Connectivity In the United States Needs Work

Posted in Self Discovery on 01/14/2012 01:14 pm by Normal Guy

I have been watching the Political process in the United States and find the disconnect between the rich and the poor so disheartening.  When I analyze the form of government the US has, I really don’t find it that democratic.  You have the rich, large corporations and special interests groups in the form of lobbyists with undue influence over the process.  They are the top 1% of American society.  What the other 99% have is a vote for their president and representatives.  But it has always been my theory that whoever runs your economy really runs the government as well.   How can this be the case when everyone of age and eligibility has a vote.  Well part of the reason is propaganda that comes down from on high.  In the US there has always been an almost fanatical need to expose any form of socialism as the devil’s work. What do you call a government that is controlled by the wealthy, corporations and special interest groups – well that is fascism, the exact opposite of true Communism.

In the late forties it was Communism that the United States fought against.  They used this fight to subvert the character of anyone in America they desired to bring down politically or personally.  Yet, they weren’t fighting the Communism of Joseph Stalin who at the time had turned true Communism into his personal power grab.  They needed Stalin in the war effort.  No, they were against Lenin and Trotsky who said that the proletariat – workers – deserved to have a real share of the wealth that was created by their work.  That form of Communism was very idealistic and difficult to implement.  Stalin’s form was barbaric and implemented by force.

Socialism is in the middle of these two extremes. It says that the general population deserves to benefit in some way from the wealth created in part by them.  How is it possible that in America this concept is held as an anathema – unfit for human consumption?  How have the wealthy managed to persuade those below them that any social programs are wrong?  Well, they created a paranoia after world war II, which Joseph McCarthy turned into a firestorm, and then they have had propagandists fan those flames when it is deemed necessary ever since.

This is much the same way that fascist governments of the past used propaganda to sway the public and it is wrong.  This disconnect between the wealthy and every day Americans must be ended.  The only way it seems that this can take place and the only thing the wealthy have ever been afraid of is the concept of one man one vote.  Once you agree with the fact that a social society is not a bad thing – that all the Americans deserve a fair share of the wealth created by their society, then you can see how this can be brought about by true democracy.  Normal every day Americans have an opportunity to bring about a government that listens to them by voting out incumbents who don’t listen to them and voting in representatives who do.  Now, they may have to do this more than once, even many times before they get the government they want and need.  A connection of this magnitude takes time to become strong, but this is what needs to happen.  The founding fathers of the United States of America would be ashamed of what their dream has been made into.  They wanted everyone to be able to share in the American dream.

America has become lost since World War II.  Prior to that they had been very protectionist and insular.  To protect themselves from the rest of the world they then became somewhat paranoid.  I believe that paranoia was in part resoponsible for allowing over 1500 former Nazi war criminals to enter the USA just after the war.  Now, I am not saying they used these people and their knowledge of propaganda but that the knowledge of the control that a form of government like fascism may have on a population may have subconsciously entered their minds and subtlety influenced them until they reached the state of affairs they are in now – a complete disconnect between the government and normal Americans.  Look at what Wall Street did without even blinking an eye.  Look at how they have managed to take a president who wanted to do something for all Americans and handicapped him.  This is both parties, because both parties are part of a failed system.  Obama wants to help but the 1% of Americans at the top will not let him do so.  They watered down his Medicare Policy and then stymied him at every turn to do anything else.  He needs to know that everyday Americans are on his side.  Keep the work up against Wall Street and find ways to help him bring about policy that helps everyone, not just those at the top.

Please follow the following link to find out more about connectivity.

The Emerging Global Mind

 

