"Let Go, Let God" – The New Age of Stupid

I was walking down the street in Berlin when a poster on the gates of a church caught my attention: “Let Go – Let God” I read. I went on to ‘translate’ this ‘christian’ calling into common sense language and realized we are asked to let go and give ourselves to god, as if god is gonna ‘do it for us’. What does that actually imply?

It implies abdicating the responsibility for who we are within ourselves and our world to the invisible hand of god who will wash away our sins and ‘forgive’ us. It implies we should not consider self-forgiveness, self-change, self-direction, but instead we are asked to give it all away and remain hoping, praying, waiting; We should not become the masters of our own life/self, we should not correct our own mistakes and make sure our living-application harms no other part of life, we should not question our contribution to the world/society, but instead we are asked to give up on life/ creation/ ourselves and give it all away to an all-mighty entity (which after all we’ve created/create ourselves) as if we could escape the consequences of our thoughts, words and deeds and avoid being held accountable for who we are/have become and how we co-exist in the face of life.

Notice that also the new age movements and belief-systems, just like any religion, focus on the ‘unseen’, the ‘hereafter’, the ‘mysterious’, the ‘glory’ that is to be attained – while one is so distracted, so self-absorbed within the path of enlightened self-interest that one cannot truly care for one’s actual environment, the world, this creation and the legacy we leave behind. After all, “something 'bigger' than us must be responsible, why should we take any responsibility...”

New age / religion disregard and ignore most of the actual reality of ourselves/this world – as the function of belief-systems is to ‘relieve’ us from full responsibility, while we deny our equality with the actuality of existence: we deny responsibility for who we have become and how we exist with all that is here.

But superimposing a ‘higher self’ or ‘light & love’ is not gonna make the suppression within and the atrocity without go away, nor will it feed a child; it will only get a person into a "beautiful" bubble of self-delusion for a while, until something must happen from the outside as reality knocks on one's door.

One cannot be HERE, one can have no power, no self-directive while one is busy getting ‘There’, getting ‘somewhere’ – when in fact one is only getting lost in projections and the alternate realities of ego that separate us from the world as all that is here.

Best to wake up, the matrix is real, and the way out cannot be walked through projection or faith or the creation of alternate ‘states of mind’. 

It must be walked in real-time, breath by breath, facing reality here in every moment; it must be walked through a self-willed process of understanding how this manifested reality/existence including ourselves in all our 'shades' came to be - because to be able to re-create and manifest a new world, a new existence, we must first understand creation from the actual, physical perspective in all its dimensions, starting with ‘what is here’ as ourselves and the world we face in every moment.

The key to self-perfection / self-fulfilment / self-mastery: 

is SELF-RESPONSIBILITY.

Self-responsibility implies that we once and for all stop projecting blame, fear, hopes unto others/something separate from self; Stop giving our power away to belief-systems and ‘saviours’, ‘martyrs’ and ‘scapegoats’; Stop all the things that divide and conquer us; and start seeing/investigating/realizing how we have participated in the creation of ourselves, our relationships and the world as we know it; Start realizing that we are the building-blocks of this world, and this world is following patterns that are unacceptable, patterns that allow the separation, abuse and exploitation of life.

It has never been more obvious that: if we want to change what ‘life’ is, if we want to change this world, we have to change ourselves and how we co-exist.

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“The point of self-forgiveness is to realize that all will have to give up on revenge if we want to change the future of the planet.”   

- Bernard Poolman

I had gone through a ‘spiritual’ journey of searching for ‘enlightenment’ myself: seeking for something to ‘relieve’ me from the burdens I was carrying – that was myself and the beliefs and definitions I had accepted/adopted/created about myself and this world, while I existed in fear, blame and spitefulness. I was looking for something or someone to ‘save me’, to give me what I thought I wasn’t able to give to myself. I wasn’t realizing that I was only searching for myself, waiting for myself, longing for myself to wake up, stand up, live.

