Know ye, O man, ye are only a spirit.
The body is nothing.
The Soul is ALL.
Let not your body be a fetter.
Cast off the darkness and travel in Light.
Cast off your body, O man, and be free,
truly a Light that is ONE with the Light.The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, Tablet IX “The Key to Freedom of Space”
*transposed from Crystalinks.com
En Lak’eck
“My optimism rests on my belief in the infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. . . . In a gentle way you can shake the world.” -Ghandi
… Change of Pace
……. Change
………… or No Change?
Several comments have been made to me recently about the apparent change of direction for this blog, and it is something I’ve wrestled with for a while. Yes, many of my more recent posts have had a political slant to them which is highly unusual for OneMysticalMonkey. But is this really a change of pace or a change of heart for the content of OMM? … Is it a change at all?
As spiritual beings, we are drawn to follow the Path to greater insight and knowledge both of ourselves and of the world around us. We are drawn to “reconnect” with Nature, with Each Other, with the Great Spirit (Nirvana/Heaven/God/etc.). But this process of spiritual self-awareness and growth should also include the physical. To be balanced and whole in this world, we can not hide away in our meditations -for that will get us only so far, developmentally. The time for extended retreats and Monastic Life are, for the most part, behind us. The world is changing. It has been changing. In fact, the only constant in the world is Change itself. If we truly strive for insight, knowledge, wisdom and awareness, we must include a knowledge of the physical world in addition to the spiritual one. It is a matter of balance, of completion, of Yin and Yang, Dark and Light, and the circle the two seemingly opposite forces create when balanced against each other.
On another level, the whole vibration our Earth is changing. Mankind, through greed and selfishness has poisoned Mother Earth, destroyed ecosystems, caused multiple harms to the species of the planet (our own included) and wreaked havoc world-wide. The good news amid this mess is that the tide for this destructive behavior is changing. More people are waking up from lethargic and mind-numbing habits; we are becoming Aware. But the “old regime”, the old paradigm of behavior still fights and still holds a certain power and influence over much of our planet and species. And so politics, as a strongly influential force on our physicality, is added to the list of things to question, evaluate, dissect, investigate, and re-arrange. Too long now have we succumbed, encouraged to live in a stupor, blindly trusting the government to make decisions for us, believing the marketing and hype and scare-tactics employed by that agency (and those supporting it) to convince us that the decisions made are in our best interests.
Although I’m sure that to somebody “out there” the slow and constant poisoning of our food and bodies, and the steadfast removal of our inalienable Rights as individuals makes sense for the “safety and welfare of the greater whole”, but look at what’s going on around you! Remember back (or research) to how things worked 40, 20 (even 10!) years ago. People, over this very short period of time, have changed. Instead of accepting personal responsibility for their role and well-being in life, there are many who appear to prefer to sit back and accept -to expect, to demand- that somebody else take care of them. Self-responsibility is gone. A sense of entitlement has replaced it. Instead of being able to do whatever you want to do in life, the best many can hope for is to become a mere cog in a corporate machine. Instead of founding companies and inventing things for the betterment of mankind -instead of seizing life and living it- we have become meek and passive; downtrodden, controllable. What has changed within the last few decades for such a switch in attitude to occur? Who benefits from such changes?
Part of our Path is the constant evaluation of everything. With our internal work if a modality no longer fits, we change it, thereby loosening the bonds of ego and craving and desire, eventually becoming free. It is time to apply this process to the external physical realm now as well. Many are awakening. The world is shifting. But the time to complete these changes is short and we must make the effort to evaluate on inner (spiritual) and outer (physical) levels in order to Evolve to the next, natural, level of Awareness and Awakening.
We are One.
We are Spirit in physical form.
To neglect one is to neglect the other.
To ignore one is to ignore the other.
It is with both Dark and Light that a balance is brought
and within that balance, Enlightenment found.
Our time is Now.
Become what you are meant to be.
EVOLVE.
In Lak’ech Ala K’in,
- OMM.
The 4th of July - the celebration of American Independence from the taxes, government and overall tyranny of England. Or at least that’s what the American history books would like us to believe. Two hundred years later however, and we seem to have taken that initial tyranny to whole new levels of abuse and scale, affecting not only our own populace in ways the Founding Fathers hoped would not occur or recur, but also affecting the peoples of countries world-wide. And most Americans -most people- do nothing. In fact, most don’t even realize that their rights, safety, independence and self-responsibility have been hijacked by governmental and industrial force. After all, it’s easier to just mindlessly follow the directions given us by others, isn’t it? But the thing about that situation is that although it may appear to be an easier path to follow (at least initially), it is very often not the right thing to do, and is very often a much more difficult path to tread in the long-run.
