04.30.07
State of the universe
From Rad-Green
Swami Beyondananda’s
2007 State of the Universe Address
http://www.wakeuplaughing.com/news.html
Humanifest Destiny
>From Survival of the Fittest to
Thrival of the Fittingest
Note. This year, the Swami insisted on delivering the State of the Universe
Address on February 2nd, Ground Hog Day because “it’s the closest anyone
comes to seeing their shadow all year.” Said the Swami, “Look at us. America
is the most heavily armed country in the world, and still we’re afraid of
our own shadow. We seem stuck in a state of emergency, so we must declare a
state of ‘emerge ‘n see’ instead. Like the ground hog, we must emerge from
our separate little holes and see we are all in this together. And we must
see our shadow — otherwise, we’re in for another long season of darkness.
We must laugh at the shadow as well. I call on everyone to shine the light
of laughter on the endarkened corridors of power, because there’s definitely
something funny going on. May we wake up laughing and leave laughter in our
wake.”Another earth year has passed, and for what it is worth I am happy to report
that once again the universe is doing just great, thank you, purring with
perfection, ever-changing same as always. Light is still cruising along at
186,000 miles per second, and the expanding universe shows no signs of
contracting. At this rate, it won’t be long before they’ll have to let the
photon belt out another notch.Meanwhile back here on our own little center of the universe, the human race
seems to be racing against time. Those Concerned Scientists have just moved
the Doomsday clock up to five minutes till midnight, and even some of the
unconcerned scientists are getting concerned. With all due respect to Wilson
Pickett, if this midnight hour ever comes it won’t be love that comes
tumblin’ down. Well, maybe tough love.The good news is, the alarm is getting louder, making it more difficult to
hit snooze. The Chinese say crisis means opportunity, and opportunity sure
seems to be knocking. If it knocks any harder, it’s going to knock down the
door. The polar ice caps are melting — north and south — which means on
top of everything else this crazy world now officially has bipolar disorder.
No wonder the penguins are flocking to Hollywood. The polar bears are now on
the Endangered Species List, right up there with us. We humans do seem to
have the Endangering Species List pretty much to ourselves, though.An Evolutionary Upwising!
Fortunately, people are waking up and wising up. An evolutionary upwising is
gathering esteem all across America, and not a moment too soon. Confidence
in the powers that be in power hit Iraq bottom last year, and once again —
thanks to the Daily Show and Colbert Report — fake news was the greatest
source of truth. The “we’
re-going-to-heaven-and-everyone-else-can-go-to-hell” crowd continued to
expose itself — in more ways than one — and more and more Americans awoke
to the realization that the real abomination is to bomb a nation.Riding on the groundswell of this upwising, the unarmed forces won an
important victory in November. As predicted, the evolution was officially
launched when the first big shot was fired the day after election day. And
the farce was with us as well. The last two Republican Senators to concede
defeat were Burns and Allen, and more than a few corrupt Congressfolk were
shown the door and told to “say goodnight, disgracie.”The President, meanwhile, stepped up his counterintelligence program to the
point where just about everything he does runs counter to intelligence. But
now it looks like even Republicans may be ready to put the “decider” through
the decider mill, no doubt afraid that with two more years of this, the
party of Lincoln and Ford might go the way of the Edsel.Something else happened this year. Thanks to Al Gore the media finally
warmed up to climate change, and global warming became a hot issue. As soon
as “Inconvenient Truth” hit the theaters, the Bush Administration
counterattacked with it’s own version of the story, “Convenient Lies.” And
the biggest cause of global warming? Global warmongering. We humans spend
over a trillion dollars a year on weapons of deadlihood when we could be
weaving a web of livelihood. No wonder the ‘hood is so deadly. And we’ve
rationalized this dysfunctional persistent “riches to rubble” war program as
a “necessary evil” without bothering to stand for peace as a “necessary
good.”Are We As Smart As Our Cells?
Now if you used to hate it when your parents compared you to someone else
saying, “if so-and-so can do it, why not you?” you’re probably not going to
like what I’m about to tell you — but here goes. Our cells may be smarter
than we are. At least they’ve figured out how to live together in peace and
harmony. According to cellular biologist Bruce Lipton, we have a thriving 50
trillion cell community under our skin where every participating cell is
cared for. Universal health care, full employment — truly no cell left
behind. And the cells that do the most important work for the body as a
whole, they get “paid” more. Our organs seem to get along too. You hardly
ever hear about the liver cruising up the bile canal, invading the pancreas,
and laying claim to the Islets of Langerhans.Meanwhile back in the jungle, we pursue manifest destiny and survival of the
fittest as our supposed biological imperative, except for one small detail.
