Cliches are, because they are SO. In the minds of each and every one of us, for untold generations, have been the true answers which, when practiced, would immediately begin returning a world of ignorance, separation, fear, materialism, defense/offense, INSANITY, back into its original and ever-present sublime heavenly state of Reality, wholeness.

For the ground of Earth is the same ground of heavenly reality itself; we have merely obliterated on its surface the natural eternal glory and splendor with rampant, wanton, and widespread projections of our own unacknowledged ignorance, fear, selfishness, and greed in this third dimension of time/space.

1. One Potently Pithy Primary Perennial Principle Persistently Practiced Prevents Perpetual Proliferation of Painful Particular Personal and Planetary Predicaments.

2. Innate consciousness, a.k.a. God/Sublime Self, is the crux of all creation, all manifestation. This is the ‘kingdom of heaven, within.’ The ‘answer’, dear friend, is echoing within—the answer is echoing within.

3. This crucial seed-point of pure consciousness rests within each individual, in the innermost core, or ‘heart’ of each. This inviolate, un-tainted, subtle pure non-material core, is our own true identity, though it may be temporarily obscured by the surface precepts, perceptions and experiences of the earthly human ego/persona in incarnation.

4. A return to fully conscious integrated awareness with innate core identity requires no doing, but rather the ceasing of surface will-based doing. Our doing-ness is our destruction, our predicament. Our non-doing is our salvation, as we cease interfering with the innate balancing systems of earth and life.

5. ‘Will-based’ in this sense means arising from a false surface sense of limited ego/self/identity. All aspects of the societal-material infrastructure of ‘mammonomics’—i.e., of economics/finance, politics, religionism, nationalism, militarism, insular group identification and separations—all these arise from ignorant identification with a false surface ego, and are operated and perpetuated from a basic ongoing dynamic of fear. All these separative surface ideologies & institutions are the symptoms of the choice to live by feardom rather than freedom. The innate markers of fear’s dynamic are heaviness, density, tension, friction, contraction, all of which relate to blocked flow of energy. And the innate markers of freedom are lightness, relaxation, openness, fluidity.

6. Awakening to the true pure core awareness—free of surface identifications, as a little child is thereof free—is the cure and prevention of all humanity’s ills. Where there’s no ego/I/self identity around which to form an energy-blocking and fear-and-defense-inducing ego boundary, there’s no problem!

7. There are a million hacking at the external branches of darkness (ignorance) in endless frustrated futility for every *one* who has exposed the inner roots of darkness to the Light of Truth.

8. Whosoever awakens to this pure perennial inner presence is thereby reunited directly with one’s own true life authority…and need never again be mis-led by any external alleged “authority”, or fascist authoritarian ignoramus, i.e., the blind who are ever leading flocks of blind sheeple into death’s ditch. To the fool for whom a gun is the only tool, everything begins to look like a target.

9. A lesson is repeated until it is learned: we cannot serve/worship both the God of eternal Pure Reality Life-Light-Love-Truth-Peace-
Wholeness…AND simultaneously serve the temporal and divisive ‘gods’ of mammon, of worldly identity, fleeting status, dreams, and values…for it would be like trying to ride on the backs of two burros heading in different directions. While the former leads us to Innate Supernal Wholeness Reality, the latter leads merely to all manner of degradation, deterioration, division, destruction, death (all illusory, transitory).

10. The ‘American Dream’ is so named because you have to be asleep, in a dream-world, to believe in it; and it is no simple dream, but a convoluted nightmare of our own ignorant, selfish, fear-drenched creation & projections.

11. Friends, family, lovers, relations, neighbors, enemies, etc…these are all like people we meet on a bus journey, and in a dream—every one gets ON at a different stop, and every one gets OFF at a different stop; the only one who is always with you, the only one who never leaves you, is your own true innate sublime pure awareness…the one screen-writer, producer, & director of the movie of your life.

12. Energy flows and ‘reality’ grows where attention goes. Remember to focus upon that which is Real, in the deep stillness within—that which you most love, trust, cherish, adore…ignoring all else that is rumored to have any real existence.

13. Whatever we focus upon—whether in love, or in fear—we thereby create more of. Intelligence/Wisdom chooses to focus upon Light(truth)-Love-Life, Inner Tranquility. Only a flawed darkness of the inner lens could result in choosing to focus otherwise.

14. Better a “horrible” end than horrors without end. That which is Real and valuable is eternal; it is birthless, deathless; it is not of the relative realms. Anything which dissolves/dies, is not Real, has no Real existence, has no Real value. As the forms/creations of past ignorance/darkness steadily dissolve and fall away, this is a great blessing, frightful only to those who have yet forgotten their true universal identity, and who ignorantly believe that money provides any real life. Actually, money—being an externalization of the darker impulses of ignorance, separation, fear of lack, desire to control—is a construct which has led us away from real life, light, liberty, wholeness, truth.

