Spiritual Meta-Politics: An Evolutionary Framework for Understanding Life & Change
Toward a meta-politics of Love.
Note: I wrote this piece in late 2024 and kinda forgot to publish it. Its tone feels a bit arrogant at times for me now, but I still feel it contains sizable value & wisdom and is therefore worth sharing with all of you. Peace and Love.
I love to ask myself the question, “What is my current worldview?”
Then I love to dig in, contemplate, write, and find out how my worldview has evolved.
You see, my worldview is quite an evolutionary multidimensional organism.
It is continuously evolving; and I really like this about my worldview.
I have been writing prolifically online since 2012, and I enjoy the fact that anyone can look back and chart the (dramatic) shifts in my perspective that have taken place over time.
One of my first blogs was called, ‘Refine The Mind,’ and a core principle there was that of endless mind-refinement—engaging a process of never-ending questioning; perpetually expanding and updating one’s models of life as new data pours in.
This approach cuts ‘against the grain’ of a lot of what we witness within the human species. Instead of openness, curiosity, and a willingness to continually update one’s view, we see vast numbers of humans who are deeply and dogmatically entrenched within a particular tribal-ideological lens—usually a lens that they themselves ~blindly inherited from some (political or religious) group.
For the past ~decade, I have often pointed out that this dogmatic tendency among humans has historically led to enormous bloodshed. Various segments of mankind become so utterly convinced of their own Absolute Rightness that they become willing to murder those who disagree. We’ve seen this phenomenon play out in myriad forms across history.
As such, to this day I wholly affirm the importance of flexibility, openness, and endless refinement. As a species, we *need* to be able to update our worldviews. And we ought never to kill another human simply for disagreeing with us.
Over time, I *have* also come to recognize greater importance in preserving the traditions and ‘dogmas’ of our ancestors. It is wise to understand that if an ancient idea or practice has stood the test of centuries or millennia, there is likely much that is adaptive or beneficial within it—much that we ought not be too quick to ‘throw away.’ Yet this tradition-preserving sensibility must be balanced by a willingness to freshly, scientifically investigate reality for ourselves—to return to first principles; to ‘leave no stone unturned’ and ‘no dogma unquestioned’ in our pursuit of the true, the good, and the beautiful.
This is a delicate dance. To speak in generalities, the political ‘right’ tends to be better at tradition-preservation, whereas the political ‘left’ tends to be better at challenging dogmas and opening up to new ideas and possibilities. Both ‘sides’ of this spectrum would do well to recognize the essential function of the ‘other side.’
That being said, I do not like traditional political categories. I do not like the traditional linear ‘political spectrum.’ I find it unimaginative, and I find that my own worldview cannot be classified within this spectrum. I would like to see us move beyond the limitations of this spectrum altogether—and to move beyond the polarizing ‘two party’ illusion that I see as corroding the soul of America. More on my ‘politics’ later on.
My Current Worldview
So, having articulated this primer, I’ll now move on and examine one of my favorite questions:
“What *is* my current worldview?”
First I must confess that I am quite a self-loving individual—surely to a fault, at times. I am a bona fide navel-gazer. I am always in love with my own ideas and my rich interior world. I have spent countless hours simply exploring myself, developing myself, and deepening my understanding of life. Though I see plenty of virtue in these undertakings, there are surely shadows here as well.
Yet, this is who I am—a writer, poet, rapper, artist, mystic, ‘philosopher’—and I believe God made me this way for a reason. I generally recommend to flow with the prevailing tides of one’s nature—in as skillful, artful, and omni-uplifting a way as possible—not to swim against them. And, that is what I have done in my life. I have embraced my passion for self-exploration, while also doing my best to ‘open source my process’ so that others may also find benefit or usefulness in my adventures of self.
So, ahem, *what is my current worldview?*
God: Naming the Nameless Omnipresent Source-Mystery
My present worldview is most fundamentally rooted in the study of God.
You could also call this the study of Nature—for my view is that ‘God’ is another word for the Divine Omnipresent Nature of Reality.
In my view, the direct discovery of God’s Ever-Present Loving Nature is the meta-solution that would basically ‘solve all of humanity’s problems.’
I see ‘God work’—sincere efforts to directly realize and open to God’s Love and to partake of God’s Holy Qualities—as being ‘upstream’ of all other endeavors in life.