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”
-Harry S Truman
Perhaps it’s time we take a moment to reflect what Independence actually is and how -or if- it is alive in the world today… and how we can embody it, enliven it, and live it.
“No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.”
-Barbara Ehrenreich
Happy Independence Day, America.
In Light, Love and Liberty…
Namaste.
-OMM
It’s not very Buddhist, not very New-Age, Metaphysical or anything of the sort… and it’s certainly not a very detached perspective on the world, but I despise politics. I utterly despise them. I always have. There is a reason why I’ve been registered a “non-party / independent” voter since reaching legal voting age. Sorting through the political jargon, knowing full well everyone in the political ring is lying and exaggerating and touting the standard “party line” just to advance their own accomplishments… knowing that they are there for self-gratification of their ego and wallet more than for a sense of responsibility or calling. Who? - WHO of these career politicians actually have the well-being of the citizens of the country (and world!) in mind with all their rhetoric and deceit? Are they all arrogant, self-serving puppets? Is there such a thing as democracy any more? It’s hard to believe when there are more lobbyists than Senators and the goals of industry are pushed through the legislative process by being tacked on to the end of a long and tedious bill of manufactured “findings” on a given topic, or when whole communities or countries are infiltrated by a corporation looking to gain a foot-hold before building a monopoly.
But no matter my personal distaste for the politics of politics, it is not something that can or should be pushed under the rug. It is something that needs to be addressed, thought about, fully examined and digested… independently, without media bias, using our Brains and our Hearts to determine the truth of what is said and unsaid, digging through the jargon to find the nugget of truth buried beneath the various layers of deception.
It’s all too easy to get caught up in our own world, get wrapped up in our own responsibilities, to believe that “I’m too busy with life” to take on something else… but that’s all part of the ruse, all part of the artificial distraction! Do we abandon our families to sit on the Congressional building steps? - Probably not, but we can -and dare I say ‘should‘?!- make ourselves aware of the true agendas in place behind the political curtain. We can actually read the proposals being placed before us, thoroughly investigate the candidates hoping to be elected, ask whether or not there’s really any difference between the top two presidential hopefuls when they are both funded by the same people (and what does that mean?!), sort through the media hype to discover some semblance of “truth”. We can evaluate for ourselves and think things through, we can ask questions about “Who is this going to benefit?” and “Why is this a good idea - Or is it?”, “Where’s the money for this proposal going to come from and what are the implications of that?”.
… and yes, back to the Mat I go because obviously this is a topic I can not view with much detachment… but before I go, have you ever wondered why so many of us on the Path -those of us who have shunned politics all our lives- seem to be taking an active interest in it now? Perhaps it is because we can look at the whole political world with eyes unbiased from either political extreme to see the reality of what is actually going on, and with that knowledge and insight, help to make the changes that need to be made -before all our rights are stripped from us, the world is destroyed by mankind’s greed, by political ego or by any other means… before… before it’s too late.
As we fast approach the anniversary of our Independence, it occurs to me that despite the Founding Fathers best efforts, how much of Mother England’s influence and attitudes we have brought with us and resurrected within a scarce 200 years’ time. With yet another heated and controversial Presidential election looming in the near future, the world in a shambles, masses starving, millions sick with current health care, human and personal rights being violated across the globe, Mother Earth destroyed in favor of mankinds’ greed, bombs exploding, species dying, and so many more atrocities going on, it seems appropriate to take a step back a couple hundred years and review those things thought important enough to document in the Bill of Rights … or, as Richard Henry Lee put it, “those essential rights of mankind without which liberty cannot exist.”
The full text from the US Bill of Rights, from a web site on James Madison, is as follows… Continue Reading »
LOL. Sing with me here… ready?
(To the tune of “Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone” by Lauterbach)
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Where O’ Where has the Monkey gone
Oh Where oh where can OMM be?
Battling shades within her-self
striving to be ego-free.
Battered by the woes of the world,
Looking for balance there.
Finding changes in the air
Wonder’g when they’ll mature.
