The Shift Has Hit The Fan :
Welcome To The Sane Asylum
By Swami Beyondananda
Humanity has shifted its karma into surpassing gear,
and political climate change has come to America .
Thanks to a grassroots up-wising,
we the people huffed and puffed together
in the same direction and the winds of change blew
in a breath of fresh air.
And we can all breathe easier.
The vote in November was more than a vote for a new President.
It was a vote for a new precedent – to overgrow
the "lowest common dominator" paradigm
and take a step towards government of the people,
by the people, for the people
where the government does our bidding,
not the bidding of the highest bidder --
and where the Golden Rule can finally overrule the rule of gold.
In the short term, the up-wising has been successful,
and the American Evolution has begun.
The first big shots have been fired,
and we are on the road to recovering from an eight- year bout
with Mad Cowboy Disease and Electile Dysfunction.
But now, if we want to heal the body politic of conditions
like Deficit Inattention Disorder,
Truth Decay and the deadliest one of all,
an unchecked Military Industrial Complex,
we must elect ourselves.
Spiritually, it's time to quiet our barking dogma
s and evolve past the Ten Commandments
to an even greater realization – the One Suggestion:
"We are all in it together."
Once a critical mass of us chooses to live by this credo,
we can avoid the critical massacre called Armageddon,
create Disarmageddon instead,
and achieve fulfillment as a species -- Humanifest Destiny.
The End of the Age of Nefarious?
Every journey into the light is preceded by a dark passage,
and our entry into the Age of Aquarius is no different.
As predicted in the celebrated quatrain…
"When the goon moves into Lincoln 's house
and stupider aligns with Mars
then greed will guide the planet
and fear obscure the stars ..."
…the Age of Nefarious
delayed the start of the new millennium.
But now the quatrain is heading down a new track,
and soular power is shining a light
on the endarkened corridors of soulless power.
Just as the eight-year journey that took us from
Whitewater to Blackwater
was coming to an end,
some overzealous Bush-bashers hurled footwear
to give the departing regime one final boot.
That was understandable, but unnecessary.
Better we should keep our shoes on,
and use them to stand together at a time
when healing wounds is more important than wounding heels.
Besides, without Bush there could have been no Obama.
His alarming actions awakened more people than Buddha,
and a body politic in a fear-induced coma miraculously regained consciousness.
And now there is a new President: Barack Hussein Obama.
After eight years of insanity,
we can proclaim to the world, " America has a President Hussein!"
So now, we must face another awesome truth:
We are living in a world gone sane.
Welcome to the sane asylum.
Trickle Down Goes Belly Up
It's a good thing our political fates are on the upswing,
as our economy has taken a sharp downturn.
The house of credit cards economy based on trickle down
has gone belly up, and we must face another, sadder truth.
Individually and collectively,
we've been suffering from Deficit Inattention Disorder,
and since we were unable to do the math,
we must now do the aftermath.
It's a buy-o-logical fact.
You cannot spend more than you have
. Nature knows this.
We can use no more energy
than what we have in reserve.
We cannot charge energy on our Ascended Master Card
and repay it next lifetime.
So yes, the casino economy coming down,
but there is an upside to the meltdown.
There is a great opportunity in the crisis
. Consider this. When the dollar hits zero,
we can pay off our entire $10 trillion national debt and hardly feel it!
Meanwhile, over the past eight years
we have seen the fall of reptilian entities like Enronosaurus Wrecks,
and most recently a character named Madoff
made off with billions.
Our entire economic system has been revealed
as an extraordinary ponzi scheme
where ordinary people are left holding the empty bag.
Unfortunately, this is nothing new.
It's the same old needy-greedy where our collective fear
of not having enough -- "scare city" -- has empowered
those privatizing privateers
who are plundering our planet with
their mining operations: that's mine, that's mine, that's mine.
This mining has overmined the planet
and undermined humanity.
Thus, the emergency we face right now.
So, what do we do? I am glad I asked that question.
We must go beyond the fear-based state of emergency,
to a state of emergent seeing.
That is where we emerge and see the genuine wealth
that is all around us:
the virtually infinite energy from Father Sun,
the prolific nourishment Mother Earth brings us every season,
the love we generate from our hearts,
and the inventiveness of our minds.
With this realization, we have a one way ticket out of scare city ...
and we enter a state of a-bun-dance
. That is where we get up off our assets,
move our buns, face the music and dance together.
In using our resources to create good goods
and greater goodness,
we can weave a web of mass construction
that will make us all interdependently wealthy.
Heartland Security and Purple People Power
So ... how do we do this?
How do we go from our habitual "every cell for itself" consciousness
that has caused our current "mining disaster",
to acting on the evolutionary truth that we are in reality
"all cells in the body of humanity?"
How do we shift from survival of the fittest to thrival of the fittingest?
First we must move from the fear-based Homeland Security
to the love-based Heartland Security,
and realize our one true security is in the land of the heart.
While the beliefs in our head fool us all the time,
the love in our heart is foolproof.
When we face up to love, we can face down the fear.
What this means in practical reality is
that we must step across the "red-blue" political divide
that has kept us separate,
and show our true colors as one purple people.
Yes, we have all been wounded by polarizing politics,
so let's give ourselves a purple heart,
and take the next courageous step to cohere
around our shared "heart core" values and become ...
we, the purple.
I have a dream ...
that the rednecks shall lie down with the blue necks,
and we tune out the polarizing mainstream media,
which is sadly a brainwashing machine stuck on spin.
More than ever, we need forums not againstums,
dialogue instead of debate.
When the body politic stops mass-debating
and chooses to have healthy, pleasurable intercourse,
we will finally create a healthy brainchild together.
This February, we celebrate Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial,
and our friend Richard Lederer
(the anagram master known as Riddler Reacher),
tells us that when we scramble the letters in
"Barack Hussein Obama," we get "Abraham is back: One U.S."
You don't have to be a Barack-backer
to see that instead of relying on leaders from above,
the next evolutionary step is for us to become the leaders
we have been waiting for.
I am Lincoln .
You are Lincoln .
We are Lincoln .
And by linkin' together,
we free ourselves from slavery to the divisive beliefs in our minds,
and form a more perfect union in the land of the heart.
Sure, these ideas may seem far-fetched,
but we are nearer to fetching them than ever before.
Remember, we are now living in a world gone sane.
Change is ahead, change is afoot,
and everything is changing from head to foot.
Like it or not, we are destined to have heaven on earth.
Might as well get used to it.
© Copyright 2009 by Steve Bhaerman.
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