PLAN. WHAT PLAN? THERE IS NO PLAN.

Hurricanes come

and people go

life comes

and life goes

in these things

we make a difference

or we do not matter

.

We have foresight

we plan

we look out and ahead

we find some things

are much greater than me

one is not enough

to fix the damage in life

sometimes

we plan to answer

as if in one mind

one heart that knows

what needs to happen

and what is right

between us

.

We plan

those plans are carried

in buckets called desire

by pooling our energies

this is community action

is to some their nemesis

they are about hiding

about hoarding and gain

they must poison the common

water between us

make sharing and caring

out to be bad

to be sad and subversive

.

To undermine the selfish goals

are to these dividers

the source of what threatens

the private retreat into unbridled fantasy

and unchecked self consumption

so they make the common

into ideas of weak and dependency

into barriers to selfish self realization

where the self is as a god

and culture atrophies

with this noose around its neck

.

Amidst plenty

compassion and empathy

are considered the makers

of failure

of weakness and subversion

simple dichotomies stake out minds

they barb wire love and trust

they empower suspicion

nurture arrogance and loathing

for those who would offer hope

of a full life to each creature

and each member of the human family

.

So care is undermined

it is snickered at as “do gooders”

as if good works were shameful

and worthy of spite

they proffer their contempt of the commons

as a right of each to take what they can

get away with

without everyone

or anyone else

having a right to question

this contempt of creation

.

The poisonous apple spreads

in its barrel of ignorance

caring for the commons

that place that connects

and is the nurturing conduit

of all life

caring for this union

this right of all being

is taught as being a falsehood

a usurper of our own

private desire

a taker and a spender

of what you could have claimed

for and to yourself

as if creation itself

were being cut up

killed on the butcher block

of selfish indulgence of ego

.

This will of the many

to answer with a plan

this is given a negative tag

called tax

as if it holds you back

from doing whatever you want

with your own plans

your self centered plans

your freedom

to destroy creation

if you so will

and not be held accountable

to anyone but you

.

The big necessities

can be ignored

will be ignored

this aversion to caring

will collect into its own vessels

they will form world views

with the individual as god

yet hiding deception behind god

up on a pillar to be worshiped

the self prayed to on the side

and comfort connected with

taking

to get whatever it can

get away with

.

This will be turned into a movement

a movement of righteousness

a cause of individual redemption

a myth of individual merit

as if on our own

is the only honest way

to achieve goals

that are good

unless ruled under fear

.

It will be separation

it will be called honor

and glorious achievement

to be envied

it will be claimed to be

gods best friend

the holy sacred messenger

the way of decency

and self realization

.

These are the false Prophets

the dividers and conquerors of Life

the subjugators of Love

the army of self limitation

and self mutilation

the consumption of Spirit and vision

distilled damnation

.

Fear and its greed

its sacred calf of insecurity

and their seductions

of us and them and others

that cannibalize life energy

the ability to see fully

from the ground into the stars

.

These will form association

form and conform nations

until light can be called

darkness

and darkness

light itself

.

To the armies of separation

the worshipers of the self

even if coated with religion

or self righteous ideology

for the whole

the health of everything

there is no plan

the winds rage

the seas rise

fuel cost strangle the poor

until they cannot afford to eat

and there is no plan

the black magicians of privatism

and of the ownership of creation

culture

these have no plans

they hope their friends

their ideological cohorts in separation

these will proffer off an answer

that is the vague plan

.

So the roads crumble

the jobs grow scarce

energy cost strangle wallets

take cans out of the pantry

chill the winters

heat up the summers

and there is no plan

no real plan

for the commons

has its soul held under water

is water-boarded by contempt

of all that unites us

all that we face

all that we are

and share

like it or not

believe it or not

.

If self centerdness wins

if blindness to connection wins

it will cripple the view

it will herd the mind

it will paralyze the heart

to only revolve around me

and my selfish life

my small life

an inherently threatened life

one I try to make everything

all about me and mine

by making everything else

insignificant

.

But everything is significant

significant things happen

they are always happening

if we seek to answer their call

we make our big plans

not by tax

but by offering

offering it up

to all that is

to the Whole

to Life and Love Itself

this is always the key

between being small

between thinking and acting small

or being big

.

Being beyond my own borders

expanding my awareness

not just next door

but to all doors

and each window

each opportunity

to know what is big

or be trapped by

my own small view

its narrow lens

its blind corners

not seeing the rising seas

the melting ice

the longing hearts.

SURRENDER THE SUN

THE TERRORIST WHO WILL WIN.

It started with a simple maneuver. It showed up on the ground one night, then during the day that never came.

Our worries of global warming; all the arguments pro and con, especially the con job of the con. Now what difference did any of it make? All we knew was; the sun was taken off-line.

It seemed we were easy pickings for plunder.

They had watched us to see how we were; what our motivations are; how we treated one another. Their conclusion seemed to be; Do with them what you will to come out ahead.

SILENT ATTACK UNDERWAY

Temperatures around the world began to fall. Scientist gave grave warnings of how much time we had left. We seemed to have no choice but to accept their demands. We all shook our heads. Didn’t see this one coming, literally. For a brief while, we acted as if it were only a long night.

Seemed they had dragged an asteroid to the other side of the sun and used it for a construction project. There, where they erected the monstrous sun screen never to be seen. Apparently, self replicating robots have no problem making whatever one wants to whatever scale in practically any time you desire. This sun block had to be larger than the earth for heaven sake! Yet it was so thin we could not see them towing it past the sun. It seems it is designed to let even the solar wind keep it in place. Where there is a will, there is a way.

Anyway, that is all besides the point now. Now they have us over the proverbial barrel. We become a deep freeze or do what we are told. No negotiations, no deals. The whole world was riveted on the TV and Internet for a good day. Or should I say, a bad night, for then people’s survival instincts kicked in big time.

