Guest guest Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 April 2006 State of the Universe Address By Swami Beyondananda For years, we’ve been hearing “shift happens,” and wondering when, where and how. Now finally, it looks as if the shift is about to hit the fan. Of course, if you’re looking for signs in the news, you won’t find them. The news might as well be called the “olds,” because the world still seems stuck in greedlock, ruled by fossilized fools fueled by fossil fuels. But now, encouraging intelligence reports tell us that, indeed, humans are becoming more intelligent. Yes, people everywhere are wising up. And that’s great, because we could sure use an up-wising! In 2005, Americans had to face the sad realization that the Bush administration’s “pro-life” stance appears to be limited to the unborn and the brain-dead. Despite being panned by critics everywhere, the Iraqi Horror Picture Show continued its run, as thousands and thousands of born fetuses — ours and theirs — lost their right to life. While we may or may not have saved face by staying there, we have most definitely lost ass. And we’ve been assured we’ll be stuck in that morass until — well, until there’s no more ass to lose. Meanwhile, more and more Americans reached another sad conclusion: We’re not in Iraq to keep the peace, we’re there to keep the pieces. The signs of up-wising are everywhere. Even the most unpleasant stories are beginning to break through the soundless barrier and defy George W. Bush’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy: “You promise not to ask us what we’re doing, and we promise not to tell you.” Although we’ve been ominously warned that we have to protect ourselves in this dogma-eat-dogma world, most Americans are decidedly uncomfortable with the notion that the only way to defeat the “evil-doers” in the world is to out evil-do them. Although Mr. Bush has assured us that “We don’t torture,” it is now common knowledge that we simply send detainees to countries that do torture when we want them to “testify under oaf.” If there was any warm feeling in 2005, chalk it up to climate change. Katrina hit and, in the government’s response, we saw a glimpse of a future when all Americans will be treated as equal — where everyone regardless of race or creed will be treated like black folks. We Are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting For And now, for the good news. America, the world’s only superpower, doesn’t need a revolution. What is needed now — and what has already begun — is the American Evolution where enough of us wake up and see that neither of the two main political parties has invited us to the party. Time to go beyond choosing the lesser of two weasels. If we want to evolve the dream of our Founding Fathers — instead of devolve into the nightmare of Big Brother — we must become the leaders we’ve been waiting for. The only force more powerful than a superpower is a Super-Duper Power — the power of the people plus the power of love. And anyone who doesn’t believe that we, the people, are a Super-Duper Power, well, they have been super-duped! True, many people still feel that the affairs of the world should be left to the bolder and badder among us. But look what that leaves us with: Are you satisfied choosing between Saddam Hussein and George Who’s-Not-Sane? Now I know those “God, guns and guts” Old Testament Christians might have forgotten, but Jesus did say: “The meek shall inherit the Earth.” In all undue immodesty, maybe it’s time for us meek folks to boldly step forth and accept our inheritance. The time for revolution and overthrowing has past. Now we need an evolution where we “overgrow” the current dysfunctional system from the grassroots up. There’s the story of the Native American grandfather who tells his grandson about two wolves fighting inside all of us: The wolf of fear and anger, and the wolf of love and peace. “Which wolf will win?” asks the young boy. “Whichever one we feed,” replies the grandfather. My guru Harry Cohen Baba tells us: “Life is like a good deli. Even if something isn’t on the menu, if enough people order it, they have to make it.” So what kind of New World Order are we ordering up? Do we feed the wolf of fear and buy into the “it’s every man for himself” story? Or do we nourish the wolf of love and evolve into the “we’re all in it together” story? I know, I know. Only a crazy person would dare to propose anything that sane. But maybe it’s time to demolish the current crazy house of institutionalized insanity and design a sane asylum big enough for all 6.5 billion of us. It is time to release the old story and speak a new story to the world — to dare to imagine what we could be doing if we weren’t spending so much of our livelihood on weapons of deadlihood. Think about it ... think tanks that would think about something other than tanks. Young people living for their country instead of dying for it. Health and education fully funded, and the Air Force having to run bake sales to buy bombers. Can we change history? Can we shift our karma into surpassing gear? I can’t say for sure, but if we choose to give up that old Dodge and trade it in for an Evolvo, that’s a good first step. So let the Evolution begin. We don’t have to wait until the first Big Shot is fired. If we create a powerful enough field, the Big Shots will end up firing themselves. © Copyright 2006 by Steve Bhaerman. www.wakeuplaughing.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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