The first and foremost aim of each political party is to prevail over the other in order to get into power or to stay in it. But, no leadership is absolute.
Political leadership exerted according to the democratic method is even less so than are others because of that competitive element which is of the essence of democracy.
Professor Joseph Schumpeter wrote those thoughts in his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. From 1925 to 1932, Schumpeter was the Department of Economics chairman at the University of Bonn. He fled Nazi rule in 1932 and became a professor of economics at Harvard. He taught at Harvard until he passed in 1950.
In his book, Schumpeter talks about the political structure of democracy. He said the primary function of the popular vote is to produce a government in a democracy. We all have the right to object to political leadership. But only the elected few get the chance to change the government's social direction. Political leaders from both parties usually respond to political threats by taking a middle course, which includes subtly insisting on discipline and putting up backdoor roadblocks that thwart political enemies.
Political leaders temper pressure using judicial concessions, a thirst for compliments, and half-baked promises. Those political maneuvers usually result in a considerable amount of media attention. Media attention motivates politicians to act in a ritual-heavy way while other issues sit in a boiling pot of political rhetoric.
The two-party system is an ever-changing structure. Our elected officials may not focus on issues that promote public welfare even though they believe in and agree on fixing blaring issues. Both parties create flexible principles that promote the success of their party. But those principles may not enhance the success of democracy.
Monday, October 2, 2023
Friday, September 1, 2023
Some Beliefs Start At Birth
Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?
Where for one seed you get a whole wilderness? For one weak breath, the divine wind?
You've been fearful of being absorbed in the ground or drawn up by the air. Now, your waterbead lets go and drops into the ocean, where it came from.
It no longer has the form it had, but it's still water. The essence is the same. This giving up is not a repenting, it's a deep honoring of yourself.
Rumi explains a lot about our existence in his poem The Seed Market. The ancient poet understood humans live in a seed market where every thought is a seed. Thought seeds grow and become beliefs that influence our choices and perceptions. Our thoughts are just like our cells. They create and support our body's consciousness. Our choices help create perceptions. Perceptions are energy projections. They help produce our individual and mass reality.
Emotionally charged thoughts create a psychological bridge where similar emotional impulses breed. When we produce an abundance of emotional perceptions, we attract the perception of others, and common beliefs develop.
Some beliefs start before birth. They are in our DNA. Our DNA beliefs are our hidden beliefs. They manifest with our parents' help. Hidden and physically-created beliefs give us a sense of who we are. And who we want to avoid being. Our beliefs have a strong defense. Any thought that does not conform to an accepted belief system is an invader. War is part of our hidden belief system. We are warriors who defend our perceptions and the perceptions of other like-minded thinkers.
The thought we exist and participate in a fourth level of consciousness awareness is one of those invading thoughts. Our old impulses want to keep our belief system functioning in just one particular area of three-dimensional moments of awareness. But when we allow a fourth-dimensional state of awareness to mix with our current physical focus, the experiences we create from those positive invading thoughts change our three-dimensional reality.
As Rumi said: "For one rose, we could buy hundreds of rose gardens." Any thought can produce abundance like that —if it has a fluid connection to our inner personality. That means we believe we create what we experience. We are what we think. And when we change what we think about who we are, we begin to understand our thought-seed market sits open within us. For More Information About Beliefs And How They Impact Perceptions, Pick Up A Copy Of:
The Lawn Party Hardcover Edition Here: The Lawn Party: Manogue, H T: 9798218137007: Amazon.com: Books
Where for one seed you get a whole wilderness? For one weak breath, the divine wind?
You've been fearful of being absorbed in the ground or drawn up by the air. Now, your waterbead lets go and drops into the ocean, where it came from.
It no longer has the form it had, but it's still water. The essence is the same. This giving up is not a repenting, it's a deep honoring of yourself.
Rumi explains a lot about our existence in his poem The Seed Market. The ancient poet understood humans live in a seed market where every thought is a seed. Thought seeds grow and become beliefs that influence our choices and perceptions. Our thoughts are just like our cells. They create and support our body's consciousness. Our choices help create perceptions. Perceptions are energy projections. They help produce our individual and mass reality.
Emotionally charged thoughts create a psychological bridge where similar emotional impulses breed. When we produce an abundance of emotional perceptions, we attract the perception of others, and common beliefs develop.
Some beliefs start before birth. They are in our DNA. Our DNA beliefs are our hidden beliefs. They manifest with our parents' help. Hidden and physically-created beliefs give us a sense of who we are. And who we want to avoid being. Our beliefs have a strong defense. Any thought that does not conform to an accepted belief system is an invader. War is part of our hidden belief system. We are warriors who defend our perceptions and the perceptions of other like-minded thinkers.
