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Mission Possible by Swami B
Part Human Race, vs the political RaceHow much is it worth to U?,
Date: 1/30/2008 9:41:03 PM ( 16 y ) ... viewed 1712 times
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Mission Possible
January 30, 2008
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In This Issue...
-- Mission Possible
-- Meanwhile, Back in the Matrix ...
-- Time to Re-Subscribe
Mission Possible
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by Steve Bhaerman
"I'm betting on the human race."
-- Swami Beyondananda
Everywhere we look, the old is dying.
Even if we see our upcoming electoral primary as purely symbolic, the choices are unmistakable. Stick with the old in the hopes that apple trees will somehow begin producing oranges, or risk something new. Throughout every one of our dysfunctional institutions from war to medicine to banking to energy, obsolete forms are crumbling, and it's only fear and habit that keep them in place. Oh, and of course the people and organizations that make money off of these monumental failures.
Unless you're specifically in the demolition business -- or watching the whole thing from afar like a movie -- there is nothing fun about things falling apart. There are even those like the woman I met a few days ago who believes the only thing left for humanity now is "hospice," where we put our collective human affairs in order and go "home" resigned to our species getting an "F" in third dimension. She wasn't kidding.
While I realize she was simply doing her best to apply compassion to the state of despair so many are feeling, this is hardly the time for those of us who can see a healthier world to declare spiritual bankruptcy and put in our application for a better life on a better world. As long as there's a playground left to play on, the World Game (which Bucky Fuller described as creating a world that works for everyone) is a heaven of a lot better than the End-of-the-World Game.
Those who have been having "apocalyptic visions" might take some encouragement in the original meaning of "apocalypse." It meant the "lifting of the veils." And if nothing else, the veils are being lifted from the lies humanity has stood for and perpetuated over millennia because we didn't know any better, and also from the ancient wisdom that has been hidden from us thanks to weapons of mass-distraction.
I don't know what the cosmic oddsmakers are coming up with, but like the Swami -- I'm betting on the human race. Consider that all the time individuals spontaneously and inexplicably recover from a "fatal" illness. Generally, the medical establishment will deny the individual ever had the illness in the first place, contrary to the scans that show otherwise. I've even heard of cases where patients return to their doctors disease-free and the physician tells them, "I don't want to hear about what you did."
A number of years ago, Dr. Andrew Weil came up with a radically sane notion: Why don't we actually study those who've experienced " spontaneous remission" and find out what they did that made the difference? Fortunately, a consortium of drug companies put up about $30 billion to fund the study and ... ah, just kidding. I wanted to see if you were paying attention.
Seriously ... several years ago, I had a discussion with Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, an associate of Dr. Weil's and author of Coyote Medicine. He revealed there seemed to be two nonmedical factors at play in a number of these cases. First, there was a change in belief. Secondly, there was a change in behavior. The belief changes were not the "I affirm a million times" or "I think I've convinced myself I believe something," but more of an intrinsic knowing. The change of behavior was often the letting go of a career, a relationship or another condition in life that was causing not just stress, but so much conflict and distress that death seemed like a better choice.
Let the record show that even when these conditions are operative, this is no guarantee that the condition will spontaneously disappear. These cures are all-too-rare. But they point us in a healing direction, not just as individuals but as a species: Change your belief. Change your behavior.
The reason I am so excited about my now nearly-completed book with Dr. Bruce Lipton, Spontaneous Evolution, is that it offers humanity just such a pathway to change beliefs and behavior. Our book is based on the latest discoveries of what we call "new edge science" and with a nod of approval from ancient wisdom: We humans are all cells in the body of one humanity, here on earth to regrow the Garden and have a heaven of a time doing it.
As the Swami just said in the State of the Universe Address, "we have the wherewithal .. now all we need is the 'aware with all.'" The tools are out there to design and live in a world with the context "we're all in it together." The task is for enough of us to awaken and live into this possibility -- to achieve critical mass before critical massacre. I'm excited that this book will provide a scientific and spiritual foundation for this new story, and the website we create will be the "living book" that chronicles the new story as it gets written.
Will we make it? Well, in the words of Willie Mays, "That's what we're gonna play the game to find out."
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Meanwhile, Back in the Matrix ...
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As I've often said, there are two distinct political conversations in America that are going on simultaneously. They seem to be separate right now, but someday soon they will converge. One conversation focuses on the ideal, the other on the "real deal." It's the separation of these two that has given us at best government by "the lesser of two weasels," at worst government by "lowest common dominator."
My personal mission -- and I suspect our collective one -- is to unite these two conversations into a congruent political movement based on the spiritual truths that 90% of us share, despite our ideological bent. Political elections are binary exercises in this country, meaning we are generally asked to choose "this" or "that." Those of us who understand the need for holism tend to cringe at the "assholism" expressed in these binary contests. Some folks I've spoken with choose not to participate for this very reason.
