It is quite clear to us here that the only solution to the challenges posed by this moment is to press forward with the most important change of all- a change to ourselves. Whilst personal transformation has been a theme for centuries, the potential for humanity to evolve as one has only recently been seen as a possibility. At this point, we hold, it is in fact a necessity for the continued survival of the human race. Our technology has reached a point of no return.
It has reached the point where we either use it to transform our way of interacting with our planet, to make it both post-industrial and harmonious with the ecosystems surrounding us, that we have realised with increasing clarity we are dependent upon- or use it to wipe our sorry asses off the face of the planet before we become a danger to the planets surrounding ours. In this there is a failsafe to nuclear technology; only a peaceful, harmonious society can hope to survive the advent of a nuclear age. One overcome by self-centeredness and blinkered enslavement to special interests will quite simply self-destruct, before it spreads.
Looking at the challenges that face us, we would be well-advised to remember this central and well-designed truism of universe existence. The path to having god-like power is also the path to god-like responsibility and the consideration of others this brings, and in this context I include not only humans, but the rich variety of life with whom we share our planetary existence.
Everything that has happened thus far can only be seen as a warning shot, a shot above the bows, fired by no external enemy, but by us, towards us, warning ourselves of the responsibilities to ourselves and the planet we hold. There was once a time to record history, there was once a time to speak of history's own unfoldment, yet now has come a sudden rush of something that can only be called consciousness, not only the consciousness of a few individuals, but one on a planetary level.
Let us look at the year, look at the calendar and we will see how little time is left, mere moments of this illusion we call time. In these moments, we have to learn new ways, ways in keeping with our enlarged sense of selfhood, fired by our ascendant technology. A world on the verge of discoveries of deep space travel, time travel and on the cusp of computing power that could peer into the very structure of this mathematically-designed universe itself, must awake to itself, must awake to it's own internal unity, it's various members being parts of one body, a body that is waking into consciousness of itself and it's place in the universe.
In many ways, this is the last year before the great beginning. This is a time of great and dramatic change, a sudden unfoldment of evolution, by the end of which former things will be no more. A natural, sustainable world in terms of energy, politics, human inter-relations is the only way forward and it is becoming clearer and clearer all the time. As our dreams, both personal and collective, come closer to fruition, we will all the more strongly reject that which is not in accord with them. For we are not so much being remade by some hypothetical outside force, as remaking ourselves, being ultimately the arbiters of our own destinies, the co-creators of ourselves. A process we are all the more conscious of, as the moment dawns when we can stand upright in mind and heart, as well as merely in bipedal form. A moment in which we will be in touch as never before with who we are, aware as never before of that divine spark burning brightly within us and ready as never before to resume communication with our divine ancestors, who have cared so lovingly for us for all these years.
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The Advent of Obama
Starfire and The Foundation welcome President Obama with open arms. At last, there arrives a leader with the vision, decency and foresight to look today's problems in the eye and propose workable solutions. Surely, a small but vocal minority will be able to find fault even here. Yet we are presented with one of the least compromised and most trustworthy leaders the world has seen in decades. Seeing now as now, there is every reason to rejoice in the fact that reality has found her voice at last.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Towards Peace in the Middle East
Starfire Thinks having been established, here we can return to what seems to be the most important issues at hand. Reaching a state of peace and understanding in this life, and helping that to be reached on in the planet we live on. This is the mission, this is worth talking about.
The nexus of world conflict is that in the so-called Holy Lands of the Middle-East, the approximate location of the ancient Mesopotamian civilisations and around the original land of 'Eden'. Despite repeated attempts to bring peace through holy messengers there, we are even now in a position in which their messages are being used for separation and conflict- there is little honesty as to the fact that we are as our hearts are and the veil of religion is no excuse for hypocrisy.
The answer is quite clear- crafty politics, emotional manipulations aside, what is needed is a real, loving acceptance of one another, an embracing of common humanity and also of differences inherent in being human. Central to this is the Arab-Israeli/ Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a microcosm of the sea of misunderstanding between the West and the 'Near-East'. The little states there have to move on from their nationalistic aims and think of working together, or they will forever be a figure of fun to the rest of the world, that watches them in a shocked, horrified but nevertheless fascinated way as embodying the very worst example of a region unable to adjust to today's multicultural world.
That region is generally seen as a home to religious hypocrisy and negative emotion. I will go further and say that the people are simply lying not only to one another, but actually to themselves. They are holding back their natural, loving feelings because they think it 'unmanly', in their patriarchal system, in which honour, revenge and the law of survival looms so high. To change from this backwards and terrible misconception is not something that can be done unilaterally. It is not even something that this important region can do alone. It necessitates a wide reassessment and evolution of the masculine-centered world-view that pits the strong against the weak, with no mind for the consequences.
