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Saturday, November 5, 2011

"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.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

On Power and Illusion - Where is Life?

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On Power and Illusion - Where is Life? 

ART by Marlen Vargas Del Razo



When a person looks at others and the world in terms of 'power', any perceived 'power' will be seen as a 'threat' - this is only showing that a person is obsessed by ideas of 'power' and has trapped itself within the polarity construct of 'superiority'-'inferiority'.
This can also been seen as the polarity construct of 'fear' & the 'desire for power'.

Clearly, this is not the 'realm' within and as which life is here. 
Life is life - life is equal. life not about 'power'. 

So the question for self to ask self is:
what am I fearing?
what do I fear losing?
what do I perceive as power?
what am I fighting for?
what would mean to 'win'?
what would mean to 'lose'?

Already through posing these questions, a person that has worked with the tools of self-honesty is able to see: none of that is real.

So the next question would be:
Why am I preoccupying myself fighting against invisible enemies like Don Quixote - instead of grounding myself here with what is real; instead of working on discovering what it is that actually matters, here, in/as this one reality we all share.



Many 'expressions' in/of this world are unacceptable: rape, mutilation, animals skinned alive, and the list is long. Much of the abuse going on in this world is accepted and allowed or even 'justified' on the grounds of 'free expression' or 'tradition' or 'honor' or 'religion', when in fact it is only about exerting power onto others to feel 'better', 'stronger', 'more', 'righteous'.
Clearly, real freedom as life cannot be the freedom to harm, cannot be the freedom to abuse.

Thus, people! Careful when one is (mis)using the mind to justify the 'right' to abuse and the 'right' to be 'free' of the 'group' that is life:
One is excluding oneself from life, excluding oneself from oneself as life; and if one does not snap-out of such a state of 'mind-possession' and self-realize what one is actually busy doing or demanding, self-realize what one has become and in humility self-forgive and direct oneself to change: one is in fact abdicating oneself, one is abdicating life.


At Desteni, 'self' is seen within a context. The context is life, as who we all really are.
When this 'context' is disregarded, the abuse and atrocity that results is unimaginable, as is evident in this world by far.

Within the context of life, life is the 'most', the 'highest' one can be.
To attempt to be 'more than' life only comes from ego and self-interest and is in essence self-delusion, self-abuse.

That is why we stand for individuality as self-willed equals. 
Equality is the key to life, it is the key to actual power.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

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.
 
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