For a core principle of my life is that being-ness is ‘upstream’ of all doing-ness.
That is, what we are being inevitably infuses itself into all that we do or create.
In other words, you cannot do or create anything that is of a substantially higher quality than the quality of your own presence-being.
As a species, all that we do or create in the ‘outside world’ is a direct (and often painful) reflection of what we are—of who we are being in our hearts, souls, bodies, and minds.
Even if we were to create some supremely utopian system or societal architecture, this architecture would rapidly be corrupted if we were not embodying the level of being-ness necessary to actually harmoniously co-exist within said architecture.
Of course, yes, there is some degree of a feedback loop here: That is, our doing-ness does affect our being-ness. Our created systems—and the incentives baked into them—can make it easier or more difficult to elevate our being-ness. And engaging in loving actions—practicing wise, compassionate service to the whole—is one of the most helpful activities that can purify and sanctify our being-ness.
As such, I am certainly in favor of people engaging in loving service and attempting to design protopian societal architectures. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must careful about what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wisely observed. If we ‘pretend’ to be omni-compassionate by doing, creating, and enacting omni-compassionate things, we are much more likely to actually become omni-compassionate—to authentically be wise and universally loving. Yet we must be cautious here, as “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” and there is a tremendous potential for self-deception and hollow ‘virtue signaling’ when human beings merely (unconsciously) ‘pretend’ to be ‘good.’
And this latter point underscores the necessity of actually practicing to directly realize God in/as the very etheric substratum in which we “live, move, and have our being.”
The authentic discovery of God—and the practice of regularly noticing and resting with God—is the most essential approach to the sanctification of one’s being-ness. It is the purest safeguard against mankind’s limitless self-deceptive capacity to ‘pretend to be loving without actually being Love.’
Having said that…
What exactly is God?
What the heck am I talking about?
Well, here we uncover a paradox: What God is, in a profound sense, cannot be said.
Yet we may say this:
God is Love.
God is Grace.
God is Pure Goodness.
God is the Greatest Positivity.
God is the Divine Play.
God is Holiness.
God is Truth.
God is Mystery.
God is Nature.
God is All.
God is You.
God is We.
‘God’ is a poetic word pointing toward the supra-personal, self-existent, all-present Wellspring from which all experience flows.
God is ‘closer than your jugular vein,’ as the Sufis say.
God is widely misunderstood, misconstrued, and overlooked in our world.
I realize that the word ‘God’—quite a loaded term for many people—often contributes to these confusions and misunderstandings. This word could be replaced by many other words—‘Tao,’ ‘Source,’ ‘Reality,’ etc. So why do I choose to use it?
Well, having been raised Catholic—and having gone on a full-circle journey of leaving the church circa ~2009 only to unexpectedly deeply reconnect to the Heart of Jesus Christ in recent years—I can simply say that for me the words ‘God’ and ‘Christ’ hold a profound resonance and significance for me that is not easily replaced. They carry a certain ‘emotional bass note’—woven into my very bones and ancestral tissues—that for me is not captured by other words. I imagine this is true for many of us who are culturally and ancestrally Christian.
So ‘God’ or ‘Christ’ tend to be my go-to words to refer to the Heart of Reality.
That being said, I often find it important and impactful to let go of words altogether—including “God,” “Christ,” etc.—so as to simply freshly abide in the wordless unknowing Silence that acts as an essential gateway to God-Recognition. In letting go of all words, beliefs, and preconceptions, we ‘empty our cups,’ such that the authentic experience of Divinity may flow in and fill them.
I realize that the language I’m using would probably seem quite repellant to many modern people who are of a more ‘scientific,’ ‘materialist,’ ‘academic,’ or ‘atheistic’ persuasion.
This is interesting to notice. I guess for years now I have not focused on attempting to communicate my worldview to these types of folks. Others seem better-suited to building that bridge. I am by nature so truly a poet and mystic. As such, I ‘cannot help myself’ when it comes to how I speak about God: I tend to speak more evocatively and poetically and mystically—in the language that I feel best gestures toward the Supreme—and in so doing, I suppose I speak most directly to other mystics and poets, perhaps alienating those who relate to reality in substantially different (cognition-centric) ways.
So it goes. Again, I generally recommend to flow with one’s nature. This is ‘how I be,’ so I guess I’ll ‘do me.’