We need to all do this in our own lives. the evolution of the whole race begins in it's members. We have to put aside our addiction to bullying and revenge and speak out against it. We need to push for the acceptance of many different types of persons, all along the lines of 'if they hurt no-one by doing something, let them be free to live their lives as they choose'. However, those that are causing pain or hurt, whether by negligence or intent need to change their ways.
Whoever you are and wherever you are, you need to help balance the world by bringing back a feminine understanding of the need to accept others, along with a masculine urge to build and progress. We are not calling for some kind of soppy, purely feeling-based way of being- we all have a responsibility to better ourselves and those around us. What we are speaking for is a feeling-based way of doing this, a warm and caring way, one which is consistent with our true natures.
As the Dao De Ching teaches, virtue comes when we stop talking about morals. We need to do, to be, not just to talk- for just talking is the way of hypocrisy. As Jesus taught, the spirit behind the law is what matters and not just it's letter. As I say here, being true to our feelings means reaching beyond the influences that try to make us negative-feeling, which is actually an inversion of feeling and a lack of it.
Feeling is life and life feeling. Riches, victories, are a feeling of mutual gain, or shared happiness. This is a dream we all share and we need to set aside whatever is in us that blocks it's fruition.
To these goals and to the aim of the Middle-East embodying them as the spiritual teachers sent there have ever hoped, we must work tirelessly, with endless joy. To this we must commit, as does the work of The Foundation, a fountain-spring of unchanging truth, an umbrella to the needy now as ever before.
Amen.
The nexus of world conflict is that in the so-called Holy Lands of the Middle-East, the approximate location of the ancient Mesopotamian civilisations and around the original land of 'Eden'. Despite repeated attempts to bring peace through holy messengers there, we are even now in a position in which their messages are being used for separation and conflict- there is little honesty as to the fact that we are as our hearts are and the veil of religion is no excuse for hypocrisy.
The answer is quite clear- crafty politics, emotional manipulations aside, what is needed is a real, loving acceptance of one another, an embracing of common humanity and also of differences inherent in being human. Central to this is the Arab-Israeli/ Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a microcosm of the sea of misunderstanding between the West and the 'Near-East'. The little states there have to move on from their nationalistic aims and think of working together, or they will forever be a figure of fun to the rest of the world, that watches them in a shocked, horrified but nevertheless fascinated way as embodying the very worst example of a region unable to adjust to today's multicultural world.
That region is generally seen as a home to religious hypocrisy and negative emotion. I will go further and say that the people are simply lying not only to one another, but actually to themselves. They are holding back their natural, loving feelings because they think it 'unmanly', in their patriarchal system, in which honour, revenge and the law of survival looms so high. To change from this backwards and terrible misconception is not something that can be done unilaterally. It is not even something that this important region can do alone. It necessitates a wide reassessment and evolution of the masculine-centered world-view that pits the strong against the weak, with no mind for the consequences.
We need to all do this in our own lives. the evolution of the whole race begins in it's members. We have to put aside our addiction to bullying and revenge and speak out against it. We need to push for the acceptance of many different types of persons, all along the lines of 'if they hurt no-one by doing something, let them be free to live their lives as they choose'. However, those that are causing pain or hurt, whether by negligence or intent need to change their ways.
Whoever you are and wherever you are, you need to help balance the world by bringing back a feminine understanding of the need to accept others, along with a masculine urge to build and progress. We are not calling for some kind of soppy, purely feeling-based way of being- we all have a responsibility to better ourselves and those around us. What we are speaking for is a feeling-based way of doing this, a warm and caring way, one which is consistent with our true natures.
As the Dao De Ching teaches, virtue comes when we stop talking about morals. We need to do, to be, not just to talk- for just talking is the way of hypocrisy. As Jesus taught, the spirit behind the law is what matters and not just it's letter. As I say here, being true to our feelings means reaching beyond the influences that try to make us negative-feeling, which is actually an inversion of feeling and a lack of it.
Feeling is life and life feeling. Riches, victories, are a feeling of mutual gain, or shared happiness. This is a dream we all share and we need to set aside whatever is in us that blocks it's fruition.
To these goals and to the aim of the Middle-East embodying them as the spiritual teachers sent there have ever hoped, we must work tirelessly, with endless joy. To this we must commit, as does the work of The Foundation, a fountain-spring of unchanging truth, an umbrella to the needy now as ever before.
Amen.
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies
Teaching English gives a chance to learn how to tailor the mediation of complex universe topics with the needs and abilities of students. This way, they can comfortably understand as much as they can and be presented with challenging material that won’t be so hard that it makes them give up all together.
A lot of The Foundation’s teaching program includes material that will appear quite revolutionary to the minds of potential students. The task of the teaching mission is to ensure that it remains sufficiently evolutionary in it’s approach to be grasped.
Teaching English gives a chance to learn how to tailor the mediation of complex universe topics with the needs and abilities of students. This way, they can comfortably understand as much as they can and be presented with challenging material that won’t be so hard that it makes them give up all together.
