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Hope despite all insanity

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If we look through history, wondering whether the insanity of the ego1 we find expressed in wars and cruelties around the globe has receded over time, we may find that, despite all progress that has been made, it has killed more people than ever before during the 20th century, and one might not wish to say at all, that e. g. 2020 and the first part of 2021 has not been quite crazy, be it in the U.S., be it in the whole world. 

On the other hand, there has been a lasting peace within many first world countries for quite a while now, so outer conditions, in some places, despite occasional outbreaks, have improved.

And yet, the ego has lingered on, working e.g. through mental and political division, fear and even, perhaps, rules and regulations that keep the outer peace in place.

True Peace, of course, is to be found within and a precondition for acheving true and lasting outer peace on the whole, too. (See the last part of my thesis for further explanations and references.)

In looking at this, what can be our perspective? Is there a reason for hope? 

Each time brings with challenges also opportunities.

And I would like to think that the more “civilised” clothing ego and insanity wear at least in more modern countries, if regarded on the whole, has offered us a vaster opportunity to educate ourselves about methods how to look through the illusion and dissolve it. We have had wisdom and teachers in the past, too, and yet we can be (mostly2) unafraid today when discussing these topics with others or buying a spiritual book in the book store.

And because of modern technology and the interconnectedness around the globe, we have access to so many streams of wisdom. We have Eckhart who speaks with such clarity, we have easy access to such a lot of spiritual scriptures around the world, can e. g. download Max Müller’s huge edition “Sacred Books of the East” onto our hard disk or even speak to healers and spiritual teachers online… talk to each other and thus know that there are so many who aim for realisation, whether they live close to us or not.

If we look at that, we have a great opportunity for change, and if we use it successfully, it will weigh so much more than any insanity handed down into this time. Thousand years of darkness can end in an instant of sunlight.

                                                                       Wonderful

 

(This article is based on and has been inspired by a question I replied to at https://eckharttolle.com (and by that my reply was regarded favourably upon by the one who had asked)).
 
 
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(1) I am using the term here as described in Eckhart Tolle‘s work.
 
(2) Fear, of course, is problematic. But e.g. when looking for a job, does HR have to be able to see prominently one’s (if we have one, I do not ; ) ) Facebook profile that one is “into” chanting Mantras in orange clothes each weekend?
 
Well, actually I have not been sure. I propagate openly what I believe, and yet have, for a long time, taken care that the first results you will find in Google are not directly my esoteric and spiritual beliefs and activities. So unless a potential employer really starts sifting through everything and following every lead (then he will find this bog, too), what he will see at a first glance are that I am a jurist, have published my dissertation and perhaps a link to my website offering poetry. From there, yes, he will find what is important to me. But how many of potential employers will take that time? So for me, it seems (!?) to have worked so far. It may still a certain potential risk, but one, I am willing to take. I do hope, though, that understanding for spiritual matters beyond church believes has risen in society over the last decades. 
 
It all depends, of course, on what you want to or need to do in life. It is fine, I believe, to be careful. I would never suggest to deny your beliefs, but one does not needlessly have to tell everyone everything. I can drink beer and post it on Facebook (well, I do not), and I can drink beer without posting it. What is wiser? No need to always show what one does. In that sense: Some may still wish to check before speaking, or, of course, simply directly speak from STILLNESS or the ONE, for, then, hopefully, it will be the optimum, whatever one says. Otherwise and generally: follow your intuition?
 
 
 
 
 

Stream of Love

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Stream of Love. 
Highest of the Morning.
Stream of Love. Thy Heart, it is true.

Stream of Love. Endless Ocean,
beyond all senses,
endless, and hue

of the sunlight. The Light of the stars
shines beyond that what seems;

shines in the ground, and shines in the heavens
shines in that what you are.
Shines – thy God,

endless, and free
eternally thee.


By the way: Here is also an poem for Easter in German, and here is another poem written a short while ago for Interplanetar. 
And now, there is also a third one inspired by the title of this one here.

 

Truth, Attraction and Conspiracy

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I have written two new articles for my German blog.

One offers a brief overview over factors influencing the perception of truth, particularly on the basis of suggestions, energetic and psycho-energetic fields and links and Jungian archetypes and their influence on what one thinks or believes, be it consciously or subconsciously. (Interestingly, the term “Glaubenssätze”, which I have used there in German, seems to be astonishingly difficult to translate, see this discussion, if you are interested.) You can read it here, and if you do not understand German, maybe Deepl can help.

The other article has a look at the deeper meaning or function of conspiracy theories and tries to establish that, whether you may adhere to them or object to them or even just might consider them “ridiculous” – or, perhaps a bit wiser [and if you doubt that, you might definitely want to read the article], decide according to each case -, it would be unwise to ignore them. It is recommended, instead, to look for where they come from and how that can help to create a better world. You can find it here; sentences may be worded a bit complex, and I am not entirely sure whether a translation tool will always really give you the meaning (though they may, I have not checked), but you can always try.

On the Path of Love

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On the Path of Love we go,
forward, to a World of Love.
On the Path of Love we grow,
on that Path, we live – above
and below, it is just ONE,
come my friend, and do not shun
either of the two of them.

Whereas normally the poems just “flow”, in this case, in fact, although I had the impression it was to be published here, I could  not first find the ending: I thought of the German “beiden”, which would have perfectly fit, but “both” would not have fitted in rhythmically. What then came, was “neither of these goodies”, but that is informal..

