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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Thursday, 17 February 2011

Elena: Violence and the Biopolitics...


Elena: Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity by Johanna Oksala

Continuation of previous post.

The reason why violence is understood as a political question at all is because it is so often fused with power, even though by its very nature it is fundamentally antithetical to power.

Elena: This would make a beautiful definition of “being” or real authority. It has enough power to not resort to violence. _____


 Under threat of violence, the capacity to realize the human possibility of acting in concert is diminished and potentially destroyed.  Power and violence are opposites; where one rules absolutely, the other is absent.  Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.‛18  Violence can destroy power and politics, but it can never produce them.19

Elena: Various issues here. When you refer to power and politics in their own right and hold that they are destroyed when they take on violence you are talking about the sphere of the political in its objective expression. Once violence takes the lead, it is no longer politics. This helps us understand the “objectivity” of politics and with it, its capacity to “mould” individuals through “communication” “understanding” “conscious persuasion”. The “dialogue” within which that encounter between the “social” and the “individual” moves is the “logos”. The “logos” is the greatest force for the evolving human being. It is the dialogue of the spirit within the human. In our times of violence the connection between power and the people is not a “living” “evolving” one but an stagnating, constraining force. The unhealthiness of it is contrary to human development in as much as instead of fortifying individual’s SELF it alienates individual’s not only from their own self but from the rest of society and of course, instead of establishing a connectedness between the people and the government, it RULES over them and submits them.

Forced submission held through violence stagnates individual and social evolution. Submission is catastrophic for the human spirit when it is forced upon the people. Human beings can only consciously submit to the will of their own self in order to develop in our times. Submitting to the power of other human beings is contrary to evolution. There is “the law” but every individual has to come to their own understanding of why to obey the law against their own personal agenda when that agenda is contrary to the well being of the whole. Consciousness of the “whole” does not allow the individual to act against any of its parts because it would mean acting against his own self. The individual life is connected to the whole in a tight bow string that throws them beyond the instinctive natural realm into the “naturally” spiritual realm and that realm best expresses itself in the lawfulness of the public, social arena determined by the political status quo.

“Conscious” beings would design the status quo in such a way that they can guarantee an “evolving” environment for the people. The “things” that promote and guarantee evolution are:
1. Satisfaction of basic human needs. Just like the child needs to be fed and looked after, people must guarantee their instinctive well being
2. Play in childhood, work in adulthood. A “good” job is to an adult what a game is to a child.
3. A “good” job leads to a process of creation. It is not a stagnant, repetitive job but one in which the individual has the opportunity to create.
It is “creation” what outwardly reveals and inwardly permeates a human being’s self-worth. The improvement of the job or its conditions is an ongoing reality even in our present times, only that safeguarded for a few privileged. In that process of creation the “job” sculpts the individual human being in an evolving process and the individual human being “sculpts” society in an equally evolving progress. Society stagnates when the people have to obey and perform jobs that stunt their creativity because they are reduced to reproductive animals that is contrary to the human being and its “evolving” nature.________
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