The Looooong Train Ride
Somewhere, way, way back there, when we first got on this
train and started to think of ourselves
as separate beings rather than just members of some herd or tribe, we became
convinced that we were our physical bodies and that like everyone else, we
would die. The notion was that “all men are mortal, I am a man, therefore I
will die too.”
Since nothing else seemed to make much sense, staying alive,
i.e. maintaining our dense physical forms, or at least avoiding death as long
as possible became the goal. Also, given the aggressive actions of other
creatures, both the two and four legged,
types, who were also trying to avoid death, as well as the inexplicable events
of nature, like hurricanes, floods, snow storms, droughts and earthquakes, it
was very easy to assume that, somebody had it in for us anyway, and so we
should make hay while the sun shined, get whatever we could that made us happy
or at least less miserable regardless of what it did or might do to others, and
last as long as we could.
So, we moved from the darkness of just not knowing what was
going on to this completely inside out sense of reality, or from just being in
the dark to being in pitch blackness.
This scenario of our rather ragged evolution reveals the
motivation for a great deal of the amazing things that we, that is Humanity in
mass, have chosen to do over the past thousands of years: Endlessly murdering
millions of each other in a form of insanity called war over who owns what
piece of the planet, who is the biggest King, or whose god is the real one, or
whose race is superior; creating huge imbalances in planetary resources
which simultaneously generate
debilitating luxury and its own kind of madness, and grinding poverty,
starvation, and exposure, all of which lead to massive epidemics of various
diseases which deform and kill additional millions. The list could go on.
Engaging in these actions over and over again, whether as
nations on a macro world level or as individuals in a micro human relations
level, are the unavoidable karmic consequences, the fruits of assuming that one
is in the Light when one is actually in the dark. Basically, a great many
of our brothers and sisters, including
ourselves from time to time, are still suffering from an ancient psychic
condition. Presently this condition is known as insanity. It is a condition of
mistaking illusion for reality which patterns out in an endless repetitive
stream of failed systems. Being presented at every turn with the opportunity to
chose the path that actually leads to the Real and Immortality, we chose to
follow the path of material desire, the struggle for power and comfort, which,
we should know from endless experience, is a dead end and only leads us deeper
into identification with form and death. This is not sanity.
I know that this is drum that has beaten for centuries and
centuries by lots heavier drummers than me. However, as Master M. pointed out, “The simplest truth needs repetition;
otherwise it will be lost under a pile of trash.”
And we all know how much effort has been put into burying
this simple Truth.
From the beginning, the Wisdom, that is the scientific
nature of Reality, was made available through various ones who were sent among
us. They carried the wisdom. They knew the Way of the path and through teaching
and modeling with their lives, they endeavored to help us move into the Real.
However, actually moving into the Real was a free choice of ours.
Although this has been very hard work with frequently
gruesome endings for both our Teachers and those of us who attempted to implement
Reality into human systems, striving has “paid off”, as we have been told over
and over it would. Our past is strewn
with the stories of those heroes who dared to move forward.
Progress was very slow. But there was progress. And as the
centuries rolled along, more and more re-incarnating souls had strived to the
point where they were able to discriminate between the light and the dark, or
to be clinically accurate between insanity and sanity.
We all agree, all of
the sane among us, that we are moving into a New Beginning. (The insane do not disagree, they are
simply oblivious.) The thing about “New
Beginnings” is that they always, or almost always, involve rather messy Old Endings.
What we have been doing for the past couple of hundred years
is sort of cleaning our collective garage, getting rid of a lot of excess
baggage the stuff that is generating the imbalances in our lives, both macro
and micro. A major part of the excess baggage is a lot of overdue usually
painful Karmic Debt. On the macro side, we have war, famine, epidemics, on the
micro side, those sudden accidents,
exposures, revelations of things we would rather keep hidden. Oh you know what
I am talking about here…lying, irritation, impatience, criticism, etcetera.
The Good Book, one of numerous, has indicated that towards
the “End”—End is the space when the “beginning”
starts to noticeably move in and be seen in the very midst of the fading or moving
out old stuff— anyway, in the “End”, a
lot of stuff is going to be revealed. “Therefore
whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you
have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.” Well if
there ever was a “SIGN” of the trending new beginning, the present display of
chaos being demonstrated globally 24/7 including those who are “running” for
office in the upcoming elections is unmistakable.