Until I came across a group of people that have had enough of this world as we know it and the lies and deception we are being fed through the systems of this world, including religion/new age/spirituality; people that started realizing that self-empowerment comes through equality and oneness, not suppression, denial, projection; that we have to open up and de-construct the layers of self-deception, self-dishonesty, manipulation we’ve existed within as moving-pictures in this world, and lift the veils of deception that are cast upon us through the systems of profit, power and greed.

And so I started to question the ‘ways of the world’, to write, to explore self-honesty and to investigate how I came to be who I have become; how I was creating my world and my relationships; what I was giving permission for and allowing in existence through my own acceptances on a personal level - and I realized how brainwashed we all are through a system of debt, sin and a fake morality based on fear of life, fear of each-other, fear of self-empowerment, fear of god/devil/punishment, fear of failure, fear of success, fear of commitment, fear of self-responsibility.

I saw that it is ludicrous to focus on any ‘afterlife’ when we haven’t even mastered the simple 1+1 equations of this physical reality.

We are Earthlings. And as such, our responsibility is Here, with this Earth, this One reality we share. Why can we not have Equal opportunities in life, why not live as equals of life! Why do we keep history repeating, why do we follow the fate of the ill will of man? And why not do everything in our power to bring-forth actual change and create a new Desteni, for life, for ourselves – for all!

I saw that what we want to have, we must give, bring-forth, live it into beingness.

“Work is love made visible”, wrote Khalil Gibran, and that is one of the practical values/meaning I discovered for myself through this ‘movement’ that started with a bunch of people having had enough of the fuck-ups we allow in ourselves and the world; this movement that has expanded to an extent that it embrace the whole world and considers/introduces actual, physical, practical solutions for ALL that is Here. 

Looking at ‘what is here’, we see a world system where ‘goodness’ is bought through money while half the world is left to starve; A system that tells you how to be, what to do to fit-in, what to want, what to fear - and we literally and inevitably BUY into it, as everyone else is existing in this survival-mode where ‘making a living’ is seemingly only possible through competition against others, where survival is only possible through deception, manipulation and abuse; A system that does not feed life, but feeds off of life; A system based on the value of profit, full of prophets that profess all kinds of ‘jackpots’, and corporations that hide behind charity just to make it all seem ‘better’ - while it’s all about self-interest, greed and the race for power. And fascinatingly enough, behind the ‘Human Race’ it is Fear that rules the hearts of men. 

Fear is the foundation of self-interest; Fear is the mind-control that works from the inside-out and produces the ill will of ego and the bipolar condition we have accepted and call ‘life’.

And while everything around us is making promises of ‘salvation’, ‘personal growth’ and ‘more power’ for the individual - politics, religion, science, medicine, you name it – it is in fact Money that defines power, it is Money that makes the decisions, it is Money that dictates who lives and who dies. Money is the real god in this existence, and that is not without our participation, the participation of each and every single one of us in every moment of breath.

So – next time you think to yourself “Let Go – Let God”, think again:

Do you really wanna abdicate life/yourself/the world to the hands of this monster we have created? 

Do you really wanna let Money define Life and determine Living? 

Or would you Stand-Up for Life, for a new, self-willed existence where Life is the power, the truth and the way – an existence where all beings are empowered to explore life in equality and freedom and dis-cover what actual Living can be, without fear! 

No gods, no masters, no slaves.

The value of life is LIFE.

Why accept anything less? 

Why not give Life to ourselves – and everybody else equALLy!

This is the Equal Money System – a new paradigm through which we can give the value of life back to life and also  to the systems we want to manage ourselves with; 
a new system that feeds life instead of feeding off of life; a system based on oneness and equality of life. 

Be part of the solution, then you don’t have to wait for ‘god’ or a ‘savior’ or an ‘afterlife’ (all of which is in fact waiting for yourself) – but rather Will yourself to be the change you wanna see in the world, through self-directive action, Here & Now! Make your voice count.

P.S. And should you meet  ‘god’ when you cross-over, you can be certain ‘god’ will be satisfied that you have acted in his image and likeness and have stood-up to do what is best for all without fear and in spite of adverse circumstances.

