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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Wednesday 9 September 2009

The Mysterious Masochistic Pact

The Mysterious Masochistic Pact
“In Arthur Koestler’s masterpiece, DARKNESS AT NOON, he describes all the subtle intricacies, reasonings, and dialectics between the inquisitor and his victim. The old Bolshevik, Rubashov, preconditioned by his former party adherence, confesses to plotting against the party and the party line. He is partly motivated by the wish to render a last service: his confession is a final sacrifice to the party. I would explain the confession rather as part of that mysterious masochistic pact between the inquisitor and his victim, which we encounter, too, in other processes of brainwashing.
[NOTE: The term "masochism" originally referred to sexual gratification received from pain and punishment, and later became every gratification acquired through pain and abjection.]
It is the last gift and trick the tortured gives to his torturer. It is as if he were to call out: “Be good to me. I confess. I submit. Be good to me and love me.” After having suffered all manner of brutality, hypnotism, despair, and panic, there is a final quest for human companionship, but it is ambivalent, mixed with deep despising, hatred, and bitterness.”
Doesn’t all that seem familiar with my behaviour here as much as with the behaviour we all practiced towards Robert and are now practicing towards the Fellowship as ex-members in saying, “yes, it rips people off, rapes people on, causes people’s deaths but it’s necessary to leave it alone because we have friends in it” “Friends who raped and abused us but in the sadomasochistic aberration that we are holding, friends that we must allow to rape and abuse others! The broken winged sparrow isn’t precisely begging you to love her? You who were as brutal inside the Fellowship as here? Brutal in your inability to embrace the sparrow with a broken wing? The boys? The people who had just arrived from India, South America or third world countries or were different? And with that I don’t mean to ignore the few moments of high praise that I’ve received on this blog, but the brutal inability to deal with what I’ve been presenting and the condition that I’ve been presenting it in. All you have been doing is using my condition to disqualify me just like Old FOF does in his outstanding posts in which all he can say about me is “Poor little hurt sparrow with a broken wing” but let’s get rid of her!!! Like you all did with hundreds of us in the Fellowship. The difference between violence in the so called “civilized” nations and the third world is that in the former people no longer have to kill each other because they’ve killed the possibility of life in each other: they’ve institutionalized death as a legitimate form by simply banning people from the institutions, be they in the factories, theatres or the government. The problem with cults is that they are institutionalizing that practice in the spiritual realm and the only condition to get banned is to be “too human” too “damaged”. That is what you did to Brian Sissler, Eileen Clinton, Kevin Kelly and all those whose names I don’t know, but who were unable to find support in any one of you.
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