15. Why pay the hand/fist that would smite you? Why feed the jaws that would bite you, or the police or jailer who would restrain you? Why would you support a transitory outer-worldly system that enforces the degradation and oppression of all life, lives, and living systems?

16. ‘Love’ is the answer…but it is NOT the answer until we come to KNOW and BE what Love really eternally is, and it is far beyond merely a four-letter word symbol, or an emotion. We will not know what Love is until we know who we really eternally are. And we will not know this until we are completely free of socially conditioned illusions. And we will not be completely free of illusions until we are completely aware, open. And we will not be completely aware & open until we are completely honest, relaxed, trusting, lightness itself…

17. The political/legal/nationalist/military mindset which informs the infrastructure of mammon represents the choice to put darkness before light, fear before honesty’s inner courage-trust-surrender, falsehood before truth, a closed heart before an open heart, division before wholeness, death before eternal life.

18. The choice of a path/way of falsehood & folly is antithetical to the path/way of Eternal Real Life-Light-Wholeness. That false choice is what brings us to this critical juncture on the human stage. Both the underlying dynamic and the ultimate destination of politics is war; war is designed and played out of, by, and for basically suicidal psychopathic egos having lost (temporarily) their sense of decency, sanity, divinity, unity, humanity. Politics is the main avenue of recruiting for Satan, while the second most popular avenue for hell’s recruits being that of sectarian authoritarian hierarchical patriarchal religious institutions.

19. No one, not even God, can change this ungodly political structure from within this political structure. The only way to be autonomous, true, peaceful, and free is to be…autonomous, true, peaceful, and free…

20. If one loves Love, then one must love freedom, for what is love but completely allowing, rather than controlling? And if one loves freedom, then one must love truth, for only truth sets everyone free…

21. And if you’re still not convinced, if you’re still worshiping the premises and princes of darkness, ignorance, fear, lies, nationalism, secrecy, violence, control…at least get your head far enough out of your ass to honestly recall that your earlier stated and sworn oath of duty and responsibility is but to protect and defend your homeland only. And when you are so deluded by intense falsehood, fear, hatred, and greed to extend your empire of fear, control and death to countries and lands not your own, you thereby announce the onset of your own demise…for you cannot even hold the home/center, and yet you drain your resources by attempting to extend your circumference of false power and death in all directions. And you have lied, claiming your military forces’ purpose to be the defense of this country, but instead your corruption has caused you to extend it to foment situations of offensive combat actions across the earthly globe.
You who yet serve the inrastructure of mammon/materialism/worldly status are children who have yet to learn the primary lessons of intelligent life: Love and (at least) let live. Do unto others what you would have done unto you, for it *will* be done just as you have done—if not in this life, then in subsequent life. As you give, so shall you receive; as you plant, so shall you harvest. These are the lessons/guides of utmost basic simplicity, logic, sanity, reality—and yet you have attempted to live in utter denial of these seed principles of real life.

Attempt to live by the sword/gun/bomb/jet/laser and so thereby determine and deliver your own demise likewise. Every ‘murder’—even a military murder—is actually a murder-suicide. Had you graduated from the kindergarten of the universe in your own consciousness, you would have known and begun acting upon this primary perennial principle long ago. The biggest lies of this infrastructure of mammon are that these fearsome impositions could in any way, shape, or form, serve life, truth, liberty, peace, sanity. Everywhere the infrastructure of mammon goes, it serves falsehood, oppression, enslavement, imprisonment, death. Saddest of all ironies, or perhaps most befitting, is that the beings most enslaved by mammon’s materialist/militaristic infrastructure are the very ones who serve in, and ‘profit’ by it. Some profit—the destruction of an entire living planet. Who profits by the crime is accomplice to the crime, and thereof held accountable.

Jeffry
Maui, Hawaii USA

Due to the evolution of nuclear weapons and the mutual annihilation inherent in their use, the reliance of politics on violent means throughout the centuries is called into question. While tracking the evolution of violence, Schell reveals a simultaneous force, moving in counterpoint to the martial system; a tradition of non-violence, born of the world’s spiritual traditions.

Like a sort of “shadow” river, flowing beneath the turbulent surface of the historical ocean, this force has been more persistent than we might suppose.

Indeed, our United States constitution was created from tributaries that tapped the ancient river of peaceful means. Its principles form a cauldron within which we are scorched in the flames of our mistakes, yet blessed with the freedom to correct ourselves.

Most of us sense that violence, as a means to settle our differences, has run its course. We sense, urgently, that in order to supersede global disasters, we must learn to think and act differently.

