Anarchistbanjo's World

I’ve really been trying to think what next to share on this subject and things seem to focus around two main points and the distortion and spin that detracts from these two main points. So in a way this post might seem anti-scientific! Oh well…

The first point is the concept of internal authority vs external authority and the second is the importance of developing a healthy sense of self and ego for spiritual, mental and emotional health in a world that praises selflessness!

I just thought of a third concept that is just as important if not even more important. The concept that if we each do that which is truly right for us, we not only benefit, but our loved ones benefit, our community benefits, our nation benefits and the entire world benefits! We do this by following the still small voice of our conscience, the Christ Spark within our hearts.

These things seem so simple and true but what happened? Why is this not being done? How are these simple truths so distorted and how are we pulled into sacrificing our lives and personal power to things not in our best interests?

I am reminded of something Hanns Heinz Ewers once said, that it was only humans that turned away from God. The plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, never turned away from their connection to the Divine. It was the humans who developed logic and reason, killed their hearts, and turned away from God. Lucifer was guilty of spiritual pride and that is what we see in today’s world where logic and reason are deemed supreme and spirituality is not recognized. Our high tech world has no heart!

Ironically the mystical path is well documented and the Great Abyss stands between Logic and Reason and a truly spiritual awareness and consciousness known as self-evident truth or intuitive understanding. This awareness is archetypal and perfect in its perceptions of reality. Logic and reason are not involved in any way. To cross over into this higher awareness means the death of the false ego and the death of logic and reason. Great scientific discoveries come from flashes of illumination that originate from this higher level. Ultimately logic and reason only lead to paradox. Ultimately the forces of logic and reason will attempt to destroy and eliminate this spiritual awareness and self-evident truth. Ultimately logic and reason will fail as the heart-mind connection is returned to the human race and people remember what it is to be human.

But now logic and reason are used to pervert and twist twist things so that ordinary people get lost on their way and are seduced to follow paths that take away their personal power and freedoms. They follow inhuman, non organic and sterile paths. There are only two ways to escape the chains of logic and reason. The first is continued exposure to self-evident truths and the second is to develop a connection and trust to the still small voice of conscience that speaks within each human heart if we would only listen! Each truth is personal and individual.

Each one of us has dreams and things that our hearts long for. We also have limited time and resources and must choose wisely how best to use them. To do that we each need to learn about ourselves and discover who we truly are and what is really important to us. Once we have found our purpose in life we need to follow it where ever it may lead trusting that in following our inner truth we benefit, our loved ones benefit, our community benefits, and the entire world benefits. Our hearts and our intuitive self will not steer us wrong.

But logic and reason will be deployed against us to demand our time, money and vital life force in other ways that will be proclaimed as more important. There will always be a cause that is more important than our own, that will require our time, money and life’s blood. And if we let it suck us dry, it will throw us away broken and lifeless. There needs to be a balance and that balance needs to be individual.

God needs us to do this, to give to this cause. Our nation needs us to die on its battlefields. Our church needs us to spread the word. Our government needs us to follow the rules and regulations and pay taxes. Our employer needs us to do work that is dull, monotonous and soul destroying. Our family needs us to be there for them as well. There is always some cause that is greater and more important than that which whispers to us from within our hearts. It is always an external authority, and external cause, and it takes and takes without giving anything back in return. It is a vampire and it is slowly killing us! It is slowly sucking us dry and when we are done it will cast us away!

We are taught and told to be selfless, unselfish; to not think of ourselves but of others instead and to submit to these higher causes is the greatest virtue we can achieve! But there is a problem with this. Life requires a balance, we require a balance and a strong sense of self and competency is needed to maintain and uphold spiritual, mental and emotional health. Our loved ones require us to be strong and healthy so that we can be there for them. Our community requires us to be strong and healthy so that we can be there for it and so on.

This all or nothing approach is not healthy at all. When we give our ourselves there needs to be something coming back or it becomes unhealthy and we are the only ones who can individually determine if we are getting back enough.

And what of these glorious causes? Max Stirner puts it this way:

“They all have an admirable time of it when they receive zealous homage. Just observe the nation that is defended by devoted patriots. The patriots fall in bloody battle or in the fight with hunger and want; what does the nation care for that? By the manure of their corpses the nation comes to ‘It’s bloom’! The individuals have died ‘for the great cause of the nation,’ and the nation sends some words of thanks after them and – has the profit of it.”

And this was originally written in German in 1845! Has anything really changed since then? The mind needs to be linked with the heart and the heart needs to be linked back to nature and all living things! Insist upon a win-win-win solution! It is good to support causes if we are getting back in return what we need from them. But are we getting back enough? Only you can answer that question.