The Bible and other Cults

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"The Bible and other Cults" - or 

Cultivating Relationships of actual Life Value 

The bible is not 'wrong' – it is a tool like everything else - the only problem is man's interpretation of the tools that exist in this world. Do the bible cult and other religions ‘love their neighbour’? Look at the middle east, look at the far west. Everywhere we look, we see man use the tools in a way that is called ‘divide and conquer’ – this is based in fear and only creates fear.

Why do we raise our children in fear, why do we run our relationships in fear, how can we ever ever be ‘for real’ if everything we do and everything we are: is based in fear. The relationships in our world could be something that shows us what we do not (yet) see of ourselves, like a mirror held into our face so that we may see what has become of us, so that we may have a chance to change ourselves, so that we may take responsibility.

Yet we don't do that. Our relationships are based in power-games, and power-games are based in fear; and fear is mind-control working from the inside out. 

With initially a small group of individuals that started investigating the practical aspects of reality and the individual within it all, we said 'enough is enough - no more fear!', and at Desteni we come together to stop this mind-control and support ourselves and each-other in seeing eye to eye, no longer hiding from reality, no longer hiding from ourselves. Self-honesty; Man Know Thyself. 

It's not about the group in the end and Desteni as a group will eventually no longer exist – when the whole world is One group, One family, One life ...names are irrelevant. At the moment however it IS about the group because that is the reference point we have created together in value of life, and that is where we make sure that ego will stand no chance against life. Through the group each one is mirrored ten-fold to help ourselves see, to make sure we don't fuck with ourselves, but remain response-able for 'who we are'; to make sure we do not delude ourselves with self-sabotage or illusions of grandeur – but instead remain ‘here’, grounded, humble, working with whatever comes up, bringing any given point to an alignment that is supportive of life as who we really are.

This is self-empowerment; the transcendence of ego beyond polarity in practical living application. After all – it’s about ‘who we are’, and it’s ourselves we gotta live with in the end.

We’ve had enough Napoleons, we’ve had enough Stalins; we’ve had enough abused, enough abusers. 

Enough is enough! The world is full of cults and look, one can identify them as being exclusive. 

We need a CULTURE of LIFE that is all-inclusive : we need to Cultivate Life in ourselves and each-other. Life is One, Life is All, Life is Equal. The value of life is life.

Art by Damian Ledesma 

Exclusive relationships, including if not especially family and friends, are often only functional as long as one submit to them and does not change. As soon as anything goes deeper, beyond the surface of things ‘as we know them’... it is perceived as a threat.

Everyday relationships that have a ‘personal’ face-to-face reality should be a place where all back-chat can be sorted out through intimate communication.

Why is this not happening? Why do we not learn to trust ourselves and each-other? Why do we treat our ‘loved ones’ like territory?
A person should not be ‘territory’ – Each grown-up person should be able to make their own decisions about what they stand for in life, who they will be/become and what kind of world they want to bring forth for the children to come. 

We should stop projecting our own fears and desires upon our children – This has not made the world a better place, it has only passed on the ‘sins of the fathers’ that seem to loop into infinity unless something, unless someone Stop and stand-up to say ‘Till Here No Further.

How can the world really change, if all change is faced with fear...
How can the world really change if every one submit and submerge oneself to the way things have always been...
How can the world really change, if you and me, the building blocks of our world, do not change...

In this one world we share, in this space-time reality, everyone is walking the same process and is faced with the same points at different times in life. Facing oneself and one’s reality is inevitable. Blaming and pointing fingers doesn’t work; as each one is always self-responsible, each one is always facing oneself, and all will inevitably face all and everything. 

Whether one walk this life process in directive will or whether one wait for things to ‘happen’ before one is forced to face oneself – the outcome is in the end the same. The difference is in the degree of inner suffering and the time to self-realization, both points directly connected to self-responsibility.

At Desteni we are walking the path of self-responsibility, taking things into our hands and working on accelerating the process so as to prevent further suffering in the world and within ourselves.