In the past when I heard or thought about the remark from
the Good Book, I always visioned a huge Light being shined into those dark
spaces and the private rooms. We would all get to see the “Them” who were doing
the whispering in the dark and planning new greedy ways to enslave Us.
Imagine my amazement when the ones doing the revealing are
actually those who are plotting the next round of insanity. I always thought
that the proclaiming of one’s undoubted, absolute superiority and
right to rule was a common psychological aspect of the behavior of the insane.
However the skill with which these Drivers had been previously concealed, the
manipulation of fear and hatred that was used to camouflage the agenda, what
happened to that?
So, the insight:, The Path of retrogression leads ever and
ever deeper into the Darkness. Eventually one reaches a place where one is so
enmeshed in the illusion of one’s own
fabulousness, one’s own godlikeness that one drowns. One becomes, not just
irrational, but anti-rational; completely
unable to separate illusion from Reality, or insane.
Not so surprising when we think about it. There are many,
many examples, both macro and micro of this fate in our history. One thinks of
Nero, and Hitler and of how the leaders of the South simply could not see the
illusion of Slavery.
Illusion is of course a disease, a particularly insidious
disease. It attacks the mind and then the brain, sort of corrodes the internal wiring
and linkages is how I think of it. And being extremely contagious, it is easily
transmitted to other minds and brains. Over the past 50 years or so, since the
assassination of JFK, the insanity seems to have reached epidemic stages.
The growing numbers of random killings by police, the mass shootings
in elementary schools, churches, movie houses, markets military bases by any
number of deranged individuals, people blowing up themselves and who ever
happens to be standing around, someone committing suicide every 13 minutes,
these are the really easy to see effects of this epidemic. Not so obvious but
directly related to the illusion insanity are the revelatory verbal and videoed
explosions of “things said in the dark and
whispered in private rooms” which are being made day after day on national and
international media outlets by politicians and would be leaders of the World.
Another SIGN, perhaps a somewhat less crazy one, is the
explosive revelatory phenomena called Hacking. Secrecy about anything, it would
seem, is a rapidly disappearing condition. The motivation of many hackers is
purely selfish and harmful; however, many “things said in the dark and whispered
in private rooms” are being revealed. Another grouping of revealers are the Whistleblowers. Most of the people, like Wikileaks and Snowden behind this
kind of revelation of “things said in the dark and whispered in private rooms”
seem to have the Common Good at heart.
Those who are somewhat aware of cycles and the process of evolution
see all of these events as evidence of the End. However we know that Ends do
not just happen. Ends are caused by the birthing of the New. As the New Age
moves in it literally drives out the old forms and illusions.
The New Age must have New Foundations. These Foundations are
being established on scientifically demonstrated facts. We are establishing New Foundations based in
the understanding of an inclusive, interdependent
and unified conception of Life, of the essential divinity and unanimity of all
life and the transforming power of Good Will.
Sanity dictates that these concepts are the eternal aspects
of the multidimensional cosmos in which our tiny planet is spinning. They are
as our Constitution said some 200+ years ago, Self Evident Truths. Today, we
have the Science to demonstrate that these foundations are in fact Self
Evident. They exist throughout Cosmos. Ask any non-materialistically fossilized
physicist.
Every day, there are millions of individuals and groups involved
in such efforts. They are active in every category of human interaction. These efforts
are generating Light. The inclusive, heart engendered will that drives the
efforts of groups and individuals to encompass
and contain the Light within their consciousnesses and then to radiate it out
through the power of Good Will is lighting up the world.
However, as we are in the depths of seeing, these old forms
will not go quietly. The Light that millions of human beings are radiating as
they establish these New Foundations is calling out the enormous resistance of
the old ways. It is this that is generating the cruelty, and insanity, the huge
migrations of people looking for safety and shelter for Sanity. It will end
too, end with the end of the old concepts of power, cast and privilege.
This long trip is ending, friends. And this time right now is crucial. We need to
focus through the indomitable heart, “keep our hand upon the throttle, and our
eye upon the rail.” Or the Path, if you like. There is a station just ahead, where
we will be boarding the Transfiguration express.
All Aboard!
Good article, thoroughly enjoyed it.
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