Manifesto of the Holy Illumination of Our Lifelong Struggles

Manifesto of the Holy/Common Sense Revolution

Pakistan- First the government jailed all the opposition lawyers and dissenters, and now Bhutto is assassinated? I mean, Florida in the 2000 presidential election, Ohio in the 2004 one, claims of election fraud in Mexico, Pakistan and now Kenya, all this makes me seriously question democracy.
Look around you- all around the world, corrupt regimes are everywhere. Some are mixed in with the drug game, some the diamond game, it never ends. And how can we say our country is greater than any of this mess? Our regime is mixed in with corporations and military-industrial complex. It is their interests which are being served, not OURS. Why are we trying to fix other countries when we haven't fixed our own yet? This game is rigged. The system needs a big change. Here is my critique.


IT ALL STARTS WITH SPRITUAL/RELIGIOUS VALUES, whether you like it or not

Now I grew up with non-practicing Christian parents, I never went to church, I was left to choose what to believe. Early on, my teachers taught me about injustices based on race against the blacks, and injustices based on ethnicity such as Native Americans, the Japanese during WW2, and now I found that the Hispanic immigrants are just another whipping boy from the status quo that went on from prejudice against the Italian and Irish immigrants during the early 1900s immigration boom. Now, because of world trade and greedy corporations and a materialistic society, we are all accountable for immigration. You see, the workers in the third world countries get paid pennies and the product of their labor is sent to America or other rich countries. They don't get to see any of it, nor could they ever afford it if they could see it. So what do they do? They go to the place it's being shipped to, and then they get demonized for being immigrants. Well America is founded on the idea you can have all these IMMIGRANTS from all these backgrounds with different heritages and religions and cultures, which we respect with our hearts, yet we learn to live amongst others because our way is not the only way. I have more to say on economics later.

I was raised without religion, or was I? I had music, movies, video games, comic books, television, I had free will, I had issues I was born into, not sin. I realized God wasn't Santa Clause, and nor was he (or she, or it) not real. He just wasn't real in the way the status quo wanted me to believe. I realized everything was connected, how my decisions could unintentionally cause a death on the other side of the world. I realized patterns in nature that were undeniable. I realized the mystical divinity of the human brain, and the unstoppable power of faith. Believe and attitude determines everything, and we can chose whether or not to believe what society wants us to feel. I realized that everything was an illusion caused by me thinking about things that weren't real- the past or the future. I ask myself where am I, I say Here. I ask myself what time is it, I say Now. The answers are always the same, no matter where I've moved on the space/time/matter/energy grid. People are just extensions of myself and I am extensions of them- we are all one. My environment and my genetic code can only do so much- I am in control of my life and I can change my environment and I can accomplish anything despite the hand I was dealt. The inevitable awaits me- call it fate, call it scientific determination, call it predestination if you will. But by meditation and faith I can discern what I can and cannot change, and usually, I am the one in control. I know hurting people is wrong, I know oppression is wrong, I know money isn't everything, I know life is unpredictable, I know nothing lasts forever. I know I don't know everything. I know faith, hope and trust will guide me wherever I am going. But it is always "here and now" that I am going- life is just one moment between God and I. It is the same for everyone.

All this I learned without religion. I didn't need to go to church to teach me right from wrong. Neither does anyone.

So let us think for ourselves- tell our stories, and debate how we can DO SOMETHING about changing the status quo- politically, religiously, economically, socially, and most importantly, in the hearts of mankind who is so reluctant to change unless they are faced with a contradiction between two opposing forces so strong that he is forced to choice the path of conscientiousness. That means he becomes accountable for his actions so far as he can know about the consequences of them.

This must happen if we are to save the environment, which is high on our list. If people realized they are to be held responsible for not caring about Mother Earth or their Fellow Man(kind), not by some higher being at the end of their lives but by a society that can no longer tolerate their lack of compassion, than they will have to change or face fair sanctions by us and a hypocrisy by their own conscience.

