This article is meant to spark thought full debate regarding top-down governance both from a "God" perspective and a human perspective.

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Is God Bottom Up or Top Down?

Throughout the Christian Bible, we have "commandments" like "judge not lest ye be judged." In the midst of all that, we have Michele Bachman, who claims right winged Christian status, and is quoted as saying:

"We need to cry out to a Holy God," Bachmann said on Jan Markell's "Understanding the Times" radio show. "This (end times) is coming faster than anyone can see."

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/michele-bachmann-obama-end-times-iran

Entice fear, Michele! In the meantime, let's explore "end times." The end of time means two things in spiritual experience. Yes, the "end times" is an epoch in history, such as reflected in the turn over from hunting / gathering and nomadic herdsmen cultures into agriculture. This movement in time ultimately became our modern factories and service industries.

The end of time is also a state of being, associated with the virgin birth, deep sleep and death. This experience is often associated with being beyond time and space.

It is also referred to as the Eternal Now.

As described in Genesis 1:2:

And the Earth (matter) was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

This statement is about the ground to my writing and your reading this article. It is NOT a point in history. It is NOW! When this article goes into the reader's memory, it goes back into an "Unmanifest Order" (the Deep) until some circumstance inseminates the memory into unfolding once again.

Genesis 1:2 speaks to what physicist David Bohm refers to as the Unmanifest Implicate Order. Ok, so it's a bit more fancy than "Waters," "Marie" (Ocean), Nuit, and others throughout the world, including various Native American tribes such as the Kogis Goddess, Aluna.

The point is: Genesis is not about times past. It is about this moment. This moment is grounded in infinite potential. WE and all other critters on Earth are the shapers of our destiny.

Not the Koch Brothers! Nor the underling priests, preachers and gurus running and ruining our planet. We have surrendered our power over to the "Man." The "Man" is the externalized agent of our psyche.

This is the Good News. The Bad News is that it is WE who are in power and not the Koch Brothers! (Well, it's only bad for the Koch Brothers who will loose their muscle and stranglehold on the world stage.)

Please take a good hard look at this exploratory plea that I am sending you:

If we can tap into this Unmanifest by becoming deconditioned, then the possibilities for us could be infinite.

I am not out to sell you. I just want to get you thinking, researching and perhaps even practicing. Becoming deconditioned is NOT an easy task. We're talking of confronting 5 to 10,000 years of conditioning!

Huge task!

Yet, it's YOUR evolution and the evolution of those you love that we want to effect. We all need to tap into the powers we have while supporting the evolution of the one's we love.

Now is simply where we always are. The end of time is the realization that time never existed. Realizing the Eternal Now is the end of time.

Bottom Up Empowerment for all is our motto for this planet. That includes the bumble bees, forests and streams. If all these die, then what happens to us?

So, what does Michelle do in the article? Like any good politician, she blames others while taking no responsibility!

"Barack Obama is intent, it is his number one goal, to ensure that Iran has a nuclear weapon," she said. "Why? Why would you put the nuclear weapon in the hands of madmen who are Islamic radicals?"

Yes, Michelle, point the finger outwards at me. You will find 3 pointed back at yourself. In the Bible you so well destroy, it says specifically to you, Michelle: "Judge not lest ye be judged."

The question is, how much longer do we put up with this. And, here, I'm not giving a thumb's up to Obama and the democrats. What I am giving a thumb's down to is western civilization.

I am not the first to make this kind of blanket statement regarding our civilization. Chellis Glendenning writes in 1994:

What is the relationship between addiction and the ecological crisis? How can we use the lessons of individual recovery to address our collective need very heart of Western civilization to answer these questions, and she shows how we can use trauma recovery and deep ecology, along with the wisdom of native cultures, to reclaim our innate wholeness. http://www.amazon.com/Name-Chellis-Recovery-Western-Civilization/dp/087773996X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1429710480&sr=8- 1&keywords=Glendenning,+My+name+is+Chellis

From what I understand, she took her words seriously. My last hearing of her was that she was in the South American jungle and truly is divorced from Western Civilization.

I think it's important that we truly acknowledge Glendenning's linkage of western civilization to addiction. Just think broadly regarding our culture. Take for example our situation and behavior over oil. "I gotta have it. It's killing me, I know. We are destroying the planet that my grandkids will inherit. It's not my problem. I won't be around! Let's go shopping!"

And the Native Americans would at times think the effect of a decision 7 generations to the future? And we can barely think about how our bathroom habits are affecting the ecology of earth right at our back door and within the next couple of hours?

I know, we have jet planes and computers.

