Fear, Truth, and Spiritual Awakening

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Never before in history has mankind faced a greater crisis than the one we face today.  I am not talking about famine, or war, or hunger, or disease.  I am talking about a spiritual crisis.  A crisis of identity, of understanding, of planetary emergence.  We, as a species, are in our teenage years.  We are not adults, nor are we wise beyond our years.  We are between childhood and adulthood, and there is no older, wiser grandparent guiding us along our path.  We are alone, and yet, at the very core of our being, we are one. 

And it is at this juncture, at this very realization coming at us from religion, from philosophy, and from science, that we realize this great truth – that we are one. 

We are one. 

Imagine that.

Or, as someone infinitely more talented than I once said…

Imagine.

So please do that…

Imagine.

Imagine a world of unity.  Imagine of world of one.  Imagine a world where all the resources are shared, because it makes no sense not to share.  Imagine bridges, not borders. 

Imagine a world without fear. 

And then you will have a world of Truth.

Not truth, but Truth with a capital “T”.

Fear is born of separation, and fear engenders control.  It is the primary mechanism of control.  It is, at its core, the means of the adolescent, of the young as they struggle for the wisdom of maturity.  Fear is not Truth.  Never was.  Never will be.  Those seeking control use truth, but they do not understand Truth.  And many even reject the idea, and thus embrace the way of the adolescent. 

Any set of ideas which is based on fear is not founded in Truth.  It is, from a spiritual perspective, not real.  Mankind has indoctrinated himself in the unreal.  Examine our institutions, our beliefs, and see which of them, at their core, are founded on fear. 

It is time for mankind to evaluate our institutions and our “-isms” – from religions, to governments, to monetary systems, to foreign policies, to diplomatic relations.  Humanity, all of Humanity – not just the currently dominant slice of the Western World – must transcend the fear-based dogma that holds back our evolution.  This is True not for just the general populace, but for corporate leaders, for government officials, for politicians, for military leaders, for the power elite as well as for those institutions promoting hatred and terrorism in the name of a greater good.  Hatred and terrorism, whether issued by covert resistance to imperialism or by the corporate and military interests of the dominant, are never great nor good. 

These institutions and those lurking behind them believe that fear can control and maintain a grip on humanity.  This belief is founded on the fundamental assumption that fear is eternal and mankind cannot rise above it.  This has, until now, proven true throughout history.  It is easy to assume that fear will continue its dominance over us.  Entire models of social control are based on this, and their predictive success is contingent upon it.  However, if this dominance ends, the entire fear-based control structure – corporate, government, religious, military, family – falls apart like a house of cards.  For it has never been fear that we needed, but rather peace.

For humanity to survive this crisis, we must understand that all institutions were built by us – we control them, they don’t control us.  We gave them their power, because, at their core, these institutions are comprised of people.  They are us.  The ultimate irony is that we, ourselves, created the institutions that control us with fear, and that we run these same institutions. 

The eventual collapse of fear through the force of evolution is not a maybe, but rather, a certainty.  Anyone, from the power elite of the world to the common man, anyone who hitches their wagon to a set of beliefs founded in fear will end up in a ditch – a ditch they never saw coming.  But those who abandon the shackles of fear, who rise above it, will save both themselves and mankind. 

It is time that humanity grows up and stops playing out its adolescent dramas on a world stage.  Imagine a world free of fear.  Imagine living as adults…

Together, in peace.

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Freedom, the Cornerstone of the Ideal Life

One of the aspects of the ideal life that keeps popping up is the idea of freedom.  We seem to take actions in our life that can be viewed as leading down two different paths.  One path leads to more freedom and the other to slavery.  Now I am not talking about actual slavery, but rather a metaphorical kind.  And there are many kinds – take any major area of your life, and you can become a slave to it.  There is cultural slavery, parental slavery, relationship slavery, religious and spiritual slavery, slavery to food and eating, career slavery, substance slavery and addiction, and the list goes on and on.  When it comes to establishing an ideal life, every decision we make, every action we take leads to either more freedom or more slavery. 

However, in these times the most pervasive and common slavery is economic.   It has become, in a way, an integral part of the American culture.  The proliferation of credit cards, easy credit, and easy payments accompanied by increasing health care and rising transportation costs have whittled down most American’s dreams of an ideal life to pipedreams, childhood fantasies, and ill-founded illusions of grandeur.  No time to dream; it’s time to work.  There is no time for additional education, no time to change careers, no time to play, no time (or ability) to sleep – there is just no time… no time… no time. 

This is slavery, not freedom, by any definition.

So, how do we reverse this trend?  If freedom is the cornerstone to living your ideal life, and your life has become a life of slavery, how do you free yourself?  How do you declare your own emancipation? 

The first step is to establish for yourself exactly what your Ideal Life should look like.  Simply write it down.  Make it as robust or concise as you wish.  Let it address everything that you feel it should.  Do NOT address what everyone else thinks it should.  Just let it flow out of you.  Modify it whenever you wish.  Do not worry if it is complete or what anyone else thinks of it.  It is your life.  It is uniquely yours.  Make it so.

The next step is to make at least one good copy of your ideal life.  Once you’ve done this, keep it in a special place – a binder, a drawer, a mirror, wherever works for you.  Then here is the key – read through it at least once a day.  No matter what your life is like, no matter how much slavery you have in your life, no matter how good or bad you feel, read through your ideal life at least once a day.  Make it a part of your daily ritual.  Set your core vibratory rate in harmony with your ideal life.  Allow yourself to feel what it would be like to have such a life.  Do this as often each day as possible. 

The final step is to become aware of each action you take, of every decision you make, and ask yourself what path it is leading down – the path to freedom or the path to slavery – the path toward your ideal life or away from it.  Our life is a journey.  We never really arrive at the Total Slavery Station or at the Total Freedom Depot.  Our lives will always consist of some degree of each.  To achieve our ideal life, we must choose actions which lead us toward more freedom and away from slavery, thus freeing ourselves a degree at a time. 

As long as we keep our focus clearly on the life we want to lead, and take actions down that path, down the path to more freedom, as our life unfolds, we will (we must by the very law that governs all things) move closer and closer to our ideal life.

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