Swami's State of the Universe Address

[Guest guest]

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.

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