In this sudden endless night, with the panic ravaged stores stripped of everything; the clothing gone, along with any fuel most anywhere, news had covered the panic. We were told some companies and the key government officials would be holed up for some time in certain places undisclosed. Seemed they were sending whomever a message of defiance, but with what we all wondered. Some say they could hold out underground with what they have for a hundred years. We will not have that blessing, or curse.

A WORLD WATCHING ITSELF

In our arguments over this, we felt pity if it came to that. Whomever this is will not care. They will take what it is they want, and probably deal with whomever is still alive here with ease.

The shock was those first days, all the signs that showed up around the world. It seemed that the have-not’s thought this was a good time to make a point. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE!; was engraved on placards all over the planet. Along with; HOW DOES IT FEEL? and; OH MY! WHAT WILL THE RICH EAT?. That one went right to the core. All over the world there were these last protest on the human condition, as if all we could hold accountable was ourselves, and how we had partitioned “having”. One last statement of how so many had felt and endured for so long. Now, in some strange ways, the books were being balanced.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR OIL PROFIT NOW?; was shown on the TV screens as the camera panned over crowds near bonfires, dressed in their heavy coats and layers. People seemed unreal, wobbling back and forth. Everyone was large in a way. Strange looking with faces covered in wraps and ski mask, flames flickering over the huddled mass of human penguins.

It was surreal, how TV watching seemed to become talking while watching the bonfires. A few portable TVs and computers were at the fires for a while. World wide, there was this gathering in the street. There seemed to also be some kind of rotation going on from fire to fire, until it became too cold to just go walking whenever you liked. Excursions would be planed for bringing food and ice to thaw at the fires. Metal pens were made near the fires where people could sleep yet still get some warmth. Others were always cooking and thawing things round the clock, since days were now somewhat undistinguished from one another, except the ever increasing cold.

The TV screen began to waver as; DID YOU REMEMBER TO CHECK THE STOCK MARKET TODAY?, became the last protest sign. For a brief while the TVs everywhere said this; TO CONSERVE RESOURCES; YOUR BROADCASTING COMPANY IS SUSPENDING OPERATIONS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. For reasons unknown, the power was out the next day. We imagined that would be the last of that. Many trees began to vanish by chainsaws used to cut them up for firewood.

Overnight we had all become the have-not’s. We had no idea what the worlds governments were doing. Were we all going to die for our pride? Would we not surrender, but instead just let the world fall all at once to extinction, every human achievement to vanish?

A CALM AFTER THE SILENT STORM

After the panics settled down, people were reserved and meditative. They sought out love and friendship. Whatever anyone had was shared. The cold ones were given more protection from those who said they were well warm enough. Food was brought down to the bonfires. We ate just enough to allay the feelings of hunger. We seemed to all think we have to try to make it as long as we could and not just give up.

It was odd to notice certain ones, who we knew were the local rich or famous, join in like all the rest of us. We all seemed to wonder how we had gotten life so wrong. How we did not see it was always love; love we wanted, needed and yearned to give to anything or one we could? To give and not to get, a simple reversal of formula. We had all been so blind. Facing a great chasm of nothingness, we still had each other.

The moon was now always just a black disc that blotted out the stars. Now there were two such disk. It did not take long to tell which was which as the days went by. We were an abandoned spaceship suspended in a galaxy now. We never knew how many stars surrounded us. The Milky Way was now our primary light source beyond the fires. Even our eyes had begun to adapt to seeing under its light enough to make it around. I will always remember that strange gift; how something that had apparently vanished in the city lights had seemingly turned itself back on to hover over us.

PEACE SETTLES INTO THE WAIT

It had been some days ago when this all started. We knew many of the most vulnerable had already perished. Generators had gone down, since any of their energy source’s were raided by others in the Great Panic, as we now call it. Oddly, just days later, some of that fuel was returned to the generators, but for many it was just too late. Things changed amazingly fast, yet we had all come to be on the same wavelength of love for one another. We were becoming proud to “go out” on such a note of achievement. We would launch quick expeditions at times when we heard someone had made it through to somewhere near, but could not get to the fire. We all wanted to be together and did whatever we could to make that happen. Then it happened.

As the larger disk rose up, light was piercing through as if heaven had found us by searchlight. We said to each other not to look at the sun, it might be harmful like at an eclipse. It was amazing how you could notice the warmth from this dissolving blackness instantly. We did not worry over what it all meant. We had already found the light. It was Love all along. We had Love. We knew it was up to us to keep that flame burning free.

End of story.

{I conceived and wrote this story today.  Any similarity to other stories out there is purely coincidental. Benafia.}
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VIOLENCE AND SELF CONTROL

Being involved with family violence control puts me in an odd situation.

I have avoided physical fighting my whole life. Childhood became the most significant influence on this. My father had told me, and I took it as holy law, that you as a guy, do not strike women. I cannot say that my older sisters and I did not have shoving matches, but for me that would have been self defense. Our family dynamics was heavy on the mental sparing which can seem actually more devastating.

The physical violence in our house was later done, after my mothers death, by a step mother-guardian. She would not hesitate to hit, throw objects and threaten with knives. She sent my father to the hospital with a big gash across his forehead. I slept with the largest kitchen knife under my pillow as a self defense plan for a knife attack while I was asleep. She had hit me in the face while I was asleep, then locked me out in the snow in my pajamas. My father committed suicide not long after that.

Earlier I had incidences when someone seemed to be threatening my life as a freshman high school. I was literally about 100 lbs. and someone morbidly obese around 500 lbs, held me under water to near drowning during pool time in a crowded pool. He had done this more than once. It became so serious to me (swallowing-inhaling watter) that I thought I would have to take matters into my own hands. One more time, and I was going to put him in a headlock with my legs around his neck and hold him under until it meant something. I was a totally inhibited kid and did not trust authority to do anything but blame the victim. So I had to weigh in my mind, possibly causing someones death and being called and treated as a murderer.

