Balance The Light and Dark Through Practical Spirituality

It is summer again. A struggle is taking place between those who want so support the downtrodden and help uplift the whole society, and those who want to grab everything for themselves and people who are like them while destroying all others. I think that this has been the primary battle on Earth since the beginning of the age of the human being. There have been forces that wanted to bless people and make those who were blessed be a blessing to everyone in which they came in contact vs. those who thought they were blessed because of their own superiority and who learned to despise those who God was said to love and want blessed, the downtrodden and the pure of heart.

The same old battle is fought again and again at the end of each age and the beginning of the new. Humanity strives to jump to a new state of creativity and awareness while other forces filled with fear, greed, and lack of insight and vision, continually try to push back toward the dark ages full of fear, discrimination, and created scarcity so they may maintain their seats of power.

The main difference today is that we can see how scarcity is created right before our eyes. We see how a few people working behind the scenes can buy the rights of the many through bribery and media manipulation. We couldn't see that a long time ago. Because of more information we can look at the major religions and see how they played a part in perpetuating the myths that led to fear of the other and constant wars in the name of God and country. It is as if the sheet has been pulled back and we see all of the ugly people conspiring behind the scenes to build empires for themselves regardless what happens to the majority of the people in their communities, countries, or even in the world.

This is a good thing. Now is the time for us to look at the place from whence evil comes. It is time for us to sketch it into our minds with hot irons, or chisel it into our psyches like truth written in stone so that we can heal all of the separation that has been created by these people and their spiritual ancestors, and begin to rebuild the world the way most of us prefer. The racism, the sexism, the religious bigotry, and homophobia has to go. These are the tools they use to conquer us with. It is time to realize that we are part of an interdependent system. We are part of one world. We are not separate. Poverty and oppression in one part of the world translate to the same things in the other parts.

This is something we are recognizing today through this so called war on terror. The major chance that we have to make this world better is to get rid of the hate, nullify the effects of the haters and Empire builders so that we can have life. When we can do this, live in a multicultural world where we can enjoy others cultures and share our own freely, we will create the Rule of Love, The Kingdom of Heaven, Satchitananda on this Earth. We will be what we were born as, a wonderful creative being who is kind, loving, and capable of creating the world that most of us dream.

A world of peace, a world of joy, a world of mutual sharing, in other words, a world of love. It just takes letting go of the false identity that has been force fed to us since the day we were born, and remembering who we really are. We are beings connected in an interdependent web of existence. More than that, we are the guardians of that independent web. We have just forgotten who, and what, we really are.