Authentic power is incapable of making anyone its victim. It can be described as "reverence for life." Such a person is so strong that, except for the most extreme circumstances, the idea of using force against another is not part of his or her consciousness. While not naive, authentic power can be called love in action.
The unfortunate reality today is that most of us are not utilizing the perspective and the power that comes from an expanded worldview and sense of ourselves, which can begin to solve Earth's problems.
We have mastered electricity and created nuclear power, but have paid a severe price for our materialistic obsession: ignoring and remaining na????ve regarding our internal capabilities for intuition, precognition, remote viewing, extrasensory perception - and the most potent energy of all - love.
It is possible to bring into our awareness levels of being far beyond (or more subtle than) the physical plane, which is our usual focus. Jose Arguelles compared our usual state of consciousness to creatures who live on the ocean floor, never imagining what watery realms exist above them, while the air above the ocean is completely beyond their ken.
As William James put it more than a century ago:
"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
"We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of --application and adaptation.
"No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. At any rate, they forbid a premature closing of our accounts with reality."
For those called, the direction is to aid ourselves and others to transform our ability to perceive reality and become aware of the stories about the world we have come to believe. This has to do experiencing a personal spirituality and re-owning our personal power. It also entails realizing that most of our religious, political and economic institutions are based on an immature, dominator view of the world, which must be transformed if we are to prevent it from destroying us.
The alternative ethic is simple (but not always easy): As Neem Karoli Baba (and Jesus said): "Love everyone, serve everyone, feed everyone, tell the truth, and remember God."
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