Enlightened leaders claim that the age-old dream of a peaceful world begins with individuals.

They implore us to look into the mirror–into our hearts–and be honest about what we see. They invite us to live in the moment, to stay awake; to ask ourselves if our methods are working or not working; to notice when our passions need tempering; to ask who or what needs more love from us; to open to the admission that, in the deepest strata of life’s mysteries, the others are us and we are they.

To engage this awareness in good faith and to act upon it, we are taught, is to empower the ancient river–to help one another in constructing new reality from old dreams.

Enormous threat bears enormous potential. Will our world mind blow open the gates…and move with that river, where missiles are rendered obsolete? Where the true battle for freedom finds its authentic locale, in hearts and souls?

In the murky waters of a darkened age, may our mistakes be revealed, and may we learn to hasten the slow dawn of expanding light.

by Barbara Bowen
Artist and Creative Consultant
www.GatewaysCoaching.com
Brooklyn, New York

I’m in you

You’re in me

we don’t stick around lousy town

we don’t practice the old

sloggy routines

we create our own Paths

even if they’re

other way around

this planet is owned by bastards

who come and go as they please

and rub our face in

our inability to come and go at ease

that these All Time stealers do

they have a lot of Little Folk

down on their Economic

Esteem

Emotional

Social

Psycholoegoical

Future Dream

Knees

if ya haven’t noticed for half your life

they’ve been wantin’

to keep ya

DOWN

DOWN

DOWN

endlessly running to the malls

and shop

Uptown

the Aulde Salvy

These bastards Live Off

and seek

to suck

Your Spirit ENERGY

Dry

that’s EXACTLY

how they FLY

and run All Round

Yer Home Ground

All over Your FACE

and yer HOME Place

while you

can’t even

motivate

and MOVE

in your deep

DARK

depression

This IS

their Secret

GAME

on YOU

Hey You

there ain’t any even fair minded rules

on this Playing Field

of the Killer

and Stealer of Dreams

You are the Puck

you schmuck

They’ve lorded it All Over You

and created In You

only a Pathetic

Pitiful

Little Half Life

to be bemoaned

and carted off to the Psychologists

and Psychiatrists

to be Prescribed Quantum pills

for your Little

Half induced stupor You call Life

with daily dosed

Psycho-Chemical Straight Jackets

for Your Choke Chain

That you WILLINGLY

Swallow and induce

on a daily

well timed

well dosed regimen

What SWILL this

Yeah you’re labeled

Your Brain is scrambled

and You’re CONTROLLED

so you can FUNCTION

in their prescribed and DEFINED

precisely

Lead by a DOG chain they call

“A NORMAL Life

and Existence”

So that you can FUNCTION

in THEIR carefully prescribed

“daily reality”

Hey Joe

Whaddya Know

Ya don’t know THIS

The GAME’S UP

on this CREEPY Paralysis

and post humous

cultural trance

you dance in your (Their) daily life

called Reality

THROW OFF THE MASTERS OF WAR!!!!!!

and the DEFINERS of YOUR LIFE

Say to Yourself NOW

and for the Rest of the NewBorne Year

This is my LIFE!

This is MY LIFE!!

This IS MY LIFE!!!

THIS IS MY LIFE!!!!

Over and Over

Til You Get It

INSIDE

and it LIVES inside your HEART

and Steers YOUR LIFE

On the StarBoarde Side

Now Partner

What Galaxy

and Universe

Are We Headin For

WELCOME HOME!

AHO!

by John Shumaker
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
eco~poet, peace activist, subversive and Bioregionalist

Likewise, Mother Earth is the essence of freedom, and while we reside upon her we will always have our freedom. But what makes us feel as though freedom is erased from our daily living is the element of man in which we have come here to evolve.

When human beings take for granted the beauty within the present moment and begin seeking things now lying in the past or forever waiting in the future, fear supercedes and washes over our consciousness.

The results can be disastrous as man reacts out of fear, forgetting the universal right we all have to live with ourselves, among one another, in our freedom.

To remember our freedom, and honor it, we must return to the present moment, and no matter how difficult or painful, we must see the fear we have allowed to grow and the lessons in which we have created for ourselves.

Only then, as we look within our own self, will freedom become our life once more, as it was from the very beginning when we were young, exploring this wondrous world with both hands and feet.

by Cameron Karsten
Paris, France
www.jeber.com/Members/cam2yogi

In other words, we can come up with a million ways of becoming a collective pain in the ass.

Our strategy should be not only to confront Empire, but to lay siege to it. to deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it.

With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness-and our ability to tell our own stories.

Stories that are different from the one’s we’re brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

by Arundhati Roy
author of War Talk and
The God of Small Things