Misery as a life form has taught me that the idea of death has always been part of my living experience. As with groceries, parts of me are "perishible" and parts are staple. All of it changes constantly. To die to what no longer aligns with that which I have tested, understood to be accurate and - most importantly - used productively, is the maturation process. I embrace the end of a life I have been living simultaneously with those other not-quite-axised mutable aspects of my evolving Spirit. Just as any refinement process removes what has expired, I readily drop those errors of consciousness impeding and weighing me down.
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Author, Poet and Philosopher, Henry David Thoreau
I choose to die to the fear, loss, suffering and humiliation - all part of my gathering will to live, work and love in a community free of the illusions associated with death. In the Light, I understand that things are not always as they seem, but - with sense and integrity, courage and love, we can see things as they are rather than as those who would deceive us would have us believe. Or, like Bobby Kennedy urges, see things as they could be and acting from the "Why Not?" process of decision making. Some actions guided by what we "see" are courageous and of the stuff solid leadership requires.. Some actions - by the standards of those of us who "know better" - are suicide.
At the moment when all we believe is proven to be false, how do we respond? Lives are built upon Systems of Beliefs. What we believe often brings about our reality. Are we not mere Processors of all elements flushed into our plane of existence where we have equal access to the rain that falls on every head, on the tide that raises all boats? If we believe that we are married, do we not center our life therein? When we learn that we were married, "he" were not, our "life" as we believed it to be ends. Maria Shriver and her children arrived there recently, bringing with them the rest of the celebrity-following universe. Her status as heir to a vast fortune built on the Kennedy Legacy was shared with his status as a World Class Body Builder-turned Movie Star Icon-turned Political Executive. Like Barak Obama, Arnold Schwarzenneger knew no limits, encountered no resistance he couldn't navigate. He built himself into the Terminator - a concept synonymous with a Force sent from the Future (to us, who are not yet there.) Because he has been sent from "the Future," he is carried along without regard to physical laws WE observe here in the axis of Time and Space. The Terminator is ALIVE IN THE FUTURE. He was sent from that life actuality to remove from existence, the Mother of another entity in HIS reality who threatens whatever he is there. It cannot work.
Sarah Connor delivered John, conceived with another entity from the future, who found her by matching her appearance up to a photograph taken during her pregnancy. Now, this is a complicated scenario that removes a lot of stuff that we think is caste in stone and permits us to live our lives - even after we die - in the truer-to-the- Axis "Best" we can be.
Today's partisans ressurrect the anger they felt toward Jimmy Carter for his inability to Bring Out Our Best. In his book, "Why Not The Best?" Jimmy Carter captured the Wanna Bes of the Democratic Party, just as George McGovern did. Bill Clinton, likewise, asked Americans to dream about Tomorrow and to see themselves at their best. The response to Obama was the same. Naieve but articulating the words we wanted to hear, these candidates were forced on their "know better" fellow citizens who knew their ignorance of reality by their unbridled optimism.
George H W Bush was no neophyte: he had been the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and seeded Al Qaida with his Iranian deals. Carter left office, more the victim of the Iranian Embassy seige than the economy. But when Bush called for a Kinder, Gentler Nation those words melted hearts. Carter exploded in one speech with the memorably sensible statement regarding Nuclear Armament that we were spending all our resources, all our best efforts preparing for a war NOBODY can win! Nails in the coffin of deception and illusion like this are what each successive President brings to the Oval. In his call for a new perspective on the "Judgement" of an accomplished woman, Obama articulated what many wanted to hear. His job is done. His services - like those of Carter, Kennedy, Bush 41 and Ford, are no longer required. We went a little out there, to a future where we could indulge a little in a fantasy of how great we can be, and now it's time to get back down to earth, to pay the bills and take a commercial break.
We learned much through this exercise in observing misogyny and racism, and pretty well re-defined, in our individual consciences, whether or not we were either racist or misogynyst. Which politicians measure up in the comparison? Do you still love John Edwards? Arnold? Elliott Spitzer? What about Rob Blegojovich, who somehow got thrown out of the Game of Gaming the Game by the Gamers' Game Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald? Didn't he truly blow both the Rove and the Illinois Senate Seat investigations?
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