Three Levels of Evil

Three levels of evil have been brought to my attention:

1. Personal - evil we carry out at a personal level
2. Systemic - evil perpetuated through systems
3. The Devil - evil disguised as goodness to correct the first two

First of all I believe evil is a man-made creation. We have fabricated the Devil. We have mixed our God-given goodness in ways that have created disharmony. We have built up incredibly complex systems around that disharmony, and the Devil has stepped in to ostensibly restore order.

It seems to me the original perception of the duality of good and evil, the perception of separation, is the primary creator of evil. The perception of separation is itself evil, and it is a projection. It doesn't actually exist. Without that perception and projection everything would simply be as it is.

I further believe the three levels of evil exist within my own personal being. So to get to the source of the problem I need to truly take responsibility for my being and for my projections. So what happens when I take an honest look inside?

I see I often disguise myself as a good person taking care of the evil of the world, and in so doing I am projecting my perception of evil onto the world. It appears it is I who am the creator of evil in this world. So it seems only I can restore goodness to the world as there is nothing outside of me other than my own projection. And this projection is what gives my empty ego substance.

Verily I say there is no separation. We are all One.

Powerlessness

Our current society has failed. Anyone who doesn't see that needs to wake up. There's nothing you or I or anyone else can do about it. Our mother the Earth knows how to manage her people and maintain balance.

We need to take a step back and admit our powerlessness and simply enjoy the abundant fruits provided for us. Everything we do to try to fix ourselves or the planet is simply more of the ego thinking it has power.

The ego has no power. It is emptiness, void of anything. In our true emotional hearts we know this. We also know our divine mother and heavenly father will take care of us.

It is Always Coming

It is always coming.
We are in Revelation.
Like a wave
It is always coming.
This life is animated
By the wave, and
We are surfing.

It is always coming.
When it stops coming
We will rest on the beach
In tranquil waters.

Those, who feel we
Are on the cusp,
Have arrived.
We are the surfers.
There is no need
To move ahead.
Trust, and the wave
Will take us where
We need to go.
If we get too far
Ahead of the wave
Then we are no longer
On the crest, and
The wave will consume us.

Live a life of faith
In this moment
Of uncertainty
With an inner knowing
Of our heavenly father's
And our divine mother's
Care and love for us.
There is nothing for us to do
But ride the wave,
And faith keeps us on the crest.

We shall be delivered safely
To the shore in love.

Beyond the Mind

I've been to a place in meditation that is beyond my mind. I cannot intellectually comprehend these things beyond space and time. I go to places (I call them places because I'm not sure what other word to use) places that if I try to comprehend them with my mind they disappear.

They are beyond my mind. So in trying to comprehend them I am brought back from these outer limits. But when I let go of my mind I go to these places, and I receive information that comes from a place beyond this Earth. The information is not from this world.

We are all One. We are beings of light--a single being/beam/photon of light--who have created this physical plane. And it is truly a gift, all the pain, the misery, the war, strife and conflict. It is beyond miraculous, and I love it. I love us. We are One. I love this experience.

The mind cannot comprehend this. The mind is baffled by calling war, misery or pain miraculous. Our society is controlled by the mind and is trying desperately to stop the miracle, which is an impossible task and only serves to bring more misery and suffering, more of the miracle. The mind cannot comprehend this.

We must put the mind in its proper place: secondary to the emotional heart.

Inspiration, Instinct, Intuition & Intellect

I'm reading a book called Self Observation by Red Hawk. He speaks of how instincts and intuition are the fastest responders to life, and the conscious mind is the slowest. Yet we attach the running of life to the slower rather than the faster responder. And our schooling locks us into this way of being (purposefully I would add).

Ideally I think we could respond instinctively and intuitively to stimuli and then allow the brain to process the stimuli afterwards. Instead our school training has us planning as much as we can in advance before acting. I believe this retards our intuition and growth exponentially: each time we make a plan rather than act life gets further and further ahead of us. Essentially we become more and more enslaved to our minds, locked away from our hearts and inspiration, the real guides to our lives.

Of course by responding to stimuli instinctively and intuitively instead of thinking it through first we are going to make mistakes. However, the amending of these mistakes will give us a better and more thorough education than any amount of school or planning ever could. Every time we amend a mistake we are increasing our intuition and thus quickening the growth and expansion of our consciousness, rather than delaying and enslaving it. Essentially by putting our inspiration, instinct, intuition and intellect in their proper places we become free.

Helping Hand

Guest Writer: Frederick Miller

I'm only human. I've only got one feeling left. I've been abused most of my life. In the beginning it was the so-called caregivers, the provincial government, peers and my father. For taking all that abuse like a good little boy I was given the gift of a lifetime of prison, drug addiction, failed relationships, loneliness and homelessness. I'm a lucky man. I'm still alive and I'm able to share these experiences to help others.

It's better than being suicidal and depressed. My addictions are coming to an end. I'm grateful for life.