A lot of The Foundation’s teaching program includes material that will appear quite revolutionary to the minds of potential students. The task of the teaching mission is to ensure that it remains sufficiently evolutionary in it’s approach to be grasped.
Friday, April 20, 2007
The Starfire Foundation- The Knights of Goodwill
More details are emerging as to the structure of The Foundation. It has a structure, yet it needs to be remembered that, rather than being a traditional heirarchy, it is more of a family, bound together by a loving acceptance of the roles given.
The leader is the Guru/teacher, who inspires and guides the entire community. In time, he can be replaced by a chosen successor, who will be similarly inspired. Under him are the teachers, a kind of priesthood, but very much not seen as having an exclusive power or privilege. they are inspired teachers, equal to other members. Then, slightly below, perhaps, but more alongside these teachers, are the Knights of Goodwill.
They are an order of knights, blessed by the Guru, who are committed to fighting evil by doing good wherever they do. Quite unlike orders of Knights in the dark ages preceding them, they are to fulfill the promises of chivalry by helping the needy, not just as a polite extra, but as their main role. They'll be kind to neighbours, they'll help the homeless, they'll stand beside people, with all the strength of everything the archetype conveys, but without the previous errors.
Below (or, again, really beside) them are the laymen. They are the ordinary members of the organisation, who don't quite have the level of commitment to be in the other roles, or perhaps are too busy with other concerns to sincerely fulfil them. Yet, they benefit from the examples of the teachers and knights and therefor give them moral and even financial; support. The laymen make possible the entire structure and in fact this structure exists to serve them, the majority, by making possible the existance of the 'higher orders'- in reality the more commited servants- that embody it.
A structure is only as good as the people who form it. By having relevant and inspiring ideas, not to mention a strong desire to make the world a better place and one more in harmony with the worlds of the higher spheres- to make Earth more like Heaven, no less- this Foundation will bring an aura of peace and happiness to all whom it touches. Sure, at some point it's ideals may become so outdated as to be no more than obscure sayings and it's structure so riddled with corruption as to be meaningless. Yet, with a approach that is dynamic and fresh, with the ever-renewed bond between the laymen and their protector-servants, such a decay can be put off indefinitely. Religions don't get corrupt- people get corrupt. With ever-renewed inspiration, even that need never take place.
The leader is the Guru/teacher, who inspires and guides the entire community. In time, he can be replaced by a chosen successor, who will be similarly inspired. Under him are the teachers, a kind of priesthood, but very much not seen as having an exclusive power or privilege. they are inspired teachers, equal to other members. Then, slightly below, perhaps, but more alongside these teachers, are the Knights of Goodwill.
They are an order of knights, blessed by the Guru, who are committed to fighting evil by doing good wherever they do. Quite unlike orders of Knights in the dark ages preceding them, they are to fulfill the promises of chivalry by helping the needy, not just as a polite extra, but as their main role. They'll be kind to neighbours, they'll help the homeless, they'll stand beside people, with all the strength of everything the archetype conveys, but without the previous errors.
Below (or, again, really beside) them are the laymen. They are the ordinary members of the organisation, who don't quite have the level of commitment to be in the other roles, or perhaps are too busy with other concerns to sincerely fulfil them. Yet, they benefit from the examples of the teachers and knights and therefor give them moral and even financial; support. The laymen make possible the entire structure and in fact this structure exists to serve them, the majority, by making possible the existance of the 'higher orders'- in reality the more commited servants- that embody it.
A structure is only as good as the people who form it. By having relevant and inspiring ideas, not to mention a strong desire to make the world a better place and one more in harmony with the worlds of the higher spheres- to make Earth more like Heaven, no less- this Foundation will bring an aura of peace and happiness to all whom it touches. Sure, at some point it's ideals may become so outdated as to be no more than obscure sayings and it's structure so riddled with corruption as to be meaningless. Yet, with a approach that is dynamic and fresh, with the ever-renewed bond between the laymen and their protector-servants, such a decay can be put off indefinitely. Religions don't get corrupt- people get corrupt. With ever-renewed inspiration, even that need never take place.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Time Check
This is the second year of The Foundation.
We should celebrate this fact daily.
The Foundation has brought a subtle change to the way things work, which, if magnified, could become a great and epoch-defining one.
Like any revelation, this one has great and potent power, most especially in that most sacred of places... the human heart.
But here we have a time check. We have a moment to pause, to look afresh at the world of men, the world of nations and that of history, of sacred history- not always the one written of in books, at least not always obviously so.
We see the world that men have fashioned from their ideas. We see The World.
I write on the remains of the first British Empire, the days after the fall of the European empires and the emergence of the system of superpowers, a system from which has ascended that of the United States of America to power glory of an unprecedented degree.