The thought we exist and participate in a fourth level of consciousness awareness is one of those invading thoughts. Our old impulses want to keep our belief system functioning in just one particular area of three-dimensional moments of awareness. But when we allow a fourth-dimensional state of awareness to mix with our current physical focus, the experiences we create from those positive invading thoughts change our three-dimensional reality.
As Rumi said: "For one rose, we could buy hundreds of rose gardens." Any thought can produce abundance like that —if it has a fluid connection to our inner personality. That means we believe we create what we experience. We are what we think. And when we change what we think about who we are, we begin to understand our thought-seed market sits open within us. For More Information About Beliefs And How They Impact Perceptions, Pick Up A Copy Of:
The Lawn Party Hardcover Edition Here: The Lawn Party: Manogue, H T: 9798218137007: Amazon.com: Books
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
State of Ignorance
Ignorance prevails as long as the will remains cheated by its own offspring or its own image, consciousness, in which the knower always stand distinguished from the known.
The cheating, however cannot last, the will wishes to be enlightened, to be free, to be by itself. Ignorance always presupposes the existence of something outside and unknown.
This unknown outside is generally termed the ego or soul, which is in reality the will itself in a state of ignorance.
D.T. Suzuki, in his 1926 essay Enlightenment and Ignorance throws a spotlight on the separation within the self. Separation puts beliefs in categories and experiences in action. We are educated ignorant egos that prance around different stages of reality and search for the unknown that is firmly squeezing us with energetic awareness.
We have a tendency to believe that thoughts not used fall off a mind-cliff and disappear. We usually can’t hold thoughts in our physical consciousness for very long, unless we make them beliefs. But other thoughts not considered beliefs or pertinent to current perceptions continue to manifest in other realities. We experience them in those other realities. But we forget them in our physical state of ignorance.
Understanding the true dimensions of the soul is a goal that exists within us. Sensing inner worlds is a necessity because individual and mass present comprehension continues to expand in past and futures realities. Each reality knows its own potentials and no form of consciousness however small is ever lost.
In that framework, the past and the future exist in probable worlds. Each experience creates new questions just as a writer creates new stories. We travel to new positions with the psyche constantly and we set out on new psychic pilgrimages in dreams. We experience unknown realities within our own consciousness in dreams, but we also experience them in the waking state. Unused thoughts create a stage where all probabilities manifest in some way.
The splendor of this reality and the creations of consciousness in physical form show how our species express iself as we expand in our current state of Ignornace.
The cheating, however cannot last, the will wishes to be enlightened, to be free, to be by itself. Ignorance always presupposes the existence of something outside and unknown.
This unknown outside is generally termed the ego or soul, which is in reality the will itself in a state of ignorance.
D.T. Suzuki, in his 1926 essay Enlightenment and Ignorance throws a spotlight on the separation within the self. Separation puts beliefs in categories and experiences in action. We are educated ignorant egos that prance around different stages of reality and search for the unknown that is firmly squeezing us with energetic awareness.
We have a tendency to believe that thoughts not used fall off a mind-cliff and disappear. We usually can’t hold thoughts in our physical consciousness for very long, unless we make them beliefs. But other thoughts not considered beliefs or pertinent to current perceptions continue to manifest in other realities. We experience them in those other realities. But we forget them in our physical state of ignorance.
Understanding the true dimensions of the soul is a goal that exists within us. Sensing inner worlds is a necessity because individual and mass present comprehension continues to expand in past and futures realities. Each reality knows its own potentials and no form of consciousness however small is ever lost.
In that framework, the past and the future exist in probable worlds. Each experience creates new questions just as a writer creates new stories. We travel to new positions with the psyche constantly and we set out on new psychic pilgrimages in dreams. We experience unknown realities within our own consciousness in dreams, but we also experience them in the waking state. Unused thoughts create a stage where all probabilities manifest in some way.
The splendor of this reality and the creations of consciousness in physical form show how our species express iself as we expand in our current state of Ignornace.
Friday, May 19, 2023
The Meaning Of Getting There
There are no mistakes. The events you bring upon yourself, no matter how unpleasant, they are necessary in order to learn what you need to learn.
Whatever step you take is necessary to reach the place you’ve chosen to go.
Richard Bach wrote that thought in his book Messiah’s Handbook. Bach reminds us that our mistakes have creativity flowing through them. They open the door for unforeseen probabilities that change the course of our life.
