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 21 July 2012

Sex in the cult


88. Golden Veil - July 17, 2012
While looking at the above mentioned link to Robert Earl Burton and “The Fellowship of Friends” An Unauthorized Blogography of “The Teacher” and His Cult, I found a reference to a post from this blog, one I hadn’t seen before, that includes an excerpt from an 88 page MS by a former housemaid of REB. The man she calls “Tristan” eventually committed suicide.***
From the Fellowship of Friends Discussion Blog,
Part 80, Post 126 by Ames Gilbert:
I have an unpublished manuscript by a former follower in my hands. The author worked as a maid in Burton’s house for four years before it was converted to the Galleria. She and a helper were given one hour a day, while Burton had lunch, to clean the entire house and its contents. The man she calls ‘Tristan’ was Brian Sisler (see # 16-438 and other references).
“But certain things about the Teacher’s house troubled me. He sometimes kept a syringe in the refrigerator, and there were many bottles of Darvon and Valium (which seemed to be stashed all around the house). Also I saw the empty tubes of lubricating jelly that showed up in his bathroom waste basket with an incredible regularity. I felt like a worm crawling through the most sordid details of his life. It would have been easier if I hadn’t also done his laundry, as well as the laundry of the men living with him, and therefore knew they had the terrible underwear, and he did not.
During my later years in the School, I was good friends with Tristan. He was the only student who always seemed to understand what I was talking about. He and I went through the same inner struggles, or so it seemed. When I feel like I can’t face these memories for another second I remember how pale and agonized he looked when I found him (time after time) on the floor of the back room at the Teacher’s house. How the Teacher managed to hurt Tristan so much I do not know. I tried not to think about it, but I couldn’t avoid it. I wanted my beautiful Teacher to remain just that in my mind, beautiful. But his image collapsed around me. The more I saw the worse it got. I now assumed he was homosexual, but I cannot state this as a fact because I was never a direct witness. There were times when I found as many as five men at the Teacher’s house, all claiming to be unable to go to work. What ever it was, it was a bad situation, full of anger and pain.”
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