Connection and Synchronicity

Posted in Self Discovery on 05/24/2011 07:15 pm by Normal Guy

Synchronicity occurs when people, books, television shows, knowledge and discussions guide us to repositories of helpful information over and over until we realize we need them. It is more than coincidence but we often dismiss it as such. But the fact is that such coincidences happen to us again and again if we are open to them. The more we are connected with the world around us, the more often these coincidences happen. It is as if we are meant to develop our lives along certain paths. Most of us ignore such messages because we are focused on money, power and things. Are those the type of goals that we should be focused on? If one begins following his intuition – part of that inner voice that is connected to universal consciousness – one finds that our goals as a species must involve each other, our environment -both fauna and flora – the earth, our solar system, galaxy and the universe as a whole. It is all one and if we are going to be proper stewards of the earth the concept that we are a part of nature and not a ruler over nature must be realized. Look out there at all of the signals we are receiving as a species that this indeed is the case. Yet those who control wealth, governments and corporations continue to put out information supposedly backed by their experts that everything is alright. Synchronic events within our own lives, if we listen and more of us are, will lead us to conclusions that will in turn bring greater universal knowledge and spur movements that place mankind on paths that are much more viable and spiritual. One might ask why this renewed movement of spiritualism is occurring now. Well, mankind is ready to receive these types of messages. We are tired of the rhetoric that politicians, governments, corporations, and religion are giving. They do not jibe with what is happening to our world. Most of us know that we are on the threshold of crisis throughout the world. The worldview, that the government, church or corporations can protect us or intervene for us with God, employers and society as a whole has collapsed. In the past science attempted to fill the void but could only go so far as it focused mainly on material things, not what the higher meaning of human life might entail. In fact, that science was often used to protect the people who ran the economy – e.g. tobacco and oil companies. Economics said that creating things would bring us wealth but not that such wealth would be shared by the world unequally and lead to the destruction of natural resources, the air we breathe and the flora and fauna we share the earth with. Something that James Redfield said in his book “The Celestine Vision,” really sums up what is happening now. I quote him, “We can see then, how our perception of the synchronicity in our lives represents nothing less than a collective awakening from a secular worldview that has lasted for centuries. Now when we look out on modern existence with its technological marvels, we can see this world from a more revealing psychological vantage point.” Mankind as a whole is waking up to what can be done. Individuals are uniting in movements that will lead to a more spiritual vision of the world. Holding on to this vision is not easy but as more and more individuals look inside themselves for how they are connected to each other and the cosmos the vision will strengthen and science with new theories such as quantum physics will assist mankind in a quest to discover the real meaning of life and the truth about our consciousness and its connection with universal consciousness. The universe itself is intelligent and mankind is on the cusp of discovering just what that means.

Last night I was reading Deepak Chopra’s “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire.” I noted a term that he used ‘Sychrodestiny’. He states that conscious intelligence or what I call universal consciousness give rise to everything and connects us all. We are a ripple in the cosmic consciousness of the universe as well as being the whole universe represented in a single human being. We are a part and the whole, a ripple and a tsunami or as he states part of an endless sea of consciousness. Your job is to let the universe within you unfold as it is meant to by relinquishing your need to control everything with your egoic mind. Chopra states that “You and I are the same and each of us is the infinite being projecting a particular point of view – your point of view and my point of view.” These points of view are all expressions of universal consciousness and give us a new reality that can be used to sync our human condition together in a synchrodestiny that acts in concert with universal consciouness or as Chopra puts it universal intelligence. We are inseperable from universal consciousness, the source of all reality as Chopra states. We create our own experience of universal consciousness if we let that consciousness have control instead of trying to control everything with our own egoic mind. Chopra says that mankind actually functions sychronistically, meaning that we are all connected to each other, to the earth, and to the universe. Everything is all one and although we create our own experience of the universal, meditation and focus on that inner voice within us – comprised of the energy of the universe – brings unbelieveable power to the human condition.

I refer you to an article on noetic.org for further discussion. You will have to copy and paste this link into your browser.

http://noetic.org/noetic/issue-ten-may/civilization-on-the-cusp/

I also refer you to the following youtube discussion with Deepak Chopra about consciouness.

 

Connection to Community

Posted in Self Discovery on 03/15/2011 02:34 pm by Normal Guy

My last post was about connecting to “Universal Consciousness” – which is God in all his/her various forms.  God is everything that is, including you.  That makes us connected to everything in the universe.  We supposedly are built in God’s image but what does that mean?  Does it mean that God actually looks like man?  No, God can take any form.  What it does mean is that man has the potential to develop his mind and become more Godlike, but in what ways?  How would the “Universal Mind” want us to develop?  Mankind has thought that power, money, beauty, things, and youth are the most important traits to develop.  This has brought us to the world we have today, where material things are equated with happiness.  But, material things do not last and the happiness they bring is an illusion.

