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, 19 September 2009

Looking from inside out rather than outside in

125. Old FOF -
silentpurr 105
In reconsidering my 103 post above – I take a number of your points. My post is way too harsh, too personal and lacking of civility. Especially as the person cannot easily answer. The fofblogmoderator has since articulated a superior and more dispassionate stance – thank you.
Consequently, I extend an apology to all involved including especially the sister blogger who shall not be named again. I am truly sorry.
Per the posts of morgan le faye – it seems like a correct target to work at maintaining a space where all manner of people can express themselves honestly – given the fierce inner totem that the Fellowship of Friends has represented.
But easy maybe to be too uncivil and unfair in the pursuit of what seems at the time to be a bigger aim. Regretful.

Elena:
Sounds so simple and honest even but when I look at it knowing the process I can see it’s such a fake. The only difference is that the moderator took on the stand that he would keep me banned no matter what so Old FOF doesn’t have to be the one throwing the stones. He can retrieve and pretend to apologize. Fascinating how he still holds to the Fellowship’s language and behaviour when at the end he reminds us of the bigger aim justifying the banning. It’s all as upside down and backwards as Girard would put it.

I dislike paying attention to these subtleties, getting identified with the rejection but it seems necessary when, like in the Fellowship, externally everything seems O.K. because it holds similar accepted and even admired behaviour. So easy for people to get tricked and comply because it looks good on the surface but it’s when you look at the problem from inside out that you can spot the inconsistency.


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