This diary is part of a continuing series on Parapsychology and my own experiences. A General FAQ on Parapsychology can be found here.
Past 5 blogs on this subject:
A Well Kept Secret #25: Stop the Nightmare
A Well Kept Secret #24: What's It Good For?
A Well Kept Secret #23: A Call to Action
A Well Kept Secret #22: Psychics as a Minority
A Well Kept Secret #21: The Holographic Universe
Today's Diary will be a discussion on how enlightenment fits into the election
Many people are sensing that this election is about more than who becomes President. They sense that there is some sort of cosmic feel to it, as if something larger is being fought for. Mark Moford of SF Gate writes:
This just in: Hurricane of delicious irony slams Republican National Convention, flooding the streets of Minneapolis/St. Paul with rivers of savage hypocrisy as levees of evangelical denial and sexual confusion overflow into the streets, leaving stunned party members scrambling in vain for shaky moral high ground.
Meanwhile, clever looters smash windows of opportunity and steal valuable quips about underage sex and teen pregnancy, as everyone gets a very unsettling if not downright weird taste of warped pro-gun anti-choice elk-kabob conservative Alaskan family values. YouTube at 11.
Yes, the rumors are true. The cosmic votes have all been tallied, and I do believe we can now say, with some measure of happy certainty, that God appears to be just as sick-to-death of the Republican Party as the rest of us.
Indeed, the economy is crumbling and we can expect it to get a lot worse int the coming years. The damage is severe.
For myself, there is a feeling of pushing back. It's as if I've let these people run over me all my life and I've finally stopped and said "No More! It stops here." But this is all way too general. What I want to do is examine what exactly this feeling is.
Enlightenment has been a lifelong goal for me. It's something that I've spent a lot of time on and because of that, I feel qualified to share this revelation, earned by years of work:
Enlightenment is nothing more than the absence of fear. The more you face your fears, the more enlightened you become. Anyone I've ever seen who had very little fear was relaxed and confident and didn't need to attack other people either verbally or otherwise.
It seems like there should be something more, some grand awakening or a bombshell of bliss or whatever. But time and again what I have found is that enlightenment is a game of inches. You slowly remove fear from your life and as you do, you begin to act more and more enlightened. It's as if it's always inside of everyone and if they just reduce their fears, it comes out.
If you're not afraid of being emotionally hurt you have better relationships. If you're not afraid of being poor you have more money and if you're not afraid of being attacked you have more power. (Power here is not in the political sense, but personal.)
Real kick ass enlightenment is standing up to fearful people with compassion and simply choosing good instead. Fear blinds us to the truth, but a lack of fear draws us to the truth like an arrow hitting a bulls eye. Real enlightenment draws us not into not just a feeling, but into action. Enlightenment is the soldier who will not personally participate in the torture of prisoners and will speak out about it. it is the person who rescues too many animals and the person who gives their time to volunteer at homeless shelters. And a million tiny good actions make the world a better place for everyone.
And that is at the core of this election. It's not just about how badly the Republicans have screwed up and how it all needs fixing, it's about choosing a path that is not based on fear, but compassion for our fellow humans and also for the animals and plants that quietly endure our destructive presence on the planet. It's about taking the corporate hype and manipulation and political fear-mongering out with the trash where it belongs, instead of allowing it to sit in the middle of the room smelling up the place.
I don't see the election as a battle of good and evil, but of compassion versus fear. Fear is what generates evil in the world. It is the driving force behind greed, (fear of not having enough), power, (I need to feel stronger to feel safe.) and hate. (They might hurt me.)
When confronting the fearful reactionaries, one must be patient. Rarely does one achieve a decisive victory when confronting them and even if we take the presidency in '08, it won't be decisive. The religious reactionaries and the large corporations and super rich will still grasp at their agenda; they won't give up and they won't go away. When people are driven by fear, they are like a drowning person dragging the rescuer down with them. If not dealt with quite firmly, they will take us down with them. We will have to push at them a little at a time, gradually wearing them down until we have more power than they do.
The election is about more than the Democrats getting into office. It's about enforcing a vision of peace and community in the U.S.