Posts Tagged ‘unity’
A few years ago I began to acknowledge the benefits of my white privilege that I experience on a daily basis. As a white woman, I am not generally judged, or discriminated against by society on a regular basis such as people of color are. Since realizing how deep and far reaching the benefits of my white skin are, I have been on a bit of a mission to educate white people of their white privileged thoughts and ways, that are ultimately hindering our ability to achieve equality in America.
As you might expect, white people don’t like being told how privileged they are though. Especially when they feel they have led a normal life, made themselves into something out of nothing, and generally worked hard for their own success and achievements in life. Which is all great… however, that doesn’t mean they didn’t receive benefits along the way, or avoided pit falls and discrimination, because their skin is white. This is simply how our American society is currently set up, to benefit people with white skin. This can be seen with the systemic racism that permeates every facet of our government, criminal justice systems, history lessons, and society.
Today I had an interesting conversation with a friend though, that brought about the problem with calling people out on their white privilege. Which is that it only serves to add more friction and division to the conversation, when the end goal is actually unity. That’s not to say that white privilege isn’t real, or a problem, but rather that more people would actually be able to come to that conclusion on their own if the conversation was focused more on the issue of our division in the country, and how that is the real problem we are facing.
You see we are controlled by an elite group of white men who have only their own interests at heart. So unless you are a rich white male, society is not working entirely in your favor. Which is not to say that white people at any level aren’t still benefiting from white privilege in certain ways, however, unless you are part of the elite upperclassman, you are ultimately being hurt by the division that white privilege is promoting just as much as anyone else. The elites want the rest of us divided, because that is how they can continue to manipulate and control us and ultimately stay in power.
So the end result of the conversation with my friend was that I concluded that me pushing propaganda which calls out white privilege, is actually not serving to help the cause in the way that I ultimately want. What I ultimately want is for people to become united. So instead I will now be looking for things that are focused on promoting the attitudes of unity and equality without tearing down any one side in the process. The more we can promote the idea that we are all one unified body, the more people will come to their own acknowledgement of how their attitude, behavior, and bias towards others based on any racial or socioeconomic factors, is prohibiting their ability to see their fellow man as equal. Within that movement, I believe things such as the unfair balances of white privilege will become apparent and then can be addressed in a less divisive manner.
To pit ourselves against each other in the fight for unity, is only serving to further the hatred in this country. We should all simply be focused on how we can promote unity and equality and come together in love within our own lives and worlds. The more we focus on unity, the less attention we are giving to the negative issues on both sides. There is only one mission really, and its been clear all along; United we stand, divided we fall. It’s time now to make a stand.
Thoughts of love and unity to you all,
– Christine
In case you missed the message of my last post, we are all slowly starting to realize that we are not actually free. So what does that mean? It means we are the forefront of a revolution. A revolution of consciousness. Man has created a network that was meant to enslave the masses. Man started with good intention, and built a world that created a world which has brought us to this moment. Which was quite far. However, man could only take us so far before his dominant quest to conquer the world turned into what we now see today. A world of chaos and disorder. A country divided. A world that doesn’t know how to love. This is the moment… where the consciousness steps in, and wakes us up, all of us, Finally.
If you are paying attention, and listening to your soul, you feel this. You know that our government is no longer serving the people, we can see this as our President signs orders that directly violate our constitution. You know that when hate, corruption, and greed, drive all of our policies.You know it when they try to take away science and reason. Meditation is no longer just something hippies do, no, it’s something people of intelligence do. Spirituality no longer means that you must answer to a religion, no, it means you are getting in touch with your inner guide. Our understanding of the system of oppression is changing as we are starting to open our eyes and see what is really going on. We are oppressed. WE are not FREE.
However, we do have rights. We have inalienable rights guaranteed by our forefathers, who set out with pure intentions in their heart to make this the land of the free, and home of the brave, because without courage and bravery in the face of the scary and unknown… we will not be free.
This was always part of the plan. The world works on a system of balance. We are at the edge of destruction… but do not fear. The creator, God, the Beauty of the Universe and it’s grand balancing scales, are about to be reset.
We are now consciously aware of the power struggle that is going on at an elite level, as we can see it loud and clear living out right now in our day to day lives of chaos and disunity.
This must change.
This change requires our conscious participation.
This change does not require violence, it requires peace, and calm.
This change requires people to understand their own limitations that have been holding them back in life, and thus depriving this world of their precious gifts and talents.
This change requires us to admit our own faults, and agree to work on them.
This change happens… when we all work on ourselves.
This change happens when we resolve all of our own issues within and return to being spiritual beings capable of radiating light and love.
As we heal ourselves, as we look within and advance our own consciousness, the consciousness of our world, will follow.
This is our path forward. Global conscious awareness is the next phase of man kind. As we usher in the ultimate all knowing beings that reside within each of us… then that is when we achieve peace on Earth.
We are at an incredible time of human life.
The Enlightenment Period.
How. Fucking. Cool.
