Kind of long but a great read by Swami Beyondananda

[Maraya1969]

Swami Beyondananda's
2007 State of the Universe Address

Humanifest Destiny
From Survival of the Fittest to
Thrival of the Fittingest

Note. This year, the Swami insisted on delivering the State of the
Universe Address on February 2nd, Ground Hog Day because "it's the
closest anyone comes to seeing their shadow all year." Said the Swami,
Look at us.
America is the most heavily armed country in the world, and still we're
afraid of our own shadow. We seem stuck in a state of emergency, so we
must declare a state of 'emerge 'n see' instead. Like the ground hog,
we must emerge from our separate little holes and see we are all in this
together.
And we must see our shadow -- otherwise, we're in for another long
season of darkness. We must laugh at the shadow as well. I call on
everyone to shine the light of laughter on the endarkened corridors of
power, because there's definitely something funny going on. May we wake
up laughing and leave laughter in our wake."

Another earth year has passed, and for what it is worth I am happy to
report that once again the universe is doing just great, thank you,
purring with perfection, ever-changing same as always. Light is still
cruising along at 186,000 miles per second, and the expanding universe
shows no signs of contracting. At this rate, it won't be long before
they'll have to let the photon belt out another notch.

Meanwhile back here on our own little center of the universe, the human
race seems to be racing against time. Those Concerned Scientists have
just moved the Doomsday clock up to five minutes till midnight, and
even some of the unconcerned scientists are getting concerned. With all
due respect to Wilson Pickett, if this midnight hour ever comes it
won't be love that comes tumblin' down. Well, maybe tough love.

The good news is, the alarm is getting louder, making it more difficult
to hit snooze. The Chinese say crisis means opportunity, and
opportunity sure seems to be knocking. If it knocks any harder, it's
going to knock down the door. The polar ice caps are melting -- north
and south -- which means on top of everything else this crazy world now
officially has bipolar disorder. No wonder the penguins are flocking to
Hollywood. The polar bears are now on the Endangered Species List,
right up there with us. We humans do seem to have the Endangering
Species List pretty much to ourselves, though.

An Evolutionary Upwising!

Fortunately, people are waking up and wising up. An evolutionary
upwising is gathering esteem all across America, and not a moment too soon.
Confidence in the powers that be in power hit Iraq bottom last year,
and once again -- thanks to the Daily Show and Colbert Report -- fake
news was the greatest source of truth. The
"we're-going-to-heaven-and-everyone-else-can-go-to-hell" crowd
continued to expose itself -- in more ways than one -- and more and
more Americans awoke to the realization that the real abomination is to
bomb a nation.

Riding on the groundswell of this upwising, the unarmed forces won an
important victory in November. As predicted, the evolution was
officially launched when the first big shot was fired the day after
election day. And the farce was with us as well. The last two
Republican Senators to concede defeat were Burns and Allen, and more
than a few corrupt Congressfolk were shown the door and told to "say
goodnight, disgracie."

The President, meanwhile, stepped up his counterintelligence program to
the point where just about everything he does runs counter to
intelligence. But now it looks like even Republicans may be ready to put
the "decider"
through the decider mill, no doubt afraid that with two more years of
this, the party of Lincoln and Ford might go the way of the Edsel.

Something else happened this year. Thanks to Al Gore the media finally
warmed up to climate change, and global warming became a hot issue. As
soon as "Inconvenient Truth" hit the theaters, the Bush Administration
counterattacked with it's own version of the story, "Convenient Lies."
And the biggest cause of global warming? Global warmongering. We humans
spend over a trillion dollars a year on weapons of deadlihood when we
could be weaving a web of livelihood. No wonder the 'hood is so deadly.
And we've rationalized this dysfunctional persistent "riches to rubble"
war program as a "necessary evil" without bothering to stand for peace
as a "necessary good."

Are We As Smart As Our Cells?

Now if you used to hate it when your parents compared you to someone
else saying, "if so-and-so can do it, why not you?" you're probably not
going to like what I'm about to tell you -- but here goes. Our cells
may be smarter than we are. At least they've figured out how to live
together in peace and harmony. According to cellular biologist Bruce
Lipton, we have a thriving 50 trillion cell community under our skin
where every participating cell is cared for. Universal health care,
full employment -- truly no cell left behind. And the cells that do the
most important work for the body as a whole, they get "paid" more. Our
organs seem to get along too. You hardly ever hear about the liver
cruising up the bile canal, invading the pancreas, and laying claim to the
Islets of Langerhans.