On the ashes of the former soviet Union, a new world is being born… yet a great and urgent debate is being held as to whether in fact it is the fairer and gentler world promised to us.
In some ways, yes, there is far greater prosperity, access to goods and services, than ever before. The decision to go with empowering the open market was undoubtedly the right one, producing an economic democracy of unprecedented reach. Yet, just as with the systems of old, this one claims it’s many victims, it treads of the poor and offers them insufficient means to improve their situation. Thus the poor are in many cases getting hungry and when men are hungry, anger soon follows. Features in the system exist to channel this anger to positive self-improvement and towards producing the desired prosperity with it’s very energy. This world could work. Yet there is still heated debate as to whether it actually will, whether the power increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few will be used as wisely as is hoped… and such hope is in many cases turning to a certain despair that looks for other sources of hope, beyond the current society itself.
Yet this piece must needs look beyond this debate, for it’s import is to look into a revelation of exactly what is happening and where it is in fact leading… a route beyond the rational, beyond the domain of normal thought, and into that of the revealed.
Such events must come written as symbols, for their literal meaning to be translated by the wise...
Here we are...
The Queen of Lions sits upon her throne and gazes outwards unto the vast lands of Asia, here she spies jewels and possessions that fill her with desire. She listens closely to the ground for any slight vibrations that may suggest a willingness to be ruled from afar, for ripples of discontent that could be assuaged by more reasonable governance than the often tyrannical sort to be found there.
Meanwhile, The Sorcerer, with his iron rod, looks into his crystal ball, seeing the world as a whole laid out for him there. Desirous of greater power and of means towards that end, he scorns the search for endless comforts and any deep concern with future security- for he wants it all, now, and hang the future or any consequences attendant upon his megalomania. ‘Just to have it all, if only for a moment’, his heart cries. And like any heart, as it’s cry is uttered, someone, somewhere hears it and seeks to satisfy it’s longings... for we all get what we want after a time, whether or not it does us any real good.
At the same time, a third source appears anew in our world… having made the long journey a generation before, He is soon to more fully materialise. The source of hope for millions, the source of reckoning and dread for those few who have sought to somehow upstage him, to make a contrary kingdom in their own name , with the thought that it may be respected, for at least as long as they can keep secret the news of the more true and righteous kingdom that this promised one is able to unveil.
Beneath these three, spread around them like ripples around a thrown stone, are humanity. Great humanity, the vast sea of faces, names, people and peoples that make a patchwork that resembles in its countenance the influences of these three. This sea is of course a collection of individuals, each with their own choices and destiny. Meanwhile, it also forms itself into nations, nations which have become, still now, the highest expressions of the aspirations of peoples. That is, that despite the emergence of the global village, humanity can still be largely defined according to nations, nations who can work together yet even now still at times make the classic mistake of working towards their sole own interest. Of course this is what nations have ever done, yet as the global village emerges ever-more clearly and global symphonies of voices make their appearance in ever-louder octaves, such behaviour appears increasingly Neanderthal.
The life of nations still grips the scene of this watermelon-like world, as they still seek to divide it’s resources, overseen as they are by wiser eyes.
So what will happen in this drama, the last years before the global village is as vast and obvious as for it to be inconceivable to especially seek only one nations advantage, even over another? The answer can be found in this quatrain…
Under the tree the lover kissed her last
The beast ran to hide, yet when found, grew to immense size
And was cut down, by the hand of the good gardener.
More shall be revealed... When the time is right.
We should celebrate this fact daily.
The Foundation has brought a subtle change to the way things work, which, if magnified, could become a great and epoch-defining one.
Like any revelation, this one has great and potent power, most especially in that most sacred of places... the human heart.
But here we have a time check. We have a moment to pause, to look afresh at the world of men, the world of nations and that of history, of sacred history- not always the one written of in books, at least not always obviously so.
We see the world that men have fashioned from their ideas. We see The World.
I write on the remains of the first British Empire, the days after the fall of the European empires and the emergence of the system of superpowers, a system from which has ascended that of the United States of America to power glory of an unprecedented degree.
On the ashes of the former soviet Union, a new world is being born… yet a great and urgent debate is being held as to whether in fact it is the fairer and gentler world promised to us.
In some ways, yes, there is far greater prosperity, access to goods and services, than ever before. The decision to go with empowering the open market was undoubtedly the right one, producing an economic democracy of unprecedented reach. Yet, just as with the systems of old, this one claims it’s many victims, it treads of the poor and offers them insufficient means to improve their situation. Thus the poor are in many cases getting hungry and when men are hungry, anger soon follows. Features in the system exist to channel this anger to positive self-improvement and towards producing the desired prosperity with it’s very energy. This world could work. Yet there is still heated debate as to whether it actually will, whether the power increasingly concentrated in the hands of the few will be used as wisely as is hoped… and such hope is in many cases turning to a certain despair that looks for other sources of hope, beyond the current society itself.
