Our World

Let us divide the world in half.  The East with its lofty spirituality and enlightenment, and to the West economic prosperity.

We find the lack of interest in the material and the squalor of India vs the lack of humanity and the spiritual emptiness of America.

These extremes produce various shades of grey, a reflection of emotional and cognitive dissonance between the two ideals of self vs humanity.  In other words a variety of offshoot cultures abound with different mixes of these opposing ideals.

Both systems of thought produce their slums, their repression, their anger.

Confronted with the opposing culture, there is a perception of threat to one’s way of life.  The conflict begins in the mind, because the values held dear are in conflict.

Sell all you have, give it to the poor and follow me.  These are words that we cannot ignore when the poor are standing at our door.  Some open the door and their hearts.  Others wonder aloud at the lack of industry of such populations, and think first of their own comfort.  They close the door and their hearts.

This is the cognitive dissonance experienced in the western world toward the less fortunate.

The spiritually motivated people’s or cultures heed the divine callings for these words resonate with their mental and emotional self.  Those living in such cultures who do not resonate with such selflessness develop their own dissonance toward the world.  They chafe at the lack of material reward and resent the decadence of the West.

Even within these cultures there is a clash of Will due to the polarity of the material and spiritual ideals.

Most of us recognize that politically, economically and personally we need to strike a balance.  Often what is good for One is good for all.  It is said that a rising tide affects all ships.

A little empathy and charity can go a long way toward mending broken hearts and broken dreams.  A reasonable amount of caution is also a reality.  I think we can find a new balance, find a way to work together, recognizing that every life is worth saving and every mind, every child needs protection.

We have hardened our hearts because the two ideals have become so polarized, the self vs the world, the us vs them.  We are one world.  The reality is, if we try to divide the world, it and we cannot survive.

We are One World One People
We are Whole

Let’s start the healing process and make a change.  The first step starts with you.  Speak peace into the world.  Be an example of righteousness, compassion, grace, Christ in the world.  You may never know how many minds are inspired by your selfless acts. Be the best you can. You can do it!

The “Right” Way to Immigrate

The Right now is parroting ‘My Family came here the Right Way.’

They came here legally with papers and stuff.  They are legitimate Americans because they or their parents came here the right way.

How nice for them.  How privileged they are to have been granted the opportunity to have a better life.

This is America, a country that believes in doing things the Right way, and ignores things like the way the land was taken away from its original inhabitants, the Native Americans.  Too bad they didn’t think to ask the pilgrims for their paperwork.

America overlooks the way some people were brought here the Wrong way, as slaves aboard slave ships, and sold naked to the highest bidder to be forced to work the land.

So this is a continuation of doing things the Right way, the do as I say, not as I do way.

America the land of hypocrisy and Right wing intolerance, shaming the desperate people who come here to save their children because they came here without paperwork.  The reason you came here the Right way, and did not resort to desperate means, is because immigration law for the entire history of America restricted people by race to annual minimums so that Asian and black people would continue to be a minority.  If you are the Right kind of people, you get a Get out of Jail Free card. Welcome to America where we say all the Right things, but do as we please.

Rejection and the Emotional Body

We all deal with rejection at some point in our lives.  Most of us are big enough to absorb the loss and the emotional pain, and we move on.  We continue to care about others and care for them.  We continue to be open to relationships of all kinds.  We continue to nurture, build and create relationships with friends, lovers and family.

Many of us know someone who cannot function this way.  We know someone who we see regularly but who never really seems to care about anyone.  We are all just characters in a scene to that person. We play our parts, co-worker, acquaintance, neighbor, but we cannot really build a relationship with him or her.  He never lets us in.  She never makes time to get to know us.  They aren’t interested in our lives and we know that.

We think they are cold, distant, maybe even selfish.  They know they are all alone in their world.  But they don’t know why.

The persona is comprised of different faculties, or bodies of influence.  The intellect has its realm, the physical body and spiritual body or soul also have their domains, so too the emotional body has its being, function and purpose.

Like the physical body, when the emotional body is battered, it recoils, may become wounded, injured, and need time for recovery.  If repeatedly or seriously injured, the emotional body may become incapacitated.  I liken that to a coma.  In such a severe case, the intellect is left alone to deal with life issues it is entirely unequipped to understand.  The injured personality knows she cannot relate, but she does not remember a time when she could relate to people.  The emotional pain is hidden behind a door that cannot be opened.  She is lost, confused, and numb. He will not open that door again because his weakness lies behind it.

Such is the damage with extreme rejection.  The personality has no capacity to withstand further rejection, and it recoils, refuses to engage again, until it can heal.  This process can take months, years, or a lifetime.

There are many forms of rejection.  Mothers and fathers reject their children.  Lovers reject their mates.  Siblings and family turn their backs on one another.  Friends break up.  All sorts of relationships end.  We carry the bruises with us and take a chance every time we open our hearts and lives to a new friend.  Consider the losses some people have endured and compare them to your own.

A broken heart needs time to mend.

The Self

The much maligned ego, the sense of Self, does it have a point?

The difference between you and me and us or them, but beyond, when we are one with our World or stand apart.

Run amok, the ego self aggrandizes.  But at its most transparent, it is but a realization of one as a member of the whole.  A point of light in the shadow of the sun; then it is visible.  It’s light is not lost but joins its brotherhood in brilliance when they shine together.

It’s a question of light.

For God divided the lesser light of the night from the greater light of the day, to guide us in times of darkness.

The ego shines alone when our world turns dark.  It is then we are reminded that we carry the light within.

It is a point of light, nearly massless, with neither width nor breadth, but it’s light casts in all directions.  And light calls to its brothers and it shall never be alone for long.

The ego is one.  One of many or one as in first of many.

Every point in the universe is it’s Center.  That is God’s Miracle.

We are all One.

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