the sacred vs the profane

What we are seeing today in the world, our world, is the conflict between the sacred world and the profane world. The sacred world of the Orient versus the profane world of the Occident. A world ruled by the laws of God and a world ruled by the laws of men. In the Occident, we slowly moved out from the rules of the Church and separated the religion from the state. We then killed God, sort to speak, and put ourselves in his place. Founding our societies on constitution and the chief of the state being elected by men and representing men. In contrary we see, mainly in the Middle-East, now the exact contrary with the rise of extremist islam. The state and religion are two sides of the same coin. They claim that the states have to be based on God's law and not on men's rule. God speaks and men follow without opposition because who can oppose God's will. Who's there to say that God's words are to be contested. Who can claim to be above God. 
I think the rise of extremism in religion and the fact that a lot of occidentals are fighting next to the jihadists is due on one part to, what I explain in a previous post, the emptiness of the soul created by a society not only based on consumerism but who value consumption like the new religion. Secondly, because men killed God, he's in charge of his own destiny, he's responsible for his own happiness, he has to decide what's good and what's not, it became arbitrary. Reality and normality became arbitrary, and anything and everything is possible. Some can navigate well in this chaos, some rise above, some just follow without thinking, but some are lost. They search for a meaning of life that disappear with the end of God. They want to be guided without doubt and the only concept that can guide you without doubt is dogma in religion. Because as I said, who are we, as simple human, to question the words of God ?
Two worlds are face to face, one that is ready to sacrifice it's own people in the name of power and money and the other one is ready to sacrifice it's own people in the name of God. 
Of course, I can't agree with the islamist extremism as a human and as a woman. Extremism is never good. But we're going nowhere either way. 

I believe in balance. We have to find a way in the middle. Go back to the source. Find our truth. Turn within. Oblivious but aware. 
Spirituality by it's essence can't impose itself on others. With spirituality comes acceptance and tolerance for what is different. Spirituality is love and not terror, spirituality is sharing and not possessing. 
So the idea is to keep the spirit, keep believing in a better world, keep doing what's right and what's good. Keep spreading love. 1 love. Step by step, moment to moment. From now to now. Conscious and aware. Peaceful creator of a new world order, all in our own way. All pieces of a bigger picture that we can't yet see. All necessary to the whole. 

The year of the sheep 2015

2015: year of the sheep  

#mbrtrb The Sheep (Goat) is a Yin energy, a symbol of Peace, Harmonious co-existence and Tranquility. That is the primary and fundamental mood for this year. Though there are cries for War and a countdown is soon to begin, if any almanac serves me well – War will be averted and a period of mending and compromise will be undertaken to ensure Peace is maintained.

The Sheep is the symbol of the Arts. It relates to passive and nurturing times. It will help the healing process with regard to past events caused by individuals who have little respect for the human race or life itself. It will be a year of banding together in faith and in belief that good will prevail and win out over the forces that refuse to comply to a peaceful way of life. For those who trust in goodness, happiness and success will follow.

The emphasis will be on joining forces in order to fight the evil and destruction that has been brewing. With the planet Saturn into the sign Scorpio and the planet Pluto in its long stay in the sign Capricorn, there will be greater concern with structure, getting back to basics and using greater intuition to find solutions to problems that have been plaguing the world for some time.

Much will depends on this – the balance of international economy and social harmony is in peace. The call for war is not a step to be taken lightly. Though sabers are rattling on either side, as the calming vapours of the Sheep year spreads over the Nations, sentiments will be kindled and wisdom will prevail. Fate will send emissaries to change the faces of aggression towards a more Peaceful compromise. It does not kill the doubts, anger or desire for violence, but it puts a blanket of constrain over it.

Satisfaction vs fulfilment

What I want to address is the notion of satisfaction through material things against the notion of the fulfilment of the soul.

Instant satisfaction, our commercial society is based on it. Happiness through consumption. I buy this dress, I feel good about myself, I'm happy. But the feeling of happiness goes away fast. The fulfilment was instant but it's a superficial feeling, it goes away like smoke. The same thing with drugs. Baudelaire use to call them artificial paradise which is exactly what it is. 
I buy the dress I'm happy for a while but that feeling disappear fast once I'm used to it so I want another one and another and another. Because that happiness is based on emptiness on something superficial that can't fulfil the soul. 
That's why the people who based their happiness on what they have and not on what they are, are often sad and sour because they're constantly unsatisfied. Running after a mirage. 

When you fulfil the soul by doing meditation, yoga, praying, exercising, walking, creating, or even just breathing the feeling comes from within. Suddenly you need less and feel more. You liberate yourself from the toxins and you turn yourself inside instead of being outside. 

The difficulty is that we exist by the eyes of others and we define ourselves with the eyes of others. Often by buying certain things, we establish our social status. We gain assurance by having certain luxury items that attract envy and desire. The more eyes turn on us the more we fell powerful.
The idea is to be confident because of who we are and not because of what we have. Attract the eyes of others because of who we are and not because of what we have. And that only the strong succeed to do it. To live by the others without the others. Because of a certain way of being or a certain attitude, because of certain freedom that we exhale, independence and individuality. By our strength of being. 

I'm not saying that we should say no to all comfort and beautiful things. Me the first, love beauty, but we shouldn't define ourselves by it. Enjoy it but not put our own being into it. We are not objects how expensive they can be, but human beings. We shouldn't get blinded by the glitters and the shining and be slaves of fake satisfactions. What is left if we take all the external additions, are we left with an empty shell ?

To be rich is not having the choice to go on vacation or not, or to buy that dress or not, to be rich is to have the choice to be who we want to be and to be courageous enough to live our truth. We have to aim for the soul. We have to aim for the fulfilment of the soul. Being somebody just because we are. I remember a song that use to play in clubs in the 90s, everybody wants to be somebody, and I was singing in my head, everybody is somebody because they are. I am because I am. I am because we are. 

Equality

So It's november. I didn't think of a honorary member or a word for the month of november. Normally they come to me naturally and now strangely I have to make an effort. I gonna name Robert Reich honorary member for november. I just watched the documentary Inequality for all and I strongly support Robert Reich actions to promote a higher minimal salary, access to a higher level of education, low university fees etc to create a strong middle class and minimize the gap between the rich and the poor that grows bigger every year. For instance, in the documentary he says that 400 american hold the same wealth as half of the US population.

The word for november will be Equality to continue on the same idea. the a better distribution of wealth. Equality between men and women. Equality between races. Equality for all.

I watched also the Gatekeepers loved it. It's the interview of ex heads of the Shin Beth and the story of the fight against terrorism from the Six Days War to today. Like one said a terrorist for one side is a freedom fighter for the other.

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