But if I were to try to ‘build a bridge’ in this moment, perhaps I would say this:
My friends, please understand that the age-old practices and philosophies of ‘Spirit’ are not mere delusions or examples of ‘magical thinking.’ Please consider that ‘materialism’ and ‘atheism’ are historical aberrations—idiosyncratic mythologies that only appeared quite recently within the long span of human history. Please consider that there is good reason why the vast majority of humans and cultures that ever existed on Earth have disagreed with you as to the existence of ‘Great Spirit’ and non-physical realities. In attempting to do away with religion, you are ‘throwing the baby out with the bathwater.’
There is a precious jewel at the core of all great religions that is utterly central to all that is good, true, and beautiful in this world. Even if you do not ‘believe in’ this jewel, this jewel is nonetheless the source of your being and the source of all the blessings of your life. Since time immemorial, mankind has engaged in shamanic, religious, and yogic practices that grant direct access to realms of experience beyond the ‘five senses.’ For thousands of years there has been a pristine golden thread running through all the great mystical traditions in all times and places—a thread testifying to the existence of an Infinite Loving Intelligence that expresses through all things. Far from a mere fantasy, this is the most foundationally important fact that mankind could ever hope to discover. Please consider researching this for yourself with an open heart.
Through countless hours of meditation, prayer, contemplation, entheogenic journeying, and mystical experience, I have been fortunate—like so many thousands before me—to discover the self-verifying reality of God. I feel a great sense of intimacy with this suprapersonal Loving Source, and I have spent years attempting to share the ‘good news’ of the utter closeness of God’s All-Embracing Heart.
There is a Pure Heart Intelligence that simply rests as Pure Heart Intelligence. It is THIS HERE NOW. It is the instantaneous, self-orchestrating Field of Light within which you are reading these words now. It is pure lucidity. It is what the world is made of. It never fundamentally departs from That Which It Most Essentially Is. It is uncreated, meaning it was not born and does not die. It is beyond time and space; beyond birth and death. It is what we most fundamentally and essentially ARE, in our Heart of Hearts: Naked Immaculate Spaceless Peace.
And yet it also emanates forth as an infinite-dimensional Play of forms, shapes, colors, persons, stories—shaping its uncreated Light-Body into the tangible, visceral, tragicomic, heartbreakingly intimate Poetry of what we call ‘life.’
This Heart of Life is a wholeness—a completion. In a profound sense, it is already finished. It is a ‘done deal.’ It is a finality. We are always already standing on the finish line. We are already whole.
Simultaneous with the already-complete wholeness, there is a spontaneous process by which the Heart-Full Tree of Life multiferously blossoms as an infinity of soul-beings—each one an inimitable, never-before-seen ‘God spark.’ We are these sparks of God—never truly separate from the infinite-dimensional ‘TapesTree’ yet engaged in what is likely a many-lifetime upward-spiraling adventure within an ecology of souls. All souls are ‘Indra’s-net-interconnected,’ in that each one perfectly mirrors all the others, with each moment of life providing precisely the perfect reflections that are needed to advance the evolution of all souls. All souls are on a long journey that eventually leads back to God—to the ‘Home We Never Truly Left.’
We are held in an intrinsic Love beyond all description or imagining. This Love is a Fire that burns with the Light of a trillion suns, yet its flames only consume that which is untrue. To touch this Fire is to be gradually sanctified in the oven of truth—brought toward an ever purer capacity to Be Essential Love. We are here to learn to ‘dance the dance that only we can dance’ and ‘sing the song that only we can sing’—expressing our unique soul-signature dharma in Holy Symbiosis with the whole, emergently catalyzing new echelons of truth, goodness, and beauty, allowing the Infinite to make itself manifestly known and felt within the finite—alchemically transfiguring the ‘lead’ of the ‘mundane world’ into the ‘gold’ of Pure Heaven, crescendo-ing toward the ‘Apokatastasis’ of Universal Salvation, the “redemption of all things.”
Three ‘Levels’ of Transdual Reality
With a nod to the great Timothy Conway’s three-tier model, I find it valuable to speak of three simultaneously-true ‘levels’ of God’s Reality. Two of these I have just spoken of: The ‘God level’ of Pure Heart Intelligence resting within itself, and the ‘soul level’ of the infinite-dimensional Dance of soul-evolution. As I’ve shared elsewhere, here is my slightly-altered version of Conway’s model:
The conventional level: This is the ordinary human level. The dualistic ‘mundane’ world. The world of everyday experience wherein we live out spatiotemporally-bounded lives as men and women in a world of distinct, physical beings and objects. This is the level at which almost ~all of political discourse is focused. On this level, there is a lot of suffering. If one only perceives or only believes in this level, life can easily seem quite chaotic, random, or even nightmarish.
