A Revolution Of Spirit
By Karen Farr
03/06/06 "ICH" -- -- Given recent events, I keep asking
myself “What have we done?” In my name, my government or what used
to be the United States of America, was sold to corporate entities
visioning a world network of power. In cooperation with one another,
they recruited compliant engineers willing to build a ship-shape,
world mega-state.
With the cunning of chess masters, corporations slyly used
personhood status to evade limits or restrictions on their acts and
acquisitions. With their affluence, they molded the culture and our
thinking. Through the media, television in particular, they have fed
us a junk-food diet of moral turpitude. Greed is good. Excess is
acceptable, even admired. Your neighbor has one, and so should you.
Our spirits have been intentionally marginalized. We have been
groomed to become slaves in the corporations’ grandiose vision.
Social programs, based upon the Universal Principle of being your
brother and sister’s keeper had to go. Those programs are now being
decimated. Visionaries who warned us about the heavy price of
polluting the very things that give us life (air, water, trees,
soil, et al) were ridiculed. The Earth is now seriously ill.
Cultures whose roots reach into antiquity, living on unspoiled
tracts of virgin-timbered lands had to be eliminated. We needed
their resources, and room for more cell-phone towers. Instilling
fear was necessary to keep us focused. It is now marketed like the
hottest new commodity.
There’s plenty to be worried about, for our time may be coming to an
end. We’ve complied with the corporate state for a piece of the
advertised “pie.” But the corporation does not share power, albeit
temporal. It is time to reclaim our power and our
forefathers’ vision. It is essential that we become lights in a
world blackened by our excesses, by our abrogation of spirit to the
base desires of the corporation.
There are several things you and I can do instigate a revolution, an
evolution of the spirit. Since many of you are already on a
restricted corporate diet, I’ll not suggest the usual, for you are
already engaged in finding alternative ways to power your homes or
fuel your autos. In fact, my suggestions are completely “new age”
and for this I offer no apology. Universal Principles of Love and
Equality have been marginalized by the “intelligentsia,” made to
seem like insipid ramblings of logic-challenged misfits. This notion
has served the corporation well. It has not served Humanity. When we
begin to feed the spirit, we will begin to see the possibilities
we’ve been intentionally blinded from seeing. I, for one, am ready
for a revolution. I ask you to join me.
Smile. Smile at people you don’t know. Smile at
someone you disagree with. Smile at a child. Smile at yourself
in the mirror. Practice smiling at least once a day.
Vision. Vision something non-material that brings you
joy. Is it the way your dog greets you upon your return home?
Hold that picture in your mind. Feel it. Practice visioning a
new joy each day. Then, begin practicing joy each day.
Listen. Listen to birds. Listen to the wind. Listen
to the rain. Listen to non-human voices. Imagine what they are
saying.
Dream. Allow yourself to remember your dreams. Know your
dreams have commonality. Flying, loosing your teeth, standing naked
in crowd, and falling are dreams symbols shared by humans throughout
the world regardless of race, culture or belief. You are connected
to others on a psychic grid.
Explore. Pick up a rock and hold it in your hand. Ask the
rock where it came from, its age, what it has seen throughout its
lifetime. It may lead you to question your self importance, the
durability of your beliefs.
Or stand next to a tree. Put your hand on it. Feel its
heartbeat, the slow pulse of sap through its veins. You might thank
it for working so hard to clean the air. Without it you could not
survive.
Walk. Actually stroll. This is not a race. Take your
time and breathe. Enjoy a moment for what it is without
attaching any meaning to it. Do this as frequently as possible.
If you are unable to walk, sit by a window and let your thought
meander. Again, attach no meaning to your thought. Just
experience the moment.
Clean up. If you see trash, pick it up. This is the
Earth’s House.
Know. Know your life is temporal. You are here
briefly. What would you have your legacy be?
Karen Farr Lee is a visionary fiction writer living in the
mountains of Tennessee. She welcomes your thoughts regarding the
evolution of the spirit and may be contacted at
kmalee7@bledsoe.net
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