-

Fred is a resident in Vancouver's Downtown East Side.

Pain Over Comfort

I once wrote, "Suffering is not part of the human condition. It is part of the ego. Let it go." Sometimes (often?) I get to this morally superior plateau where I feel no pain. I'm in the flow of life, and I think this is how it's supposed to be (perhaps it is), but it somewhat disregards all the pain and suffering that led to that temporary place of enlightenment in the first place. A psychiatrist might call this somewhat bipolar, swinging from one extreme to another.

Today I see I am better off accepting pain over choosing comfort because being comfortable makes life appear easy. Life is not easy. It comes with a tremendous amount of suffering. For me acceptance of pain and suffering leads to the courage to make appropriate choices.

It seems to me that those who don't believe life is pain haven't truly loved. Of course this is a personal issue. I have loved and continue to love like a crazed man out of control, perhaps to a fault but all the while enjoying the feelings of aliveness that come from loving in this manner. Perhaps I could release this way of being and calmly live in love's pure light, but if that be the case I must first admit the truth of where I'm at. And the truth is sometimes I am tremendously angry and want the whole world painted black. So I must tread carefully about making absolutist statements, though they may be sometimes true.

I believe truth is here, now, in this time and at this place but also everywhere and in every other place. And so sometimes two deeply profound and seemingly opposing truths can be simultaneously true. But then how can one say anything at all about the emotional nature of existence or reality? Life would certainly appear to be here, but it won't seem to allow itself to be pinned down. And thank God, truly.

Are these just mood-swinging tangents? I like to believe some wisdom, compassion and empathy can be gained as we move through our cycles of joy and sorrow and come to recognise the true Oneness of all things, that everything worthwhile does indeed come from love and that it is possible for us to create a world in love's image. And perhaps we may even come to realise this is what we've been doing all along.

The Writing's On the Wall

I guess the writing's on the wall but that don't matter anymore.

Scientism

First of all I'm not writing here to attack science. I just don't like it being imposed on me as to where I am supposed to get my morals, meaning and direction for life. We used to have to go to church. Now we have to go to school, and for many people school is absolutely essential, much the way church used to be. Then they use their school indoctrination to explain the need for school the way a churchgoer would use their church indoctrination to explain the need for the Church.

Many rational thinkers today would never let the Church define God or reality for them, if they even have a concept of God or reality, and yet daily they take the word of science as truth. Certainly they argue these truths are temporary and open for revision as nothing is absolute, but nevertheless this ideology is the truth or as close as we can get to it for the time being. It's a model they say that works as we grow.

Of course the average individual is not discovering these truths for him or herself. For them defining reality must be left to experts who have been educated by jumping through hoops guaranteed to have them grounded in reason. Even interpreting the Bible for themselves as a means or tool for reality definition is unacceptable since for them it is riddled with inconsistency and is not based in science. Actually getting first hand knowledge from spirit guides through meditation is also not acceptable because this anecdotal information is non-scientific.

These folks are using an ideology that refuses to look at a large portion of reality. They are holding themselves inside a narrow world-view that will never allow them to grasp the mystical spheres of life, which could be argued as the greater portion of life. They call them un-knowable, which often negates faith. They have placed themselves inside a self-imposed prison that insists on trying to explain by collective scientific reason or logic that which can only be known personally by the individual heart.

Plus this model of reality that ostensibly works for the time being isn't really working. One in two men in North America will be diagnosed with cancer. Billions of people are starving in undeveloped countries unable to take responsibility for their hunger because of politics. And while scientists argue over climate change more people are dying. This model of reality has us in complete disharmony with ourselves and our world where war and conflict are rampant, and nature has become a force to be conquered.

This entirely rational and scientific ideology also leads us to believe this has all just unfolded naturally. It's just the way it is. Evolution they call it. Disharmony is apparently our natural state. My intuition and personal investigation say we have been manipulated into being this way, but this is discredited as conspiracy. Never mind that I have been abducted by aliens or have spirit guides, everything outside of this physical world is denied or labelled as some type of psychosis.

We need to get back to the Source, each for ourselves. We need to connect individually with our food supply. We need to get back to family networks and smaller communities united through prayer and meditation. We need gratitude and humility.

Any religion or ideology, be it Christianity or Scientism, can be a wonderful way to further build community and to grow spiritually, but to have any one of them thrust upon us is unfair to say the least. To have the homogeneity of only one perspective merely takes us back to the dark ages. So simply replacing Christianity with Scientism is an unacceptable and backwards proposition that cannot accomplish anything but more servitude. Our awakening humanity will not have it.

Personally I choose faith and my spirit guides and my awakening heart. I choose my family and friends, love and life. I choose courage and righteousness, living wildly and lovingly, making mistakes and amending them rather than living in the safety and servitude of conformity. For me life is to be lived not explained. Besides even if Scientism can explain the entire mechanics of life right down to the atom and beyond in either direction it's still an awe-inspiring and undefinable miracle.