It doesn’t matter how fit the individual is, if the species doesn’t fit —
then out it goes into the recycling pile. If you thought “The Man Without a
Country” was a sad story, wait until you see “Man Without a Planet.” I hate
to say it, but global warming may be nothing more than the Earth running a
fever in the hopes of shaking a virulent parasite called homo ignoranus.Now don’t get me wrong. There’ve been some really great people. Gandhi.
Mother Teresa. Elvis. (That’s right, Elvis. I’ve been following his
threefold path for years: “Love me tender … please surrender … return to
sender.”) But anyway, there’ve been lots and lots of lots of really
wonderful individuals. Individually, you won’t meet a nicer species. But put
a bunch of us together, and we’re hell on wheels. Did you know that over the
20th century, war caused 260 million deaths? Why if someone did just one 260
millionth of that, it’d be all over the 6:00 news with details at 11. And if
any one of us did what we allow “all of us” to do, we’d be put away forever.
I guess they must have modified the Ten Commandments while we weren’t
looking: “Thou shalt not kill, except in extremely large groups.”Spontaneous Re-Missioning
I’ve said it before, but maybe it bears repeating. It could very well be
that the Ten Commandments are just too much to bite off all at once. Maybe
we should start with One Suggestion: “We’re all in it together.” Each and
every one of us is one with the same One. The Universal Oneness. The
universe has us surrounded, might as well surrender. In the Creator’s book,
we are all number one — and when we’re all number one, there is never a
need to treat anyone else like number two.And perhaps instead of waiting for some Higher Power — or for that matter,
some hired power — to save us, maybe it’s time to embrace the world as a
fixer-upper instead of rejecting it as a tearer-downer. Maybe we’re all
working for Habitat for Humanity, and making our habitat fit for humanity —
and all other living things — is the ultimate do-it-yourself project. Let’s
face it. Our Mother Earth is suffering from a bad case of us, and a
miraculous healing is required. So, if we want a spontaneous remission, we
humans must take responsibility for a spontaneous re-missioning. We must
change our mission from manifest destiny and survival of the fittest to
humanifest destiny and thrival of the fittingest.Here’s another suggestion. Maybe we children of God manifest our destiny as
humanity by finally becoming adults of God, and realizing we are the Creator
’s creation created to create. In other words, we aren’t here to earn God’s
love, we are here to spend it!Creationism vs. evolution is a silly conversation, particularly when both
are true. I believe we were created to evolve, otherwise Jesus would have
said, “Now don’t do a thing till I return.” If we want to bring the Higher
Power to earth, we must do it through our own words, thoughts and actions.
Supply-side spirituality, I call it: Be more supplying and less demanding.I have often said that if you are dissatisfied with the current programming,
turn off your TV and tell a vision instead. So I will tell my vision for the
new year and new millennium. I see the upwising going worldwide as billions
of people realize that each of us is a cell in the body of humanity, totally
unique just like everyone else. Sure, the world is currently being run by a
very, very small elite of individuals, but look on the bright side — there
are way, way more of us than there are of them. Where the healthy cells
thrive, sociopathogens can never take hold of the body politic.And what if each nation — like each organ of the body — set out its own
mission to give its special gift to the world? It could be baklava, it could
be bagpipes … anything that brings harmony instead of harm. No more
harmaments, and a farewell to harms! Imagine a peacemaker implanted in the
heart of every nation, and billions of individuals signing on to a worldwide
Humanifesto ratifying the One Suggestion. Of course, the conditions might
not change overnight, but the conditioning would. And if we shift the
conditioning, a shift in conditions will surely follow.Imagine all the nations of the world thriving together — in a great
thrivalry — and manifesting our destiny as a humanity … to re-grow the
Garden from the grassroots up, and have a heaven of a time doing it.Can it be done? Well, consider the alternative. Are we going to just let our
entire species flunk third dimension? Where’s your species spirit anyway?I know what you’re thinking. The Swami is a hopeless optimystic, an
overly-positive yea-sayer. But that is only because I understand that our
future is not our past. Otherwise, why would we need a future? We could just
all sit home and watch reruns. Each moment, we discard billions of universes
as we choose one future over another. Beggar or billionaire, we’re all in
the futures market. The question for each of is, which future are we
investing in? Here’s the good news: There is a field of infinite possibility
out there. And here’s the better news: It’s not a battlefield, it’s a
playing field. The game is Humanifest Destiny, and we have om field
advantage.C’mon, omies. Let’s take the field.
© Copyright 2007 by Steve Bhaerman. All rights reserved.
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