Half a Century Later, Back to Square One

If you pay much attention to the news now, you may see a disturbing phenomenon occurring here in the U.S.  You might not be old enough to have witnessed the struggles that took place in the 1960’s regarding civil rights, women’s rights, and the many other human rights issues that were fought for in that decade,  but those who witnessed the time are cringing now at how those  freedoms that were a right and a given not long ago are being taken away from us one by one and in such subtle ways that many of us were unaware of their even being in jeopardy until now.

I could write an essay of novel length here about what we have lost and are in grave danger of losing still, but I will instead talk about why we are losing our human rights and what we, as individuals, need to do to turn the tide back again. 

When we trade in our humanity for electronic vanity we slowly, but certainly surely begin to forget that we are a collective of humans on a planet of finite resources and shared responsibilities.  The very nature of finding ourselves with a gadget that virtually connects us to anyone in the world that we choose is an illusion of power and autonomy that tricks us in to believing that we have friends and powers far above the true human condition.  It tricks us in to believing that we can be loved, listened to, adored, and that we are capable of making a noise in this world that others are going to notice.  There might even be a few of them who will pay lip service to what we want to happen.  Nikola Tesla predicted the amazing future that is now our present as far back as 1926, but his vision did not include the masses using this power to destroy each other. The power to control the universe is seemingly in our fingers. These attacks on whomever we feel like victimizing from the safety of our smartphones have quadrupled in the past decade and are growing more and more vicious by the day.  Even if we rarely get up off our asses we are being heard and seen and we can spew out venom any time we want to.  Who will stop us?  No discipline is required of us. We owe nothing to anyone. The problem with this warped sense of reality is that while we sit at our power center from the comfort of our homes, the people who actually get things done have been busy changing forever what we can and cannot do.  If and when we ever do realize that we aren’t free anymore it is sadly too late to bring back what we have lost while preoccupied with our own cleverness.

The problems are too large and too many to easily change now.  We have already turned over the real power to people who only serve their own purposes.  Those who represent us, with few exceptions, have been bought and paid for by the few who have all of the monetary power.  We have proven to these people that we don’t care what they do as long as we are comfortable at home and have plenty of people to talk to and talk about. We may do plenty of yelling and screaming about how unfair things are but that is usually the extent of our indignity.  Too many of us are still feeling very cushy in our little world.  Freedoms are being taken away from women and people of color or modest means in ways that defy laws and defy reason and affect us all.  It doesn’t seem to have hit the right people in the gut yet for anything to really get done regarding all that we are losing.  I’m sorry to say that the only way we will wake up and treat this issue with the seriousness that it deserves is if white American males become more uncomfortable.  Too bad that few of them have any comprehension regarding the fact that they shoot themselves in the ass if they allow and participate in this subjugation and force control on those who are not privy to their exalted circumstance. Most every citizen is feeling the pinch of this in some way,  They may speak up about it and yell a bit but talk isn’t going to make much of a difference.

 I have always marveled at the depictions of Jesus that I have seen all of my life.  He is always shown as a white man with medium brown hair.  As he was born in the Middle East  it is an absurdity to think that he would look anything like that.  He probably looked more like Osama Bin Laden than Cesare Borgia, whom the standard likeness of Jesus is said to be patterned after by Leonardo Da Vinci in the 15th century. It is also very strange that the area of the world that Christianity sprang from has precious few believers and followers in that region today. Misinformation and confusion abound in the world’s religions because icons have been designed in the image of those who stand to gain the most by the illusion of a deity that resembles them.  Truths have  been altered and changed from what they were in the beginning.   This is why it is so important that everyone has a personal knowledge and experience of what our creator is and was meant to mean in our lives.  We cannot trust any truth beyond what we can perceive ourselves when we come to the realization of what we are in actual truth.   

It might be much easier for us to navigate our world and our personal experience in life if things worked like they did in the Nordic legend of Thor. If  the use of electronic communication could be denied to anyone who is unworthy of its power, then only those with the ability to handle it without corrupting it’s use could use it.  Then it could never be used by those who seek to destroy others, demean them, steal from them and make a world so unjust and corrupted that people are driven to undeserved shame and suicide. The only true way to stop the misuse is through finding the truth of who we really are within ourselves. Only the journey back to the past and our original self can accomplish that.  It is unlikely that every human on the planet will achieve enlightenment and their true identity in this mass of chaos and confusion.  Some are incapable, but most are just unwilling.  For those of us who do understand that we have a responsibility toward others and that we are the shepherds of the planet, it is within us from birth to recognize that, if we take the time to look.  In the absence of a worldwide consensus that all parents, schools and religious organizations will teach us from the cradle on to become what we came here to be, we have to consciously recognize, as individuals, that we are the only hope.   We are losing the opportunity for a better world at the speed of the internet and bringing humanity back to its original self is the only solution.  If you can’t find it within yourself to stop whatever contribution or part that you are playing in this downward spiral you cannot expect to ever see the world do any better than it is at this moment.  Our problems are severe and far reaching.  They are beyond talk now.  Only action and example can turn it around.  I have often wondered how the people who lived through the Russian revolution and the horrors of Europe during World War II held together during that time.  I can see a correlation between the insanity directed toward the Jews and that which is being directed at women, minorities and the so called lower classes right now.

I began writing this blog a year ago today, and in the time since then I have seen that it has been read by many people, but only a precious few have made any comments or provided any feedback as to what they may be taking away from these essays.  It is my hope that some of you have been able to go back to your past and learn from your birth chart what you came here to do.  I would love to believe that many of you already know your path and destiny.  If that is true, I am pleased that you stopped by here on your journey.  Whether I will continue to write this blog remains to be seen, but it will always be my hope that others are trying to make a difference in our world by taking what they read here and being what they were always meant to be. I hope that you believe that it is still possible to redirect our energies and promote a better life than we are experiencing now.  I am with you on your journey in spirit always.  You are being asked every single day to use your own uniqueness to bring order out of the chaos.  If you can make sense of your own world, know that others can possibly do the same by just seeing your example.