The cool part
posted by Spinfly at 11:14 AM
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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Ok, there it is, the whole story drawn out on the color wheel. Thank you Skogg, for the inspiration.
Before I go into my explanation of this last diagram, I'd like to hear what the rest of you think it shows.
Go beyond reason to love—it is safe. It is the only safety....Thaddeus Golas
That's where the white is. That is where the philosophers are, and sometimes that is where the true leaders are.
Right, Ethunk.
Jesus, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, Galileo, Einstein all came from outside the system.
So did a lot of the bad guys. Stalin, Hitler, Saddam, the Oil Companies, and most recently the Energy and Banking barons and the Theocrats who have taken control of the Republican party.
When one expands in understanding to embrace the whole political and moral spectrum, enlightenment happens. If everyone could do this, there would be no need for government as we know it. We would have evolved into the next phase of our species. That would be what I call "enlightened anarchy" or what other writers throughout the ages have called "utopia" or (evern older) "nirvana."
Whatever you call it, and however much it gets perverted, corrupted, and compromised by dogmatic belief systems along the way, it's where we're all headed.
The problem is, some people get there sooner than others, and when they do, they have a big choice to make. There is also a peculiar thing that happens to them. They become "mythological" both to themselves and to their society and are thus embued with enormous — literally superhuman — power. In eastern thought, this is the condition of the "bodhisattva".
As long as the enlightened stay out in the white light they remain neutral and have little direct impact on the day to day machinations of our political system.
But from time to time, political conditions — driven by what I like to call "the forces of darkness" — arise and become so powerful that they actually inhibit the natural evolution of our collective consciousness. This is almost always driven by an enlightened group who has gone over to the "dark side" in an effort to sieze and consolidate power and control.
It is at such times that reluctant, loving, open minded beings, comfortable in the harmony of the outer realms of understanding must make a choice. Do they stay out there where they can do nothing? Or do they come back onto the color grid and fight the good fight? The "bodhisattva" or the "hero" or the "warrior" is one who choses to come down and fight on behalf of those who are being oppressed in the power struggle.
And they have a distinct, tactical advantage in that the oppressors have already defined themselves. Sometimes they are evil kings, sometimes oppressive athiest leftist dictators (Stalin, Saddam), sometimes fanatical right-wing Catholic despots (Hitler, Musollini), sometimes fanatical Muslim religious leaders, and sometimes greedy, amoral capitalist power brokers.
Whoever they are, the warriors have to come back onto the grid in such a way as break the barriers to natural progress that the "dark side" has set up.
And they can do it because they can come back to any position or positions on the wheel that are necessary and fight with full consciousness and conviction. And they always win. (although that last time, during the "dark ages" it took a while.)
Well, there you have it. That's the cool part. In order to be really effective in politics, you have to embrace all possible political positions, be prepared to fight with all you've got from whichever position will be most effective, and hope against hope that you never have to do it.
That's wicked cool.
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