In the end, what I rarely do, I looked into a dictionary, and I think the current solution might be fine, although I would have preferred “neither” instead of either, but that seems to be grammatically incorrect.

 

 

Connecting my Blogs

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As you may know, I like beautiful names and domain names. This may also be one reason for having more than one blog. Yet, for my readers, it might be inconvenient having to follow all of them – so I wondered whether to either create a new one and post in various language there (I thought of http://travels.jewel-of-light.org), an idea that came to me while walking through Perth (speaking of names – one beautiful aspect of Waldorf schools, at least in Australia, is that many children have got very beautiful names). However, for now, it seemed I should keep my separate blogs for English (this one) and German (over here).

To yet make it easier for the reader, I will connect both blogs by posting a link to each article I have posted in the other language, that is here a link to my German articles, and over there to my English articles published here.

I will keep my third blog and my special interest blog’s separate as well, but might also include links to these on my German and English main blogs.

This will not be the case vice versa, however, so best you follow either this blog or my German blog, then you should find all or most of my articles.

For older articles, i. e. articles before today, nevertheless, you will still have to browse through the other blogs.

This means:

Enjoy reading!

A. M.

May you Break the Rule?

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I have been recently telling to some students an old story, which I embellished a bit.

The content of that addition led to the question (which, then, if I reflect upon it, could be a call for me to consider whether I should rather not have added that part….), whether that was my permission to “break the rules”.

That depends, of course, on the nature of the rule or rules to which you are referring, and, possibly, on your aims or motives (which, at this stage, does not imply that the ends justify the means).

There are quite a few systems of rules. As I have shown in detail in my book “Menschenwürde und Völkerrecht. Mensch, Gerechtigkeit, Frieden“, law, as well as all the other subsystems of rules, like moral, ethics etc., can be considered an (n-minus-x-dimensional) subsystem in an n-dimensional co-ordinate system. The subsystems may overlap.

Thus, the origin, the core and the source of each system’s rules is derived (finds its own source) in the n-dimensional system’s origin.

Therefore, the subsystems will be in harmony with the original system, and, ultimately, with each other.

Yet, if we look into the world, it seems there is a lot of disharmony, both in people’s actions, as well as between various systems.

So either the above is not true, or something else is not true. Either we believe in a world (the term being used here in its broadest, a higher sense, not only and specifically not mainly referring to the “material” world) of disharmony, or in a common / widespread distorted perception.

From all l believe and from what seems more probable to me, the latter, at the time of writing this, is the case. People do not really see reality, as it is, they see subjective versions, conditioned, programmed, by their education, their surroundings and their own beliefs which are connected to and derived from that. This was, what I had intended by telling the story in the first place (for the story see here and here, another good story as to this is Plato’s Cave Allegory). (For how to get rid of this distorted perception, feel free to have a look at the books I have suggested here [English, less extensive draft version here.].)

Thus, we can assume that the systems as such are perfectly in harmony, it is only what people create from their distorted ideas, i.e. how they put the ideas of these systems into (then distorted by their minds and in a non-complying) manifestation. There is a beautiful wording by, possibly, I think, Heraclitos: The Law as hidden Order (in German: das Recht als verhüllte Ordnung),

This means, that, if we are in harmony with All That There [Truly] IS [again, see here for how to BE THAT], we simply will not break any rules, for our actions are in harmony with the systems, in the systems, and our [true!] being is actually the source of all of these [I believe – but at the very least it is in harmony, like the rays of the sun are in harmony with the sun].

The “rules” we might break, though, sometimes, by following the true Rules, are the rules formed by a distorted mind – and quite a few “worldly” rules in quite a few countries may be amongst them.

So, how should we deal with these “rules”, though rules they may be called and in the written laws they may stand? There are a few sayings in tradition which can indicate a way, for example: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s” or – if properly understood (see my book mentioned above for an explanation)! – “suum cuique”

In fact, if we would like to go through live true to what we believe or feel and yet not land in jail (or, my dear language students, with extra homework or avisos), a certain “pragmaticism” might be prudent: If following the man-made rules does not harm your integrity, why not do it? Before breaking any rule, you should always be aware of the risks and potential consequences. We should also be aware of whether a man-made rule might not actually still be an acceptable or binding reflection or manifestation of a true rule. The Categorical Imperative by Kant and the “Golden Rule” might be ideas to consider in reflecting upon that. Furthermore: living harmoniously in society does mean we need to give the others space. While in us there may be such joy or sadness that we feel we need to express them now, or while in us may be the urge just to tell our neighbour this or that, others might not feel the same at that time. Each of our actions has an impact on those around us, whether seen or unseen. Each of our actions can give them more space, respect there space or – infringe upon it.

True harmony lets us always be in harmony with our surroundings as much as possible. True harmony will even take us, ultimately, out of harmonious or distorted situations, because they simply will not be a “fitting match”, so to speak, I believe. Being in the flow, there should be no obstacles (or at least no permanent ones, perhaps interesting in this context this page).

“A lot to think about before ‘rule-breaking'”, you might say. Well – yes, but… only as long as you are still on your way to  [the Realisation of] your True Self. Once you [realise you] are what you are, your actions, I believe, shall flow effortlessly, and there will be no question at all whether to do this or that, break man-made rules or comply, because everything you do or say is an expression of harmony itself.

Until then, for the question of whether to break a distorted rule (or not), one will have to think, reflect upon potential consequences, both for oneself and others, and (!) listen to one’s intuition (some aspects of decision-making through intuition I have discussed here).

Version 1.2, November 2017 (spelling corrected January 2025)