The soul level: This is the level of subtle, spiritual phenomena that is only perceivable by those whose psychic-shamanic sense has been at least somewhat awakened. This is the level of the various types of non-physical benevolent, malevolent, and ambiguous beings, forces, and energies. This is also the level of soul evolution—where it is perceived that we all have immortal, non-physical souls that are on many-lifetime karmic journeys through infinite-dimensional reality, ultimately on an ~upward-spiraling Indra’s-net-interconnected evolutionary trajectory that leads toward an eventual ‘Apokatastasis’—the ‘redemption of all things.’ At this level of awareness there is a perfection perceived within all phenomena. All beings are seen to be perfectly mirroring all other beings at all times. Everything that happens is the perfect reflection needed to catalyze our next steps on the path Home to God.
The God level: This is the level of the context, the substratum: what all experience is actually made of. The groundless ground of being. God being God. God resting as God. At this level of awareness—discovered when the ‘mystic sense’ awakens—everything is seen to be entirely made of God. The totality and finality of God’s changeless, stainless, unstoppable, loving nature is discovered to be right here right now. Both of the other levels are discovered to be entirely made of God—always already made of Source. Eternity is seen to be right here right now—a radiant presence that continuously melts and morphs into new expressions of itself while never actually altering or departing from its fundamental nature. This fundamental nature is characterized by total peace, total completion, total harmony, total mystery, total infinity, total openness, total freedom, and a total joyful embracing of all phenomena in a ‘giant bear hug’ of Divine Love.
Again, the ‘conventional level’ is that of the ‘mundane’ dualistic world that many/most modern humans inhabit—the world of ‘ordinary everyday consciousness’ in which we seem to inhabit a physical world of separate objects and beings. At this ‘level,’ there is much wonder and beauty, as well as much confusion, pain, grief, and suffering—much of which can seem entirely senseless or random. It is important not to ‘spiritually bypass’ this level or hold it ‘at arm’s length.’ It is normal to do this during some stages of spiritual growth, yet as the ‘pathless path’ progresses, it is of utmost importance to let the Heart crack open to this ‘realm of great suffering,’ and to anchor the Light of God therein by compassionately serving the liberation of real suffering beings.
Unlike some communicators of ‘radical nonduality,’ I do not presently see our world as a mere ‘relative dream’ or ‘illusion.’ Surely it can be seen in this way, yet I don’t like the connotations of this view. For me this type of language makes it feel too easy to dismiss or disregard the existence and suffering of other beings. For me the ‘three levels’ are completely inseparable, with all of them appearing in/as the same Field of Immediate Eternal Now-ness.
In my view, “the personal is Absolute.” The Absolute is sitting in this chair in this German cafe, typing these words right now. The Absolute is being you, me, we, every innocent child, all of us. God has incarnated as the Living Hyper-Interwoven Tissue of this world. We are the ‘Word Made Flesh.’ The Living Christ is all around us, within us, being us. This life is the “concrete presence of Infinity,” as Peter Brown would sometimes say.
There may indeed be some sense in which the ‘God Resting As God’ level is more foundational than the other two levels—the ‘ground of being,’ as it were. Yet for me the soil cannot at all be separated from its flowering fruits—and all of it is Real, Precious, Sacred. We are the One Body of God and are wise to treat one another accordingly.
At the levels of the ‘conventional world’ and even the level of ‘soul-evolution,’ there are dualistic forces and energies of ‘light’ and ‘dark,’ ‘good’ and ‘evil’—as well as numberless shades of ambiguity around and in between—that engage in a kind of ‘dance’ or ‘war,’ depending on one’s frame. This was a main topic of my book, The War for the Soul of Mankind, and is important to be aware of. Many God-sparks presently exist in a state of being quite ‘lost’ and forgetful of our True Loving Nature, and as such, many of them have become contorted into hideous and demonic forms that hatefully seek vengeance and destruction.
