Swami
Predicts Heart Times Ahead
Every year at this time,
I am asked to make predictions, and each
time I politely refuse because I don’t
want to jeopardize my nonprophet status.
But this year is different. With 2012 just
one quantum leap year away, we humans might
finally be ready for a quantum leap of
our own. The message is coming in loud
and clear. Time to shift or get off the
pot.
In order to upshift our
karma into surpassing gear, however, we
must shift our awareness downward from
the static of the head to the ecstatic
of the heart. If we are to have an awakening
instead of a wake, I predict heart times
ahead.
Disheartenment
in the Heartland
Heartenment, after all,
is just the thing to counteract the disheartenment
in the heartland. Take the economy — please!
After years of untreated Deficit Inattention
Disorder, the U.S. dollar is now worth
less than a dollar of Monopoly money. As
the most recent Greenspan report tells
us, the average American family barely
has enough green to span the average month.
Meanwhile, trickle down economics has proved
true to its name, leaving a growing class
of pee-ons at the bottom.
Then there’s electile
dysfunction. Instead of transparency around
how votes are cast and counted, we have
an apparent trance. The secret ballot has
been taken to the next level, and now voting
machines with secret software count the
votes in secret. This is called “faith-based” vote
counting. Hey, some of those new “smart” voting
machines are so smart, that they don’t
even need voters! This makes perfect sense
because government of, by and for the people
has now been efficiently transformed to
government of, by and for the very, very
few people. Talk about minority representation.
We are now governed by a smaller minority
than ever in our history!
Even when we do manage
to get an election, the body politic still
suffers from impotence. As we learned after
the 2006 election, just because we vote
for someone doesn’t mean they are
going to vote for us. Instead of canceling
the Iraqi Horror Picture Show, the Democratic
misleadership has gone along with the same
basic neocon con, only with a cosmetic
makeover – sort of a wolfawitz in
sheepawitz’s clothing.
Though the upwising continues,
irony deficiency and truth decay still
plague the body politic. Instead of forums
that shine light on political issues, the
media has encouraged againstums where incendiary
phrases spark heated arguments. So, while
red tribe Republicans and blue tribe Democrats
argue whether it’s wronger to kill
the born or the unborn, the born keep dying
while the not-yet-born are stuck with the
bill. No wonder our moral compass has gone
south.
As if global warring isn’t
enough to worry about, now there’s
global warming. It would be sad indeed
to have come this far, only to see the
headline: “Human Race Ends In a Dead
Heat.”
No wonder so many people
are scared shiftless. The good news is,
this is the State of the Universe Address
and I am happy to report that the state
of the Universe is copasetic – ever
changing, same as always. This is particularly
heartening when we realize that that universal
state is also our own.
Universe Knows
Best
When it comes to universal
wisdom, you can’t beat the Universe.
First of all, the Universe is everywhere
all at once. Talk about being on top of
things. Even as it keeps expanding, the
Universe has it together -- which means,
as part of the universe, a part of us has
it all together too. We are inextricably
connected to the Universe. It is inescapable.
Without the Universe, we’d be nowhere.
Here is more amazing news.
We are all descended from the same Big
Bang! When the Big Bang went boom, all
of the Universe’s parts departed
from one particle. And that includes us.
So, we might as well proclaim it proudly. “The
Big Bang is my pop. Well, I’ll be
a son of a gun!”
The Big Bang is everybody’s
pop, which means we are all related. If
we are indeed a fractal chip off the old
block, Universe-wise ... then somewhere
we must be as wise as the Universe. For
millennia, spiritual teachers have told
us to look inside for this universal wisdom.
It turns out, they were right. The real
spiritual pilgrimage is actually a journey
of about twenty-four inches, roughly the
distance from the head to the heart. The
Heart of the Matter is the Matter of the
HeartYes, everyone is equipped to attune
to universal wisdom because everyone has
been given a heart. And yet, the heart
seems to be the last gift we open. The
most underdeveloped resource on the planet
is the treasure inside our own treasured
chest! Given all the craziness in the world,
maybe if we invested in expanding our hearts,
we’d have less need to shrink our
heads.