As it turned out, he never did that again. But I was sure it would have been me to blame and I would have felt I had no options in my own self defense. No one seemed to notice him doing this during the pool commotion, so I believed no one would accept my story. It just never came through to experience. In physical confrontations during boyhood, I found I had to keep the potential for rage out of me, especially since I had no doubt that I would take down someone twice my size. It took someone quite a bit larger and older to overcome me. I was afraid of my rage and how if unleashed it would seem out of my control.

(As evidence that I am not just delusional about this strength proclamation. When it rained a lot during physical education, outdoor activities were called off and we were put into the gym, we freshmen and the sophomores, to have a thing called “bombardment”. This is where there are two sides chosen, a line across the middle of the gym, where the two sides throw rubber balls a little smaller than a soccer ball at each other. Out of about 150 students divided in two, little me was one of the last picked, last or second to last.

Well the first game I discovered that being in the lower 10% in size had me a bit afraid, so I hung back as many did. All it took was the guy next to you ducking and a ball out of nowhere taking you out, while leaving a big red mark somewhere. I decided to risk all and take it to the line next game.

You could see most of what was being thrown up front. I found out I could catch any-ones ball thrown at me, but no-one could hold onto mine. I was also very accurate. I won that game. The last guy standing. I was picked second of all players next game. The team first picking, picked his seeming best friend first, so I was first on the other team picked. The next game was the last. It oddly ended up being me the last standing on my team, and a very out of shape guy hiding and dodging in the corner on the other side when the period ran out. I could no longer throw fast enough to eliminate time for him to move. That is how little old me was as a skinny five feet two.)

TRUTH VS ADVICE

What I just said I cannot say to someone involved in family violence. As far as physical violence goes, I do not hit women. I have told ones who gave me any actual physical provocation that, “If you do that again, we are over!” I do not tolerate fighting, especially in the home relationships. I try to avoid physical confrontations with anyone. Now that I am a “senior citizen” I find you are not seen as a threat overall, or there is a kind of automatic respect. Most of that sense of being on guard is much diminished now. I take peace as my way and it path is most often open.

I have found that emotional abuse has prove a bit more difficult to not take part in, compared to a sense of law that one just never does such a thing. I grew up that way, making fun of someones mistake or being ridiculed. It is then a model of behavior I have had to contain and reverse. To do that requires a will and an understanding of the Golden Rule or Categorical Imperative. I need to establish the sense that not only does “what goes around comes around.”, but it is already damaging my life. Abusing others in any way is profoundly self abuse.

I need to see (learn to recognize) when I am treating another like I would not wish to be treated, and immediately review what my self respect or control problem really is. We are often given the information from another that we are on some kind of attack and they becoming defensive, or initiating their own retaliations.

Still, when expressing guidance to someone, it will often fall flat if it is preached or describes as something I am so above, and can’t understand how someone could do such a thing. That fits as a key with very few dysfunctional programs. I have to speak out of and through my own life, the love in your heart has to be in it, to be a gift expected to have a chance at being received.

PROGRESSIVE OR REACTIONARY

In some ways I have described political tactics and ways of manipulation. All manipulation is in some way an abuse of the truth. Its vibrational disturbance will not go unnoticed, except perhaps, by like minded dysfunction. The same situations and rationalizations that come to effect home life are used in the greater life of our world. Even if everyone does it, doesn’t make it right.

We will find manipulative arguments covered if various guises meant to hide their intention, and instead, be represented as your own interest. Fear and insecurity are great hiding places for manipulative interest. Optimistic vision can also be used as a trick to catch someones interest, then later prove to have been a ruse. We need to be both critically minded on the one hand, and have our heart held out open in the other. True adults can do this.

The upcoming election seems to be being based on fear and insecurity vs. hope and optimism, both of these being held as paramount in differing ways by the candidates. I am not saying that we are not justified in having these inclinations. What I am encouraging is the “true believers” and the doubtful to have their wits about them. As citizens and voters, it is up to us to determine the fact from fiction, the hidden agendas from the promises of safety and security. For power will seek to inject its corruptions into all areas of life if let be.

We each are freedom, love, and truths best and last hopes. Better to stand with understanding under their tall light, than the ignorance that festers in the shadows of misunderstanding.

SELF CONTROL HAS RISEN; ascending with now.

BEHOLD. I AM RISEN
First of all. No matter how objectively factual any others story is, it becomes told in my mind, in yours. It may be true, may be an allegorical tale, doesn’t matter, except how it matters to me.

This is a primal redeemable truth: I am not outside my consciousness, my awareness, not how I can seem to assume. This may explain how an inner focus to awareness can produce self centeredness, a solipsistic view of life where all that is important revolves around me and what I want or need or think I am. Highly alienated individuals can be self consumed by a focus concerned with only their own needs and desires.

What degree of awareness is always the same or under the influence of body dynamics or that of outer environments? I am not certain that question is answered quite anywhere completely (exceptions being possibly meditation, prayer, or what is called at times cosmic consciousness, a sense of union with the Source of Being). Am I a modem, some simple interface between inner DNA, chemistry, memory and the unknown outer world in which I try to detect what to trust?

WHAT WE DO

It seems societies-culture has let a lot into my perception, to get its hands on my steering wheel, usually for the better but at times for the worse. These very thoughts are highly influenced by the words they must pass through, words from a historical-collective mass, language. Not to mention what mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandparents, kids at school and siblings and all the rest had to say to and about me, and how they assumed I was someone they knew, and truly understood for a while. I might have liked some of it and not approved of some, but am left what I got.

This outer influence is powerful stuff. It is not guaranteed absolutely to be right or wrong, but it may have set up much of my parameters of outer interactions in times to come, or even my whole life. I then have something akin to an assumed self and an assumed place in life. It may be one I always enjoy, have trouble at times with, or one I find much difficulty in. Especially if heartache, stress unrelenting, and a negative view towards the happenings to, of, and in my life seem to haunt my memories and occurrences around me, I might need a change. But where can change come from?