Yet this piece must needs look beyond this debate, for it’s import is to look into a revelation of exactly what is happening and where it is in fact leading… a route beyond the rational, beyond the domain of normal thought, and into that of the revealed.
Such events must come written as symbols, for their literal meaning to be translated by the wise...
Here we are...
The Queen of Lions sits upon her throne and gazes outwards unto the vast lands of Asia, here she spies jewels and possessions that fill her with desire. She listens closely to the ground for any slight vibrations that may suggest a willingness to be ruled from afar, for ripples of discontent that could be assuaged by more reasonable governance than the often tyrannical sort to be found there.
Meanwhile, The Sorcerer, with his iron rod, looks into his crystal ball, seeing the world as a whole laid out for him there. Desirous of greater power and of means towards that end, he scorns the search for endless comforts and any deep concern with future security- for he wants it all, now, and hang the future or any consequences attendant upon his megalomania. ‘Just to have it all, if only for a moment’, his heart cries. And like any heart, as it’s cry is uttered, someone, somewhere hears it and seeks to satisfy it’s longings... for we all get what we want after a time, whether or not it does us any real good.
At the same time, a third source appears anew in our world… having made the long journey a generation before, He is soon to more fully materialise. The source of hope for millions, the source of reckoning and dread for those few who have sought to somehow upstage him, to make a contrary kingdom in their own name , with the thought that it may be respected, for at least as long as they can keep secret the news of the more true and righteous kingdom that this promised one is able to unveil.
Beneath these three, spread around them like ripples around a thrown stone, are humanity. Great humanity, the vast sea of faces, names, people and peoples that make a patchwork that resembles in its countenance the influences of these three. This sea is of course a collection of individuals, each with their own choices and destiny. Meanwhile, it also forms itself into nations, nations which have become, still now, the highest expressions of the aspirations of peoples. That is, that despite the emergence of the global village, humanity can still be largely defined according to nations, nations who can work together yet even now still at times make the classic mistake of working towards their sole own interest. Of course this is what nations have ever done, yet as the global village emerges ever-more clearly and global symphonies of voices make their appearance in ever-louder octaves, such behaviour appears increasingly Neanderthal.
The life of nations still grips the scene of this watermelon-like world, as they still seek to divide it’s resources, overseen as they are by wiser eyes.
So what will happen in this drama, the last years before the global village is as vast and obvious as for it to be inconceivable to especially seek only one nations advantage, even over another? The answer can be found in this quatrain…
Under the tree the lover kissed her last
The beast ran to hide, yet when found, grew to immense size
And was cut down, by the hand of the good gardener.
More shall be revealed... When the time is right.
Monday, November 13, 2006
The Starfire Community (in Detail)
The Starfire Foundation is something that has been prophesied for hundreds, even thousands of years and has existed in the minds of the Creators for literally millions of years. It's coming manifestation is something to truly celebrate with open arms and hearts. With it comes the fulfillment of dreams of understanding, justice, togetherness- the realisation of true values within the protective aura of this wondrous vehicle. Let us shout for joy together at it's coming arrival!
Nevertheless, many organisational details need to be established so that it's unveiling can be safely accomplished. As one of it's primary purposes is the opening of links to Higher beings and the channeling of messages from them to a wider humanity, it needs to be a safe, yet open-minded environment. Such safety is predicated by good hearts and intentions, but in the real world of human behaviour we need to be ready for when people get confused and act from less than their best instincts. By wisely anticipating possible problems, we can safely avoid them, without losing the sense of loving freedom which is the very essence of our lives.
I
The model for such arrangements has to be the wise, loosely federal order of the USA and more recently, of the EU. Whilst the lead teacher and guide, myself (or whoever should one day replace me) may have many good qualities, he is still merely a human being. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". There needs top be a dispersal, a division of power, such that will also ensure the smooth running of the Foundation's various activities and the stability of any communities that may arise in the warmth of it's light. Consultation with heavenly powers will help to finalise and customise such arrangements, but even now their form can be dimly viewed-
The Guide (approved by the Arrangers)
The Panel of Arrangers (elected by the council)
The Legislative and Representative Council (elected by the community)
All branches of this 'divinely inspired government' will need to be in accord for important decisions and moments of policy. The democratic element ensures that there is a break on any rampant exhibition of power-tripping in any of the other branches, yet the existence of the other branches ensures that there is a divinely-inspired aspect to this government that might otherwise be left to chance or faith alone, with no clearly manifested presence. Note that there is here a distinction between 'church and state' (the elected branch being more closely 'The State'), yet there is no longer the secular separation of the two. This separation, so necessary during the dark ages in which Religion sought to suppress the emerging sciences, is held to no longer be necessary and hence is softened if not entirely eliminated by a mere 'distinction' of the two.