Where is our compassion, love and sense of community as a whole.  Everyone wants his own children and society to succeed and have a happy life but we must learn to care about everyone’s children and all other sentient beings if we are to save our world.  Right now it can be said that man has really not been a good caretaker of this wonderful world of ours.  We need to develop a world sense of community that sees us connect to everyone and everything because we really are one.  I have heard people say that the only way our world would work as a unit was if aliens invaded us.  Do we really have to wait for that to happen?  We started out needing our fight or flight response to survive but now we need to develop our sense of community and compassion.  Religion often seems to separate us instead of what it was designed to do – show compassion and caring for each other and bring people together.

Our problems can no longer be solved through warfare, if they ever could.  We must learn to share with each other so the whole world can prosper.  Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Vishnu and many other entities knew and taught us this.  They allowed their minds to be developed along the lines of Universal Consciousness, which is what God expects from beings built in his image.  This is who he is as a creator, designer and communicator of the universal and he expects us to become closer to him and to help him implement his plan.  We need to be in harmony with each other to do this.  Is it so difficult that we set aside our differences and take notice of our similarities and help each other to succeed?  Humanity needs to take a different tack if it is to succeed, otherwise we, made in God’s image, will go the way of the dinosaur.  This is not what “Universal Consciousness” wants and our energy will not be lost no matter what but what a shame if we are just part of that consciousness and not a physical part of God’s Universe.

Extremists on all sides must give up their egoic need to be right and work to make this world better.  Jews must learn to get along with Palestinians and give them what they need and deserve and Palestinians must accept the right of Israel to exist.  Extremist Christians must stop persecuting Muslims who must in turn stop calling the west the great Satan.  However, the west must also become less hedonistic and many Muslim societies might have to become less austere and treat women better.  Greater humanism is required by everyone and we must start tapping in to “Universal Consciousness” by developing everyone’s power to do so.  If we work as one, we can bring our world into a new renaissance of human development.

 

Connecting Needs to be Practiced

Posted in Self Discovery on 03/07/2011 06:38 pm by Normal Guy

It has been awhile since I last had a post and this has been to my detriment.  The connection between the self and “Universal Consciousness” must be used and maintained if it is to remain viable.  That inner voice which I have talked about, which is connected to all energy – God – needs to resonate within our own being in order to strengthen its connection with the universal.  Practice can and will make this connection stronger but lack of use atrophies the connection and strengthens the egos hold over desire.  If I give the job of  handling desire to my inner self, which is connected to Universal Consciousness I realize that most of my egoic desires are irrelevant.  Without keeping that connection strong however, the ego will take over, wanting instant gratification and working constantly towards that goal.  It is a choice we make.  Do we let the ego rule the roost and forget about our connection to anything else or do we open strong lines of communication with “Universal Consciousness” and discover our real purpose.

The connection is real.  To quote a paragraph by Bruce Lipton PhD. from his article in the http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-7-february/spontaneous-evolution-new-scientific-realities-are/ – “Spontaneous Evolution: New Scientific Realities Are Bringing Spirit Back Into Matter,” -

“The beliefs we have been living by are wrong. Fractal mathematics says: There is a pattern in the world, and there is a pattern to your evolution. Quantum physics says: Don’t focus on the material, focus on the immaterial realm. Energy is primal. The rule is that if a science on the lower part of the building changes its belief system, every science above that building block must incorporate it. Biology and psychology have not adopted the new understandings of mathematics and physics; they are out of scientific context and no longer scientific. Quantum biology, however, a new science, examines how energy affects biology, and consciousness is that energy. As for psychology, a material psychology based on chemistry and drugs needs to be replaced by energy psychology. We heal ourselves with our thoughts, our mind, our consciousness, which are more powerful than chemistry. It’s the invisible, immaterial realm that’s powerful”.

Humans have a brain that acts instinctually to preserve the species and satisfy its needs, a worthy purpose but one that has become a bit archaic. This brain is innate and is able to add to its repertoire through experience in satisfying these needs.  This is the lower brain, the one which the ego affects most often.  There is also a higher brain that thinks more consciously about things.  The ego can also have an effect on this brain which can have negative or positive repercussions.   Mankind must learn to use his inner voice, that connection to the universal, which can be developed through choice and practice, to help make purposeful decisions, if we are to truly evolve in a spiritual manner.  Tapping into the energy of our cosmic connection will ultimately give us the knowledge that we need to understand our desires and satisfy our needs.

