Of Man and God and Planet Earth: The Image and Likeness of Here in the Process of Humanity

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God...?

ART by Ann van den Broeck

‘God’ is ‘Equality & Oneness’.

Equality & Oneness is the outflow of ‘who we are’ in every moment.

This is how god is omnipotent and omnipresent.

God is showing man what man has become.

God is mirroring man back to self.

God is neither good nor evil, but simply everything that is Here as the consequence of everything that is Here.

Thus god is all-times at all times.

God is the image and likeness of Here.

God is enslaved by man. God is what man is.

Can God save man?

No.

Man can save itself.

...“There is no way but through god”...

Man can be ‘god’.

Man can Stop closing its eyes and ears to the consequences of ‘who I am’, Stop denying the consequences of man’s thoughts, words and deeds throughout Time – and take Responsibility for What is Here.

Man can save itself through ‘god’ = through Equality & Oneness.

Why does man separate itself from God?

Why does man separate itself from what is Here?

Why does man separate itself from itself and each-other?

Why does man seek comfort in knowledge of books, when all knowledge is Here within and as who we are, within and as the cycles of history, the trap of time, the pain and suffering within and without.

Why does man not Give comfort to all equally?

Why does man not Give, when man wants to Get?

Why does man compete, when all men are equal in image and likeness?

Why does man deceive itself into ‘seeking for the One’, when each one is ‘the One’ – the one to breathe in order to live, the one to give in order to get, the one to stand up so as not to fall.

Why does man deceive itself into ‘looking for something out there’, when everything is Here.

Why is man not god in fact?

Why is man worshipping false gods?

Why is man self-righteous, when this only brings war, pain, suffering?

Why is man not learning from the lessons of life?

Why does man abdicate life through abdicating its equality and oneness as life?

Why does man seek to be superior, though in fact inferior, to life?

Why does man always have to win, when that implies that others must lose?

Why is man not truly its brother’s keeper?

Why does man deny life through its lust for profit, through greed, through con science.

Why does man abdicate godhood through false humbleness, deceiving even itself into mind sets of powerlessness, fear, delusion.

Why does man not stand up to its demons that make man a de-man, less than, inferior to what man can be as god.

Why is man subject to polarity, shown by the existence of man’s ‘inner struggle’ as well as life and death, and will the cycles end should man stand-up and stop its bipolar delusion?

How can man ever dis-cover what is real, when man is infinitely busy covering up the truth of itself through beautiful lies and justification?

How can man be a just custodian to earth and the animal kingdom when man exists in self-justification?

Why does man distract itself into self-destruction?

How can man change its desteni?

How can man elevate itself from de-man to man-kind?

Is anyone coming to save us?

No.

There is no other way but to Stand-Up and Walk through the eye of the needle – there is no other way but Equality & Oneness = that is for man to face oneself and stand up for life as life.

Self-Honesty

Self-Forgiveness

Self-Correction

Self-Responsibility

Self-Trust

Self-Will

Self-Actualization in self-awareness as Life = as all as one as equal – Here.

Within this, we change our Here through changing ourselves.

We change the effect by changing the cause, we change the end by changing the beginning – through creating a new beginning with a new starting-point: What is best for All = LIFE.

We change self-interest by transcending self as ego and re-creating self as life, as all as one as equal.

Then self-interest is equal for all – LIFE HERE – Common interest, on Common ground, in Common sense.

ART by Bastian Neumann

UTOPIA ...? Let’s give it a Home – a Destenation! (A discussion on the separation of church and state, and more)

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Any great idea will remain Utopia unless it is given a practical context and a purposeful application that can be lived into reality.

Not that we’ve had many great ideas in the history of mankind... At Desteni we are coming forth with a ‘utopia’ that is for the first time a great idea considering ALL and EVERYTHING that is here – a great idea that in fact considers what is best for all. The foundation for this is the principle of equality. This may not be a new concept, obviously, yet the approach and the practical application that is being proposed is something that will not only ‘blow your mind’ – it will blow the whole current system apart!

“Thank God!”, one could say, finally, something that will help clear the dust and rust of this millennia old machine, that ended up in this world wide monarchy of money, feeding on life instead of nurturing all children of the world!

One however does not say that. Au contraire, this great idea is being resisted and fought from many corners, especially of course those that fear losing the oh so dear money (because even though money equals debt, it also equals power ... makes you wonder, doesn’t it...)

Have those with money lost their man-I ...?

It seems so, otherwise they would not be placing money before life, power before life, fear before life.

Today I was discussing the separation of religion and state, and I was challenged to look at an argument saying that "the logic of separating church and state is not all that different from the logic of separating the private economy from the state" – an argument based on an excerpt with the title "Religious Liberty and the Separation of Church and State".

I was not aware of Paul Starr’s book, "Freedom’s Power", however I looked at the principle and I see the parallel – though, let me place things into perspective:

We cannot allow beliefs and religious ideas (which are separatist or hierarchical in nature to begin with) to lead our world, or even to lead the leaders of our world, as that is not a starting-point that will ensure what is best for all.