II
Some glimpses into the type of arrangements to be expected can be presented here. In it's daily workings, the guide is open to questions from all and can offer illuminating responses to the questions posed by the community, who arrange appointments to visit him or her. It should be remembered that this is something of a monastic community, predicated upon the search for truth and one which may in fact take millenia to accommodate the desires of humanity as a whole, desires which should grow closer to those of the community rather than the community conforming in any essential way to the surrounding society's mores.
In the community voting will be a common practice, often in the style of referendums. Despite the emphasis on divine guidance, it is very much an expression of both individual and collective free-will, however paradoxical that may at first appear. The divine guidance is sought to be followed freely, openly, with a loving heart- just as it is so offered. With certain issues, children will have a far greater say than is to be expected conventionally. The reason being that their future is also affected and that on these certain issues the children may even be more aware than certain adults of the right path to be taken.
The community shall have a rich cultural life. Music is something central to the life of the community, as it stimulates emotional warmth and the appreciation of what life itself is about- and the community is seeking ways to enjoy this adventure in a spirit of togetherness. Spiritual or deeply emotional music is emphasised, yet there is room for all genres.
Periodically, group meditations shall pool our spiritual energies in an openness to God's will and to better facilitate our harmony with the universe. Those who are ready will participate in sessions seeking to contact higher beings, with the purpose of loving communication though not worship of them- such worship being only directed towards God, a rule that all authentic ascendant lifeforms respect.
III
The presence of rules and decrees is to protect all from dangers, dangers that might not be immediately apparent. Yet in both the worldly and spiritual spheres they exist and would snare the unaware, were it not for protective legislation. People will freely join the community and equally freely participate, but severely anti-social behaviour, behaviour exhibiting a contempt for others, will not be tolerated.
The community will tolerate and even embrace all sorts of ethnic, religious and individual differences, but the one thing it will not tolerate is intolerance itself. This includes any form of harassment, bullying, cruelty, discrimination or other similarly ill-intentioned behaviour. Such disputes will be resolved as often as possible with patience, prayer and mediation, yet in extreme cases preventative punishments may be necessary, as proscribed by the legislative council. In certain cases outside legal intervention may even prove necessary, if the laws of the land are violated. the 'liberal' nature of the Foundation's endeavours should not be confused with vulnerability or any softness with evil. The rights and feelings of the innocent are what we gather together to cherish and protect. Together, in a spirit of charity, we shall do just that.
Nevertheless, many organisational details need to be established so that it's unveiling can be safely accomplished. As one of it's primary purposes is the opening of links to Higher beings and the channeling of messages from them to a wider humanity, it needs to be a safe, yet open-minded environment. Such safety is predicated by good hearts and intentions, but in the real world of human behaviour we need to be ready for when people get confused and act from less than their best instincts. By wisely anticipating possible problems, we can safely avoid them, without losing the sense of loving freedom which is the very essence of our lives.
I
The model for such arrangements has to be the wise, loosely federal order of the USA and more recently, of the EU. Whilst the lead teacher and guide, myself (or whoever should one day replace me) may have many good qualities, he is still merely a human being. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". There needs top be a dispersal, a division of power, such that will also ensure the smooth running of the Foundation's various activities and the stability of any communities that may arise in the warmth of it's light. Consultation with heavenly powers will help to finalise and customise such arrangements, but even now their form can be dimly viewed-
The Guide (approved by the Arrangers)
The Panel of Arrangers (elected by the council)
The Legislative and Representative Council (elected by the community)
All branches of this 'divinely inspired government' will need to be in accord for important decisions and moments of policy. The democratic element ensures that there is a break on any rampant exhibition of power-tripping in any of the other branches, yet the existence of the other branches ensures that there is a divinely-inspired aspect to this government that might otherwise be left to chance or faith alone, with no clearly manifested presence. Note that there is here a distinction between 'church and state' (the elected branch being more closely 'The State'), yet there is no longer the secular separation of the two. This separation, so necessary during the dark ages in which Religion sought to suppress the emerging sciences, is held to no longer be necessary and hence is softened if not entirely eliminated by a mere 'distinction' of the two.
II
Some glimpses into the type of arrangements to be expected can be presented here. In it's daily workings, the guide is open to questions from all and can offer illuminating responses to the questions posed by the community, who arrange appointments to visit him or her. It should be remembered that this is something of a monastic community, predicated upon the search for truth and one which may in fact take millenia to accommodate the desires of humanity as a whole, desires which should grow closer to those of the community rather than the community conforming in any essential way to the surrounding society's mores.
In the community voting will be a common practice, often in the style of referendums. Despite the emphasis on divine guidance, it is very much an expression of both individual and collective free-will, however paradoxical that may at first appear. The divine guidance is sought to be followed freely, openly, with a loving heart- just as it is so offered. With certain issues, children will have a far greater say than is to be expected conventionally. The reason being that their future is also affected and that on these certain issues the children may even be more aware than certain adults of the right path to be taken.
