Freedom is love. As long as we live from a position of fear we will not feel love. Love is giving from the deepest level of conviction, with no return or benefit expected. Love is infinite consciousness. Love is pervasive, ever present in every being.

Oppression is ignorance. Oppression is suffering for the sake of physical gratification, attempting to steal people’s energy in order to feel free, to feel powerful.

Love is the acceptance of our purpose; to expand with the universe, with consciousness.

I embrace the spiritual revolution, that we may know ourselves within the context of infinity. That we may save this planet. That we may know our place in the cosmic evolution.

May our world leaders awaken from their narrow dream. May they experience true freedom in their inevitable quest for truth.

Our intention is critical, may our intention for peace, freedom, love become a quantum collective reality

by Ignacio Alvarez
Pomona USA

Photo Pandiyan

Such meditation has been known for millennia to be THE way, not just to freedom, but also to personal discovery, personality integration, inner peace, balance and the eventual release of fear, the root of all evil.

Sitting in silence is the sine qua non for anyone interested in their psycho-spiritual growth.

The voice inside is the voice of the One Source and Center that gave us life and created each of us as unique individuals. The aim of this sacred voice is to bring us into harmony with our infinitely loving, forgiving and caring Creator, a harmony that provides for our health and well being while we mature as human beings. We all know this “harmony as being in the flow.”

And we know the sense of satisfaction, of ease, that accompanies the feeling of being in the flow, the flow of divine energy or grace.

We members of the human race have recently arrived at a turning point in our psycho-spiritual evolution — a juncture that leads to the next “Copernican” shift in our consciousness. We are now beginning to evolve exponentially to the startling awareness that first, we are spiritual beings, and secondly, material.

Accordingly, we are also recognizing that as spiritual beings, our time here in mortal form is simply a learning and training period to prepare us for an eternal adventure of spiritual growth toward divine perfection. It sounds like a tall order but we are all equipped with a free will, an individual personality, and a soul — all we need for an infinite journey Godward.

This awareness includes the understanding that we are all brothers and sisters and all beloved children of our Heavenly Creator, the One characterized by Absolute Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Peace, Creativity, Energy and Love. Consistent sitting and listening to this loving voice leads to personal freedom, tranquility and a balanced, fulfilling life among our brethren in this material realm.

by John Otranto
Munich, Germany

1- Freedom doesn’t exist as an exterior phenomena to me, it exists when I feel it as an interior to myself.

2- So no one can give me my Freedom, until I discover it in my inner self.

3- Freedom is a complex concept. It’s complexity exists before the presence of “the other”.

4- I fasten myself in my habits. I fasten myself in my believes. I fasten myself in my desires and my intents. I’m a prisoner of myself.

5- I’m a prisoner of myself, a prisoner of my language, the language which bears the weight of history, the shadow of “the other”.

6- The complexity grows when I feel “the other”, whatever as a present or absent. I fasten him/her with all my intents, with all my believes. Also with my language.

7- I’m not free about my desires toward you. You too. It’s the authority, the certainty of our presence. The reality is another prison. A prison with the shadows of impossibles. The bitterness of possibles. We live in monologues. We lives in monolife. We are isles.

8- The complexity grows when I feel “the other”. “The other” as concepts and Ideas. “The other” as mankind. Concepts like governments, society, and history. Also mankind like lovers, beloveds… .

9- Concepts are the abstracts of us. The abstracts which reflect the light and the darkness of us who are its Concretion.

Now let’s talk about freedom.

You are right when you say: Without your freedom, there is no true freedom in this world. But it’s too difficult for mankind.
When you shake your hands, something in the history changes. I think it has no meaning when we say: try to free the others.

As a poetical and philosophical concept, I don’t believe that you can help me. No one can help me but myself. No one can help you but yourself.

But our shadows live in concepts, the concept of society, the concept of government. And you are right in this cosmos, the non-existent cosmos.

It was forbidden for my Master too, for about 15 years, no books of him could be appeared. A forbidden meaning.

There’s friends who published his works abroad.

It is not possible for me to publish my works in my land, because I write in the crystal of Despair. I write in the madness of Eros…

There are friends who publish my works abroad.

Yes, but they are my shadow, they are our shadows. I try to clear my shadow.

Freedom is a complex meaning.

by Mohsen Emadi
Poet/translator
Tehran, Iran

We hold these truths to be self evident:

That all species are created different but equal;

That they are endowed, each one, with certain inalienable rights;

That among them are Freedom to Live, Freedom to Grow, and Freedom to pursue Happiness in their own style;

That to protect these God-given rights, social structures naturally emerge, basing their authority on the principles of love of God and respect for all forms of life; That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of life, liberty, and harmony, it is the organic duty of the young members of that species to mutate, to drop out, to initiate a new social structure, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its power in such form as seems likely to produce the safety, happiness, and harmony of all sentient beings.

Genetic wisdom, indeed, suggests that social structures long established should not be discarded for frivolous reasons and transient causes. The ecstasy of mutation is equally balanced by the pain. Accordingly all experience shows that members of a species are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, rather than to discard the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, all pursuing invariably the same destructive goals, threaten the very fabric of organic life and the serene harmony of the planet, it is the right, it is the organic duty to drop out of such morbid covenants and to evolve new loving social structures.