– Christine
So this morning one of the first things I saw on Facebook this morning was a video of a former pastor stating how he believes the Bible was in fact not written by Jesus, but by man to manipulate men. He went on to say that he 100 percent believes in God, but that the Bible was not a product of God, but of man. First thought: duh, Jesus didn’t write the bible the apostles wrote the bible. Or something like that right? (My bible study days are a bit foggy at this point in life.) My second thought: duh, this is why religion is not the same thing as spirituality. However, after reading comment after comment from disappointed Christians about how sad it was that this former pastor no longer believed in God (even though he clearly stated that he did still believe in God), I came to the conclusion that today was as good a day as any to explain Religion vs. Spirituality. I hadn’t planned on going this deep so soon, but one cannot fight where the light leads them. 🙂
One of the first things I am quick to clarify with new people in my life is that I am a spiritual person, but I am not religious. How’s that you may ask? Well, I grew up attending private school my whole life, church almost every Sunday, and not just one religion, but a multitude of religions over my life as my mother and father tried to figure out their own religious standings. However, it was not until 2 years ago that I actually came to know God. 13 years of private school education and I found God at 28 while meditating on top of a hill. I had an experience that day where I opened my eyes and I suddenly saw everything around me as one connected orb. I don’t really know how to explain it that well, but in that moment I suddenly knew that God was everything in this universe, every single thing could be broken down into the tiniest of molecules and those molecules were God. This realization changed my life.
After spending a lifetime rebelling against the religion that had been shoved down my throat, I suddenly wanted to know everything there was to know about this God that I had witnessed. Through my quest to find out more about God, I have explored many different “religions” over the past 2 years. At the time I was attending a Unity church, which is what had gotten me into mediation. So I started by expanding my knowledge of meditation. I found a local meditation group that taught the practice of Sahaja Yoga, a meditation (not actual yoga) that explains how to awaken our inner kundalini. To be clear this group is not a religion, but rather a group that teaches a spiritual tool to awaken the energy within our soul and practice a meditation that walks one through understanding what to do as one pulls forth that energy and it works its way through all of our chakras. (I’m not going to attempt to explain it better than that, but if you are interested, I highly recommend googling it.) During my first visit to Sahaja Yoga the teacher spoke about our DNA, and how everything can be broken down to the smallest particle, and that smallest particle makes up everything in this world. That’s when I knew I was in the right place, as that was exactly what my vision on the hill had revealed to me.
From that meditation class, I found another meditation group with a local yogini. She hosted a group meditation where she would walk us deep into our inner minds, and then concluded with a discussion on whatever life topic she had chosen for the week. The talks with yogini were always quite profound, as the group would talk and it seemed everyone had a general understanding of the topic she had picked out for the week. However, then inevitably she would turn the tables upside down on us with her divine wisdom as to why what we all were seeing was in fact not true but rather the product of our limited minds and beliefs. It was here that I learned to open my mind quite a bit and started to question everything.
From there, my spiritual journey, through a string of coincidences (coincidences are one of the ways that the Universe speaks to us FYI), landed me in a class taught by a local spiritual life coach, Jean Walters, over the book “A Course in Miracles”. The course in miracles is a book written by two atheists who say that God directed them to write the book. It has many lessons, but what our course focused on was the work book aspect which is 365 daily lessons on how to break down the thoughts of the ego so that you can start to stop your destructive thoughts and behaviors in the mind before they turn into action. I’ll be honest I have not made it super far into my 365 lessons, but from what I have read, it has helped me shift to a mental understanding that helps me to look at things in the present moment with fresh eyes. Free of judgment and assumptions which are only based on the past. It’s an awesome mental shift to make.
Perhaps due to my newfound ability to see things without assumptions and judgments, I recently decided to take a class on Kabbalah. (Yes, the Madonna religion *sigh*) Now I am new to the study of Kabbalah, so my explanation of it is almost undoubtedly not going to be correct, however, what Kabbalah is to me is a collection of tools and teachings that help a person to better understand their own mind. For instance you have a thought, one has thousands of thoughts throughout the day, but one does not act on all of those thoughts. Kabbalah (again in simpleton terms) is the process of understanding your own process of how you move a thought from thinking to doing. It helps you understand the road blocks in your mind that keep you from doing the things that you wish you were doing, and provides tools to help you stop doing the things that you wish you weren’t doing. That is only scratching the surface of Kabbalah I am sure, but I am excited to continue my classes and learn more about this practice.
So… what’s my point here? Religion is not spirituality. Religion IS man made, and therefore is fallible. All of the various religions that exist are simply one person’s way of trying to explain God, or in some cases just people’s attempt to control other people. In fact, I have come to general guideline for religions, which is that if your religion dictates that I must hate or turn my back on any person because your religion says so… then I do not view that religion as a true dedication to following the God that I know. The God that I know is simply pure love for all. As for spirituality, the definition really says it all:
“Spirituality is a broad concept with room for many perspectives. In general, it includes a sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves, and it typically involves a search for meaning in life. As such, it is a universal human experience—something that touches us all.”
If you take away anything from this, let it be that you are a spiritual being as much as you are a human being, and as such you should seek out your own spiritual journey, whatever that may look like for you. Don’t let religious rules scare you off, take everything with a grain of salt, open your mind, and explore where your heart leads you. A good place to start? Ask the universe to guide you. Ask, and then meditate on the answer. When you clear your mind, the answers will come.
Much love and blessings to you all.
– Christine
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