Enough Is Enough

On March 20th of this year (2010), I posted a blog titled “A Completely Different Reality.” At the time I thought I was saying goodbye, or at least was doing so for the rest of the year. But unexpectedly in August, materials for another essay arose from levels that were deeper than my conscious awareness … which I decided to develop, and then blog posted. After that, four more essays emerged, were developed, and also posted—one in September and three in October. Then recently, amidst an all-things-considered framework using multiple perspectives, I‘ve wholistically decided to no longer write about current-day cultural happenings in any more blog postings.

Even though I‘ll continue to be aware of local, state, national, and global events, in the future it will be exclusively from a Witness/Observer position. As I Understand “how it all works,” with the effective implementation of this decision, mental/emotional energy encroachments from the current-day world will be greatly reduced … and as a composite-multidimensional Being, I‘ll have lots more energy and time freed up for explorations in A Completely Different Reality.

One of my recent Evaluations is that within the accelerating, ongoing, and emerging spirit-being human symphony of worldviews, which I believe has been and is taking place, I‘ve already played my part to the best of my abilities. My contributions are already there amongst Jim‘s and my book, God‘s River of Love; in my manuscript, Within the River of Love, Translations and Applications; and within my blog postings. So, if there is anything that seems to be of value to anyone from any of it, she or he can extract and play with it in their own ways. And if there are any future blog postings, they will be about my adventures in A Completely Different Reality, which I‘m also characterizing as Beyond the Beyond.

More background. From my point of view I‘ve succeeded with my original intent when I began writing God‘s River of Love in early 1999, which was to open windows and doors to other ways of thinking, including one‘s identity, which God, getting as close as I could over the years to “how it all works,” and practical ways to replace “the troublemakers,”adversarial and polarized ways of thinking. Early on I tried to provide a large-enough container for the concept of “God,” as a transcendent realm of being that flows through each of us and connects us all … where people of many faiths and belief constructions might choose to expand, understanding there is a vast dimension of creative Source energy, from which and with which we spirit-being humans have been using our powers of creativity with our own designs. One way to think is that everything is spiritual, coming from our basic selves as spirit-beings.

Beginning in early 1999, I purposely shifted the centrality of my identity to Being an individualized portion of divinity, within an interwoven dimension of horizontal Oneness with everyone else as a spirit-being human. In other words, I chose to turn what I saw as a laborious process of spiritual ascension upside down, starting from a position that was part of the goal of many other worldviews, and proceeding from there.

Back to the present. By concluding as I did in the previous blog posting on 10/29/10 that I think we-here-in-the-United States will never again attain the type of economic global supremacy we had in the past; we will not be able to bring back or originate enough good-paying middle-class jobs; and that the global competition race is over for all humans because it depends upon the continued exploitation and destruction of this current-day Earth, which is the Life-support system for all species—it makes no sense for me to continue to spin it around any longer. Enough is enough.

This past October 30th Jim and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary, officially ending the wonderful trip we co-crafted and the script we collaboratively wrote, where we each played our parts vigorously. With the completion of our individual and dyadic journey, I was filled with overflowing emotional Satisfaction and feelings of Success, because when we came together in 1970 we both said we wanted something better than either one of us had experienced … Well, we both think we have very successfully achieved that—and much more! The next day—October 31, 2010—we started at zero, with Day One of A New Adventure, where we can use the past as fodder for the present, while not carrying any baggage forward. Individually and together, we‘re traveling light.

Before I leave I want to paint one more picture. Last Tuesday—November 2, 2010, which was also Election Day here in the U.S.—in the afternoon I listened to a Diane Rehm interview on NPR that I had audio taped earlier that day. She was talking with one of the coauthors of a new book by Prince Charles of Wales—Harmony, A New Way of Looking at Our World. There was another man, a conservationist, who also participated in the conversation. That evening, together Jim and I listened online to the interview. Earlier in the day Jim had already ordered a hardcover copy of the book from Amazon, and we‘ll both be reading it. But before doing so, I want to summarize some of what I heard during the Rehm interview, while adding my own note of caution.

What I understand is that Prince Charles—heir to the British throne and next-in-line to succeed his mother, Queen Elizabeth II—has used his position and resources for decades, exploring the existing environmental realities and our human species‘ place amidst them, where as humans we have been both initiators and experiencers. One of his conclusions is that our collective human worldview, which was characterized as an industrialized mindset, has disconnected us from Nature‘s intrinsic tendency towards harmony and balance. So, he and his colleagues are proposing a different worldview, one that begins a process of reconnection. They state that the way we‘re living now as the human species is not environmentally sustainable.

I heard that in Harmony they are talking about many ancient cultures having a more spiritual view of Nature, and that many current-day indigenous people live in a Sacred Present, bringing a type of spiritual dimension into their daily Lives. So here‘s my caution—While our Western world‘s scientific and evolutionary ways of thinking have given many of us truly wondrous and comfortable lives, these same human design constructions have also resulted in enclosed matrixes of beliefs. Moreover, these scientific enclosures include our human-constructed pattern about objectivity, that is, what we can experience with our physical senses is what‘s “real.”

From my perspective, by using a combined Western world scientific, evolutionary, and objective worldview, where we sincerely believe we have evolved from more primitive people and their superstitious beliefs, individually and collectively we currently are convinced that our ways of thinking about reality and we ourselves are superior to those we consider to be more primitive and less evolved.

In my manuscript Within the River of Love, Translations and Applications (that is on the associated website www.withinlovesriver.com), in the chapter “Science and Religion,” I say that both the objective and subjective can be seen as important and complementary, if one chooses to view them that way. And in the later chapter, “Going Beyond,“ there is some material about experiments from quantum physics, where physicists discovered their attempts to measure the phenomena they were studying affected the phenomena; subatomic particles respond to observation. My conclusion is there are more expanded containers we humans can co-construct for a more wholistic science—and for our very Lives.

At present, from what I heard in the Diane Rehm interview, I think many of the perspectives presented in Prince Charles‘ book, Harmony, A New Way of Looking at Our World, can be important stepping stones. My question is, without standing back from our current-day Western enclosures, which usually include our very identities, how can we individually and collectively be effective enough to really change the energies already in motion?

Jim thinks the crux of the solution to our economic-environmental dilemmas lies in the economic system itself, where all people have to have ways to support themselves while protecting the environment. I certainly agree with him!

In one of my earlier blogs I talked about a renowned religious scholar whose central emphasis was a belief in “the sacred” as the source of power, significance and value, where each religion including shamanism, approached that dimension in their own way. That too can be seen as a valuable worldview, as all worldviews can be seen to be valuable in various ways, as food-for-thought and selective options, during the final stretch of our lengthy spirit-being human experiment.

And now from a Selector/Energizer position, as I did at the conclusion of the blog posting last March of “A Completely Different Reality,” I‘m imaginatively Seeing each of us spirit-being humans as equivalently-sized, pulsating globes of light and sound, where each of us is consciously and responsibly playing with our own unique and personal powers amidst overall divinity, in an age of Individual Creativity, Health, and Oneness. Jim asks, “What are we all, individually and together, going to do now?”

With Love and Beyond Love, J.