Ego desires come easily as they are the human base point.  Connection requires commitment to its use and practice of spiritual tenets on a daily basis.  The important decisions in life require thought and meditation.  Some people pray on such decisions and prayer can definitely help one connect to the universal but whatever your method of connection, the important thing is to connect and keep these lines of communication open.  As stated previously, tuning into your energy resonance will help you connect with other beings and things in your own realm as well as the universal.  As you become more aware of tuning into other frequencies you will learn what you, others and things bring to overall universal consciousness.  As more humans begin to tune in a new evolution of mankind will begin.

Again, refer to the following article on the www.noetic.org site:

http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-7-february/spontaneous-evolution-new-scientific-realities-are/

 

Resonation of Energy in the Universe

Posted in Self Discovery on 12/20/2010 05:41 pm by Normal Guy

During a recent day of substitute teaching I had the opportunity of taking two high school classes to a couple of sessions of yoga.  During these sessions the teacher took the students through some beginning rudimentary yoga movements and a brief meditation session.  I learned that young people these days don’t seem to be very limber – most could not touch their toes – but also that they seem to innately know that they should develop this type of movement because they enjoyed it immensely.  They also enjoyed the calming meditation sessions.  I of course, went through the lesson’s the teacher taught twice.  It was nice to see that at 63 I am more nimble then many teenagers but my reason for this particular blog was the meditation sessions.  The teacher introduced a cd, “Ultmate OM” by Jonathan Goldman.  He is an international authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of harmonics. He has worked with masters of sound from both the scientific and the spiritual traditions and has been empowered by the Chant Master of the Dalai Lama’s Drepung Loseling Monastery to teach Tibetan Overtone Chanting.  “OM” is considered by many to be the original sound of the universe and this cd has a thousand voices chanting “OM” for an extended period of time.  This brought me back to one of my original precepts mentioned in “Meandering Thoughts” and “Life is a Journey” – Every object and being in the universe has energy which resonates at a variety of frequencies.  The total sum of all these frequencies is God.  Learn to listen to that inner voice and discover the route that connects you to God and God to you.  In doing so you will also connect with other beings and things in your own realm as you will become more adept at tuning yourself to their frequencies and learning what they bring to overall universal consciousness.

I took my own philosophy to heart and looked for the frequency inside myself that connected me to universal consciousness.  This has had a profound effect on my ability to locate my inner voice more quickly.  Up until this moment I had had difficulty in securing this connection in a timely fashion.  It was as if there was static on the line or that my inner voice was speaking through a profound fog.  Time and supreme concentration were required to establish a truly viable interface.  But discovering my own resonance or frequency and using it to contact my inner voice proved much easier.  This freqency is unique to all beings and objects and is your interface to your inner voice and to universal consciousness – God.  I recommend that you download the “Ultimate OM” cd and use it in meditation.  It just may help you discover your own resonance and connection to everything in the universe including God.  Remember, every object and being in the universe has energy which resonates at a variety of frequencies.  The sum total of all these frequencies is God.  He is within you and you are within him.  Universal Consciousness wants to be discovered and used.  As the universe discovers itself, we all learn.  As we discover ourselves, the universe becomes more conscious.

 

Meandering Thoughts

Posted in Self Discovery on 11/06/2010 06:05 pm by Normal Guy

These are some thoughts that I have had during recent meditations that I believe have merit.

Religion often espouses that man is made in God’s image and my contention is that everything is made in God’s image.  Now if I am correct then what is God’s image.  Well, God for me is universal consciousness and everything else is made up of that consciousness too – a consciousness that contains energy.  As energy cannot really be created or destroyed, that energy has always been in some form.  God may have created form out of available matter or antimatter and then instilled it with energy in the form of consciousness.  That consciousness in total is God’s image and he knows all the other forms of himself.  We are a part of him, as is everything else in his universe.  We are lucky in that we can develop a connection to him through this consciousness.  Our bodies and even our species may cease to exist, but our consciousness and our connection to the universal will never cease to exist.  When we die, all of us will realize this connection, but the only way to really develop it is to choose to do so freely when we are individuals with free will.  Yes, I guess this means that I believe in some form of reincarnation.  To know universal consciousness you either have to be part of it through non-existence as an entity or through choosing to connect to it as an entity.