THE POWER POINT

How can I have any control over a seeming relativity of fate that surrounds me with what I am disappointed in? How can what I have always known reverse its apparent course (or curse) and become something more wrapped around love, beauty and respect, a place of inner peace that has so far eluded me? People, Spiritual institutions, even advertisers, claim to help me to do this, but what is the fact of the mater?

THE POWER PLACE

WELCOME TO NOW!

Now is never gone from you. I am always here. Here with the Source of whatever keeps all that is going. I am undeniably connected to one vast Being. As if a drop in a stream, I may not know where I begin and end, or if those borders are actually the limiting walls of what and who I am. But no matter who the real me is, the guy writing this, I can be quite certain I have adopted notions about me that are true, false and between the two. I am in all likelihood being someone I am not, in the sense that others are in effect living through me due to the judgement’s I have let in about myself in part thanks to them. We are all in this boat. We may not come to grips with the truth that we are all in this boat together, but we are. I do not see or feel the end of the universe we are in.

Change only happens now. If I cannot change some oppressive sense I have about life, I am by inference, not being present with it. The power of being is right here in the now, with you. If I let go of my painful past assumption, I come into the new place, the place of transformation. Many religions and belief systems have a key in the now to unlocking the real me and letting go of the old one. The easiest one to grab a hold of is forgiveness. It embodies the act of present free will, to cut away deterministic like continuations.

FORGIVENESS IS ABOUT BOTH ME AND THE ALL THAT IS. IT IS ABOUT FREEDOM TO BE TRUE TO LOVE.

I believe the arts are symbols of a key to now, especially music, and particularly if one is a participant in music making. Music is one art most all humans do, and many other creatures perhaps. We could say we worship Being in a union of sound in mind and heart. It can be a participatory union with the transcendent qualities of ones identity and place, coming right out of now.

Forgiveness has this musical quality; where I am an active participant, and whatever judgement I am holding for whatever reason, is released by allowing a reconnection to occur with Source. It is cathartic because it acts like a catalyst in that way. Forgiveness is then a form of Higher Consciousness and resulting understanding, where instead of being trapped in a self centered cause, one embraces a higher Cause, which we could call a Grand Self awareness.

WHEN WALLS BUILT WITH ILLUSIONARY ROCK AND MORTAR FALL

For you, my words here are abstractions. They might seem true, but you cannot be certain I do what I say. That is just as well, since your freedom to be more present in the Now, is really all up to you. My statement that we (I), can be cut off from the fullness of present life, is quite possibly agreed with by you. The question is, how one finds that essential center when one really needs it, or if I can stay there and still deal with past and future speculations I seem required to attend to to figure out my path through life.

It quite possibly will require practice to undo past programming. Our programming is as if an addiction holds us for better or worse. One could say we are addicted to eating and breathing for good reasons we would not wish to end. Breaking harmful addictions are a matter of making a declaration to change right now, and keeping ones power there no matter the pull to fall back. That is when the present moment comes into full potential.

Harmful assumptions about life have possibly become neurally “wired” in, and require you to have some tools to rewire around the problematic issues. This may be aided by symbols, rituals, or talisman that act as reminders of where Center is and what you hold as a known Sacred Point. My self realignments can be aided by reminders of my direction when I get lost, landmarks to Home.

This has been one example of a space-time portal. A description of just one of the ways the weight of the past can be lifted from individual consciousness. It involves what we could call new but always present needs; the need for empathy, compassion, understanding unstopped by ignorance, that some of what people do to us may not be liked and understandable, but was done for what seemed to them, a sound reason, a reason quite possibly based in separation.

The separation may have originated in them, or me, or my impression. But what we call wisdom, or spiritually transcendent being, rises above the implied alienated subjective, reaching through space and time, to touch the Eternal Source. Now is that closest place, where the answer to separation is found, and the Song continues on.

Fortunately, you are right here with It. Enter at will.

DEATH TO DEATH?

I read some tags again. I must say that many of us out here hovering in cyberspace do have a lot of interesting points to make.

One guy (I assume) had quite the post on tribalism, evolution, social theory, top predator as self predator-hard wired. He began to explain how, we more advanced types need to impose anti tribalism notions back onto Africa to save them from themselves, or from us, I got lost in the bad is good and good not so much connections.

Circles began to form around the rationalizations. I wondered why, if as this guy said; the “dark side” is not as bad as we seem to think, it might have worked for us so lets try it on them again. There is an institutional bias if one sees history as the permanent overlord of human motivation. How can we be sure of any derivations from fateful out-workings as being “good” manipulations?

Tolerance was stated as a higher place of mind, which I would agree with. But take the mind-frame out of human supposedly higher consciousness development, and where are we that is actually that much better? Is not that Doomsday Clock still at 11 something near midnight, thanks to all our supposedly enlightened associations ? African tribes have not particularly been the cause of this Doomsday Clock have they? (Excluding the realization that we are all essentially of African stock.) What about our favorite church, companies and governments trying to have it all their own way in the world?

From who and how is enlightenment going to be imposed on anyone? Is not Iraq deconstructing towards tribal states? How much imposition of the “better” way really works? How often do we repeat these attempts before the hands on the clock strike twelve?

THE MIND RUNNING OFF INTO THE JUNGLE

If the argument is human enlightenment or death of the species, seems quite clear we need enlightenment. I agree that much of what is bad in human nature is there for survival reasons. I do not believe we need to impose another boundary on someone other, from on high, to achieve understanding. Indeed, that now seems a most mechanical, social engineering approach, by those who consider themselves, for any reason, superior.

