A Great Transcendence--
This Land Is Your Land
(God Bless...the world?)
Obama won the presidency because he campaigned on the promise of change. America and the world wanted change. But what did “change” entail? For some it was the right kind of change, for the others the wrong kind. And yet, in certain eyes, it was just an empty campaign promise.
But here is the truth. A greater change needs to occur. Bigger than anything proposed by any one political party. A great transcendence of our way of thinking. Our state of mind. Part of the next evolutionary step. For if it is not taken, we will simply be doomed to repeat history, mistake after mistake.
We’ve made advances over the years, but we’ve had setbacks as well. We’re living in a world where old and new thought exist intertwined, hence such division. Old thinking sadly still exists in the minds of those so consumed with their selves, their mind-made egoic world views; keeping those who have progressed in a tight head-lock. Keeping us from making the leap to the next level.
Each progression, each evolutionary step is always met with great resistance. by those who fear change. Who want to keep the “constant”. This was the case during the Civil War when Abraham Lincoln was president. The Union against the Confederacy. Sure Lincoln’s main aim wasn’t necessarily fighting for the rights of blacks, but those in the south sure saw it that way. And it lead the way to slaves eventually being freed. But at the time it was controversial because it was a major change.
The biggest evolutionary step, or change in thinking to occur in this country was most likely during the 1960’s-70’s, when the hippy movement erupted all across America. This was a great awakening. And it seem to occur all of sudden, all at once.
They realized that man was polluting the earth, and that we needed to align ourselves once again with nature.
People began to question. Their government. The War.
What was the rational behind Vietnam? Why were people dying for a needless cause?
It was probably the first time in our nation’s history that people stood up and cried out against the insanity of those in power. And those in power didn’t like that too much. Why? Because they were in power. They made the decisions and you better like them.
Because of how they had been raised. Because their minds were still stuck in their heads like all past generations before them. Because they were told not to question. Because they’d been taught a way of thinking that said to never think otherwise. Because at the time people’s lives consisted of: finding a well paying job that supported themselves, and finding a significant other to start a family with. Working. Eating. Sleeping. Dying. Without truly experiencing the life they’d been given. Living in a cardboard box where the rules and guidelines had already been pre-established. Society had set it’s standards. There was nothing outside of the box.
What box?
Meanwhile, during this great social upheaval of the 60’s and 70’s, people had found their way out of the box they’d been trapped in. They began to explore their sexuality, without constraints or fear (although there was much still) of being different. Of being discriminated against, attacked, or even killed. (Even though it still occurred.) But they weren’t afraid to express it.
Oh and music got better too. Drugs? A mild influence...
Of course things weren’t perfect. With such a major change in the way people thought, everyone went wild. Excess of drugs and alcohol, multiple sexual partners (and thusly the spread of sexually transmitted diseases) etc. People went overboard, as such is the case in any major transition. The pendulum swung too far. But balance is always restored over time. As it has been since then. And because of those things, we have learned and gained knowledge, and grown ever more because of it. Evolved in thinking that much more.
But not enough. The old still resists. Still fights for what they believe to be right. “Moral”. They want this country to return to it’s supposed “Christian” roots. To the “way it used to be.”
To the way it used to be?
When it was okay to beat your wife and get away with it, because it was known she would be afraid to say anything. When you were discriminated against or even killed because you loved someone who happened to be of the same sex. When women had no rights and were told to get in the kitchen and cook. When there was only one “right” religion. When people were judged based on the color of their skin. When blacks sat at the back of the bus..When blacks were slaves.
What exactly is there to return to? Are these the “Christian” foundations upon which America was built? The founders themselves weren’t even Christians. They were deists.
And yet we still attempt to live by old laws and ways of thinking. We still continue to try and live by a constitution over 200 years old, when times have changed so dramatically. We continue to look to an old book, (the Bible), for how to live our lives. Written by man, degrading women, and attempting to control those through fear of an almighty God. A book pieced together by those excluding anything they saw contradictory to their points of view. A book so wrongly interpreted by others, so as to believe that a great prophet, a man of great wisdom, Jesus was actually literally the “son of God”. Distilling fear. That if you disobeyed you would burn in the “Fires of Hell” for all eternity. God, just a man in the clouds. Instead of a force of nature. Life itself. Consciousness.
This same old thinking goes something like, “God Bless America”. And the rest of humanity? This same thinking places people in categories. Divides.
These people here. Those people there.
This country. Your country.
There is no such thing as “our” country, or “your” country.
As “our” land or “your” land. You do not “own” anything. We and everything else belong to the Earth, to essentially, the Universe. Because we are it, as much as it is us.
Ownership is simply a form of ego. Possession.
We are all one. Consciousness itself. Ego tricking us into thinking we are seperate entities. Obsessed with our forms. Trapped in them.
We are life. Your form is not who you are. Merely the window through which you perceive and experience life itself, which you are. Your consciousness perceiving this paragraph is who you are.
Once we realize this, all else is of the ego. Mind-made thought.
Awaken.
