In Search of Liberty
Liberty, a Principle of Cosmic Physics, is always and
everywhere present in Cosmos. The basic definition of this abstraction, the condition of being free from
control or restrictions, is fine.
However, its meaning, significance and therefore its
application is extremely limited by the point of view, a one-dimensional
materialistic focus, that generated the definitions. This one-dimensional
materialistic focus actually creates a prison, a condition that controls and
restricts our understanding of what’s going on around here!
A LITTLE BACKGROUND:
The often referred to fact that "matter is spirit at
its lowest point of manifestation and spirit is matter at its highest." is
a big problem for modern thinkers primarily because of the use of the word
"spirit." This term, spirit, is encrusted with so many anthropomorphic
personality insinuations, illusions, images of mysticism, religion, magic, both
dark and light, that it is useless as a term of identification. Thinkers today
are much more comfortable with statements like, "Energy is all there is."
and "Things, that is forms which are identifiable "objects" or "some-thing"
are relatively dense expressions of energy."
So "forms" from the tiniest particle to the
greatest, (Imagine a point of view that would see a solar system as a rather
large atom which is what it is in terms of Infinity.) are just relatively condensed
and intelligently organized globs of Energy in Space. That the forms have
identifiable characteristics which allows us to discriminate between them as
forms, that is to say this is a potato and that is a cabbage, has more to do
with the thought, that directed the energy and "created" the form
than it does with the energy.
Energy knows nothing about time. Time is an illusion of human
brain awareness, and regardless of the "Big Bang theory" about the
"birth" of the universe, there is no time out-side of our brain consciousness.
There is only an infinite, therefore timeless, flow of energy into and out of an
infinite diversity of form manifestations in space.
For an infinitesimally tiny and local example of this
infinite motion, take a look at Earth's plant Kingdom. The roses come with the
Spring out breath. For a brief moment in the space between the breaths they manifest the beauty of the thought
that drives roses, and then they go or return with the in-breath to their
energy state.
There is only the breath of comings and goings, and that
interval between which is what I think we call space. So, depending on how big
one wants one's bang, such 3 phase events are constant in the timeless flow of
energy. Beginnings and Endings are strictly human constructs to sort of help us
in our one-dimensional blindness to make some sense of what is happening in the
infinitesimal speck of Cosmos that we can actually register with brain
awareness.
So, this being the case, and it is the case, let’s take a look
at Liberty from a slightly more expanded point of view.
The energy from which this planet and every form on or in it
was, like the Rose that was made manifest through a relatively Cosmic Spring
out breath, has "always" that is to say "forever"--another
one of those irrational, ambiguous terms that try to make things seem rational
to our brain consciousness-- been present. Energy and the cyclical motion of
the Breath which we call Life are infinitely present.
This fact begs a huge question relative to our Liberty. The
question. How is it that individual human beings, forms of the One Breath that
appeared relatively late in the process, can separate some energy from Cosmos
and claim it as his or her separate personal property, or “own it"?
This concept, the private ownership of property started with
the sense of identification with our separate personal vehicles and extended to
include the entire planet. The Cosmic fact is that Liberty is. It exists as an
ever present condition of Cosmos. There could be no Cosmos if there were no
liberty.
Most of Humanity does not know Liberty. Most humans know
only relative levels of imprisonment, for Liberty ends precisely where identification
with forms of matter begins. Even though such a separation is literally
impossible in Cosmos, when we identified with our separated selves in our
consciousness, we imprisoned ourselves in an illusion of reality. Liberty
meaning “the condition of being
free from control or restrictions” became a basically unending struggle. As we
escaped from one prison we came to find ourselves in a different one.
And even then we were only dealing with the
prisons of the gross physical plane such as imprisonment, slavery, forced labor
and poverty. The subtler levels of the prison of separation which have been
embedded in the collective psyche are, in spite of our sense of being separated
from each other, cells we all share. Thoughtforms generated by the delusion of
separation and the fear of death are passed on to us in infancy. From these
spring a multitude of subtle psychic prisons which control almost our every
action.
These prisons manifest from petty habits of selfishness to the gross
sense of superiority that drives greed, pride, gluttony for power and control
of property from gold to other human beings. Of these prisons we are largely unconsciousness.
For example, few if any of those who wallow in luxury and the illusion of power
realize the depths of their prisons. Basically, they are blind to Life.
To these folks, the concept of the private, that is
separated, ownership of property, that is a thing of any size or kind, is only
“logical”. It only makes sense. But the sense of a mad man is still an
illusion.
This begs another equally huge question. How do we deal with
this indisputable fact of Cosmos? Well, for starters, we need to realize that
Liberty begins where ownership ends. Liberated Humans own no thing; and are
responsible for every “thing”. The owner is enslaved by the object he or she
owns. The liberated human is joyfully responsible for the Planet. Recall the
comment that Joy is a special Wisdom.
So Liberty begins with a conscious realization (usually of
mind blowing proportions) that one is in prison and a simultaneous total determination
to get out. This getting out and all, may seem like pie in the sky, but all it
requires is a tiny shift in consciousness. It starts as a possibility that Life
is Rational and that what we see going on, what we are told is the way things work,
does not make any sense at all.
What does make sense? When we start down that road to that
answer, we will soon discover that it leads to Liberty and Justice and Freedom.
“And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will
be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men
and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to
join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last!
Free at last! Thank God Almighty,
we are free at last!” Martin Luther King, Jr, “I Have A Dream”
Nobody is saying that the Path to Liberty is easy or short. Certainly
that was not MLK’s experience nor the experience of any trail blazer. But as we
keep pushing at all of those “habits of ignorance” which we have been harboring
we will be continually amazed or “enlightened” by the experience of the incomparable
Beauty of Truth the gift of trail blazing.