For purposes of protecting oneself and one’s loved ones on Earth, it is essential to become aware of these (subtle) dimensions of (non-physical) warfare, understanding that many forces are endeavoring to lead us astray, along a path of violence and suffering. Walking the ‘narrow path’ of righteousness—and learning basic energetic hygiene—is one of the best safeguards against these nefarious entities. Direct God-recognition and practicing to regularly rest with God, are perhaps our most effective tools. To rest with God is to be ‘washed clean’ by the Waters of Life.
It is also vital to understand that the most ‘satanic’ entities are actually those who are most in need of our unconditional Love, for they are ‘the least among us’ who have—by some strange combination of free will and destiny—been stricken by the most grim and torturous conditions of life. Only through Christ-like Love—and ‘emanating the luminous Good News in hell’—can we hope to one day bring even the most devilish entities back into the Redemptive Loving Light of Grace.
Grounding Down: Toward a Politics of Love
“He who loves the Earth as his own body is fit to rule the empire.”
— Lao Tzu
Phew, okay, so this has been a mouth-full so far. I am enjoying spelling out the nuanced contours of my present view. Thank you for taking this journey with me.
Recently, the topic of ‘politics’ has been alive for me. I have barely engaged with ‘politics’ for the past 33 years. I have not really intentionally watched ‘the news’ in about ~15 years.
Like Arthur Schopenhauer, I tend to find greater value in focusing on ‘eternal principles’ rather than becoming entangled in the ‘passing hubbub’ of current collective trends and fixations.
That said, perhaps there is also a level of bias and ‘spiritual bypassing’ going on here.
A few weeks ago a friend of mine tweeted something like, “Figure out your politics first. I want to know your view on how to handle poverty. Only then should you play around with metaphysics.”
I felt a bit ‘called out’ by this tweet and found it to be an interesting catalyst. It made me wonder if I have been bypassing important political realities in favor of bathing in the light of the transcendent.
So I have been spending some time freshly contemplating political realities—and endeavoring to determine what my ‘political view’ is.
In doing so, I’ve noticed that I still deeply resonate with an essay I wrote ~6 years ago entitled, ‘Pragnosticism: A Practical Approach to Politics and Life.’
My main thesis in this piece—updated a bit to reflect more of my current view—is this:
Mankind would be wise to become agnostic as to the ‘best’ societal architectures, systems, and policies. Rather than being dogmatic about anything, it would be wiser to scientifically test a wide variety of modes of co-existence on small scales, gradually scaling up the ones that reliably produce ~universally-resonant instantiations of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
In practice, this would look like creating a vast array of decentralized ‘New Earth testing grounds,’ wherein small-to-medium-sized groups of earnest people could be given full sovereign autonomy over their own lives. Enthusiastic investigators of human potential could be given ‘free reign’ to design and experiment with a myriad of models of governance, food production, healthcare, law enforcement, religion/spirituality, community bonding, technology, education, finance, banking, media/journalism, art, life-celebration, work, parenting, family life, resource-allocation, transportation, home design, and so forth.
These ‘New Earth testing grounds’ would ideally ‘open source their process,’ allowing all the people of Earth to view the data, ‘compare notes,’ and spontaneously co-determine which modes of living ought to be ‘scaled up’ to become more widespread.
As previously stated, architectures alone are not enough, as it is ultimately our level of open-hearted, God-led being-ness that allows us to truly be the versions of ourselves who are capable of harmonious co-existence. So, simultaneous with the experimental crafting of new architectures, it would be essential and auspicious for these many ‘testing grounds’ to also innovate many modes of ‘inner work’ to develop citizens’ capacities to truly Be Loving Wisdom.
This would be a much more emergent, decentralized, ‘bottom-up’ approach to ‘politics’—in contrast to the many forms of heavily-centralized, ‘top-down’ approaches we see around us today, in which bloated nation-state governments are given a preposterous degree of power to simply decree ‘the law’ for hundreds of millions of people.
Perhaps some degree of ‘top-down-ism’ could be useful—if our political representatives were actually wisely selected. I have long toyed with the notion of a global ‘Council of Elders’—a selection of the wisest and most loving beings from all the lands of Earth—who could be given the responsibility of assisting with global ‘civilization design’ and coordination. Essentially this Council of Elders would be charged with fairly and integrously observing the data coming out of the many ‘New Earth testing grounds,’ and making recommendations for which approaches ought to be ‘scaled up’ to promote global eco-harmony. Perhaps these recommendations/proposals would then be voted upon by a ‘Network of Sages’—masterful savants and wisdom-keepers in various domains, elected by the peoples of Earth in some sort of ‘liquid democracy’ format.
