Inquiry

Dear Britton:

  I agree completely and whole heartedly so.  I cringe every time I hear talk about President Obama having the highest approval rating ever and how we have all our hopes on him to pull us through, etc.  This is mythical level, jump on the ship for a good high, mob type behavior in my opinion.  Which means it can turn as fast as it was created, if not faster.

  Just today, after Obama went personally to meet with the Republicans and made some compromises to his stimulus bill for him, not one Republican voted for it.  This is really scary, lock step behavior during a time of economic disaster.

  Then Wall Street reloaded today and shot themselves today in the foot once again with the $18.4 billion dollar bonuses paid out for 2008, which was about as large as the bonuses paid in the go-go days of 2004.  Before this, I was firmly behind the financial stimulus to do whatever was needed to support the banking system.  Now I want (would demand if I had any power to do so) a paper trail for our taxpayers' money so that not a nickel goes into any bonuses until every nickel we paid into the system comes back out.  And a reasonable limits to salaries, like no one can make a higher salary then the President.  Well, ok, maybe I'm being a little unreasonable, but you get my drift.

  I read that those gigantic bonuses are needed to retain the really smart people in the banking industry.  Oh, please.  The fact that these so called really smart people have created this mess belies their overall intelligence, regardless what their IQ is.  And, exactly where would they go, so that they will lose them?  Are they going to leave and go sell real estate, used cars, go on unemployment?  This is the second time in about 20 years we've had to bail out the banks.  My quesion is, when will we learn?

  I ask the same question about foreign wars.  I recall when Ted Kennedy suggested that perhaps the Iraq war might turn into another Viet Nam.  VP Cheney immediately accused Kennedy of "giving succor to the enemy" and basically accused him of being a traitor.  Since we're now in an economic "war" such as we've not seen since before WWII, does this mean that anyone that doesn't support President Obama is...unpatriotic?  Ok, I withdraw the question.

  That said, let me turn from my somewhat vituperative tone to doing a little integral thinking. During Shawn Phillips' comments about President Obama, he also noted that in the 1960's, we were on the verge of something great, but we took a wrong turn.  David Meggyesy also mentioned a dark night of the soul during the last eight years and it resonated with me.  Having been a late part of the 1960's movement, it made me wonder about how that dark night came about.

  To me, the real question was, with so many people coming into the green meme, how did that come about?  So, I thought about myself and the people I have encountered since that time.  Probably oversimplifying to make my point, but again drawing from my own extreme green behavior, I see that I was way too passive during that time and actively avoided any sort of arguments, since I realized that arguments were futile since words and arguments could be used to prove anything and so arguing did not prove anything.  Ah what a fool I was (perhaps still am, but hopefully less so).  So, generalizing my behavior to greens in general, I think this could have largely contributed to the dark night of the soul.  This was because my own avoidance of gathering power, etc. left a large void that was eagerly filled by orange and amber level people, many of whom did not participate in the progressive changes in the 1960's, and are still mostly amber people using orange tools.  And as Ken Wilber has said in some of his books in a different context, most of my family is included in that camp.  And some of them are very smart, powerful but also pretty scarily narcissistic people.

  However, I also see the dark night of the soul time as being the crucible that roasted me and hopefully other green memers to the point of being so disgusted with myself that I was finally forced to take that dreaded step into accepting that there are holarchies and that they are worth fighting and arguing for.  And I'm sorely afraid that if we green memers don't make that step and make a stand, if we let President Obama down, I think that the just past dark night of the soul will turn into being only the beginning.

In 2001, I - an early, well-educated, relatively successful & highly disillusioned baby-boomer - imigrated to Brasil because I could no longer tolerate the confusing whirlpool of illusion that was my experience in the society & culture I knew as an American.  I found a phlefora of evidences to justify my complete & utter dismay that all I had come to believe & practice no longer made enough sense to me to hold onto any longer.  I let everything material go & accepted the reality of bankruptcy which I had been courting since 1998.  The early "innovative financial alternatives" I had used to postpone my physical reality of daily economic insolvency proved to be just more mega-illusion.