The community shall have a rich cultural life. Music is something central to the life of the community, as it stimulates emotional warmth and the appreciation of what life itself is about- and the community is seeking ways to enjoy this adventure in a spirit of togetherness. Spiritual or deeply emotional music is emphasised, yet there is room for all genres.
Periodically, group meditations shall pool our spiritual energies in an openness to God's will and to better facilitate our harmony with the universe. Those who are ready will participate in sessions seeking to contact higher beings, with the purpose of loving communication though not worship of them- such worship being only directed towards God, a rule that all authentic ascendant lifeforms respect.
III
The presence of rules and decrees is to protect all from dangers, dangers that might not be immediately apparent. Yet in both the worldly and spiritual spheres they exist and would snare the unaware, were it not for protective legislation. People will freely join the community and equally freely participate, but severely anti-social behaviour, behaviour exhibiting a contempt for others, will not be tolerated.
The community will tolerate and even embrace all sorts of ethnic, religious and individual differences, but the one thing it will not tolerate is intolerance itself. This includes any form of harassment, bullying, cruelty, discrimination or other similarly ill-intentioned behaviour. Such disputes will be resolved as often as possible with patience, prayer and mediation, yet in extreme cases preventative punishments may be necessary, as proscribed by the legislative council. In certain cases outside legal intervention may even prove necessary, if the laws of the land are violated. the 'liberal' nature of the Foundation's endeavours should not be confused with vulnerability or any softness with evil. The rights and feelings of the innocent are what we gather together to cherish and protect. Together, in a spirit of charity, we shall do just that.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
The Starfire Community
In order to fully realise the Starfire Foundation's ideals, assembling a full and varied community of persons may be necessary- the Starfire Community. They shall come from all walks of life, from all avenues of experience, sharing amongst them a common goal, a common set of ideals. The community will be funded primarily by the richest members, yet proportionate contributions will be sought from all the members, if only as a gesture of commitment. Free and blameless passage in and out of the community shall be assured, as it is a community freely attended, yet such freedom is the mother of much responsibility- this will be made very much clear.
Teachers, Economists, Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, Carpenters, Bus Drivers, Farmers- all shall have a part to play in this vast vision and the learning of each and every member is of instrumental benefit to the community as a whole. Variety and a unity of diversity is it's touch-stone. We shall not be conformists to anything other than or highest ideals. We will live seeking the highest truths in each moment, and make the most of everyday life thereby. We shall find truth in the most mundane of daily tasks. We shall just as passionately seek truth in the finest of arts.
The spiritual food of the community will come from lectures and question and answer sessions with the spiritual leaders of the group, primarily Starfire, with his ability to find a spiritual interpretation to even the most troubling of matters. His appointed dispensers of wisdom (DOWs) will aid in this task, seeking advice from him and from God so as to spread rightful teachings far and deep within the community and even beyond it. People will chose to be members when they see the advantages of being so- they will be guided to ways with which to find the truth within themselves, they will be empowered and freed from the various delusions hoisted upon them by our materialistic society. This will not be a 'negative cult' that people are forced to join.
What it will be is the most perfect manifestation possible of the Universal Teachings, divinely inspired as they are, in our current time frame, on the world we currently inhabit. A living community devoted to truth, laying further foundations towards an even brighter future beyond. Such a community will create situations which Starfire can preach about, teach about, gently and lovingly guide the members through. The community's variety of age-groups, occupations and even personality-types make not only for a cohesive society, but together form a greater harmony, a chemical reaction (another word here) which makes truth-seeking ever-more a realised ideal. As such a community is exploring the wonderful adventure of our time that we call Life!
The Starfire Foundation
The moment cannot be put off any longer. I announce here the dream and aim of my activities- the eventual formation of The Starfire Foundation, a society dedicated to the establishment of a peaceful and prosperous civilisation on the Earth, and to the preservation of human tranquility even in the most troubled of times.
The Foundation is being planned as an organisation whose members, whatever their age, will investigate the following-
-Possibilities of sustainable communication between the beings of the Earth and higher beings loyal to God, be they angels or space creatures.
-The nature of the after-death state and ways in which Near Death Experiences and transcendental experiences can be better integrated into a society based upon truer values.
-Ways to integrate humanity better with the Earth and with one another, so that the most great peace can be a reality and not just a distant fantasy.
My visions of the future started out as just premonitions of near future advances in society, but they have lately grown to encompass what may well be a very distant future, even thousands of years away for the planet as a whole, in which humanity's tranquility is fully realised and peace attained. Joy, laughter, the togetherness of many diverse groups with a great love of the Earth and natural things transcending the current dreams of mere technical advancements. A future Arcadia, if you will, a return to Eden.