We learn from all our thoughts and actions. The actions we call mistakes are nothing more than a choice that conflicts with our belief in right and wrong. The words right and wrong are associations. They mold our core belief structure.
The ego does not know where to go until it gets there. Many egos get there and still do not know where they are. Our beliefs hinder us from knowing the meaning of getting there.
In one sense, we never go anywhere. All things come to us through our probability bank. We act out our chosen probabilities and mix them with a seasoned cup of time.
That mixture creates our waking reality. As we stir this mixture with thoughts and emotions, we feel the creations that develop from the electromagnetic concoctions that dress our ego. We live in a whirlpool of influences and associations that mold our awareness.
Awareness is where we are going. We never get to the point where we stop expanding. We are always in motion, but we never go anywhere. We are right where we choose to be as we wait to experience another whirlpool of influences and experience them in one unique way or another.
Whatever step you take is necessary to reach the place you’ve chosen to go.
Richard Bach wrote that thought in his book Messiah’s Handbook. Bach reminds us that our mistakes have creativity flowing through them. They open the door for unforeseen probabilities that change the course of our life.
We learn from all our thoughts and actions. The actions we call mistakes are nothing more than a choice that conflicts with our belief in right and wrong. The words right and wrong are associations. They mold our core belief structure.
The ego does not know where to go until it gets there. Many egos get there and still do not know where they are. Our beliefs hinder us from knowing the meaning of getting there.
In one sense, we never go anywhere. All things come to us through our probability bank. We act out our chosen probabilities and mix them with a seasoned cup of time.
That mixture creates our waking reality. As we stir this mixture with thoughts and emotions, we feel the creations that develop from the electromagnetic concoctions that dress our ego. We live in a whirlpool of influences and associations that mold our awareness.
Awareness is where we are going. We never get to the point where we stop expanding. We are always in motion, but we never go anywhere. We are right where we choose to be as we wait to experience another whirlpool of influences and experience them in one unique way or another.
Friday, April 7, 2023
Crucifying Change
Have It Your Way. Let The Kids Pay.
Violence Is An Inherent Crime
It’s In Us All The Time.
Call It What You Will
Adult Actions Do Leave Tractions.
Mumbles And Grumbles
Words Tend To Fumble.
When The Ego Stumbles.
And The Inner Self Rumbles.
Connection Is An Exotic Bird
When Separation Leads The Herd.
Children Take The Heat.
Jesus Came To Teach, Not Breach.
Name That Blame. Fear Grabs Pain.
Crucifying Change—
Angels Are Their Names—
With Resurrection Aims!
Violence Is An Inherent Crime
It’s In Us All The Time.
Call It What You Will
Adult Actions Do Leave Tractions.
Mumbles And Grumbles
Words Tend To Fumble.
When The Ego Stumbles.
Connection Is An Exotic Bird
When Separation Leads The Herd.
Children Take The Heat.
Jesus Came To Teach, Not Breach.
Name That Blame. Fear Grabs Pain.
Crucifying Change—
Angels Are Their Names—
With Resurrection Aims!
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Biologically Pertinent Beliefs
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty he lived in it, and had his being there.
Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me.
He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world. Jesus said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion:
‘I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, God speaks. Would you see God see me; or, see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston minister, poet, lecturer, and essayist, wrote those thoughts in his controversial 1838 Divinity School Address. Emerson got down and dirty during that address. He talked about how ancient messages get distorted by narrow-minded fanatics who want to control the ignorant.
We function using man-created laws. And we call them laws of God. Cooperation is one of the keys to our being. But we tend to judge experiences that conflict with our belief about sexual expressions and many other physical expressions born in our core belief structure. We fear the unknown. So we push our bisexual nature away from our reality. And we condemn those that bring it forth.
Bisexuality is a scary perception for some folks. It violates one of those human-made laws even though the larger pattern of human personhood demands a bisexual affiliation. That affiliation provides a framework where individuals can express feelings and abilities that follow the natural expression of their sexual psyche.
Our consciousness is a psyche bank where all beliefs exist. There are no differences in one sex or another in that bank. That would lead to a pattern that’s too rigid for the development of our species.
Some beliefs tend to be biologically pertinent. They create some of our later life experiences. Other core beliefs develop through associations and influences. Those associations change as we become more aware of who we are. Old core beliefs don’t disappear. They reinvent themselves as new beliefs wrapped in newly discovered truths.
Those beliefs, along with our ever-changing core beliefs, create a psychic highway of experiences that move us toward unity.