Upon death as a specific thing, we learn what part we could play in God’s plan.  As a new form with our consciousness again in need of leadership we have the free will to again choose to let the ego be in charge or to attempt to become fully conscious individuals that listen to an inner voice and choose to develop it.  The strength of these commitments in turn raise the strength of our connection to all the other energies in the universe.  God comes to us over these wave lengths that resonate through him.  Every object and being in the universe has energy which resonates at a variety of frequencies.  The total sum of all these frequencies is God.  Learn to listen to that inner voice and discover the route that connects you to God and God to you.  In doing so you will also connect with other beings and things in your own realm as you will become more adept at tuning yourself to their frequencies and learning what they bring to overall universal consciousness.

God is not dead.  He is in you and you are in him.  They say that we have only developed 10 % of the power of our minds.  Just what is the other 90 % meant to contain.  Let’s attempt to find out.

Please read the following articles from noetic.org – Noetic Now Enews which are quite insightful.

“Absent-Minded Science Part I”


Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature

 

Life’s Journey Continued

Posted in Self Discovery on 10/28/2010 09:12 pm by Normal Guy

I decided to do this particular blog in Word as I was always losing it when I saved it in the actual blog.  Rewriting 3 times is a little difficult but it does make for some more thought.

The egoic mind does not vanish when you start using that inner voice that you sometimes hear inside yourself that is connected to universal consciousness.  If you try to develop that inner voice through meditation or by just trying to listen to it quietly does not matter.  However, once part of you, that mind acts as a sounding board for the egoic mind.  It is always listening as an interested observer but when you become more tuned to this inner voice you find it asking questions of the desires that are generated by the ego.  The egoic mind needs to be asked if each of its desires is helpful or detrimental to the overall growth of its spiritual identity.  Now the ego is not overruled, as that is where free will comes into the equation.  It is up to all of us whether we choose to listen to this inner voice or not.  Some of us don’t hear this voice at all and that is what Buddha meant when he said that desire was the cause of misery in human kind – desire unquestioned by our own consciousness.

What is important is that this universal consciousness is always observing the desires of the egoic mind and is ready to ask questions that will help the ego make the best decisions.  Desire itself is not always wrong but unquestioned desire can lead our spiritual growth down undesirable pathways.

Our inner universal consciousness is like our hands on the steering wheel of a vehicle.  It can make infinitesimal corrections that will keep us on the road.  This inner mind knows whether the road is straight or winding, dry or slick.  The egoic mind makes the final decisions but it often does not take into consideration its own welfare.

Buddha wanted us not to be ruled by passion, which is desire unquestioned, acted on in the spur of the moment.  The egoic mind needs an interested objective observer to ask questions.  That is what the spiritual side of your nature is all about.  You are given another side of your nature that you can choose to listen to or not.  Universal consciousness, I believe, gives you the path that helps you avoid suffering by steering towards desires that don’t involve instant gratification.

Many, if not most humans, actually want instant gratification and can’t live without it.  But shouldn’t they at least be able to put themselves into a position where they really have a choice.  The job of those who have learned to listen to the inner voice within them is to attempt to help others do the same.  This can be accomplished in many ways.  Religion, prayer, meditation, ceremonial dances, and perhaps even transcendental drug therapy can lead to the discovery of your own consciousness but make sure your desire is of the correct type.  Don’t look for instant gratification because finding the connection to universal consciousness takes real work and long term commitment.  A quick high is not the answer and you all know this in your heart.

 

Noetic Science

Posted in Self Discovery on 07/15/2010 11:51 pm by Normal Guy

I first heard of Noetic Science in Dan Brown’s book “Lost Symbol” and it intrigued me.  Looking at the site www.noetic.org one finds that the word noetic comes from the ancient Greek word ‘nous’ which refers to an inner knowing, a tapping in to an inner consciousness, which allows one to access knowledge that is not normally available to our senses and can’t be reasoned out through rational means.

Now it seems that almost everything I read is leading me in the same direction.  For example, I just finished a thriller by James Rollins titled “The Judas Strain”.  He talks about a hidden language buried in our genetic code and backs this up by referring to an article in Science Magazine (1994) which said resoundingly that this is absolutely true.  No one really knows the why of this hidden language but it would seem that humans have a lot to learn. 

A couple of interesting points to make is that it is said we only use 10% of the capacity of our brain and a fact according to Rollin’s book that only 10% of the cells in our bodies are human and the rest are bacteria or parasites.  Is this language hidden in our DNA there to assist us in discovering our potentail over vast periods of time?  Does our inner consciousness delve into that language and discover knowledge that seems to be beyond the pale of rational thought?  Well, Noetic Science explores the potential of human inner consciousness and how it relates to the physical world and attempts to use statisically significant data to back up its claims.

