AUTUMNAL MORNING

It is weird getting up in the dark. Every Fall I need to get used to it all over again. Okay, I admit it I have been laying in bed like a slug until the light begins to brighten the room. I don't like getting up in the dark. I did for many years and now well into my retirement I like to stay in bed until light. This morning the sun came over the horizon about 7:15. We will dig the last of the potatoes today. It is a perfect day for working outside.

As part of the Awakening, we each need to see how we were, effectively, slaves of the monied people behind the scenes. We need to see how our worship of money has kept us from realizing our autonomy; hence our freedom. We can't free ourselves by being angry about it. Sure on seeing the truth one may have a flash of anger, but staying angry will keep you stuck. We need to forgive our enslavers. It will help if you can see them as more stuck than you. Why would anyone want to have vast sums of money and power? No matter how much you have on the outside; it will not make things better on the inside. What everybody wants is to feel loved and have the capacity to love in return. In order to love others; one must love themselves. People who value money and power for its own sake can never be sure anybody loves them for themselves. They can only get comfort in conquest, which is very fleeting. As their emptiness grows, they seek more and more power and wealth for the high it gives them. It becomes a horrible addiction that makes any attempt at peace impossible. Don't envy them. You are far better off. 

What keeps us apart? What keeps us from seeing? It is our sense of separateness. That in itself is, certainly, not a bad thing. We are in bodies after all, which are separate. But add to it judgement of better and worse and you have created a situation extremely difficult to get out of. The problem is, perception is fluid and dependent on what you think. If you see someone in a negative light, it aligns your perception to continue seeing them that way. Your mind will arrange the data so you can see them as you believe them to be. We do this individually and collectively. It is time for us to  get over it. Governments have used this mechanism to control their people for thousands of years. Our present government has been using this very effectively in the "war on terrorism". They can easily demonize people and murder them without regard for political repercussion, because people have been blinded by induced perceptions.

Practice seeing everybody as absolutely equal. Sit back scan through your mind all the peoples of the world. Africans, Europeans, Australians, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Protestants, Muslims and all their subgroups. You get the idea. Everybody Bushmen, Eskimos, leave no one out. Do you see anyone as lesser? How did you come by this idea? You will find this exorcise as worthwhile in helping you see how you have been programed. Be honest. It is not easy to face our judgements.

We must give up the ideas of higher and lower and better and worse as they apply to people.


 Love and Peace, Gregg