Meanwhile back in the jungle, we pursue manifest destiny and survival
of the fittest as our supposed biological imperative, except for one
small detail. It doesn't matter how fit the individual is, if the
species doesn't fit -- then out it goes into the recycling pile. If you
thought "The Man Without a Country" was a sad story, wait until you see
"Man Without a Planet." I hate to say it, but global warming may be
nothing more than the Earth running a fever in the hopes of shaking a
virulent parasite called homo ignoranus.

Now don't get me wrong. There've been some really great people. Gandhi.
Mother Teresa. Elvis. (That's right, Elvis. I've been following his
threefold path for years: "Love me tender ... please surrender ...
return to sender.") But anyway, there've been lots and lots of lots of
really wonderful individuals. Individually, you won't meet a nicer
species. But put a bunch of us together, and we're hell on wheels. Did
you know that over the 20th century, war caused 260 million deaths? Why
if someone did just one 260 millionth of that, it'd be all over the
6:00 news with details at 11. And if any one of us did what we allow
"all of us" to do, we'd be put away forever. I guess they must have
modified the Ten Commandments while we weren't looking: "Thou shalt not
kill, except in extremely large groups."


Spontaneous Re-Missioning

I've said it before, but maybe it bears repeating. It could very well
be that the Ten Commandments are just too much to bite off all at once.
Maybe we should start with One Suggestion: "We're all in it together."
Each and every one of us is one with the same One. The Universal
Oneness. The universe has us surrounded, might as well surrender. In
the Creator's book, we are all number one -- and when we're all number
one, there is never a need to treat anyone else like number two.

And perhaps instead of waiting for some Higher Power -- or for that
matter, some hired power -- to save us, maybe it's time to embrace the
world as a fixer-upper instead of rejecting it as a tearer-downer.
Maybe we're all working for Habitat for Humanity, and making our
habitat fit for humanity
-- and all other living things -- is the ultimate do-it-yourself project.
Let's face it. Our Mother Earth is suffering from a bad case of us, and
a miraculous healing is required. So, if we want a spontaneous
remission, we humans must take responsibility for a spontaneous
re-missioning. We must change our mission from manifest destiny and
survival of the fittest to humanifest destiny and thrival of the
fittingest.

Here's another suggestion. Maybe we children of God manifest our
destiny as humanity by finally becoming adults of God, and realizing we
are the Creator's creation created to create. In other words, we aren't
here to earn God's love, we are here to spend it!

Creationism vs. evolution is a silly conversation, particularly when
both are true. I believe we were created to evolve, otherwise Jesus
would have said, "Now don't do a thing till I return." If we want to
bring the Higher Power to earth, we must do it through our own words,
thoughts and actions.
Supply-side spirituality, I call it: Be more supplying and less demanding.

I have often said that if you are dissatisfied with the current
programming, turn off your TV and tell a vision instead. So I will tell
my vision for the new year and new millennium. I see the upwising going
worldwide as billions of people realize that each of us is a cell in
the body of humanity, totally unique just like everyone else. Sure, the
world is currently being run by a very, very small elite of
individuals, but look on the bright side -- there are way, way more of us
than there are of them.
Where the healthy cells thrive, sociopathogens can never take hold of
the body politic.

And what if each nation -- like each organ of the body -- set out its
own mission to give its special gift to the world? It could be baklava,
it could be bagpipes ... anything that brings harmony instead of harm.
No more harmaments, and a farewell to harms! Imagine a peacemaker
implanted in the heart of every nation, and billions of individuals
signing on to a worldwide Humanifesto ratifying the One Suggestion. Of
course, the conditions might not change overnight, but the conditioning
would. And if we shift the conditioning, a shift in conditions will surely
follow.

Imagine all the nations of the world thriving together -- in a great
thrivalry -- and manifesting our destiny as a humanity ... to re-grow
the Garden from the grassroots up, and have a heaven of a time doing it.

Can it be done? Well, consider the alternative. Are we going to just
let our entire species flunk third dimension? Where's your species
spirit anyway?

I know what you're thinking. The Swami is a hopeless optimystic, an
overly-positive yea-sayer. But that is only because I understand that
our future is not our past. Otherwise, why would we need a future? We
could just all sit home and watch reruns. Each moment, we discard
billions of universes as we choose one future over another. Beggar or
billionaire, we're all in the futures market. The question for each of
is, which future are we investing in? Here's the good news: There is a
field of infinite possibility out there. And here's the better news:
It's not a battlefield, it's a playing field. The game is Humanifest
Destiny, and we have om field advantage.

C'mon, omies. Let's take the field.

Copyright 2007 by Steve Bhaerman. All rights reserved.

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1. I loved that!

Thank you for posting it. :)

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2. Read the OP motherfuckers

You will be happy. :D