We seemingly have a greater effect on everything around us -animals and plants certainly but even material objects – than we know.  This can be proven statisically by conducting stringent scientific experiments that study specific variables while controlling others.  I won’t get into this experimentation now but leave it up to my readers to search for books and information themselves as real growth only comes through being open to all knowledge, letting your inner being digest, ruminate upon and regurgitate it until conflict disappears and you decide your truth.

Nirvana comes through this inner discovery that we must all go through.  Buddha knew that such knowledge can really not be taught but he could define a life style that could possibly lead to consciousness using multiple ways of knowing including intuition, feeling, reason and the senses to discover how the inner self relates to the physical world.

Noetic Science want to assist people to discover and develop their own subjective consciousness through meditation or other spiritual practices, the emphasis being on inner knowledge and a personal transformation.  Secondly, this science is looking into ways of developing interactive consciousness in communities or between groups of people.  Thirdly, Noetic Scientists are gathering data about the physiological corrolates of consciousness including experiements in psi, mind-body healing, and subtle energies such as the affect of human bonding with specific groups of plants on their growth and health.

All of this is difficult to describe easily but it does show how interconnected everybody and everything is in this wonderful world of ours.  For me this interconnectedness has been brought home time and time again and I think it is happening to many others.  Look at the popularity of the movie Avitar which was about a new world order built on a closeness to the one source which is within us all.  So many people are discovering or proving the same thing without really knowing it.  The whole universe is interconnected and our job as human beings is to discover how and why?  By discovering our part in this dance through the development of our inner consciousness we can reach a place where the oneness of everything is self-evident.  This process is not for the faint of heart as you have to lose the self to find the whole.  Good luck on your own journey.

 

Religion in America

Posted in Self Discovery, Uncategorized on 04/22/2010 11:08 pm by Normal Guy

Early America was a place for people to come and find a religious freedom that they felt they did not have in their native lands.  Some of these religious groups played a prominent role in  forming the original thirteen colonies as did their religious tenets.  The Pilgrims, Quakers and the Puritans are prime examples of this.  The Puritans tried to make everyone in the colonies practice religion in the Puritan manner.  They persecuted other groups, banished and even whipped people in order to bring Puritan conformity to the colonies but eventually freedom of religion won out.   Only the Salem witch trials seemed to permanently mar this zeal to practice religion freely in the new colonies.

Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians and Baptists soon arrived from England.  Later Lutherans arrived from Germany.   Freedom of religion became firmly established in the original colonies and religion became very involved in American politics.  Eventually however, the founding fathers began to debate the separation of church and state and they decided to keep religion out of politics.  This did not sit well with many groups but the founding fathers felt such a separation was necessary.  Indeed, many of the influential founding fathers were deists who believe that God did not bother himself with human affairs and that faith and organized religion were not necessary to prove God created the universe and everything in it.

When we look at America today, we notice that religion still has a grass roots appeal to many citizens.  Athletes are constantly thanking God for their exploits on the field of play.  Movie stars, politicians, announcers, American Idol participants and countless other individuals and groups are often giving credit to God.  This happens more in the United States than it does in Canada and if we do hear it in Canada, usually it is an American athlete saying it.  I suppose there is nothing wrong with this, but it does seem odd to think that God would involve himself in such inconsequential actions with humans when he has a universe to run.

Then of course you have the evangelical set who preach scripture in a manner that brings back ‘Old Testament’ images of fire and brimstone.  They and other right wing theologians seem to have quite a calling in middle America that no amount of poor ethical behaviour on their part undermines to any great degree.  Their strong influence on politicians and politics,  if not out of place in the politcal arena can be downright scary.  This influence can and has reach to the highest echelons of power – the White House and even the President himself.

In war, everyone seems to think that God is on their side.  In fact, George W. Bush is quoted in the new book by journalist Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, as describing himself as a “messenger” of God who is doing “the Lord’s will.”  If he is such a messenger, then his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were religious wars.  He certainly does seem to be a messenger for the religious right but he and the United States seem to be going down a road that the founding fathers of America termed dangerous.  Combining religion with governance puts us on the same slippery slope that has trapped many theocracies.  When you are divinely guided, how can your leaders be wrong and if they are never wrong what about the other side who claims they are also divinely guided?