If imposing institutional order is the only true way of ending human attempts at self annihilation, there seems to remain a problematic reactionary impulse to external human mandates on behavior, regardless of holier motivations. Whether left or right or other orthodoxy, most nations seem to divide in half over the see-saw of which ideas way to go. It amazes me how the two halves then blame the other for problems, while all they have is solutions. Until that pendulum swings and we go back again to the other side. Most religions deconstruct in these ways to many sects (who is the most pure or interpreting correctly abstractions). When will there be this great understanding, given by institutional prescription? Or is there something intrinsically wrong in, effectively external institutional, attempts to impose order for the greater good, despite the individuals own understandings of it?

In all the abstractions of historical perspective unknowingly wrapped in its own views bias, do we ever actually get beyond the individuals responsibility to recognize the Universe her or himself? Is not the real truth apparent in It? To what extent have human consensus realities and all their precepts interfered with the individuals abilities to know self and come to know higher orders of yes and no regarding motivations and results in space-time of social interactions and other environments? What stops humans from a greater awareness of place and interconnectedness beyond eventual reactionary tribal identities?

GOOD IN WHICH WAY FORWARD?

There seems to be a more fundamental human problem; the removal of inherent authority of the individual to know common good as self good. And how to stand up for the personal work to achieve higher understanding based on a selfish self-centerness that extends to the Whole Universe Itself. An awareness despite the attempts by others to insist ignorance rules self, society and nation-state, and so institutions must impose control. How much more advanced socially are we in the western world, when paranoia of others is so easily put in control? What is left out of the I know better than you equations, regarding individual responsibilities, which actually is the bedrock of humankind?

Why is Love of and for all things, or for anything as far as that goes, never mentioned? How is that phenomenon that makes life most worthwhile, left off of histories or scientific radar?

IS REALTY UP TO YOUR IMAGINATION, OR IS THERE A REAL ONE?

IS REALTY UP TO YOUR IMAGINATION, OR IS THERE A REAL ONE?

What a world it would be if we could live by the whole truth; peace and harmony, if anyone is interested!

Instead of wondering what we mean is, is (a-la B. Clinton), let us consider what truth is. The truth is by definition; real and not in contradiction with itself, objective reality does not exist in negation. The truth can seem to us at times to be incoherent, as in paradox, or blind, as in by ignorance, but that “opposition” might relate more to our abilities and desire to understand life and the universe than its actual fact in reality.

The universe is consistent in its laws of being, or it would not be able to be, that is consistency. That consistency is then inherent to humankind, prodding us to agree on the nature of reality. The “easy” opportunistic existential relativism that gives equal merit to truth and fiction can lead us to believe in anything, as rationalization stands in for full and honest logic. Now that is problematic for our perception!

WHY DO WE LOOK, QUESTION, AND SEEK ANSWERS?

We explore our differences in perception to advance the cause of greater truth (why we need a free and independent press). We are actually preprogrammed to seek out the truth. It is the contention here, that we can enlighten ourselves by activating our critical thinking abilities rather than denying them for what appears to be current or comfortable self advancement. Orthodoxy’s, as status quo question free zones adhered to like security blankets, can institute and worship ignorance in the place of truth or God.

When the self (or the nation) “advances” at the cost of the whole truth, one is in fact self-deceiving and self-defeating, since we cannot bypass the truth (universal reality) without dire internal/external emotional and relationship consequences. Lies, denial and other deceptions set up the fields of disharmony, (can you remember any first lie you once told and how it felt?) aided by what has been called cognitive dissonance and or temptation; the dysfunctional, contrary world of opportunism. It seems the universe is set up to honor those with an honest and open heart and mind, no matter the material or identity boosting results humans may impose onto other values that serve to confuse appearances.

I DID IT MY WAY

Much of the division and conflict at home and in the world is because of self serving attempts to have things “my way” (no matter how well intentioned!) when in fact that way is the wrong way if it fails to stand up to the inherent objective standard of whole truth.

Though none of us are perfect with objective clarity, life hands each one the quest to be more whole and fulfilled. This occurs in a lasting and unshakable way by drawing closer to truthful reality, perhaps necessitating the presence of ambiguity and nuance if clear and simple conclusions regarding experience and its perception are not always possible.

This adjustment to real knowing may require facing humility and forgiveness as self correcting mechanisms for false assumption. Much alleged fact and opinion does not meet a full and unbridled standard of illumination, but instead actively opposes in depth analysis, provoking the darkness of subjectivist separation via sustained ignorance and its progeny; conflict. Light is essential for our survival.

IF PEACE AND HARMONY ARE NATURAL, THEN WHY IS THERE CONFLICT?

Ever heard of monkey see monkey do? How about the imprinting a baby chick can have that has it “think” you are its mother? Many an astonished adult finds that in raising their children they observe themselves behaving just as one of their parents did. They think back to childhood and remember how they perhaps despised that saying or behavior yet out it waddles as if following mama down the path. Because dysfunction is bonded to a continuity of reason, an embedded perception of cause and effect, it too is self perpetuating until it is solved by awareness of error by the self. Many abstractions serve as hiding places for these errors, where we can pretend we know a truth.

Freedom is a classic abstraction (as God can be). I want to be free is generalized to the extreme; free from what, whom, and or to do what? We do not accept that I am free to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater as a lark. I am not free to dump my used motor oil in the middle of an intersection. I can claim that freedom, but most no one else will agree with it as some kind of right; because it negatively effects the whole! We could say the same about anyone consciously flying planes into any building, in the name of God. Yet as we have seen, some claim rights to a freedom that a consciousness of the whole would never consider. We have traditions, wrapped in abstractions, that we never question as they effect the context of the whole planet, simply because we assume they are true, just or entitled just because we have them.

Overall it makes good sense to “follow” ones parents or guardians (yes our culture) but there can be times when that automatic pilots instruments can be wrong without us noticing it, if we do not challenge our initial sense of contradiction to find what the real truth is. If I am in “opposition” to the whole of life, that separation will produce pain and perpetuate it if unresolved. We can believe we are doing something right and actually be doing something wrong! We need to review these automatic pilot assumptions we all have that may very well be sending us somewhere we never intended to go.

