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

Humaneness in the Fellowship cult or the lack of it

Found this on the fofblog and would like to add that I would not be surprised if the facts were that Abe was forbidden to dine with Robert long before, that the fact that he couldn't hear and had to wear strange things to be able to do so made Robert uncomfortable and intruded into his imaginary gold alchemy world without sick or deaf people suffering. I repeatedly saw him ask people who "didn't fit" to not attend his dinners or events, including Mrs. Cambridge, an old veteran of the Fellowship. The other side of the coin was when he used the sick like Mr. Bishop to lead meetings in which their "last word" was in support of the Fellowship. He gained with everyone's misery so do all in the inner circle that support it.

In a way it is interesting to realize that Robert himself will give the members the opportunity to realize what they invested their lives into by discarding them as soon as they are of no use to his interests. Most, like Abe, will not be able to tolerate it and finding no purpose to their presence, opt to leave tragically.

We can measure the level of Consciousness of any institution by the human standard within it. The standard everywhere today is miserable but in cults it is dramatically so because the innocent people that compose them actually sacrifice themselves for a taste of it without ever being able to experience the gratitude that comes with it. The truly conscious experiences that individuals have within a cult come from their own work and effort, not from the cult that takes the credit and turns them against them.

I still experience the desire to throw up when I remember these things.

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2. Shirley - August 6, 2011


I heard that a FF email went out to its members that said Abe had suffered from “instinctive friction” and that he had been scheduled to have another operation regarding his hearing problem on Monday.



To dismiss what Abe must have been going through as “instinctive friction” is so typical of the FF’s attempt to diminish someone’s suffering through the manipulation of concepts.



This is not about whether a person liked or respected Abe, or not. It is to recognize how the FF insulates its members from deeply feeling or thinking about something like intense physical suffering or disability and what it does to a person (hi, debilitating chronic pain, anyone?) and their relationship to the world, or their “self-image.”



In addition, it was reported that Abe left letters for each member of his family.



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