I call for scientific funding on a kind of virtual reality where people can let out their negative emotions as well. I call for a place where people can strap on virtual reality gear and kill whoever they want or have sex with anyone they want. Yes, I stole this idea from the movie Minority Report. But people need to release their aggression before it turns into pitiful sadness full of resentment toward other human beings.

I call for the churches to stop demonizing people based on who makes them horny and what makes them horny. The only kind of sex that should make someone be demonized is the sex that violates other people's liberty. Now there are people who enjoy being submissive and people who enjoy being dominate, so these people should have places they can go to act out their violent sexual fantasies. One of the problems with a rapist is that there are people out there willing to be "raped", but since the rapist doesn't know about it, he finds some easy prey somewhere. There should be a place where they sign a waiver that says the institution is not responsible for people's actions, so the people can act out their fantasies with doctors nearby in case anything goes wrong, but this way they can meet likeminded people. I'm not saying rapists don't often have specific targets, but if they just like to meet a random person to act out violent fantasies on who are cool with it, which some do, this insitution could reduce rapes.
Another problem with rapists and pedophiles is that people feel wrong for being gay or sexual so they build up their sexual desires and it comes out in terrible ways. I bet the number of violent sex crimes would be reduced if we lost the stigma the church gives sex- it's so bad to do it for fun, they say. Well, the world is getting overpopulated, so we need to stop saying sex is only good for procreation. So some people just have repressed their sexual longings and it comes out violently in "uncontrollable" spurts. Once again, I recognize some people are just messed up in the head, but preventable instances of violating sex can be eliminated if the church stops being so iffy about sex.
And people need to stop associating homosexuality, which is an orientation, with actions, which are made by choices. Homosexuality and things like necrophilia, pedophilia, and kinky sex are not in the same ballpark- being gay or a lesbian or transgender is something you have no say in! People just need patience and discipline and maybe promiscuous sex will stop, but people need to find out the hard way sometimes why marriage is important. Gay marriage will not destroy the sanctity of marriage- straight marriage is already doing just that, what with 50% divorce rates recently. Gay marriage will not lead to people marrying animals, animals can't even consent to sex anyway. Your lies and your bullshit speculations come from the fact either 1) you are not gay so you don't know anything about it yet you pretend to be an authority on something alien to you or 2) you are afraid of homosexual tendencies you have and so you lash out at people as a defense mechanism. And just because you're curious and have homosexual tendencies doesn't mean you're gay, you're just somewhere closer to the middle of the scale of totally gay or totally straight. Alfred Kinsey, the doctor, already went over this.

I call for the religions to stop preaching eternal damnation. God's love is unconditional, your visions of hell are just fever dreams or turning an attempt to humanize God by making his love conditional like your parents or your society did their acceptance. Hell exists either in the mind of someone with a negative attitude or in failure to learn something so you do it over and over in a vicious cycle or in allowing hateful or unjust actions to persist. Living in fear is hell, as is living in ignorance and lies. A lot of the self-hatred in the world is spawned from religious stigma. People feel like they sin so they hate and cannot forgive themselves, and turn to Jesus and say "he's so perfect". Listen, we all itch. And when we scratch it, it feels good, but it just gets replaced by an itch somewhere else. Such is life. We have itches to eat, itches to love, itches to sleep, itches to masturbate, itches to fight, itches to seek success...we have all sorts of itches. What being human is all about is being imperfect. Jesus never scratched an itch- he knew what desire and indulgence in basics like food, drink, sleep and material possessions would bring him, because he manifested God's discipline. The itch of world domination dangled in front of him too. But he was humble, and he only focused on one itch- to spread the Gospel. The good news that God promised us all eternal rest and peace after we die, and all we need to do is marry that promise with faith. But we humans love our suffering, our fights, our drama, our extremes and our indulgences. We splurge every once in a while and allow ourselves to get attached, to get carried away. Why? We love it. It's what being human is all about. But we get God syndrome, we try to play holier than thou, and we call some itches worthy and some itches not, and try to control other people's emotions. We chose the wrong God to trust in, but it's our decision. We wouldn't have done it in the first place if society hadn't placed an emphasis on the American trinity Time, Money and Self. I chose a higher God, but I once worshipped the American trinity. Also, when we scratch an itch and it hurts us really bad, we cry "God, why have you forsaken me? How could you allow this to happen? I am so flawed!". But in reality we chose to be in pain, we chose to be flawed, by the choices we made.