A SPLIT PERSONALITY AS NORMAL

Dysfunction will try to have it both ways; have the loyalty and allegiance endemic to all life, yet not allow inward looking to see if life is actually and truly being served to the best of our abilities, by claiming loyalty and allegiance prevents honest introspection. A catch 22 contrapuntal loop of imposed darkness blocks truthful openness, by sticking perception squarely into the ground of guilt. Who said a circle could not fit a square?

FEAR SQUARED

Politics can take this opposition to extreme by mixing fact and abstract theory in presentations that claim they are one and the same with what actually is. I can hear these and then go on to believe someone’s ideas of progress, or victory, or winning are factual because I believe in the abstraction, but reality is the rub!

In stimulating tribal and turf identities, the differences between people, whether real or fabricated, can be made to seem life threatening and emotionally clear. Hitler, for example, used this ignorance of others to turn them (in perception) into monsters that must be destroyed for the common good. We have hired “talking heads” these days that spend most of their time demonizing whole categories of our citizens to suit some preconceived political ends; divide and conquer.

I cannot force my abstractions onto reality by manipulating the facts. For instance, we can say we support our troops and want them to win, seems straight forward, but lacks the facts of specifics; why do we believe force is the sole solution to a particular problem? What exactly do we construe as victory, getting our way? Humiliating our foe? What are the real issues in the conflict? Are our troops fighting for the truth and will they then be willing to forgo past assumptions for current realities, thus change and or adapt to what success for their real mission now is? How about us?

WHEN SERVICE IS HIJACKED BY MANIPULATION

I suggest that if our troops are committed to fighting for truth and honor of it above all else, they cannot be abandoned by politicians nor polls no matter how much “support” they receive, for their support issues from a higher cause. It is up to both the public and the politicians to insure the use of force is only backed up by the truth, for in not so doing, it is we who are abandoning our responsibility to be honest and forthright.

Merely saying something is so does not make it so, yet some of us make this mistake into policy supported by the questionable propositions of ideology. The question should become; why am I afraid of the actual truth? So fearful that I sacrifice my abilities to know the truth in a full way, for a fear based assumption that I already know truth and so cannot question that “knowing”? Another roadblock to true knowing is not allowing evidence to the contrary. Is that knowing that denies admittance actually that weak and susceptible to erasure? As if it is not included in Creation! Such avoidance is an indicator of damage to perception.

PROUD TO BE WRONG?

The freedom to be wrong creates a clash with reality, truth then, if sought out, can set this problem free, free for oneself to pursue a higher knowing. Our imagination can coexist as a partner with creation or in contradiction with it. Imagination breaks the bounds of apparently choice-less determinism, but in so doing creates an awesome responsibility, one we can appear to be completely unaware of. Yet the laws of being remain unbreakable. Persisting in contradiction will push us out of life one way or another, no mater the scientific, religious or cultural concepts we hold dear. Creation is not held hostage to human ideas.

It is up to the individuals subjective awareness to reach out to a higher order of knowing, or not. I must give myself permission to expand my awareness to greater objectivity by owning a passion for a more complete truth. The challenge I face then as one person, is if I will leave my comfort zone of adjustments in order to establish a foothold on a closer connection to life as it really is, a higher order for my own functioning in the real world of being. The sense of identity alters and expands as I leave behind subjective insecure attachments to a mistaken identity, establishing a sense of greater realization by holding on to the ways of increased objectivity.

WHERE DO I GET THE AUTHORITY TO SAY SUCH THINGS?

I have not just pulled these notions out of the blue, you already know of them. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “What goes around, comes around.” “Karma.” “What you reap you sow.” These all describe the understanding that one does not get away with deception and manipulation. It also means that one does change and grow with living in truth if one is so doing, the truth becomes ones life.

Truths requirements show up everywhere, naturally. When we declare we are attacking them over there so they wont attack us over here, (this applies even in our relationships!) we are violating these tenets for a delusional sense of avoidance. We cannot avoid the truth. Those prior sayings do imply how we are fooled into not knowing the truth, and come to believe we can get away with something, all we need are what seem to be good fact assembled reasons.

We are born with a certain free will that allows us the right to be wrong, however, there is no right to avoid the real truth nor to avoid the consequences of so doing. Remember “The path to Hell is paved with good intentions.”? History shows us how racial, ethnic, sexual, religious and political, and other class identity differences are given subjective narratives to justify unequal treatment and unequal presumption. If we try to separate others from the rules of reality we end up separating ourselves, then wondering how we so mysteriously went wrong. There is no getting around the whole oneness of life, except seemingly by living in deception. Over there is also here. Recall that Shakespearean quotation, “I know not ‘seems’.”?

Internally, and in the outside world of others, the truth faced up to in the light can be painful to behold, making it seem a challenge to embrace the light over the darkness. Light can be blinding, if not humbling, to find in the presence of truth that ones past assumptions have proven to be in error, and admit that that error has brought pain, discomfort and confusion into the world. Self-reflection may bring this pain into the forefront to be processed, yet the release of true growth in individual perception only comes after this transcendence of deception and illusion. The Truth with a capital T does set us free. Self correction is not defeat, it is the opposite of it!

THE CHALLENGE TO BE

It seems we are born into this continual test; to determine whether our imagination is both accurate and conductive to the Truth, and if not, whether we have the courage to let go of our false assumptions instead of projecting them into space-time, causing certain disruption, which we then attach to the assumed ill will of others or to life itself as uncaring. That is a short-circuited defeatist position, because the mechanisms for self correction are present with us if we but turn the door handle to come into their room.

When I am weak (in perception/identity), I can fall into the reactions of provocation as easily as anyone. Provocation encouragement is an addiction of separation, as if to prove how separate we are from one another, as if life were some argument to “win”. Provocation reaction is internalized anger at apparent separation or abandonment, resisting evil with evil we could say, and it tends to produce more of the same.