Family and friends is the system-unit we know best.

We are born of a system into a system. Family as the first and smallest system compartment is the group that defines ‘who we are’, give us ‘purpose and meaning’ based on tradition, culture, religion, belief, society/status, forefathers: the family determines what it is one must give ‘value’ to.

Individuals are seen as the ‘keepers’ of those values, and are in fact the ‘keepers’ of the system, this world as we know it. Because see – everywhere we look, we’ll see people fight over traditions, religions, beliefs; people kill each-other over different ‘values’, while the highest value – life itself as who we all really are – is disregarded.

It seems the very fight for one’s ‘own values’ is what serves the ‘forked tongue of the snake’: it feeds the ego and at the same time preserves the status quo – the world system as we know it.

The ‘big players’ of the world stage have long understood this principle, and rule the whole world by what is called ‘divide & conquer’: let them fight, let them blame each-other, let them be weak.

Obviously any significant change in the application of the average person’s separatist behaviour and egotistic ‘human nature’ is perceived as a threat to the ‘status quo’. To deal with this sudden ‘fear’, the system will seek ways of ‘control’ and will try and make the individual submit and submerge itself to ‘its grouping’ – until the individual is put back into ‘its place’.

As long as we fear each-other, as long as accept ourselves as inFearior: the system prevails.

At Desteni we understand/realize that a change in the world cannot come forth by itself; an actual change in the world cannot come forth without change of the individual through self-will to no longer be subject to the current and seemingly infinite system of separation, fear and abuse while history is repeating.

If we don’t stop history, history will stop us – and mankind as a whole will be facing its end while it’s busy fighting itself in a trivial war against each-other.

This current system of separation exists both within and without and is the consciousness we have all accepted and allowed to be ‘this existence’ as if it’s real, as if it’s who we really are; we call it ‘the ways of the world’ and ‘human nature’, while our consciousness, our mere existence not only undermines the value of life but actually harms that which we all have in common: Life.

We see it all around, and it’s time we stop.

Art by Matti Freeman

Heaven on Earth is possible Here ...If we stand-up and stop this hell

Celebrating Diversity is Celebrating Equality

Some considerations in the context of Carnival and diversity celebrations... It is fascinating that, behind the masks we mask ourselves with and often hide behind – ornaments of culture, ethnic inheritance, tradition, religion and other cults and belief-systems – we are all the same: skin and bones, a crown of thorns, breathe-in breathe-out, with or without...

Why define ourselves by our differences?! Is the ‘pride’ in diversity actually a manifestation of our ‘spite’ towards that which we have equally become within and as this world : Organic robots living a systematic existence in cycles of abuse, trapped in oblivion, enslaved to a system of no mercy and no consideration for life, a system in the image and likeness of its creator, you and me... And in an attempt to deny and forget the obvious atrocity we all equally exist in and have accepted and allowed to become of this world, we try and give meaning to our differences – a desperate attempt to give ourselves some ‘value’...

The value of life is life!

Fascinatingly enough, celebrations of diversity end-up celebrating our equality and demonstrating that under the garment that is our disguise we are all equal – we breathe the same air and need the same elements to live on this earth.
We all know the national or ethnic groupings and clubs at universities, colleges and generally the global villages worldwide like Berlin, London, New York. This is quite 'interesting' to observe if we take into consideration how this world as our current and accepted system imposes a 'minority fear' (not that it is a place to really feel at home anyhow...). People tend to get together under the auspices of their culture & customs to feel more 'at home', to feel more 'safe'... In an Equal Money system based in the value of Life, this phenomenon will slowly but surely dissipate, as we create a world where ALL LIFE may feel equally at home!

The conditioned elements of our different cults and traditions cannot save us from facing ourselves as participants of this co-existence called Earth. They are no justification and no excuse for abuse and separation.

Time to realize that THE VALUE OF LIFE IS LIFE and that this world system as it exists through everybody’s permission is a crime against life!
Time we do something about this!



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