Rather than taking yourself out of the game on account of not wanting to get any dirt on your clean uniform, it makes more sense to me to ask which of these binary choices is more likely to lead us where we want to go -- and act / vote accordingly. Now you may believe that before change can occur, everything must go down the toilet. Well maybe so, but what if that's not the case? If you were suffering from an illness, would you wish yourself more suffering or less? A speedier recovery, or one which you might not survive?
And that brings us to the binary choices available to us, specifically next week on what's called Super Tuesday. From here on folks, everything I say will be purely my opinion. Please recognize it as such, and take it or leave it. As my friend Caroline Casey would say, it's an offering, not an imposition. So ... if you plan to vote in the Republican primary, my opinion is that your only worthwhile choice is Ron Paul. While his political perspective is limited in some ways, he of everyone still in the race is the individual with the most integrity, and despite his seemingly "old fashioned" views, the candidate who is most outside the box.
But -- again, my opinion -- I wouldn't even bother with the Republican primaries. Though Ron Paul is doing better than his Democratic counterparts Dennis Kucinich (who is now fighting for his seat in Congress) and Mike Gravel (my personal favorite as all-around human being, who has sadly gotten little traction), he doesn't seem likely to capture the Republican nomination. In fact, as lame as the lame-ass Democrats have been, the Republicans more richly deserve a resounding thumbs down for falling in lockstep behind the current criminal regime on just about every issue.
Should the Republicans lose overwhelmingly everywhere, it will be the thorny crowning achievement that will stand as George Bush's legacy. Again, a binary choice.
I suggest throwing our weight on the Democratic side behind Barak Obama for several reasons. First of all, imagine another binary choice: Hillary vs. McCain. One neocon supporting the current policies (with some modifications) in the Middle East vs. another. In his most recent column, Robert Scheer offers evidence that key members of the Clinton White House used their influence to get other Democrats to support the invasion of Iraq. To put it more poetically, Hillary is a sheepowitz in wolfowitz's clothing.
Then there's the electability factor. While Hillary has tried to rouse the support of women by suggesting she's hated because she's a woman, I would suggest exactly the opposite. Being a woman is one of the two things she has going for her, the other being the better half of the best politician of our generation. People dislike Hillary because she is Hillary. Yes, of course politicians are ambitious by nature. But her candidacy seems to be way more about herself than about the American people.
She is the candidate least likely to get the independent vote, let alone disaffected Republicans. If she is elected, she will preside over four more years of bitter divisiveness. And that brings us to Barak Obama.
Obama is inspiring. He is uniting, and -- despite of or maybe because of the race thing -- he has the potential to cross over and gain independents, Republicans, evangelical Christians who are ready for a leader who can bring us together. Obama doesn't play the race card. He is the product of a mixed marriage, one parent foreign born. He has the potential to be a uniting force worldwide. Hillary? She is part of the same establishment that brought us globalization and the war in Iraq.
So, back to the binary choice next week. A vote for Obama is a vote for possibility of a breakthrough. A vote for Hillary is a vote for a known quantity that is likely to add up to either a loss in November, or a country divided and still on the wrong track.
One of the saddest truths of the postindustrial age is that we've become so jaded that when we see something that might be "goodness," it's immediately suspect. Actually, it's ourselves we don't trust. What if we get duped?
Think of it this way. Putting our energy behind the platform of possibility empowers our highest intentions. And by affirming these intentions, it strengthens the field -- and the probability of the possibility. As Swami's guru Harry Cohen Baba used to say, "Life is like a good deli. Even if it's not on the menu, if enough people order it, they have to make it."
So, we have an inspiring political leader who has put it on the menu. It's up to us to order it. How they cook it is up to them. If we don't like it, we send it back.
Remember the Age of Aquarius supposedly just around the corner? Well, we're right on schedule. We've just had seven years of the prerequisite Age of Nefarious (you know, "when the goon moves into Lincoln's house and stupider aligns with Mars"). I think we are more than ready for something new. Consider this. In astrology, the symbol for Aquarius is "the Water Bearer." Aquarius is a male, but the water he is bearing is feminine wisdom. The genuine and heartfelt call for unity, that represents feminine wisdom. Putting the structures of the mind in the service of the heart, that is feminine wisdom. Aquarius uses male energy to serve and protect the nurturer, not the predator.
The healing forces in the world are building towards this understanding. Do we want a regime in place that is more likely or less likely to understand and reinforce this Aquarian reality?
The new tell-a-vision program is Mission Possible. If ever there were a time to vote for possibility, this is it.
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