But compassion for ones enemies as described by Matthew in the New Testament? The very notion of loving ones enemies to transcend the cycle of hate is our only hope, for it holds out the promise of reintegration. If we are to be serious about peace, truth and love, we must stop the perpetuation of the illness that sustains their opposites. We have to become the heroes in our own lives because we are up to the challenge.

WHEN DOES LOVE CONQUER ALL?

A most humbling yet rewarding experience occurs when I gain control over my right to be wrong, no longer allowing insecurity and imagination to run wild in my own perception. With that self discipline I can see that I am actually on the side of Love–that which connects everything everywhere. Not that love does not include suffering, but suffering lets that love be known as even more precious and worthy of my care. Life has been generous in this respect. It can be a pleasant shock to comprehend all of the answers needed are here. There is no lost key to find to finally make sense of it all.

Universal consistency means we each are essential to it, since it is the bedrock of our own being. It may be about what some call God, Love, Life or Spirit, but whatever we call It, It cannot be deceived no matter what I believe.

JUST A TRUTHFUL WORLD

AND NOTHING BUT THE?

What a world it would be if we could live by the Whole Truth. The truth is by definition; not in contradiction with itself. The truth can seem to us at times to be incoherent as in paradox, or blind, as in by ignorance, but that “opposition” might relate more to our abilities to understand life and the universe than its actual fact in reality.

The universe is consistent in its laws of being, or it would not be able to be, that is consistency. For this reason it is sensible to reject the lazy, convenient and opportunistic driven existential relativism that gives equal merit to truth and fiction. There is an inherent and inherited drive to Truth.  Yes with a capital T.

BUT WHOSE IS RIGHT?

Politics and religion make great distinctions over what is often actually varying limitations at interpreting reality and agreeing on its parameters available to human comprehension. Truth is in effect, argued as relative to a mistaken subjectivity, and an abstract untouchable perfection, for many belief systems, the two can never truly meet.

In these our environments, we explore our differences in perception to advance the cause of greater truth. It is the contention here, that we can enlighten ourselves by activating our critical thinking abilities rather than denying them for what appears to be current or comfortable self advancement. Orthodoxy’s, as status quo question free zones, adhered to like security blankets, can institute and worship ignorance in the place of God, or if you will, the Universe of Truth.

WHEN DECEPTION (TEMPTATION?) WHISPERS; “It’s yours! Take it before someone else does!”

When the self “advances” at the cost of the Whole Truth, one is in fact self-deceiving and self-defeating.  One cannot bypass the truth (universal reality) without dire internal/external emotional and relationship consequences. Lies, denial and other deceptions set up the fields of disharmony, aided by what has been called cognitive dissonance, and, or, a temptation to not concern thought with the Whole; the dysfunctional world of opportunism opens.

It seems the universe is set up to honor those with an honest and open heart and mind, no matter the material results humans may impose on other values that serve to confuse appearances.  The illusion of “having” materially, has become a kind of substitute for both Love and understanding of oneself and connection to all that is. Fear of loss will be advanced, however, not just to give thought to protection from insecurity, but to control perceptions by steering thought away from the heart of the Whole matter at hand.

BUT ME FIRST ALWAYS

I propose that much of the division and conflict at home and in the world is because of self serving attempts to have things “ones own way” (no matter how well intentioned!) when in fact that way is the wrong way if it fails to stand up to the inherent objective standard of passion for the Whole Truth.

Though none of us are perfect with objective clarity, life hands each one the quest to be more whole and fulfilled. This occurs in a more lasting and unshakable way by drawing closer to truthful reality, perhaps necessitating the presence of ambiguity and nuance if clear and simple conclusions are not possible. This present position of uncertainty may require humility, implied conditionality of context, and most importantly, forgiveness; for oneself and others.

LOVE FOR THE TRUE WHOLE

Tired yet of all the alleged fact and opinion that do not meet this full and unbridled standard of illumination, but instead provoke the darkness of subjectivist separation via ignorance and its progeny; conflict? Then we need a field of honesty about the human condition; about the appeal of subjective gain, and the resulting imbalance that can then emit into the world and create dissonance that will self perpetuate as conflict (some internalized state of falseness to Being), unless it is understood for what it is.

We each must acknowledge that internally and in the outside world of others, the Truth faced up to in the light can be painful to behold, making it seem a challenge to embrace the light over the darkness. Light can be blinding, if not humbling, to find in the presence of Truth that ones past assumptions have proven to be in error, and admit that that error has brought pain, discomfort and confusion into the world.

THE PAIN THAT PRODUCES GAIN

Our work at exposing what is hidden may bring this pain into the forefront to be processed. Yet true growth of individual perception only comes after this transcendence of deception and illusion. This effort is then dedicated to the proposition to be true, whatever it takes.

This is to Whole Love. May it hold us all in Its arms.

WHO IS HOLIER THAN WHO? VOTE THE MOST HOLY ONE!

WHO IS HOLIER THAN WHO? VOTE THE MOST HOLY ONE!

I looked at my tag list again, and since it has politics; liberal and conservative in it, I get to read how humbly but absolutely certain we are, that we are on the side of good and honest. You, on the other hand, I do not wish comment from. I write my polemic and you keep your punditry out of it. At least I have seen examples today of this proclamation.

HYPOCRISY

Most of us think we are true to ourselves, unless we are purposely lying to someone online. I do not tend to see my own hypocrisy in areas I have not scrutinized closely enough, or where the self protection psychological defense mechanism called cognitive dissonance kicks in to avoid my looking into incongruities in my philosophy or beliefs. That doesn’t make me right however.

Since I value liberalism for its freedom loving, and for some, responsible interconnection to all things, I tend to let liberals slide on our contradictions or blind following of what is said to be a liberal value by someone on liberalism’s side. I do believe that liberals overall, need to listen more closely to conservative interest to try to get to the heart of the matter, which is often a somewhat camouflaged insecurity fear, behind a conserved superiority notion or liberal blame buzz frame.