Am I impressed?

No. If we could grow wings and fly like the dinosaurs, then I would be impressed.

For your information, this is a thesis to what happened to the dinosaurs. If this is true and we followed suit by growing wings, then I would give our species a "thumbs up" for ingenuity. Airplanes do not cut it for me.

Here is a link regarding dinosaurs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur

Airplanes shouldn't cut it as a marker for evolution for you either. Perhaps our wake-up call is a time to become self-empowered? Hey, tell Adam (the Koch Brothers, etc) to take a hike. We are not going to be controlled by you or anyone else. Our lives are about future generations and a clean, viable world. Out thrust is to help foster the bringing forth of potential in our world. In so saying, that bringing forth begins at home, in you and me.

WE are the answer we've all been waiting for. As one Buddha called out:

If you see the Buddha by the roadway, kill him!

Now why in the world would anyone kill the lovable Buddha?

It simply is for the same reason that the Hebrew Yahweh was not to have graven images to represent Him. That reason is: "the Self cannot see itself without an other." This is the reason why a woman is called a "m-other" upon giving birth.

If we did not become an "other," then how would we, including God, be known?

To see ourselves, we have to have a mirror. Thus, the Godhead in Genesis is said to create Adam/Eve in His image, "male and female created He them."

Many myths speak to Eros as being the first-born Son. Eros is Desire. Eros or Desire is the first act. So, from what impulse did I conceive this article? The Hindu Rig Veda says, "Desire came upon that one in the beginning. That was the first seed of mind."

As is true of the universe, so it is true regarding this writing. Desire to touch hearts and entice change is behind all this. And I do want to emphasize: My writing is not meant to contain a "follow me" request. Rather, my writing is meant for you to go inward into your power and then take that power into the world community.

Seeding your mind for creative thought is the goal, not controlling what you think. The latter is simply a manifestation of dominance over, which in sexuality is referred to as rape.

Going inward is true Feminine Power. This is why a woman's genitals fold inwards. Thus, I conceive this article while also letting the article spark a creation within you. Being seminal, then, Masculine Power as defined is an externalized movement of a feminine conception. Its power is to inseminate or spark an evolution by going within.

This is exactly Lao Tzu's referring to Tao as the "Way." What is the "Way" except the process of my writing and your reading? These are all manifestations of intercourse. Thus, a light bounces off the screen and enters the pupils of your mind. These pupils absorb light waves. When these waves get to the back of the brain, an image is created.

Want to have fun? Where is this screen? You think its in front of you where as its in the back of your head!!!!

Here, please take this and play with it. It's just a lot of fun. Yes, it does speak to the Hindu notion of Maya, meaning the world we think we live in is simply the Play of the Gods and Goddesses. Maya is also spoken of as an illusion. Is the world "out there" or "in here?" Is it in your mind? Or is it in God's mind? Is your mind one with God's?

Who is taking on the persona of your character in this Play?

Yes, God is a verb and becomes a noun, the reader and writer of this article. This is the Play. We are the verb made flesh. In my opinion, God plays all roles and that includes the atheist. "To be or not to be" is the primary question of God and Shakespeare! (Well, shhh, God just said the answer to the question is "yes" and "no.")

Ah, may we shine these lights into our mind! What shall we now conceive in our creative play together!

Do we now change our dance with corporations while knowing we are and can be the ones we've been looking for? How many times do we have our eyes blackened in the likes of witch burnings, constant warfare and the decimation of the planet that we live on?

What you say matters. Ready to file divorce? I think we need to. Sorry if that's upsetting. We've had 5 to 10,000 years of this mess. Time for a change!?

Ready for "Bottom Up" governance?

I am. Are you?

We are what we've been seeking. Be that. You are a gift to the world. In as much as any God-Man is said to be here for the sake of the world, then so do you. Thus, Christian Mystic Meister Eckhart says: "Everything is created with everything else in mind.

And, this, dear reader, is why you are. You are here for the sake of all.

Authors Bio:
Burl Hall is a retired counselor who is living in a Senior Citizen Housing apartment. Burl has one book to his credit, titled "Sophia's Web: A Passionate Call to Heal our Wounded Nature." For more information, search the book on Amazon.

Burl's philosophy entails the idea that "everything effects and causes everything thing else." His spirituality of Sophia i.e., Wisdom is universal as well as within each of us. He also sees the idea of Chaos as not being "all over the place" but as infinite relationships.

The question I present in my articles speak not so much towards the politicians, but how WE the people can empower ourselves within a planet that is healthy, wealthy and wise.