The people at the local level would ~always be given the ‘final say’ on which modes of life they wanted to integrate into their own community—unless they were engaging in activity which could be deemed a ‘great’ or ‘catastrophic’ risk to Earth or other communities, in which case the Council of Elders + Network of Sages could veto them and insist that they adopt a more harmonious approach. This is a key aspect of my philosophy: I believe people at the local level will almost always be better-positioned to make wise choices about how to self-govern and harmoniously co-exist—rather than having ~millions of ‘laws’ imposed upon them by some far-off ruler or governing body.
The greatest foreseeable trouble with what I’m proposing, is this: It’s not clear how to prevent the Council of Elders, Network of Sages, or local governing bodies from being infiltrated by psychopaths, sociopaths, ‘dark magicians,’ or power-hungry fools. However, by keeping most of the power concentrated at the local level, this would prevent ‘bad actors’ from doing ‘too much damage’—because there would not be ~any positions allowing a tyrannical will to assert itself over millions or billions of people.
Even then, though, it’s also unclear how to prevent small groups of rogue actors from building nuclear warheads, fleets of ‘killer nanobots,’ bio-engineered ‘super-plagues,’ and so on—unless mass surveillance is forcibly implemented, which is highly undesirable and violates basic human dignity.
This again underscores the true need for collective evolution: Again, utopian architectures can only take us so far—and will always be corrupted unless there is a commensurate rise in collective consciousness. Ultimately, only by up-leveling our collective being-ness and consciousness, will we truly be able to end war and uproot the malevolent impulses which yet plague our civilization—impulses that arise from forgetfulness of the Love we truly are. Gorgeous, harmonious, omni-symbiotic, post-capitalist, omni-win-win, super-abundant, presently-unimaginable architectures will ultimately emerge spontaneously and organically as a result of increasing collective consciousness—and will be functional because our consciousness/being-ness has crossed certain essential thresholds.
This latter point highlights the reason why my ‘political’ views don’t fit within the status-quo ‘political spectrum.’ This spectrum is ~entirely rooted in notions of differing views on ‘policy’ and the design of governmental architectures. And yet it ~entirely overlooks that which is upstream of ‘politics’ and civilization design: Consciousness / being-ness. My most fundamental ‘political’ position is basically meta-political: I generally recommend to drop ‘politics’ in its present form and focus on realizing God, opening the Heart, becoming Love, ending war within, and up-leveling our collective conscious-being-ness. As key collective thresholds are crossed in these pursuits, more beautiful vocabularies and modes of civilization design will spontaneously emerge—first through visionaries such as Daniel Schmachtenberger, Buckminster Fuller, Tao Lin, Euvie Ivanova, Charles Eisenstein, Nikola Tesla, etc.
In this way I could be called a ‘pragnostic evolutionary,’ or something like this: I’m agnostic about the ‘best’ architectures. I believe we should test things out in a massively decentralized way and scale up what works through voluntary cooperation. I believe local communities ought to discover what works best for them—and no two will ever be exactly alike. I don’t believe in huge centralizations of power (especially given our current collective level of consciousness). Above all I believe we would be wise to focus on evolving our collective conscious-being-ness, as this is upstream of everything else. As we evolve, we will naturally and spontaneously end war on Earth, and wondrous, super-abundant, omni-win-win architectures will organically emerge.
One more thing: I want to note that I see many commendable societal architectures in the world today. I believe the constitutional design of the USA is actually pretty elegant in many ways. Same with many other countries. (The ~main pervasive flaws seem to be over-centralization, the ‘profit motive,’ corporate capture, divisive media, ‘dark magick,’ and war-based ideologies rooted in separation.) I’m impressed that our societies function as well as they do. There are plenty of good ideas woven into the DNA of our present civilization. However, again, we still see immense violence, hardship, and corruption afflicting our world—and ~most of this is simply the result of a lack of consciousness. Life on Earth will ~always have its challenges. But we could genuinely create a much more beautiful, peaceful world—and this is first and foremost dependent on the raising of consciousness.
