Often I get the feeling that planet earth is so far out of control in terms of negativity, chaos and destruction that it would really be impossible to repair it. The damage we have done to the planet in the last 100 years is unprecedented. Alot of the spiritual technologies or religions including Buddhism, Scientology and Kabbalah talk about a community of people changing the direction of the world through a new mindset.
Kabbalah talks about the "End of Days" coming in the next 50 years or so and there is some sort of race against time to see whether the entire human race can get the idea that we have to purge our collective egos and become "givers" before then.
Scientology has a few interesting philosophies...The two rules for happy living are.......1: Be able to experience anything easily. and 2: Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
They also believe that after the world destructs....the Scientologists will lead a new world out of the dark with proper morals and ethics. (Certainly not based up the appalling conditions fostered by their current leadership)
The Buddhists believe in many beautiful ideas. Love, Peace, Harmony, Non-Violence, Reincarnation and the community of fellow Buddhists. They believe that their peaceful energies will filter throughout the world in some sort of tipping point and the rest of the self absorbed and corrupted will one day just drop the facade and start meditating. Hmmm. At least they are adding a peaceful energy to the world, how strong it is in the universe and how it will manifest I am not sure .
One constant idea that I keep coming across in my readings is this idea of Victimization. Taking responsibility for your own life and not just becoming a "victim".
On a personal level I can relate strongly to this. Two years ago I felt that some of the battles I was fighting were just too strong; they were consuming me physically with lack of nutrition and the ingestion of toxins. Mentally I felt that I was loosing a vigorous battle against the constant chaos that the world supplies in abundance if you are looking for it.
So I would wake-up and feel that I was the only one that recognized that this world was simply a very random and crushing place for anybody with a myriad of feelings and a plethora of challenges.
IN A NUTSHELL...I WAS A VICTIM.
Today I feel the complete opposite. I am in control of the energies I put out, including my intentions and my interpretations. I generally choose to be a positive individual. When I don't feel like it...I take a close look at why? That's me right now. Who knows...tomorrow I may be a negative bastard who feels like the battle is never going to be won, but I truly hope not, that position is just too easy and too exhausting.
Deepak Chopra said: " Reality is everyone's personal creation" (ofcourse you did Deepak)
He says that what we experience as reality in our life is the result of our thoughts, beliefs and conditioning. We are not being randomly just tossed around in life, we are co-creators of our universe. However we can never expect to tap into that power until we accept FULL RESPONSIBILITY for EVERYTHING that shows up in our lives. (This takes some practice because of our conditioning)
I came across this great paragraph recently on responsibility by Parker J Palmer:
The great insight of our spiritual conditions is that we co-create the world, that we live in and through a complex interaction of spirit and matter, a complex interaction of what is inside of us and what is "out there,"
The insight of our spiritual traditions is not to deny the reality of the outer world, but to help us understand that we create the world in part, by projecting our spirit on it-----for better or worse. We share responsibility for creating the external world by projecting either a spirit of light or a spirit of shadow on that which is "other" than us. Either a spirit of hope or a spirit of despair. Either an inner confidence in wholeness and integration or an inner terror about life being diseased and ultimately terminal. We have a choice about what we are going to project, and in that choice we help create the world that is.
A little heavy before breakfast but I think the image of a person living this way is very positive to us all. It makes it a hell of a lot easier to look in the mirror in the morning that is for sure, and is certainly uplifting in my life at the moment.
That's all, at 8am on a beautiful sunny Sunday morning in September, 2012.
Rick
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