The Quickening Approaches.

If you are in the "know", you understand, if not fully, adequately that the world in which we live is undergoing a tremendous upheaval.  Across the oceans wars continue to dominate the landscape.  A new dictator rises into power, or an old one bows out.  While here in the U.S. our elected officials continue to plague us with oppressive laws and continue to ignore our grievances.  They attempt to brainwash us with a torrent of mind-numbing pop culture and institutional disinformation.  While we in the United States are witnessing the full on force of subversive wars, our brothers and sisters worldwide feel the much more overt, violent side of our misconception's wrath.

Here in the U.S., things are escalating dramatically, and are seemingly transitioning to a much more blatant oppression.  In the halls of Congress, the "Stop Internet Piracy Act" or SOPA, and the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 threaten to cripple our remaining freedoms.

In SOPA, the government aims to censor the internet through the guise of stopping online piracy.  An obvious attempt from the established entertainment industry to maintain their stranglehold.  If you are unfamiliar with their ability to influence law, do some research on the penalties for bootlegging music or movies.  If the jail sentence was the only determining factor, you'd be better off selling cocaine.

One of the many problems, but possibly most alarming, of the National Defense Authorization of 2012 is the fact that U.S. citizens, who are charged with the ambiguous title of "terrorist", can be held without trial for an indefinite period of time.  Which as I'm sure you know, goes against multiple constitutional rights and essentially initiates martial law.

If you couple those with the stresses of living in the society that produces such blatant disregard for freedom,  I can understand how you would be angry or depressed.  But I am here to tell you, neither of those will work in the favor of a peaceful future.

I must admit, upon hearing of the aforementioned bills, I was initially outraged.  How could those elected to sustain our institutional freedom go against their vows?  I am not naive to the current state of politics, but these 2 bills seem arrogantly blatant.

And then epiphany's cold hand slapped me in the face.  If, like the mystics say, 2012 is not the end of the world, but the end of an era, and a conscious awakening, then the mere fact of these bills being present not only threatens physical freedom, but is presently crippling mental freedom.  While we worry about the egregious politics, and occupy wall street, we are forgetting the true value of this time in history.

The veil between contemplation and manifestation grows thinner each day.  It is allowing us to truly become who we are destined to be.  A part of the whole.  A common individual.  No amount of physical firepower will be able to dislodge the ideology of the over-society.  They possess enough warheads to blow up 3 earths.  While we occupy the streets, most are forgetting to occupy their spirit and minds.  They allow the negative to control their actions.  While their actions may be positive, they are still a response to the negative, an effect, not a cause.  Which is ignoring the unique difference between positive and negative, or good and evil.  Evil cannot create, it can only corrupt.  As where good can only create, it cannot corrupt.

Regardless if your Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Atheist, Agnostic or somewhere in between, I suggest you open your heart and mind to the change that is abounding.  The mystics of all the religions agree, we are all one.  And even  the scientists are starting to agree.

So regardless what happens, keep a level head and an open heart, as a world run off of love can fight no wars.