My thinking is moving to more absolute values and the neccessity to realise them in the current moment. They will never simply come of their own accord a pure and warm heart is the only way to safely express the more advanced reaches of the human mind and to really move on to the most high civilisation. The Starfire Foundation shall be dedicated to these goals, involving all kinds of persons in the long path towards their attainment. Yet the first step is the only step. They are attainable right in the present moment, should we but decide it now.
Saturday, April 22, 2006
The Virtual Monastery
The idea of evolution, even beyond the norms of a society, is nothing new. In older times, the cream of a society could be seen in the beauty of the aristocratic lifestyle and in their charitable gifts to the poor; without which there would be precious little of former times worth seeing today. There have always been people and groups of people who seek to rise beyond the norm, to be lights of illumination for those around them.
If aristocracies with all their traditions were a project humanity embarked on in the past, what kind of projects are possible in today’s world? What now can aid in the evolution of humanity and the liberation of individuals from the chains of dense matter and towards more heavenly modes of being? How can we today be such dancing, laughing gods who are an inspiration to those around us and rather than becoming lost with them in the mire provide a light of inspiration, to ascend from it, on the wings of angels? Well there must be as many ways as there are people, but one I would suggest is to reach out to others through the 'airwaves' of the internet, to share inspiring stories, images and sensations (when the technology evolves with which to do this) and aid spiritual evolution together this way.
Fantastic, virtual communities, growing from wonderful actual ones, though the virtual ones will be totally without limit of spaces or geography or work politics. What a wonderful opportunity! Another globalization, of and for the people, to share with one another and establish spiritual friendships as a prelude to the coming intergalactic friendships the space age will bring us.
For we have a paradox here. We have to change from deep inside- yet we cannot live alone while doing so. We need a society of solitudes- which perhaps makes this project more similar to the monastic communities of the past than to the aristocratic ones- though the indulgence of the latter is needed, for the space and time with which to accomplish this project. This project could well be called ‘The Virtual Monastery’- the peace and safety in which to grow that a monastery afforded, yet transposed to our cultural times.
If aristocracies with all their traditions were a project humanity embarked on in the past, what kind of projects are possible in today’s world? What now can aid in the evolution of humanity and the liberation of individuals from the chains of dense matter and towards more heavenly modes of being? How can we today be such dancing, laughing gods who are an inspiration to those around us and rather than becoming lost with them in the mire provide a light of inspiration, to ascend from it, on the wings of angels? Well there must be as many ways as there are people, but one I would suggest is to reach out to others through the 'airwaves' of the internet, to share inspiring stories, images and sensations (when the technology evolves with which to do this) and aid spiritual evolution together this way.
Fantastic, virtual communities, growing from wonderful actual ones, though the virtual ones will be totally without limit of spaces or geography or work politics. What a wonderful opportunity! Another globalization, of and for the people, to share with one another and establish spiritual friendships as a prelude to the coming intergalactic friendships the space age will bring us.
For we have a paradox here. We have to change from deep inside- yet we cannot live alone while doing so. We need a society of solitudes- which perhaps makes this project more similar to the monastic communities of the past than to the aristocratic ones- though the indulgence of the latter is needed, for the space and time with which to accomplish this project. This project could well be called ‘The Virtual Monastery’- the peace and safety in which to grow that a monastery afforded, yet transposed to our cultural times.
A Society of Solitudes
One has to change the system rather than simply adapt to it. For the system itself has a kind of craziness built into it- a manic quality that has for so long not just impeded progress but also made life miserable for large swaths of humanity. Is it truly humane to simply conform to such a thing, just to keep on the good side of people? Or is it better to evolve, as individuals, beyond it and hope the rest of society can some time gather the courage and the will to follow us on this golden path.
We simply can't change society- endless revolutions have taken place and whilst they may have dealt with some of the more pressing and radical problems, such as despotic and tyrannous governments, they have never reached the depths of the human heart and so corruption has remained. Nor can we hope to really achieve too much through reforms (which I outlined a process for in my previous post), however necessary they may be in the context of a particular situation. These are all medicines which deal with the symptoms, yet the patient must ultimately summon up the healing energies from within themselves if they are to really get better. To heal.
Hence a new subculture is gathering momentum and it is one which I fully support- one with an emphasis on healing- healing music (new age music), healing incense, healing massages- all methods to draw out the warm and nourishing, even holy energy from within us so as to make life a better thing to experience. All this will help as well and should by now be a part of the life of any sensible and sane individual living in today's modern world, with all the stresses and strains it inevitably brings due to the very nature of contemporary lifestyles and technologies.
A deeper change is called for, a deeper questioning and inner liberation is required. This can only take place within ourselves- and thereby influence society as a whole. The Universe is nothing but an abstract visualisation of the trillions of individual beings in the cosmos- the billions in our world, the millions in our countries, the thousands in our towns and the smaller groups in our families. Yet this whole universe-society can only change by the means of one individual at a time. The individual's happiness and progress is the society's happiness and progress.
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