Has former President Bush caused a “Holy War”?  Muslim extremists certainly think so.  He and his buddies have given not only extremists but even moderates reasons to doubt the United States’ foreign policy.  When religion gets mixed in to foreign policy, all hell can and will break loose.  Calm minds are needed that are connected to what the world needs.  Thus, more of a need to connect to an inner self that views an overall picture connected to the needs of the nature, the planet and the universe.  That inner voice will find solutions that work for everyone and everything because we are all connected.  Everyone, every animal and plant and everything is here because it is universal consciousness.  Everything is part of everything else and everything is God.  We are not separate. We are not islands alone in a sea of turmoil.  All has to work together and those things that don’t do this will cease to exist.  We think as humans, we will always be here.  Why?  Does the world really need us – maybe and maybe not?  I for one don’t think we are indispensible.  If we become extinct, that does not mean that our being is gone from universal consciousness.  The parts we have played and did not play will always be resident in that consciousness because that consciousness is God.  He is everything that has existed and that will exist.  God experiences life through everything that has ever existed and we experience God by tapping into that inner voice that guides us into making better choices and decisions.  If we let ego get in the way, we often make the wrong choice.  Religion and politics seem to focus on ego.  To make wise choices mankind must seek the answers that the universe will supply.  The answers are there if we truly want to find them.  The world needs to work together to find acceptable answers or soon there will be no more questions.

Will the United States be able to reach out to others.  So often they seem to think that such reaching out is socialism – a hated concept in the heartland of America.  But humans are a social animal and if we don’t take care of each other, who will?  Why is it wrong to supply basic security to citizens so no one has to worry about food, shelter, education or medical care.  Give everyone an equal footing in the beginning and just see what might happen to the growth of a country and its citizens.  Taking care of people is not a bad thing.  Social consciousness is not a bad thing.  Why are Americans so frightened of these concepts?

 

Organized Religion

Posted in Self Discovery on 04/16/2010 04:53 pm by Normal Guy

Has more harm or good been done in the name of organized religion?  What with the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, witch burnings, heretic burnings, Popes with mistresses, September 11, 2001, priests defiling children, and other events, one really has to wonder.  How was anyone able to do any of these things in the name of God, Allah, Jehovah, Christ, Mohammed, etc.  Well, it is always claimed that humans did these things and you can’t blame religion.  But humans created these organizations and hide behind them in order to carry out their actions.  When does organized religion have to accept responsibility for what is done in its name?  It will probably never happen. 

So, people have to accept responsibility for their own actions.  This is where I think that religion becomes an individual experience.  In my last post I stated that God is everything and everybody.  He is universal consciousness and inside of us right now.  There are really about 7 billion different religions in the world because we have to discover that part of ourselves that is connected to everything.  God is everything and everything is God.  Have you ever wondered why inventions and discoveries of new knowledge are often made almost simultaneously at different geographic locations?  It is because we really are connected to a universal consciousness.  Discovering that part of us that makes that connection, is vital to our well being.  Our Egoic mind gets in the way of this connection because it always puts its own wants and desires ahead of what that inner voice tells us is true.  Organized religions because they are manmade have a tendency to attend to man’s desires.  This is not to say that organized religion is an evil in our world.  Many good things are done by religious organizations.  However, individuals within those organizations really have to start accepting individual responsibility for what the organization does, good or bad.  Congregations need to demand it.  Individuals need to demand it.  If we all get in contact with our inner being, this will begin to occur.   We need to stop desiring more things, more power, more money and more physical gratification and start desiring a spiritual connection with our universe. 

Seven billion people can have their own relationship with universal consciousness – God, and still belong to an organized religion but it takes those seven billion people striving for Nirvana to bring about any real change.  People accepting responsibility for themselves, their world and the universe can be miraculous.  Look at Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammed.  They took it upon themselves to make a better world.  However, other humans have distorted their real message over time.  They were all sons of God because we are all sons and daughters of God.  Act like sons of God as they did.  Restore your connection with the universal consciousness that is always there to assist you to do the right thing.  Practice meditation – calm your Egoic minds, and get into contact with the real you, the one that is connected to God.  After a while you may find that instinct will lead the way. 

I know, kind of preachy but someone had to say it. 

 
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