And less of a need to
be so all-consumed by consumerism. We have
learned to spend so much energy pursuing
happiness that we never stop to think what
would happen if we actually caught it --
or rather, if it caught us. With all this
hot pursuit, we have left real happiness
in the dust. It is sad indeed that we end
up jealous that someone else’s happiness
might be bigger than our own. Freud called
this “happiness envy.”
As the saying goes, money
can’t buy happiness, although it
can buy anti-depressants. But if you are
seeking more out of life than not being
depressed, the key to happiness is to grow
your own. Every one of us should be asking, “What
good am I?” What good can I add to
the greater goodness? Maybe if we had greater
goodness, we’d need fewer goods.
As human beings, our biggest asset is love,
so now is the time to get up off our big
fat assets, and practice supply-side spirituality.
Because we aren’t here to earn God’s
love, we are here to spend it. We are here
to re-grow the Garden from the grassroots
up, and have a heaven of a time doing it!
Heartland Security
Now while the solution
is simple, no one said it was going to
be easy. Just as the human potential movement
has made great gains over the past 25 years,
the inhuman potential movement has more
than kept up. Everywhere I go, the little
David’s I meet all ask the same question:
How can we get Goliath to go lieth down?
I have good news and I have other news,
and they are both the same: It’s
up to us. We must lead ourselves out of
the bewilderness. Yes, we’ve been
politically abused, so the first step is
to disabuse ourselves. We must start overseeing
instead of overlooking.
By overlooking what we
should have been overseeing, we have become
enablers for the lowest common dominator.
Whether it’s called globalization
or gobble-ization, it’s the same
old mining operation -- that’s mine,
that’s mine, that’s mine. Because
we’ve allowed ourselves to imagine
that someday that “mine” will
be ours, we have agreed to a “don’t
ask, don’t tell” policy with
our government. We promise not to ask them
what they are doing, and they promise not
to tell us. That way, we can pretend to
believe we are invading a country to keep
the peace, when we are really there to
keep the pieces.
Meanwhile, back at home,
they’ve given last rites to the Bill
of Rights, and newspeak has become the
new spoken language of the mainstream media.
Now before we just shrug and say, “Orwell,
what can we do about it?” we need
to see the only way to overgrow Big Brother
is with bigger brotherhood -- and even
bigger sisterhood. Time to heal our spiritual
dyslexia, and realize our natural state
is sacred, not scared. The scared masculine
and the scared feminine have given us the
dysfunctional dance of abusers and enablers.
Now we must empower the sacred masculine
and sacred feminine to come together and
conceive what has been inconceivable – the
truly evolved human.
We need to amplify the
love and light to counterbalance the darkness
and fear, and that is why we need a nongovernmental
Department of Heartland Security to secure
the heartland and let the powers in power
know in no uncertain terms, “Bigger
brotherhood is watching you.”
To do that, we must migrate
en masse --regardless of political or spiritual
affiliation -- to the land of the heart.
Instead of squabbling over the differences
that separate us, we must cohere around
the heart-core values we share in common.
That is the only way we can trade our insecurity
for inner security. No matter where we
stand on climate change, one thing is clear.
Global heartwarming is bound to change
the political climate for the better.
Whatever the problems,
we have the wherewithal to address them.
Now all we need is the aware-with-all.
Whether you call yourself a creationist
or an evolutionist, or take the simplest
approach of all to the Great Unknown --
not knowing -- one thing is undeniable:
We are all one with the same One. The story
of separation, survival of the fittest,
and lowest common dominator --that is the
old story.
Only we have the power
to close the book on the old story once
and for all, by declaring: And they all
lived happily ever after.
And happily ever after
begins now.
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Swami’s schedule and get a free
catalogue, call toll free (800) SWAMI-BE
or visit him online at www.wakeuplaughing.com.
© Copyright
2008 by Steve Bhaerman. All rights reserved.
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Well,
it’s April. And everyone knows
April 1 is April Fool’s Day.
However, the “Holy Fool” is
a sacred and honored position. Sometimes
in the royal courts of Europe, only
the Fool could get across to the monarch
what he needed to know – without
a personal agenda, needing a title
or money, or pushing his own politics.
