Pink sky descending, yellow crow rising

Pink sky descending, yellow crow rising.  Towers, black, glistening, mute, needles of glass from the crushed dome of night fallen to earth, waiting. Constellations, old gods, having lost their homes, whirl and wail in a colorless void.  Now, red waters of darkened, fallen sky run in the dun prairie.  Native souls sing by water’s ragged edge, heedless of debilitating grief.  A tall blue sky stands firm inside the heart, filled by a relentless sun of warmth and grace.

Self-Sufficiency Minimizes Exploitation

Those needs or desires that cannot be fulfilled by one’s own effort but require the assitance or labors of others are what opens one to exploitation.  Obviously, there are fundamental desires or needs that will never be autonomously fulfilled, and what would be the point of a world of co-existing beings within which individuals could fulfill their needs without interacting with each other?  But as we reflect upon our industrialized society and how far it takes each person from the capacity to meet basic needs without dependency, we understand why exploitation and misery are so rampent.

Knowing one’s self, and providing for one’s self, again become the priorities of the day.  Surrendering certain unnecessary dependencies is a great value in this world of exploitation and scarcity.  Individuals and agencies that hold power will not want to allow that to occur, because it is the energy of their dependants that feeds them.  But this is a necessary swing of the pendulum, in this time especially.

Facts First

“It is a capital mistake to form conclusions in advance of the facts.”  -Sherlock Holmes

Where is Principled Living?

The personal factor plays in politics so that principle must frequently yield to the yoke of self-interest.  Even the powerful, like anyone else, allow their desires, however paltry, to defeat the obvious truth of principles.  Like mules they are driven by the stick of their passions despite the hideous magnitude of the impact of such a self-serving force in the halls of government.  Even now, billions of dollars are extracted from the laboring masses to feather the nests of indulgence of the wealthy and influential.  But this is as it has been as far back as history is described, and way before.

So, it is the personal factor that impedes truth, and not that we haven’t figured out principles of justice and fairness, or not that we fail to understand compassion, love, kindness and generosity.  All who were children understand these things, if not by their presence, then by their absence.  It is one’s own individual attachments to certain personal joys, indulgences, little secret privileges that yield some physical, mental or emotional pleasure, that are the cause of the derrailment of the hope and dream of all civilizations.  When these things are allowed to drive the body and mind blindly and with indifference to truth, they cause untold misery.

Self-honesty is the greatest need of this age or any other.

But it is unlikely, and probably by Plan, that this problem will continue.  Because this world is veiled from its own Origins and Cause.  In such a situation, it is ridiculous to expect integrity, honesty, or fairness.  On the other hand, perhaps fairness is perfectly consistent and flawlessly maintained by the Hidden Principles (Hercalitus’s Logos) behind it all.  How can we discern either way, when our own eyes are blinded not only to the greater Truth, but even to our own self-deceptions and our own degree of ignorance and need.

The conclusion here that aches for realization, is that one must see to one’s own self-healing, to improving one’s self-awareness and integration with that Logos, if there is to be any hope at all of living truthfully and honorably.