Re-interpretation of the Bible by Cameron Cope

The same with economy: if we define the 'state' as the 'whole'/what's best for all (not that it is currently) and if we define 'private economy' as the ego-driven separatist application of economy just like the one we witness day in day out within and as our current money-system that is not based in real, actual value, but only in profit-making  --- then it is obvious that economy and welfare are separate and that an economy based on profit is not supporting all life equally.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not in any way proposing that ‘private economy’ should exist at all! Because now that it does – please have an honest look at our world and ask yourself whether you’d be willing to put yourself in the shoes of another – in the shoes of ANY OTHER BEING in this world – and walk their life as if it is yours.

The answer is obvious and the practical implication is that we cannot allow this reality, this world as we know it, to continue the way it’s currently going.

In an equal money system, everyone will have the choice to follow a religion as long as that is not influencing others – as long as a religion is not harming or compromising life. No more violation of human rights based on beliefs and religious traditions!

In an equal money system, the economy will no longer be based in profit but will be based in the value of life. People will still be able to make more money and have ‘more luxuries’ than the equal high standard available to all, but the money-making will not happen in a way that will monopolize resources or compromise the quality of a product to serve the profit-making of a select few. Nope!

Art by Jessica Arias

Let’s finally agree that the value of life is life – and that life is the highest value to be honored and practically taken care of in this one reality we all share!

Equality is about practically establishing the value of life that we all equally have in common as the spirit of our breath. We all breathe the same air!

Equality is about stopping the religion of money as it exists today : where money is the god that decides who lives and who dies in this world.

In an equal money system with equal opportunities for all, there will for the first time exist actual choice!

Life/living can be something that supports self-expression, self-expansion – and each one will have the means, the time and the freedom to expand in their skills, talents and expression. 

From this starting-point we can all stop 'surviving' and start living! From this starting-point the whole application of work/working will change, the motivation will change, and self will be/become the actual driving force of oneself and one's world – in equality. 

That is real power, that is real freedom. this is a promising scenario, but it must be willed into awareness and applied into beingness – it must be practically lived into creation – a creation where we can all live constructively and co-exist without fear!

Art y Matti Freeman

In a world of equality, we can each be ‘source’ – instead of fighting like vampires for ‘energy’. In the current world system, energy is currently manifest as the money-system – it’s goal: ‘power’ – a world that is reflecting back to us ‘who we are’/who we have become and what has become of our creation: one only need look at how we exist within the current world-system, and how (we allow) things (to) move within the money-system, while we at the same time accept that half the world must suffer in untold conditions while some suck on the resources of the EARTH that is here for all – the Earth that no money can buy, and no money can save – unless We Stop, and re-evaluate our existence into a co-existence that places life in the first place – the ‘highest moral’.

Because see – in equality ALL can have More of All : that is real quality, that is real MorAl.

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

Digestion Process World InFormation

Working with & Digesting the World
InFormation Traffic Jams
– an Equality&Oneness perspective

Looking at Information Processing is interesting because this reality we exist within and as is one of Form, one of In-Formation.

Within and as consciousness, it is an information reality we are dealing with – This is the information age in the process of mankind...
And what is it that we are facing within this all? An existence where denial and suppression are the Nr. 1 tactics in what we call "life", in spite of the manifested consequences and the regret that has taken over the hearts of human-beings – AND the heart of the system, money, which is debt.

It’s as if we are ignoring, as if we are simply disregarding the InFormation that is here in this world as ourselves.

If we look at today’s wars – they are information wars. This reveals the extent to which the point of information has an impact on our existence; and since the ‘problem’ always entails the ‘solution’, this also implies that if we direct ourselves to deal with and take care of the information in our world (AND ourselves) effectively – taking responsibility for what is here as ourselves, as we are here in-Form on this Earth – we could eliminate most problems we’re currently facing as mankind.

If we finally stand-up and deal with what is here within and as our world, if we ensure the healthy and holistic digestion of the World InFormation as a whole where nothing and no-one is being disregarded (and that includes the 'invisible' and 'unheard' children of the world, the dark side of this moon) - we will have a healthy home to live in here on Earth for All.


Same with the microcosmos of/as our human physical bodies. A healthy digestion of the information we are faced in every moment of our lives ensures a healthy individual. It is no coincidence that most health problems start at the digestive system before they manifest elsewhere.

Looking at the microcosmos of each one as ‘who we are’ : there IS a ‘solution’ to the problematic ‘conditions’ we exist within and as: Self-honesty, Self-direction, Self-responsibility – to no longer exist in suppression and denial, but to support ourselves in making sure we don’t postpone dealing with the Truth of ourselves; making sure we don’t ignore what is here in every moment of breath.
After all – we are always only facing one thing: Self.

And let’s face it:
Is the information of this World throughout eons of time really new? It’s not. Look at what we are fighting and killing each-other for – same old story! However, today more than ever we are ABLE to work with and direct information effectively!
If we organize all information according to a common denominator : LIFE : then it is simplistic to re-form and in-form ourselves and the world in a way that is best for ALL.

The equality equation is the re-me-dy that will cure the most complex of quarrels, be it of political or nature or a dispute of beliefs, a solution is possible and it is here, based on simplicity and one principle: LIFE as the highest value.

See – it is our will that is in the way. The ill will of the human. And in this mess-age of space-time, each one determines ‘who one is’ in every moment of breath, with every thought, word and deed.

Time to get over ourselves and see what is here!
Time to in-form ourselves effectively and re-form our world to a place where ALL can live and express! Let’s put our Home in order – for Life, for All.