SOVEREIGNTY

Most of us have accepted that we are all equal, at least from a spiritual point of view. But sovereignty? How can people be sovereign when they seem to be so in need of leaders? Why are so many, even slavishly, following somebody else, rather than trusting their own intuition?

Our whole culture has taught us, not to think for ourselves. Sure, we pretend. There is much lip service given to extol original thinking. In reality, original thinking is hated, unless it makes profits for somebody. From the time we are born we are taught to fit in and this really intensifies when we go to school. Anybody who steps out of line is punished, one way or another.

By the time we are adults we have learned that we need to accept certain authority figures. If we accept the wrong ones we may be ridiculed and humiliated. We learn who we can safely admire and who we must judge harshly. Liberals, Conservatives, Libertarians, Jews, Christians, Atheist, Muslims, etc, etc, soon learn who it is safe to follow and whose ideas it might be dangerous to consider. Nowadays the sanction for following the wrong person is usually scorn. It wasn't to long ago, that it could be torture or burning at the stake. Perhaps we have come a little ways, but the pressure against individual creative thinking is tremendous.

We have been carefully trained to accept authority even when it flies in the face of our common sense or our moral judgement. An easy example to look at is killing; every religion and philosophy has some version of, Thou Shalt Not Kill, yet when a government decides it is okay to do it, we do it and many do it without much question. It is only later that they suffer from PTSD, Shell Shock, Battle Fatigue, or what ever they called it, in that era. One cannot kill without dire consequences or, at least not many of us can.

But we are sovereign. Each of us knows the truth; even if our culture has helped us to bury it. We need leaders, who will work to free us, of needing leaders. Because we only think we need them.

There is a  two minute video that outlines the problem: www.LarkenRose.com. Mr. Rose, also, wrote a book titled, "The Most Dangerous Superstition". I haven't read it. He makes some valid points in the video. Most folks adhere to some form of non-aggression against their neighbors but governments are an exception. Governments think they have a moral authority to aggress.

Mr. Rose makes three points in his video.

One: there is no documented procedure where one person or group of person can delegate their rights to another group [i.e. government] so congress cannot have the right to do anything you do not have the right to do yourself.

Two: You can't have an obligation to do what you know is wrong. When ever there is a conflict you have a right to disobey. In that case the one who rules you cannot be an authority, because authority means having the right to rule you and one you have to obey.

Three: No document or ritual can alter morality and make an evil act good. Either the law agrees with objective reality and therefore is redundant or is in conflict with it and should be disobeyed. Therefore no legislation creates any obligation to obey and has no authority.

This is roughly paraphrased. Check out the video.

Yes, we are sovereign, our ruling principle is unconditional love.

Love and Peace,  Gregg