My family & friends could not understand my language, my ruminations, my questing, my disillusionment, my aching, my anguish.  So I gave up trying to make them understand.  Since 1976 after a 2-year+ processing my depression from the accidental drowning death of my first child at 4 years old, I created this creed - it is essentially quoted here in its original form, although I periodically updated it as I matured:

"My behavioral intent for daily life practice

I break fresh ground – because, & only because, I have the courage to go ahead without asking whether others are following, or even understand.  I have no need for divided responsibility in which others seek to be safe from ridicule, because I have been granted a faith which requires no confirmation – a contact with reality, light & intense like the touch of a loved hand; a union in self-surrender without self-destruction, where my heart loves, & my mind is lucid…

Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely…We from our witness observe, think about, and ponder these thoughts in our Golden Bowl of Observation, and make manifest these things at the right time, in the right blend for integrated balance in our lives.

We ask for these desires of our hearts-minds-bodies-souls-spirits in Your Most Holy Name, Kundalini, The Cosmic Christ,

By beginning here where we are,

By giving all that we are, all that we do, all that we have,

By stepping out in faith within every breath, and

By knowing Your miracles within every breath, Eternally Now.

Here are we, send us Great Mysterious, Most High of the High, Most Holy of the Holies, Kundalini.

Amen"

I have discovered new soulful vistas from my Brazilian-quasi-world-perspective & continously applied them through my own integral life practice.  In 2001 I discovered the writings of Ken Wilber & absorbed many of his books voraciously over the following two years.  I was very grateful to participate as the Integral Institute created its virtual community, & have been a relatively silent participant ever since.  I have been most grateful to have the knowledge that there is in fact a growing body of integral life practioners, although physically within my close brazilian community, I am a lone voice, frequently dismayed in my attempts to facilitate our mutually expanding consciousness.  I am very happy in my new life here, although accepting the loneliness of integral attitude & faith.

As I began to follow the campaign of Barack Obama after hearing his inspiring 2004 convention speech, I have experienced a marvelous resurgence in my hope for participating in the causation of the epic transcendence that Ken Wilber describes will occur when more or less 10% of the global population reaches integral in their life practice.  The methods & practice of Obama's campaign communities are the most obvious signs of the quickening that is going on.  My whole professional career has been centered in evolution of integral organizational redesign to achieve & sustain industrial democracy.  I now believe this is potentially expanding into global systems at an unprecedented rate.  I was so very depressed over George Bush being indicated as the president in 2000, & embarrassed consistently with his administration's ignorance & arrogance, but am now very grateful!  This movement backwards evidently was so necessary to cause the glaring failures in global institutions & systems from the lower levels of impossible absolutisms from any one level or perspecitve, so that the miracle of electing Obama could occur. 

And here we are, participants in the emerging new world order, being facilitated by the emerging integral mastery of this eloquent, inspiring new American leader of the free world.  I adore & completely agree with Saniel Bonder's reflections while observing Obama's inauguration:

We
are the ones
we’ve been
waiting for.”

it is crucial that the integral community do some more research outside of the news put out by keepers of the herd.  that is if you can tear yourselves away from the integral distractions.  obama is not your "president".  he makes no decisions on policy that are not dictated to him by the people who are listed at the link below.  they are your true rulers and it is in your best interest to find out what their plans are for you and the people of the world.   for those of you who can't put two and two together without first reading it in a book with more than 300 pages please see my posting entitled    'reading.....'     for a list of books. 

http://www.infowars.com/official-2008-bilderberg-participant-list/

here's a highly entertaining video about our saviour obama....

enjoy

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7886780711843120756&ei=iB28SZmUA4vCrQL99sHbDw&q=obama+deception