{"id":304,"date":"2011-01-16T05:17:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T10:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/16\/state-of-the-universe-address-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-01-16T05:17:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T10:17:02","slug":"state-of-the-universe-address-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/state-of-the-universe-address-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Universe Address 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swami\u2019s 2011 State of the Universe Address<\/font><\/p>\n

The Shift Has Hit the Fan \u2026<\/font><\/font>
<\/font>And All Heaven Has Broken Loose<\/font>


By Swami Beyondananda<\/font>
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The shift has hit the fan. And all heaven has broken loose.<\/p>\n

You say, \u201cHeaven?? Where the hell do you see heaven?\u201d<\/p>\n

And yes. If you look at the news headlines from the past year, you\u2019d have a hell of a time finding any heaven. It\u2019s a dogma-eat-dogma world out there, and everyone seems caught up in the bipolar insanity. Even Poland is polarized \u2013 the North Poles and the South Poles. We talk about peace in the Middle East and we can\u2019t even make peace in the Middle West. Here in America, we have a deeply divided body politic. Half the population believes our election system is broken. The other half believes it is fixed.<\/p>\n

In 2010, political anger became all the rage, as town hall meetings turned into \u201cI scream anti-socials,\u201d and enlightened discourse into heated detestimonials. The Tea Party Movement, a coalition of civil libertarians and uncivil libertarians, provided an ideal cover for mining interests (as in, \u201cthat\u2019s mine \u2026 that\u2019s mine \u2026 that\u2019s mine\u201d) to throw barrels of anonymous money into Congressional races to defeat Democratic candidates.<\/p>\n

Of course we all know that when it comes to defeating Democratic candidates, no one does it better than the Democrats themselves. In the area of self-defeat, the Democrats are simply unbeatable. Somehow, in just two years they turned a mandate into a man-who-can\u2019t-get-a-date. <\/p>\n

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A Wolfowitz in Sheepowitz\u2019s Clothing?<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n


There is one prime cause of disillusionment, and that is illusionment. And in these challenging times, it\u2019s understandable how a population can get strung out on hopium. America has been going through a dark night, and who wouldn\u2019t want a white knight on a dark night \u2013 albeit a slightly darker white knight?<\/p>\n

But a lad and a lack. So far, our lad seems to lack the will or the power to stand up to the forces of endarkened self-interest. Barack Obama\u2019s neo-liberal foreign policy looks pretty much like George Bush\u2019s neoconservative one, and disheartened progressives who believed in Obama\u2019s election rhetoric are beginning to think they fell for the old \u201cdebate and switch,\u201d and we ended up with a Wolfowitz in sheepowitz\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, how can we expect a President to stand tall, when the body politic is so sickly and out of shape? After all, we\u2019re still suffering from the lingering effects of Mad Cowboy Disease and chronic electile dysfunction, not to mention irony deficiency and truth decay brought on by weapons of mass distraction. And let\u2019s not forget the Deficit Inattention Disorder that led to our near-debt experience. <\/p>\n

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American Middle Class Tops Endangered Species List<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n


To add injury to insult, the American middle class continued to top the Endangered Species List, caught between the lowly criminal at the bottom, and the highly criminal at the top. Maybe I\u2019m old fashioned, but I\u2019m nostalgic for the good old days when people robbed banks. Once again in 2010, Chase chased us, Wachovia walked over us, and the name Goldman Sachs tells us all we need to know: We have been sacked by the gold men. Gold-collar criminals have overruled the Golden Rule with the Gold Rules Rule: \u201cDoo-doo unto others before they can doo-doo unto you.\u201d <\/p>\n

And let\u2019s be honest. Not just the people at the top, but everyone seemed to buy into the boom that could never go bust. And then \u2026 BOOM! The bubble popped, and just like that, we\u2019re busted. So, the moral is: Don\u2019t put your faith in false profits.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the financial fleecing didn\u2019t awaken the body politic, but it was harder to sleep through the alarming oil spill in the Gulf last spring. So perhaps it takes a pillage AND a spillage to wake the village to stop the drillage and wildlife killage.<\/p>\n

The upwising continued to gather esteem in 2010, and the irony curtain is becoming more and more transparent. Wikileaks emerged to challenge our official media, Weaky-Licks, to help end the other \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u201d policy \u2013 that\u2019s where the American people promise not to ask what the government is doing to \u201ckeep them safe,\u201d and the government promises not to tell them. When the people choose to not see what is too uncomfortable to look at, the inevitable result is Not-Seeism.<\/p>\n

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Time to Gather Under One Big Intent<\/font><\/div>\n


But enough about our small world down here. This is, after all, the State of the Universe, and there\u2019s a big, big Universe out there, which is pretty much purring in perfection. Which is to say there is a hell of lot of heaven out there.<\/p>\n

So, you are asking, why the hell isn\u2019t heaven here, already? Everything seems to be crashing down, and heaven is nowhere to be found!<\/p>\n

As a cautious optimystic, I say that contrary to the way things appear, the sky is not falling. It only looks that way because we are ascending. Yes, thanks to the evolutionary upwising and the recently declared state of emerge \u2018n see (where we emerge from fear and separation and see how we are connected), we humans are better able to rise to the occasion than ever before. And when it comes to rising above whatever has been bringing us down, nothing works like levity.<\/p>\n

Now I certainly would never want to impose my spiritual faith on anyone else, but I must declare that I am a FUNdamentalist, accent on the FUN. While some of the less fun fundamentalists believe that heaven is above us, we FUNdamentalists believe that heaven is where we make it. FUNdamentalists are strictly non-dominational, so we have no commandments. But we do have One Suggestion: \u201cLet\u2019s go for heaven on earth, just for the hell of it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOK,\u201d you protest, \u201cthat\u2019s the ideal, but how do we deal with the real deal?\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s simple, although it may not be easy. If the uncommonly wealthy have hijacked the commonwealth, we the people must higher-jack it. And we do so by acting on another FUNdamentalist suggestion: We\u2019re not here to earn God\u2019s love, we\u2019re here to spend it!<\/p>\n

That is how heaven is breaking loose, with people spending their love like it\u2019s going into style. Think about it. Someone comes into a room overflowing with love, and 300 people leave with that love \u2026 and pay it forward somewhere else. Love, joy and laughter \u2026 they are the loaves and fishes of spiritual nourishment. Yes, heaven has broken loose and we are here to put it together. Each of us \u2013 if we so choose \u2013 brings a piece of heaven. You have a little piece here, a little piece there, and before long, you have one big peace everywhere. <\/p>\n

So \u2026 now is the time for all those heaven-bent on planetary transformation to gather under one big intent that reflects the heart core values shared by humans the world over: \u201cWe are here to re-grow the Garden, and have a heaven of a time doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And when the cosmic beings ask, \u201cOh, by the way, how did the human race turn out?\u201d the answer will be, \u201cThey won. They achieved Oneness and won.\u201d This is the true second coming. The human drama achieves a pleasurable climax, as everyone comes together.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Copyright 2011 Steve Bhaerman. All rights reserved. Swami Beyondananda is the cosmic comic alter ego of Steve Bhaerman, and can be found online at http:\/\/www.wakeuplaughing.com\/<\/a> And seriously \u2026 read Steve\u2019s serious book with Bruce Lipton, <\/span>Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here, available at http:\/\/www.wakeuplaughing.com\/<\/a> along with some free bonus articles.<\/span><\/font> For reprint information, please contact <\/span>info@wakeuplaughing.com<\/span><\/a><\/font>
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