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The Problem in the World is not Political

The Political is a reflection of the problem.

The problem is emotional, moral, and spiritual.

The Emotional

Emotional withdrawal from being born.

The Moral

Moral failure to be present as love

The Spiritual

Spiritual bankruptcy that originates in a false conception of one’s Actual Condition.

Meeting the emotional, moral, and spiritual obligations that come with being alive are central to personal and planetary well being.

Obligations are not beliefs. Obligations are Life’s demand to love.

Modern political life is a dungeon of horrors. But, truly human life is ecstatic (ex stasis, to stand outside the “self”). To stand on Common Ground.

Authentic spiritual, moral, and emotional coherency occurs when these Domains becomes active through attention to them and when true repentance has occurred.

Stay with me here.

True repentance is the moral obligation to stop believing lies.

Real repentance has exactly nothing to do with “trying really hard to do better” or making very sincere resolutions. It has everything to do with being responsible for (and to) what is true. It’s a winner-take-all decision that is absolute, resolute, and beyond dispute.

“Sin” is an archery term meaning “missing the mark”.

Repentance from sin means refusing to believe lies that miss the mark of truth.

The Emotional

Lie #1

Because Life is mysterious, confusing, painful and uncertain I should recoil, contract, and withdraw emotionally from this crazy situation.

I didn’t ask to be here, whoever’s in charge must be a maniac, I can’t handle it, let’s go get laid. Or high. Or both.

This unhappy withdrawal into a cult of doubt and despair is called the separate self, the so-called ego.

Ego has no responsibilities. He’s a victim. Other people are to blame for his suffering. God, the Devil, the State, Mom, Dad, you, me, whoever. Anyone will do, just so I can transfer ownership of myself to someone or something else.

Blame. The transference of ownership. Ego. An activity, a choice, not an entity.

This unfortunate idea really gains momentum in a world where billions of people believe this about themselves.

For the Dictator, it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Not very difficult.

The Dictator uses the individual’s default on himself and supports it. Dictators love victims. That’s why they create so many of them. Victims need rescuing. The false flag method of conquest is a good example here. Blow up your own people, blame your favorite enemy, rescue the people and parade down the streets as a Liberator. Or, poison them with fake medicines, rescue them with “treatment.”

The Dictator/Conqueror masquerades as a Savior to a populace he terrorized, brutalized, poisoned and victimized.

The Ruler on Planet Earth is the Victim/Perpetrator Collusion. Create the Victim. Then Rescue.

When you opt out, it falls apart.

The problems in the world can only be solved at the level where they were created: emotional, spiritual, moral domains that everyone is completely familiar with (and responsible for).

The Dictator and the priests and doctors want to tell you that you’re right, this world is crazy and you should learn to cope. They say, We can help you. We’ve got drugs and beliefs and medications for your condition, and we can protect you from all those mean people. We love you, honest.

To the child, this sounds great. Candy is sweet, tastes good.

Our world is run by psychopathic tyrants who abuse their people and feed them toxic “medicines’ , political “solutions” and spiritual junk food.

Once the 7 billion stop playing this game, it ends.

It happens on an individual and planetary level, simultaneously.

The greatest political power on earth is to boycott, the non violent refusal to participate in crimes against oneself.

The Moral

Lie #2

 My anger at being a victim justifies my violence and self righteous condemnation of others.

Once the ego has taken root in doubt and despair and sunk into the dreadful abyss of worthlessness and shame, a solution, any solution, is gobbled up by the hungry heart.

The moral domain requires that we overcome presumptions of victimhood and be responsible for what is true, universally true, in all cases, in all times.

The moral domain requires responsibility for truth, not belief. Once belief is substituted for truth, the tyrant has won.

The Spiritual

Lie #3

Because I’m a separate self, a thing, a victim, an ego thrown into this world without a clue, and because my anger justifies violence, then life is meaningless and worthless and so am I and everyone else, so go fuck yourself. 

This Lie is the dreadful legacy that ego belief produces. Original Sin creates hell on earth. Dungeons for the Heart.

Without a doubt, the best way to help our planet and save our humanity is to stop believing Lies and start living in Alignment with the Light that shines every heart.

That’s real religion, atheist or not. That’s because Real Religion is about Life, Love and Truth, not beliefs about It.

Truth is Love.

And Love ain’t no belief, as you well know.

Robert Cinque

In addition to writing essays like these, Robert Cinque also builds beautiful, affordable and comfortable yurts for homeowners and businesses in the fabulous Skagit County. Throughout the past three decades, his work has included building and installing wood art at local landmarks like the Cascadian Farm Organic Fruitstand in Rockport (WA), the Birdsview Brewery at the foot at “the American Alps” in the Pacific Northwest’s Skagit Valley, and many others. He has worked with visionary architect and organic designer Sunray Kelley for over 20 years on many beautiful projects. Together, they formed Radiant Homes and are actively engaged in the development of the Living Home, the Bioshelter, the no-mortgage, no-permit, food and energy producing home. Their work has been featured on National Geographic, MTV, Better Homes and Gardens, and represents the Greening of Architecture, a movement they consider to be the most important development since the Industrial Revolution. He says: These essays are about “dungeons of mind, the root of suffering, true sanctuary, and the glorious imperative to live intimately with That Which Is Alive As All Things. They are painful, bloody and hard-hitting (the “truth will set you free, but it will piss you off first”). They are designed to destroy what’s false and cultivate what’s real. They are not merely my opinions or philosophy; they are field reports from the underground where the Lie was deconstructed. They are wrecking balls, cosmic insults to vanity and arrogance, bulldozers and firebombs that burn out the tangled underbrush. They are intended to water the Seeds of Life buried under mountains and centuries of false beliefs, inherited “culture” and ego cults, so-called “religions”, including scientism, masquerading as truth. Idols are routinely lampooned and sacred cows are turned into hamburger as quickly as possible. I really don’t mean to offend any one personally. I’m not after them. I’m after the beliefs that are harming them: the Big Lie, the belief in separation from Love and Truth that strangles the heart and creates terrible, unbearable suffering. I love to help create Sanctuary and Shelter. I am a green builder and enjoy showing others how to build a no-mortgage, no-permit bio-shelters that also provide food and energy. shelter@nwlink.com cell 360-393-5663

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