How many abusers have been abused?
Violence begets violence.
Lennon found the key to this quagmire in singing at the end of "Imagine":
"And the world shall live as one!"
No frustrated theatrics. Wise words instead. Love begets Love and Love is unity!
Unfortunately, the 60's and 70's movements made way to a "Yuppie" movement, which was again pro-corporation. "Whew" the Corporations sang while fostering media love for yuppies as the new fad. "Now let's make money! Let's get the Bushes in office and bring forth Madonna, the 'Material Girl'!" Free speech and open media, my backside!
We have to do, do, do"work, work, work"buy, buy, buy"salute, salute, salute"fight, fight, fight. We can no longer hear Mother Mary whispering to us, "Let it be."
So, here we are: polluted in body, mind, spirit and planet. The world we see, the polluted one, is what we have projected. We get what our shallow ego minds give us. What is the ego scared of? The Depths: The Unmanifest, the container of an infinite number of potentials for change. This includes devolution.
Our philosophies are spells, as destructive of our Souls as the spells of witchcraft. They "spell out" who/how we must be, taking our lives and choices out of our own hearts. I'm here to say that Christianity and other religions, including atheism, are just as much into spell casting as the pagans. "Judge not lest ye be judged!" What a joke that commandment has been over the past centuries!
This judgment mentality is what happens when a preacher preaches. It also happens in our sense of self-righteousness upon this planet Earth. Our polluted world is the result of the spell that we have placed upon Gaia (the Earth). In casting the spell, we are all witches of the evil kind. This includes a large portion of Catholics and Protestants combined. Yes, ye Protest-ant, point the finger at the Catholics and see three pointed back at itself. Judge not lest ye be judged. If you're going to treat the Bible as the Word of God, at least read it!
The world has incorporated our seminal thoughts of greed and has become what is now an increasing wasteland. In this case, we get what we wished for. This is the essence of a witch's spell and WE are the spell casters. That which we extract from the earth and turn into guns or plastic with our technological hex is a Frankenstein monster that turns on its "master", fulfilling Karma.
The wasteland that we see of big box stores is nothing less than a mirror to the wasteland in our heads. The world is our mirror. What is within becomes what is without. Thus our spell casting words are made flesh (John 1:14 of the Bible).
We are powerful in creating a just and sustainable world, but we have surrendered our power to The Man. In this day and age the Man at the pulpit is the Corporation. Our entire species needs to challenge the conditioning that we have been under for the past several thousand years. We also need to realize all religions, including Hindu, Buddhist, and Pagan are marred and married in the same idealisms.
I realize I am overgeneralizing. There are Christian sects who believe in Peace (e.g., Friends or Quakers). True Buddhists abstain from all theologizing. Yet, these are few. It's the same with the Pagans and self-professed atheists. Friends, I understand, have circles of interaction more so than having a Wizard on stage, i.e., a preacher or priest. This is more appropriate. From group discussion and meditation, we can indeed evolve into more peace loving beings. We can also reduce our need for corporate rule. King Arthur had it right when he declared the round table at which he was one among equals.
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