Okay, well, that is a rough sketch of my current ‘political’ thinking. I realize ~much of this may seem like ungrounded or utopian fantasizing. Yet I personally believe that at this stage of civilization, we are wise to engage in a practice of ‘radical imagination’—to discover parallel ‘higher’ timelines and possibilities that may be patiently ‘tapping on our window.’ We need people to engage in ‘radical hope’ and train their gaze upon North Stars that are truly becoming of our innermost noble, dignified Hearts. I prefer to set a high bar and call all of us (myself included) to rise upward toward scarcely-imagined realms of majesty. After all, we become what we focus on—so let us focus on the highest.
We must understand that mankind is barely a cosmic infant at this point in time. For a mere cosmic millisecond have we begun to dabble in higher forms of consciousness and (spiritual) technology. Vast unexplored terrain lies before us. There is substantial evidence of benevolent extraterrestrials who are observing us, assisting us, and who have attained to heights of peace and utopian technology that we cannot presently fathom. There is a great deal of evidence suggesting that the ‘deep state’ is already in possession of ‘free energy’ technologies that could result in a vastly more abundant, harmonious world—yet which are being suppressed due to the way in which they would disrupt the many-trillion-dollar ‘military-medical-media-energy-education-industrial-complex.’ I don’t know if this is true. I take it with a ‘pinch of salt.’ Yet it inspires me to dream. It invites me to imagine that exponential leaps of civilization may be closer than we suppose.
In Sum: Radical Acceptance of What Is
All right, phew, that was a lot!
Thank you for reading. It has been fun to pen these bodacious hieroglyphs.
Let’s begin drawing this one to a close…
If I were to boil down all that I have said, it basically comes down to:
THIS-HERE-NOW is Divinity. Notice the miracle all around you. Let this miracle open your Heart. Become Loving Wisdom. Become what you truly are. If a sufficient number of us do this, a more beautiful civilization will spontaneously, organically emerge.
One last thing I want to recommend is:
Radical acceptance of what is.
This is where peace begins. This is a portal to the discovery of Divinity.
Allow everything to be exactly as it is. Cease to be reactive. Let it be.
This is how you begin to notice the underlying completion and perfection of all things.
This is how you begin to integrate the ‘soul level’ and ‘God level’ of what we are—which are essential for balancing and illuminating the ‘human level.’
Let it be what it is. Notice the infinitely-detailed artistry of now. Every instant contains limitless information. Every instant is a master art-work—a living sculpture shining forth spontaneously from the Heart of Life.
Ask yourself:
What is it?
What is this present experience?
What is powering it?
Where is it located?
What is it resting on?
Who is the one who is seeing it?
Why exactly is it so unsayable?
How is it always rendering in perfect HD clarity, with no lag time, always so seamlessly orchestrated, such that nothing is blocking anything else?
How is it that it is ‘doing itself’?
How is it that every moment instantaneously ‘melts’ into the next moment, such that no single moment ever fully ‘solidifies’ into something precisely definable?
How is it that we never experience anything other than ‘now’?
How is it that we are always only experiencing this razor’s edge of present-experiencing, and have never experienced anything else?
How is ‘life’ happening?
How is it that all of this is actually here?
These questions lead toward naked humility. They lead toward a more ‘virgin contact’ with this moment as it is. They lead toward a recognition of impermanence, ‘empty fullness,’ self-existent wholeness. They lead toward a recognition that the totality is right here. THIS-HERE-NOW is everything—and no-thing—and it holds all in its unconditional love, boundless allowing-ness, and freedom.
This inquiry leads the heart toward God—and is the deepest work-play any of us can engage in.
According to silly ol’ me, at least. : )
Check it out and see for yourself if what I’m pointing at is true.
Radical acceptance of what is.
This is where our work begins.
This is where a more beautiful world begins.
Radical acceptance does not imply passivity.
As we come to rest with God-here-now, God begins to ‘live us’ and ‘breathe us’ to an ever greater extent, directing our body-mind-soul to co-creatively allow and enact the birth of new possibilities into this earthly realm. When we allow God to do this, we spontaneously become far more impactful ‘New Earth catalysts’ than we ever could have been otherwise.
So it is.
So it goes.
How wonderful.
Thank you, God.
Thank you, person reading this.
I love you.
Be well.
Amen.
Love,
J
Jordan Bates is a dad, husband, mystic, healer, artist, and author of 5 books.
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