chop wood, carry water

"...keeping in mind that until I am blessed with Divine Knowledge, all I would really be doing is speculating about God.  Until then, here I am...patiently waiting. "

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Everyone (nearly) is waiting for some big booming voice in the sky to tell them what is right action and that they should be world and kosmo-cenrtic.

The very ultimate in disowned voice.

Well, here ya go. while you wait.

 Some children have to be weak to survive and some need to develop their strength to survive, to show no fear. And some of our qualities we brought already into our life when we were born. There are times to get aware of these issues and may be to change some of them, as far as we can change. The different qualities and energies are like different colors or tones, all have the same value. We learn to use these energies as if we learn to sing or play an instrument. We won*t sing a rock song to calm a baby to sleep. And......with Lao Tzu.....water overcomes the stone.......

I don't want this to sound like I'm chastising you. That would be counter-productive to effective thinking and conversation. If my questions sounds sarcastic, that may be because it's bad form in the practice of Debate to question the Objectivity of the Subject (ad hominem). The only topic that we're allowed to discuss is the Object. I don't support that old idea. It somehow creates the impression that a biassed Subject is DISqualified. As an Integral Thinker, I contend that bias is exactly what QUALIFIES the Subject. They have unique perspective and this perspective is always partial and always helpful. It takes work to see those bits, but they are there and including that information into the topic of discussion is totally valid and useful. It's not a slam.

Here is what else I saw in Stellas blog post. #1:

"I fear this is what is happening maybe, because I see far too many people effectively 'out of action' (not at all an enlightened stance) whilst the material world screams at us to please DO something. & and all we need to do are all sorts of terribly mundane things."

and #2

"So, whilst our economy accelerates towards an abyss,.."

and #3

"The planet is littered with mysteriously 'abandoned civilizations' which seem very grand to many of us, and where the nobility and priest castes (those who did'nt have to get their hands dirty because they were providing virtual services for those that kept them in food, clothing and shelter) lived very sumptious lives, elaborating very complex myths and very probably also promised all sorts of amazing new worlds to come, to reassure their populations.. whilst the empire crumbled under the reality that they had simply over-shot their resource base.

The nobility & supporting priest-caste are always the last to really understand what is going on (because things can stay comfortable for them right until the end, simply because of their artificially accumulated resources and comfort), even as they could be the most empowered to actually do something about it, if they did understand it."

and #4

"And we in the west, especially those who have the leisure and resources to be doing so much philosophy stuff ... are the nobility, on a global scale.   And we seem to be developing a powerful priest-caste (judging by the exponentially increasing number of spiritual and personal development gurus & experts out there..)"

and #5

"We seem to have gone 'virtual' in many ways: not only we increasingly use information technology in the west to control & move things about (but not actually produce anything vital), as we are encouraged to multiply the (globalising) service economy whilst the 2/3 World supplies our actual physical needs (as efforlessly & cheaply as possible for us, thanks to our brilliant virtual work)

... and (looking around , eg. to all the collective meditation iniciatives that seem be sprouting all over the place, increasingly) to maybe we have adopted a similar attitude in imagining that merely cultivating some mental attitude or 'vibration' will magically create the energies for the ecosystems to repair themselves..."

#1  Setting the "Stage" from whatever perspective can see the rest. Which one do you think that is.

#2  Economy is usually an Orange concern. Green only cares about that when it's exiting towards Yellow.

#3  This is an Orange critique of Blue/Amber.

#4  ...Yellow critique of Green.

#5  ...Yellow critique of Green by way of a Green critique of Orange.

And ALL of that neatly paked into one single brilliant metaphor. I think it's a magnificent post.

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"The Left Hand Path, not merely the Right ... must take the lead."

~SES pg. 148