Wholeness is about the contribution of the parts to the harmony and health of the larger system in which they are embedded. The insistence that only My Will (e.g. Dick Cheney) or Our Will (e.g. today's right-wing refuseniks) can be allowed reflects the pattern of the rejection of Wholeness in favor of the breakdown into unbridled parts.
This, of course, is the path of war. It is at the heart of destruction.
The dark spirit that is working in the American right is a spirit that creates division. By working through the brokenness of human individuals --the resentments, the lust for revenge, the hatred of what is not the Self-- it systematically dismantles the Whole.
We are at a moment like at the end of so many monster movies: the monster seems for a moment to have been struck down, but we have only been lulled into thinking that it has been defeated. It rises up again still more full of rage from its wounds for one final lashing out.
In the films, the heroes stand their ground and succeed at last in adminstering the truly mortal blows. Although with dark spirits such as this, there is no final death, we too must stand our ground and continue the fight until this monstrous force that has risen up in America is truly defeated and moves back underground, unable to impede us further in rebuilding the Wholeness of our damaged nation.
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