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Steve Bhaerman is a writer, humorist and uncommontator who's been posing as cosmic comic Swami Beyondananda for the past 20 years. He is the author of seven books including Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here, co-written with Bruce Lipton, and Reuniting America, A Toolkit for Changing the Political Game, with co-author Joseph McCormick.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 9/11: From State of Emergency to State of Emergent Seeing (27 comments)
It's been ten years since the Twin Towers attacks initiated the never-ending War on Terror. In the Orwellian logic that can only take hold in an atmosphere of fear, we have been collectively "convinced" that only totalitarianism can preserve our freedom. However, there is a deep awakening afoot, an "evolutionary upwising" as people from all sides emerge from the matrix of politics as usual to seek real answers...
Thursday, May 19, 2011 Who's In Charge of Who's In Charge? Why Changing the Political Game is the Only Game in Town (1 comments)
Despite our nation's unique legacy, we the people have become addicted to powerlessness and dependence on a ruling elite whom we hope will trickle some wealth down onto us "pee-ons." But, as the Swami says, "the ruling class has flunked ruling class. They get an F." Whether that "F" stands for freedom or fascism is up to us and no one else.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 The Transpartisan Moment: Join the Upwising! (1 comments)
We are living in what Tom Paine would have called "soul-trying" times.
In the face of multiplying crises - economic, ecologic, political and spiritual - it's becoming more apparent that fundamental change is required. The good news is, what is needed isn't revolution, but evolution. The other news is, this evolutionary alternative must be clearly expressed, carefully developed, and made tangible to the millions ...
Thursday, June 3, 2010 The Oil Spill and the Blood Spill: Same Problem, Same Solution (4 comments)
There is nothing funny about oil hemorrhaging in the Gulf of Mexico, or blood flowing in the Mediterranean - just the sad joke that we humans are largely the cause of our own suffering. And we are largely clueless as to how and why.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Swami Beyondananda's State of the Universe Address 2010 (1 comments)
Well, another 12-month episode of that long-running comedy of situations, Universe Knows Best, is in the can, and you'll be happy to know the show has been renewed for another season. The Producer thinks it's hilarious. However, if you're like most of us, you really had to strain to hear the laugh track in 2009. Certainly, there was plenty to not laugh about. Take our political system -- please!
Thursday, January 21, 2010 The Democrats' Shocking Discovery: Voters Can Tell Difference Between Change and Chump Change! (1 comments)
Shortly after last year's election, I wrote a piece entitled, "The Two-Party System: One Down and One to Go." The point was that in our current binary, bipolar system, all voters can really do is vote "yes" or "no" for the lesser of two weasels. Consequently, the political task of a burgeoning evolutionary upwising would be to dislodge first one, then the other political party that had long outlived its uselessness.
Thursday, February 26, 2009 The Shift Has Hit the Fan: Welcome to the Sane Asylum (5 comments)
So ... how do we do this? How do we go from our habitual "every cell for itself" consciousness that has caused our current "mining disaster" to acting on the evolutionary truth that we are in reality "all cells in the body of humanity?" How do we shift from survival of the fittest to thrival of the fittingest?
Friday, October 24, 2008 THE McCAIN MUTINY: Why Republicans Are Jumping Ship (3 comments)
More and more Republicans with hearts and brains are jumping ship because they see a ship wreck ahead and don't think McCain will make a very good captain. Once the "brilliance" of choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate wore off, the stupidity and self-serving shortsightedness of it set in. As Obama began to look more and more like a President for the times, Palin began to look like a President for the End Times.
Monday, April 28, 2008 Hillary the Dream-Slayer Tells Us: "No, We Can't!" (1 comments)
While it would be unfortunate indeed for the Republicans to once again be rewarded with the presidency after maxing out their discredit cards over the past eight years, the shoot out at the I'm Okay / You're Not Okay Corral is likely to have even more tragic consequences -- the stillborn death of the dream that things can be different in America.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 Politics Inside and Outside the Matrix Revisited
Disempowerment and disillusionment seem to be the two concurrent emotional states of disheartened progressives these days. However, disillusionment -- the shattering of illusory hope in favor of a realistic and positive focus for action -- is the source of genuine empowerment. The most empowering thought is this: There's nobody to do it but us. We are the leaders we've been waiting for.
Thursday, December 6, 2007 From Up-Wising to Evolution: 3 Things You Can Do NOW to Reclaim America (1 comments)
Three things -- personal, political and economic -- that you can do to insure we the people reclaim America from "they the very, very few people": Cultivate Courage and Truth; Expand the Nonvoter Vote; Put Your Money Where Your Mouse is... and support news services like OpEd News.
Friday, October 5, 2007 FROM FASCISM TO FREEDOM: Stirring the Winds of Political Climate Change (2 comments)
If and when our bombs begin falling on Iran, given our current limitations in navigating space and time, we will not be able to run the movie backward. The dead will still be dead, the destroyed will still be destroyed, and among the casualties will be our own open society. The damage will be irreversible, and in fact will have reversed 230 years of forward progress towards a just society, and a sane world.
Saturday, July 21, 2007 A CALL FOR POLITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE (1 comments)
Well, we fired up the grid last Tuesday, or maybe the grid fired us up. Now that we proved that invisibly or visibly (as with the Live Earth events of two weekends ago), the loving heart of humanity can be activated, it's time to move our feet. It's time for the upwising of awareness and upwelling of love to burst into action. It's time to address the political climate crisis.
Thursday, April 19, 2007 Bringing Down the House of Lies: The Final "Leg" of the Journey (9 comments)
America's next step -- and only step -- that can take us forward is to bring the Bush-Cheney regime to justice. This isn't about vengeance, it isn't about punishment. It's about truth. That element that has been so lacking in our political environment that it has caused a spiritual, psychological and political heartsickness in the heartland...
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 PREEMPTIVE PEACE: A Living "Prayer" for Mutually Assured Survival (1 comments)
There have been news reports indicating possible air strikes on Iran beginning on Good Friday. Again, is this true? Not true? We don't know. In any case, if we want to broadcast our intention that Good Friday not become Bad Friday, that leaves us with Holy Thursday ... April 5th. We are asking you... to make April 5th the day we begin to hold our intention of preemptive peace and mutually assured survival.
Sunday, December 24, 2006 Christmas In the Trenches
At the darkest time of year, it's worth remembering a flash of "enlightening" that happened in a war that would kill fifteen million soldiers -- and what that beacon of light means today.
Sunday, September 3, 2006 Politics Inside and Outside the Matrix
we must strengthen the field of awakening and "up-wising." This means, calmly and courageously speaking our truth and asking the right questions to enable others to discover their truth for themselves.
Sunday, August 6, 2006 The One Suggestion (2 comments)
The Ten Commandments don't seem to be working that well. Maybe we should try the One Suggestion.
Friday, June 16, 2006 When the Right Is Right
Conservatives Virtually Impeach Bush, and No One is Paying Attention
Friday, March 31, 2006 Shoot Out At the Last Chance Corral (1 comments)
A response to the Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises campaign from a responsible Democrat grassroots organizer.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises (2 comments)
Can the Democrats be awakened? Find out by sending them "Empty Envelopes for Empty Promises." If this doesn't wake them up, let's assume they've already been put to sleep, and move on.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 Wake Up America (2 comments)
In order to treat the body politic, we must first make an accurate diagnosis.