THAT SAID:

As a human being, I cannot comprehend being against health care for all. Sure, have special care for those who want the freedom to pursue “better” care. Keep the private health care system going for those who can afford it, of course! But do not leave people to die or not have preventative care out of some callus so called moral reason. Who said money equals morals? It was once a conservative tenet, in some old circles, that money if the source of all evil.

LIFE OR DEATH OR IN-BETWEEN

I do not care if for some emotional or dysfunctional disturbed reason, that you cannot or will not work. If we are human, we still care, even if gratitude is not returned. Since when is love and caring a strictly reciprocal “deal” or contract? What kind of humanity is that? Seems like differing space aliens using sign language to trade spaceship parts for their robots.

People who are alive but supported by a society for whatever reason, still pass money on to eat, or one way or another, all the other necessities for existing in society. That contribution does not dead end there. We are willing to spend more on defense than all countries combined, for our insatiable fear of everyone else. But what of helping our own citizens for a tiny fraction of that, who are in trouble for one reason or another? No. I cannot go with you on that, cause I have heard that is not conservative values.

It ends up we help farmers some, yep in “conservative” states. We bail out corporations, some. We get pork deals for our votes, some. We take money from the public till; and as we have seen under the so called conservative breed in recent years, the reality check is, that they are the biggest pork and wildest spenders of all. (I have come to call much conservatism, hyper liberalism.) But do not help someone poor out! That would just encourage them to do nothing!

What kind of consciousness lives in such dichotomy, yet still has the time to point the same finger out at liberals. Would we help pick up an old person who asked for our aid if they fell on the street? Or just walk on by as to not interfere with Gods will? Well check the hand while pointing, cause three are pointing back at your own heart.

THE WEDGE CUTTING MACHINE

Since World War Two, conservatives (their manipulators) have been out to “warlordise” the population into post industrial feudal systems. Especially in the last thirty some years, huge fortunes have been spent to breed conservative “ideals” or “values” into the direction of the opportunist and predator. It has become lazy and easy to be conservative because there is such a deep well of ad hominem logic poured into the airwaves and out of “think tanks” and even pulpits, to make sure money and blame seems to be closer to Godliness.

I can get my teeth fixed and my heart looked after if I inherited, stole, have a rich relative maybe, or hard earned enough money to. If not; too bad loser. Is that the high ground conservatism sticks its post into? It is, if one is against health care for all. Or else one is a misanthrope. Much vocal conservatism these days, seems more founded on quicksand.

THE DRY ROT OF CIVILIZATION

I have come to call conservatism the dry rot of civilization, because it eats away ones humanity from the inside out. You can look responsible, dress nicely, have a golden home over the sea, go to church and agree at the terrible state of a permissive society, do all that and be hollow inside.

Someone posted recently, quite a list of prominent conservatives who changed sides on specific issues as soon as it hit their family ( ex. Mrs. Reagan and stem cell research). I believe many conservatives are hiding stealthily behind a hardened heart, listing, thanks to propaganda, many attributes about withholding here and withholding there. The whole tax and spend wedge frame is fraudulently placed solely at the liberals door. Are soaring oil profits not putting any dent in your wallet? How about global warming and depletion of resources and pollution?

But when the storm hits, or a beggar pulls them out of a burning car and gives them the shirt off of his back. Well then, some floodgate opens inside. Our common humanity and connection comes rushing out.

It is not about tough love or hard love. It is what happens when one allows into ones life; unconditional Love.

THE LAND OF ABSTRACTION

Diversion

then deception

take claim in abstraction

it is a key to a souls control

the aim of an act obscured

closed behind intentions

we have no means

of knowing

the real

word

.

Love

and war

they are said to be

on fair playing fields

fair as in that alike way

that all of anything goes

nothing withheld out

in their completion

or competition

.

It could be said

just because we are

capable of horrible things

in the name of one or other

that we all get to visit them

free upon one another

inevitable fair

harm

.

Love

it seems able

to cause ecstasy

and extreme pain

it is odd to openly say

all must be fair about it

it may come and go now

old seemingly defeated

may be gone by neglect

without one knowing

what guarantee ever

made it fair or not

what right there

to claim it was

or was

not

?

If all is fair

in these two things

why keep fighting over

how someone else acted

what is the surprise

the issue

?

When often

when we win the prise

was it fairness in our favor

we thank the result

as fair to us

deserving

as destiny

or God

must be

on my

side

.

But

if it is loss

and now it is I

who must bare its cost

I proclaim loud and clear

someone was cheating

and must be

blamed

.

I am of the mind

to change the old saying

love should be free to be true

to be honest to what is in reality

how if not respected fully at heart

it will evaporate in truths light

enter up invisible into clouds

rain its bounty elsewhere

for it is itself,

fair

.

It was always

up to me only

to be fair with it

and to accept change

if it be by truths call

in seeming fair

or not

.

But war

with its intent

to force someone

to do something other

than what they intend

no matter whose side

more truth is on

it takes away

without care

.

There is

nothing fair

about innocence

stripped and shredded

nothing clear anywhere

about men who lay claim

to take love away by force

what was someone elses

eliciting reaction

and hates

kiss

.

Oh

how they blend in

love with passionate killing

the excitement of the chase

how romantic a pure soul

how fair an noble cause

is surely a sound case

hating for loves sake

ignoring a touch

that antimatter

annihilates

.

I see why

we think them

so alike

the pain

the broken lives

the innocence that suffers

as vanquished hearts tarry

over either word

.

But they are

of different name

love must be free

become itself same

a true bond to life

indestructible

that is the

truth of Love

when real

.

But war

the world must be

free of it and its cause

love and war are no equals

we need zero tolerance for war

it should be barred forever

it should be imprisoned

with a life sentence

never to be given

a fair hearing.