I hope you’re correct Paul. I have my days where I feel it, the days where I hope it and then the days where it feels so far out of reach even though it is staring us right in the face, snarling at us. The power structure does have a sense of desperation about it at the minute - like it forgot to lock the toilet door when having a shit and we momentarily walked in on it.
But it has its hooks so deep into the information systems that reality itself is being hammered into an ever more overtly, brutal and authoritarian model which is being actively championed by so many as “essential” to save “freedom and democracy” that i fear shit is going to get a lot darker before any real light can have a chance to flood in. If we survive that, perhaps then there will be enough clarity within the pummelled populace. That survive is a big if as it appears to me currently. But then, it has been a difficult few weeks watching our power structure do a motown chorus line for savagery in Palestine. So maybe tomorrow it won’t seem so bleak.
Cheers. I would say that believing that good will triumph forms part of the means by which this will come to be. We can will it to happen, tapping into something much bigger than ourselves.
The idea that good triumphs fits with the organic. You only have to think of the image of human ruins covered in vines and plant life, crawling with critters and inhabited by small mammals, to realise what the long game looks like.
God bless you, Paul. Thank you for your essay about the essential goodness of mankind and the battle against spiritual wickedness and the evil of the death entity. I believe Jesus Christ defeated death on behalf of all of us and that we have eternal life together in heaven. God asks us to love God, love our neighbours, and love ourselves. Doing so makes things better here on the earthly plane of existence. We have choices. I am glad you are for goodness and life. As for me and my family we serve the Lord our God. Amen.
We got it all wrong. Death is not the opposite of life. Death is organic, as much a part of life as birth, and not to be feared. Anti-life, the negation of the meaning of life, the LIVING death, the Death Entity, as you call it, trading on our fear of annihilation, of extinction at the end of life; this is the true opposite of life, and even this need not be feared if we refuse to contract with it.
The top 1% are mostly afraid of dying and believe that the earth cannot provide for 8 billion or more humans. Therefore, these fearful fools want to eliminate as many humans as possible so that they may survive. However, they will live no longer than anyone else and they will eventually die as will all of us.
Be not ruled by any master and never be mastered by any ruler. Your freedom is not physical, but mental. These murdering clowns cannot control that, despite what they believe and what all the science fiction says. Your thoughts are yours to have and hold and live.
Yes, they will, like us, die one day, But the difference is that their life-hating system of artifice will also perish, whereas our free and organic belonging to the Oneness is eternal.
Its arrival is an absolute certainty since it depends upon one single finite resource. What happens then? We should be considering it deeply. Especially the young, who are considering it the least, or so it seems to me.
Pure poetry in prose. Reminds me of Denise Levertov’s “Evening Train”:
”I called him old, but then I remember
my own age, and acknowledge he’s likely
no older than I. But in the dimension
that moves with us but itself keeps still
like the bubble in a carpenter’s level,
I’m fourteen, watching the faces I saw each day
on the train going in to London,
and never spoke to; or guessing
from a row of shoes what sort of faces
I’d see if I raised my eyes.
Everyone has an unchanging age (or sometimes two)
carried within them, beyond expression.”
(https://www.americamagazine.org/poetry-denise-levertov)
Thank you for your heart and mind, Paul. I am grateful we belong to the same karass (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-my-karass).
Thanks you very much, MAA!
I hope you’re correct Paul. I have my days where I feel it, the days where I hope it and then the days where it feels so far out of reach even though it is staring us right in the face, snarling at us. The power structure does have a sense of desperation about it at the minute - like it forgot to lock the toilet door when having a shit and we momentarily walked in on it.
But it has its hooks so deep into the information systems that reality itself is being hammered into an ever more overtly, brutal and authoritarian model which is being actively championed by so many as “essential” to save “freedom and democracy” that i fear shit is going to get a lot darker before any real light can have a chance to flood in. If we survive that, perhaps then there will be enough clarity within the pummelled populace. That survive is a big if as it appears to me currently. But then, it has been a difficult few weeks watching our power structure do a motown chorus line for savagery in Palestine. So maybe tomorrow it won’t seem so bleak.
It’s good to read something hopeful. Thanks!
Cheers. I would say that believing that good will triumph forms part of the means by which this will come to be. We can will it to happen, tapping into something much bigger than ourselves.
yeah, I have the same flip flop struggle with that one too! But something immutable in me knows this to be correct when all is said and done.
The idea that good triumphs fits with the organic. You only have to think of the image of human ruins covered in vines and plant life, crawling with critters and inhabited by small mammals, to realise what the long game looks like.
God bless you, Paul. Thank you for your essay about the essential goodness of mankind and the battle against spiritual wickedness and the evil of the death entity. I believe Jesus Christ defeated death on behalf of all of us and that we have eternal life together in heaven. God asks us to love God, love our neighbours, and love ourselves. Doing so makes things better here on the earthly plane of existence. We have choices. I am glad you are for goodness and life. As for me and my family we serve the Lord our God. Amen.
We got it all wrong. Death is not the opposite of life. Death is organic, as much a part of life as birth, and not to be feared. Anti-life, the negation of the meaning of life, the LIVING death, the Death Entity, as you call it, trading on our fear of annihilation, of extinction at the end of life; this is the true opposite of life, and even this need not be feared if we refuse to contract with it.
The top 1% are mostly afraid of dying and believe that the earth cannot provide for 8 billion or more humans. Therefore, these fearful fools want to eliminate as many humans as possible so that they may survive. However, they will live no longer than anyone else and they will eventually die as will all of us.
Be not ruled by any master and never be mastered by any ruler. Your freedom is not physical, but mental. These murdering clowns cannot control that, despite what they believe and what all the science fiction says. Your thoughts are yours to have and hold and live.
Yes, they will, like us, die one day, But the difference is that their life-hating system of artifice will also perish, whereas our free and organic belonging to the Oneness is eternal.
A brilliant essay, Brother Paul!
Thank you and the "unnameable force."
I wish I saw the coming decline of this "death". All about me is the status quo with no discernable change. Perhaps I just can't see it yet?
Its arrival is an absolute certainty since it depends upon one single finite resource. What happens then? We should be considering it deeply. Especially the young, who are considering it the least, or so it seems to me.