Such has been the patient sufferance of the freedom-loving peoples of this earth, and such is now the necessity which constrains us to form new systems of government.

The history of the white, menopausal, mendacious men now ruling the planet earth is a history of repeated violation of the harmonious laws of nature, all having the direct object of establishing a tyranny of the materialistic aging over the gentle, the peace-loving, the young, the colored. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to the judgment of generations to come.

These old, white rulers have maintained a continuous war against other species of life, enslaving and destroying at whim fowl, fish, animals and spreading a lethal carpet of concrete and metal over the soft body of earth.

They have maintained as well a continual state of war among themselves and against the colored races, the freedom-loving, the gentle, the young. Genocide is their habit.

They have instituted artificial scarcities, denying peaceful folk the natural inheritance of earth’s abundance and God’s endowment.

They have glorified material values and degraded the spiritual.

They have claimed private, personal ownership of God’s land, driving by force of arms the gentle from passage on the earth.

In their greed they have erected artificial immigration and customs barriers, preventing the free movement of people.

In their lust for control they have set up systems of compulsory education to coerce the minds of the children and to destroy the wisdom and innocence of the playful young.

In their lust for power they have controlled all means of communication to prevent the free flow of ideas and to block loving exchanges among the gentle.

In their fear they have instituted great armies of secret police to spy upon the privacy of the pacific.

In their anger they have coerced the peaceful young against their will to join their armies and to wage murderous wars against the young and gentle of other countries.

In their greed they have made the manufacture and selling of weapons the basis of their economies.

For profit they have polluted the air, the rivers, the seas.

In their impotence they have glorified murder, violence, and unnatural sex in their mass media.

In their aging greed they have set up an economic system which favors age over youth.

They have in every way attempted to impose a robot uniformity and to crush variety, individuality, and independence of thought.

In their greed, they have instituted political systems which perpetuate rule by the aging and force youth to choose between plastic conformity or despairing alienation.

They have invaded privacy by illegal search, unwarranted arrest, and contemptuous harassment.

They have enlisted an army of informers.

In their greed they sponsor the consumption of deadly tars and sugars and employ cruel and unusual punishment of the possession of life-giving alkaloids and acids.

They never admit a mistake. They unceasingly trumpet the virtue of greed and war. In their advertising and in their manipulation of information they make a fetish out of blatant falsity and pious self-enhancement. Their obvious errors only stimulate them to greater error and noisier self-approval.

They are bores.
They hate beauty.
They hate sex.
They hate life.

We have warned them from time to time to their inequities and blindness. We have addressed every available appeal to their withered sense of righteousness. We have tried to make them laugh. We have prophesied in detail the terror they are perpetuating. But they have been deaf to the weeping of the poor, the anguish of the colored, the rocking mockery of the young, the warnings of their poets. Worshipping only force and money, they listen only to force and money. But we shall no longer talk in these grim tongues.

We must therefore acquiesce to genetic necessity, detach ourselves from their uncaring madness and hold them henceforth as we hold the rest of God’s creatures – in harmony, life brothers, in their excess, menaces to life.

We, therefore, God-loving, peace-loving, life-loving, fun-loving men and women, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the Universe for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the Authority of all sentient beings who seek gently to evolve on this planet, solemnly publish and declare that we are free and independent, and that we are absolved from all Allegiance to the United States Government and all governments controlled by the menopausal, and that grouping ourselves into tribes of like-minded fellows, we claim full power to live and move on the land, obtain sustenance with our own hands and minds in the style which seems sacred and holy to us, and to do all Acts and Things which independent Freemen and Freewomen may of right do without infringing on the same rights of other species and groups to do their own thing.

And for the support of this Declaration of Evolution with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, and serenely confident of the approval of generations to come, in whose name we speak, do we now mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.

by Timothy Leary
Circa, Now

From the reading I have done on the subject, and the direct, personal experiences I have had, I agree with those who believe that what we think about is what we become.

In fact, it determines our reality. Our thoughts affect whether we enjoy life or are tormented by it.

If we choose to express gratitude in our thoughts and actions, then we will have more to be grateful for. If we focus our energies on thinking and acting for the highest good, without predetermining what the specifics of that would be, then we will affect changes in that direction, not only in our own lives, but in those all around us.

I believe that our positive thoughts and actions actually emit energy, which can physically change other energy fields around us. I believe that we can bring about change by intending certain thoughts.

I believe that for me to help bring about freedom, I must feel free within myself. To affect the changes I want, I must first start within myself, with my own thoughts. I must choose detachment, openness, a willingness to understand and empathize, and an unconditional love and acceptance of others and myself.

These are, of course, large goals, but I am convinced that a simple desire to move in this direction is a huge step forward. The universe will respond to that urge with opportunities, tools, guidance, and assistance. I have felt this in my own life. Each one of us who thinks these liberating thoughts will continue along this wonderful journey to liberate freedom both within and without.

To paraphrase a famous saying: Take that first step. There is power in it!

by Vit D
Ottawa ON, Canada
Work: Canadian Federal Government
(nearing retirement)