Swami’s 2009 State of the Universe

The Shift Has Hit the Fan: Welcome to the Sane Asylum

By Swami Beyondananda

The shift has hit the fan!
Humanity has shifted its karma into surpassing gear, and
political climate change has come to America. Thanks to a
grassroots up-wising, we the people huffed and puffed
together in the same direction and the winds of change blew
in a breath of fresh air. And we can all breathe easier.

The vote in November was more than a vote for a new
President. It was a vote for a new precedent – to overgrow
the “lowest common dominator” paradigm and take a step
towards government of the people, by the people, for the
people where the government does our bidding, not the
bidding of the highest bidder -- and where the Golden Rule
can finally overrule the rule of gold. In the short term,
the up-wising has been successful, and the American
Evolution has begun. The first big shots have been fired,
and we are on the road to recovering from an eight-year bout
with Mad Cowboy Disease and Electile Dysfunction.

But now, if we want to heal the body politic of conditions
like Deficit Inattention Disorder, Truth Decay and the
deadliest one of all, an unchecked Military Industrial
Complex, we must elect ourselves. Spiritually, it’s time
to quiet our barking dogmas and evolve past the Ten
Commandments to an even greater realization – the One
Suggestion: “We are all in it together.” Once a critical
mass of us chooses to live by this credo, we can avoid the
critical massacre called Armageddon, create Disarmageddon
instead, and achieve fulfillment as a species -- Humanifest
Destiny.

The End of the Age of Nefarious?
 
Every journey into the light is preceded by a dark passage,
and our entry into the Age of Aquarius is no different. As
predicted in the celebrated quatrain (“When the goon moves
into Lincoln’s house, and stupider aligns with Mars, then
greed will guide the planet and fear obscure the stars
...”), the Age of Nefarious delayed the start of the new
millennium. But now the quatrain is heading down a new
track, and soular power is shining a light on the endarkened
corridors of soulless power.

Just as the eight-year journey that took us from Whitewater
to Blackwater was coming to an end, some overzealous
Bush-bashers hurled footwear to give the departing regime
one final boot. That was understandable, but unnecessary.
Better we should keep our shoes on, and use them to stand
together at a time when healing wounds is more important
than wounding heels. Besides, without Bush there could have
been no Obama. His alarming actions awakened more people
than Buddha, and a body politic in a fear-induced coma
miraculously regained consciousness.

And now there is a new President: Barack Hussein Obama.
After eight years of insanity, we can proclaim to the world,
“America has a President Hussein!”

So now, we must face another awesome truth: We are living
in a world gone sane.

Welcome to the sane asylum.

Trickle Down Goes Belly Up

It’s a good thing our political fates are on the upswing,
as our economy has taken a sharp downturn. The house of
credit cards economy based on trickle down has gone belly
up, and we must face another, sadder truth. Individually and
collectively, we’ve been suffering from Deficit
Inattention Disorder, and since we were unable to do the
math, we must now do the aftermath. It’s a buy-o-logical
fact. You cannot spend more than you have. Nature knows
this. We can use no more energy than what we have in
reserve. We cannot charge energy on our Ascended Master Card
and repay it next lifetime.

So yes, the casino economy coming down, but there is an
upside to the meltdown. There is a great opportunity in the
crisis. Consider this. When the dollar hits zero, we can pay
off our entire $10 trillion national debt and hardly feel
it!

Meanwhile, over the past eight years we have seen the fall
of reptilian entities like Enronosaurus Wrecks, and most
recently a character named Madoff made off with billions.
Our entire economic system has been revealed as an
extraordinary ponzi scheme where ordinary people are left
holding the empty bag.

Unfortunately, this is nothing new. It’s the same old
needy-greedy where our collective fear of not having enough
-- “scare city” -- has empowered those privatizing
privateers who are plundering our planet with their mining
operations: that’s mine, that’s mine, that’s mine.
This mining has overmined the planet and undermined
humanity. Thus, the emergency we face right now.

So, what do we do? I am glad I asked that question. We must
go beyond the fear-based state of emergency, to a state of
emergent seeing. That is where we emerge and see the genuine
wealth that is all around us: the virtually infinite energy
from Father Sun, the prolific nourishment Mother Earth
brings us every season, the love we generate from our
hearts, and the inventiveness of our minds. With this
realization, we have a one way ticket out of scare city ...
and we enter a state of a-bun-dance. That is where we get up
off our assets, move our buns, face the music and dance
together. In using our resources to create good goods and
greater goodness, we can weave a web of mass construction
that will make us all interdependently wealthy.

Heartland Security and Purple People Power

So ... how do we do this? How do we go from our habitual
“every cell for itself” consciousness that has caused
our current “mining disaster”, to acting on the
evolutionary truth that we are in reality “all cells in
the body of humanity?” How do we shift from survival of
the fittest to thrival of the fittingest?

First we must move from the fear-based Homeland Security to
the love-based Heartland Security, and realize our one true
security is in the land of the heart. While the beliefs in
our head fool us all the time, the love in our heart is
foolproof. When we face up to love, we can face down the
fear.

What this means in practical reality is that we must step
across the “red-blue” political divide that has kept us
separate, and show our true colors as one purple people.
Yes, we have all been wounded by polarizing politics, so
let’s give ourselves a purple heart, and take the next
courageous step to cohere around our shared “heart core”
values and become ... we, the purple.

I have a dream ... that the rednecks shall lie down with
the blue necks, and we tune out the polarizing mainstream
media, which is sadly a brainwashing machine stuck on spin.
More than ever, we need forums not againstums, dialogue
instead of debate. When the body politic stops mass-debating
and chooses to have healthy, pleasurable intercourse, we
will finally create a healthy brainchild together.

This February, we celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s
bicentennial, and our friend Richard Lederer (the anagram
master known as Riddler Reacher), tells us that when we
scramble the letters in “Barack Hussein Obama,” we get
“Abraham is back: One U.S.”

You don’t have to be a Barack-backer to see that instead
of relying on leaders from above, the next evolutionary step
is for us to become the leaders we have been waiting for. I
am Lincoln. You are Lincoln. We are Lincoln. And by
linkin’ together, we free ourselves from slavery to the
divisive beliefs in our minds, and form a more perfect union
in the land of the heart.

Sure, these ideas may seem far-fetched, but we are nearer
to fetching them than ever before. Remember, we are now
living in a world gone sane. Change is ahead, change is
afoot, and everything is changing from head to foot. Like it
or not, we are destined to have heaven on earth. Might as
well get used to it.

© Copyright 2009 by Steve Bhaerman. All rights reserved.