Unity is a psyche place. Present or past rumors of separation do not exist. It is the place where great gifts thrive in the art of appreciating and accepting yourself for being one of the many inner selves who possess incredible creative abilities.
Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me.
He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his world. Jesus said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion:
‘I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, God speaks. Would you see God see me; or, see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.’
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston minister, poet, lecturer, and essayist, wrote those thoughts in his controversial 1838 Divinity School Address. Emerson got down and dirty during that address. He talked about how ancient messages get distorted by narrow-minded fanatics who want to control the ignorant.
We function using man-created laws. And we call them laws of God. Cooperation is one of the keys to our being. But we tend to judge experiences that conflict with our belief about sexual expressions and many other physical expressions born in our core belief structure. We fear the unknown. So we push our bisexual nature away from our reality. And we condemn those that bring it forth.
Bisexuality is a scary perception for some folks. It violates one of those human-made laws even though the larger pattern of human personhood demands a bisexual affiliation. That affiliation provides a framework where individuals can express feelings and abilities that follow the natural expression of their sexual psyche.
Our consciousness is a psyche bank where all beliefs exist. There are no differences in one sex or another in that bank. That would lead to a pattern that’s too rigid for the development of our species.
Some beliefs tend to be biologically pertinent. They create some of our later life experiences. Other core beliefs develop through associations and influences. Those associations change as we become more aware of who we are. Old core beliefs don’t disappear. They reinvent themselves as new beliefs wrapped in newly discovered truths.
Those beliefs, along with our ever-changing core beliefs, create a psychic highway of experiences that move us toward unity.
Unity is a psyche place. Present or past rumors of separation do not exist. It is the place where great gifts thrive in the art of appreciating and accepting yourself for being one of the many inner selves who possess incredible creative abilities.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
The Blood That Speaks In Our Cheeks
Her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks,
And so distinctly wrought,
That one might almost say,
Her body thought.
John Donne, the 17th-century poet, wrote those thoughts in his 1611 work Of The Progress Of The Soul. We don’t realize how much our body means to us. We’re too busy listening to the static we create from our fears. We forget about our molecules and cells. In a sense, they have their own mind connected to the mind of the unknown.
Cells constantly reinvent themselves. Emotional thoughts alter cellular functions. We don’t give ourselves credit for the changes we experience every day. It’s always something outside us that changes how we look, feel, and react.
We don’t take credit for creating an outward appearance that tells us about our inward state of cellular operation. The atoms in our cells dip in and out a delicious mixture of consciousness that responds to our beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. If those three ingredients have influences in their molecular structure that taint our connection to our non-physical personality, the cells respond to the perceptions and thoughts about them.
We want to hold someone or something accountable for what we create. Creation is too strong a word to own.
But we do create, and our bodies think. They show us the true meaning of “expose yourself.” All we are and all we become is not by chance. It is by choice. Regardless of our internal cellular state, we have the ability to change it. We can send messages to the body that give the cells the energy they need to achieve personal value fulfillment.
The blood that speaks in our cheeks is the same timeless energy that speaks through our cells. That energy is the voice of creation. Call creation what you think it is. And as you do, it will change.
Spoke in her cheeks,
And so distinctly wrought,
That one might almost say,
Her body thought.
John Donne, the 17th-century poet, wrote those thoughts in his 1611 work Of The Progress Of The Soul. We don’t realize how much our body means to us. We’re too busy listening to the static we create from our fears. We forget about our molecules and cells. In a sense, they have their own mind connected to the mind of the unknown.
Cells constantly reinvent themselves. Emotional thoughts alter cellular functions. We don’t give ourselves credit for the changes we experience every day. It’s always something outside us that changes how we look, feel, and react.
We don’t take credit for creating an outward appearance that tells us about our inward state of cellular operation. The atoms in our cells dip in and out a delicious mixture of consciousness that responds to our beliefs, thoughts, and emotions. If those three ingredients have influences in their molecular structure that taint our connection to our non-physical personality, the cells respond to the perceptions and thoughts about them.
We want to hold someone or something accountable for what we create. Creation is too strong a word to own.
But we do create, and our bodies think. They show us the true meaning of “expose yourself.” All we are and all we become is not by chance. It is by choice. Regardless of our internal cellular state, we have the ability to change it. We can send messages to the body that give the cells the energy they need to achieve personal value fulfillment.
The blood that speaks in our cheeks is the same timeless energy that speaks through our cells. That energy is the voice of creation. Call creation what you think it is. And as you do, it will change.
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