Seeing mankind’s ruthless acts
Creating sadness, not Love.
Heart a-breaking with dismay
at the maneuvers of man.
Ego and greed, they fill the Earth
Destroying all in their path.
The way of Spirit this is not.
A Return to Truth we must have.
Each one of us, we fill a spot
Guiding as we can
‘Tis up to us to make amends
Uniting us all once again.
Healer, Mother, Daughter and Friend
Many things can we be
but Light and Love surround us all
whether or not that we see.
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So where have I been hiding for the last month or so? Well, not hiding really (although there has been a bit of that too) - more like “processing”. I have been a bit overwhelmed by a new layer of events and circumstances and mankinds’ maneuverings recently laid bare to eyes that have always known and shunned the reality of the situation for the pain and limitations it puts upon our planet and species. My optimism has been revealed for the shallow perspective that it was and it’s taken a while to sort through those revelations and to ride through the cycle, eventually regaining a sense of equilibrium once more.
Specifically, I’ve been thinking of politics and banking and environmentalism, of Capitalism and Fascism, of marketing, independence, global illusion, manipulations and controls, and much more… and the real day-to-day effects on life “as we know it” or choose to believe it to be. I have not wanted to post rants and irrationalities here as those deeper, emotional, basic and instinctual levels felt the brunt of such processings, nor have I wanted to encourage the manifestation of these unsavory things by encouraging similar responses in others, charged off my energy, reading the blog posts on those topics. The timing was off. The right thing to do was to withdraw and process - and so, that is where OMM has been lately… processing.
Namaste, my friends…
In Lak’ech Ala K’in
-OMM
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. It was completed on September 17, 1787, with its adoption by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was later ratified by special conventions in each state. It created a federal union of sovereign states, and a federal government to operate that union. It replaced the less defined union that had existed under the Articles of Confederation. It took effect on March 4, 1789 and has served as a model for the constitutions of numerous other nations. The Constitution of the United States of America is the oldest written national constitution in use.
— Excerpted from United States Constitution on Wikipedia.
This important document needs to be posted and made available and so, it is being posted and made available.
Peace, Love, Light, and Freedom
- OMM
The full text is as follows… Continue Reading »
Please, dear blog-readers, accept my apologies that I don’t have the time right now to sufficiently write my own thoughts on the matter of corporate control and manipulation of our food supply. However, this 10-minute video does a fair job of introducing the issues surrounding GMO (genetically modified) foods and the effects on the world wide food supply, as well as the implications for our future. Please take the time to watch.
Related information, from Dr. Mercola’s website:
The fact is that genetically modified foods are so prevalent in the United States that if you randomly pick an item off your grocery store’s shelves, you have a 75 percent chance of picking a food with GM ingredients. This is because at least seven out of every 10 items have been genetically modified.
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Here are four simple steps to decrease your consumption of GM foods as much as possible:* Reduce or eliminate processed foods in your diet. The fact that 75 percent of processed foods contain GM ingredients is only one of the many reasons to stick to a whole foods diet.
* Read produce and food labels. Conventionally raised soybeans and corn make up the largest portion of genetically modified crops. Ingredients made from these foods include high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), corn flour and meal, dextrin, starch, soy sauce, margarine, and tofu.
* Buy organic produce. By definition, food that is certified organic must be free from all GM organisms, produced without artificial pesticides and fertilizers and from an animal reared without the routine use of antibiotics, growth promoters or other drugs. Additionally, grass-fed beef will not have been fed GM corn feed.
* Look at produce stickers. The PLU code on stickers for conventionally grown fruit consists of four numbers, organically grown fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number nine, and GM fruit has five numbers prefaced by the number eight.
Some additional tidbits:
Whatever your immediate reaction to this issue may be, remember to always evaluate everything critically and to do some research (preferably outside of the mainstream media bias). Dare to think outside of the prescribed box (ie: for yourself, analytically) and ask the questions about who the issue/topic is truly benefiting and toward what end… and don’t be afraid to make the connections that those others seeking power and control their own benefit (& generally at the expense of others) would prefer you simply not see.
Try researching Montsano, Morgellon’s Disease, GMO (genetically modified food), and other links for an assortment of additional information on this topic. Then consider buying local organic food and writing letters to the politicians objecting to the practice of genetically modifying our food, and not even giving us an informed choice about whether or not to consume it.
Peace, Love, Light… and Health.
Namaste.
