so many others. Abraham Goldman believed in what he did for the Fellowship Cult and Robert Burton and turning their back on him will be too difficult a task but acknowledging it will be no less so. That is why they acknowledge only the instinctive suffering that he was going through unable to hold him dear in their womb and realize that he had no one to turn to in his suffering like everyone else in the Fellowship cult who went a step beyond what was "allowed".
It was not "allowed" to go deaf or "take" the act of inifinite piety that Abe had taken. It was not allowed to look in any way different to the rest: well organized Barbies with a Monalisa smile.

There is a tragedy in the man that realizes that he worked his whole life for a moment that never came. That he or she sold his soul to the devil in the hope that at least the devil would recognize him but that that moment never came because the devil is the devil and can never give up his own place. That he toiled in the name of God and struggled for the sake of the devil and was burnt alive before he took his own life. Abraham Goldman is not the first or the last man in the Fellowship cult with this luck. We are shamed not by his will but by the tragedy of its outcome. Robert Burton lives on the demise of his followers. The fact that those in the younger generation are willing to play along with him and discard the older generation that put him in the throne with the hope that they will be recognized  and pampered, speaks only of our human innocense but in its unconsciousness it reveals its greed. The trouble with essence is that it is subject to degenaration. It can be turned against itself because of its innocence.

There is a dignity in the man that takes his life when he acknowledges his shame that the Japanese people well recognize but of which we know little in the West. To say that Abraham Goldman was simply unable to tolerate his physical suffering is to rob him from the dignity that embraces death, however it comes.

I do not condone the things Abraham did to support Robert's cult reign like I do not condone Girard Haven's brainwashing of thousands of people but the tragedy goes well beyond their individual misdeeds. To understand the human drama in which we struggle a whole life to become, within no matter what cult, without ever reaching more than the step in which we acknowledged someone else's life and made him into a puppet guru is tragic enough to judge ourselves for taking our own lives.

There is a dignity that cannot be stolen from anyone's death. In the act of suicide we are not simply declaring our personal defeat, we are also stating the failure of the world in which we lived. Suicide cult members are the symptom of a failure within the organization that reveals its flaws: the question of being, of authority, of the self.

I acknowledge Abraham Goldman's tragedy as my own. I ask for forgiveness for not having had enough courage to fight the Fellowship wisely and for having been unable to inspire more to find their road to life.


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