We couldn't all be like Jesus right now if we wanted to, but maybe in our next few life we could. Why? Because we are all God. But we want to experience ourselves as humans, and therefore must get the bad part of being human if we want the good. But we all are part of the God who made us. We live to be who we truly are, which is an aspect of God. The father is God, and is Thought. Before you experience something, you only have an idea of it. That was us before we were born. The son in Us, including Jesus, who was no more or less a son of God than all of us, the difference being that God manifested himself in Jesus more, so that Jesus possessed the knowledge he was God and acted upon it. We can have the knowledge, but we can't act on it because we don't have the experience Jesus had. Jesus had spent his past lives with the intention of being the holiest man he could ever be, and was rewarded finally when he was born as he knew him as the manifestation of God. If we strive to be as holy as Jesus, then we but need to keep at it until we are rewarded with it eventually. It takes deep discipline and understanding, and a lot of soul searching and renouncing. Total devotion. It is acheiving moksha, as the Eastern religions call it. But before Jesus walked, God never had the chance to know what human life was like. He only had an Thought of what it would be like.
We are God experiencing himself though us. It wasn't until Jesus, they say, that God was incarnate, and then when he died actually knew what it was like to be alive. That is true, because Jesus, unlike us, had no desire other than to spread Love, Truth and Beauty, because Jesus knew he was God and knew he could be Love, Truth and Beauty incarnate if he kept trying, no matter how many lives it took. God is Pure Love, Truth and Beauty; God cannot doubt his divinity. We as humans can and do, and that's what makes us "imperfect", that is, imperfect only in relation to Jesus. Then when we die, like when Jesus dies, we become the Holy Spirit, which is Pure Knowledge. I'm not saying God doesn't know the future. Even I somewhat know the future- God told me things have to get worse before they get better, and that is the whole human existence from start to finish. My theory is the universe and the sun and humanity's consciousness and physical organs expand to the point of pressure overload and ejaculate big bangs before they contract. It's the continuous cycle of life. The end is just the beginning of a new era.

We are like God's handshakes. You see, when you shake someone's hand, your hand touches their hand and your brain receives the information from the hand through the nerves and remembers that person's handshake. The hand is separate from the brain, like how we are separate from God, but everything we learn, God learns. Everything we Experience, God Experiences. When we die, it is just like the handshake of our death: the information of our death is going back to the brain. We become one with God again. It's as if the hand and the brain were one. We start off as a single celled organism- and from one became millions. The hand came from the source. We come from the source, and when we die, we return to it, with all the added experiences of our lives culminating in the brain that is God. We can chose to live again if we want to. We are like God's feelers and actors, so God can experience himself through us. There is only an illusion of separateness between all of us. If you were in my shoes, and had to carry all my weight, trust me, you'd make the same decisions as me. And likewise me to you. Everything is inevitable and the process of a sort of domino effect that cannot have been changed, so don't blame yourself for who you are, because you can change your attitude and not be the same person who once disgusted you. Don't hate yourself. Forgive yourself. If you have good intentions, there is no need to feel shitty about something you did when your intentions were different. That's the free will aspect- you chose whether or not to accept yourself or change yourself. I'm not saying life is 100% predestined, though (see my post on Hell and Free Will for that). Just live your life and balance everything so you can be happy and healthy. Then work on your "obligations" to other people. The whole concept of original sin is crap, an attempt to explain the unexplainable (as most old-fashioned religion is). You aren't born into sin, you have the choice in what you chose in your attitudes toward what goes on around you. (read my "Response to Brant's post" for more on Original Sin, translated into modern terms so it actually makes sense). The question isn't "why does the world and its people suck?", it's "what am I going to do about it?". "How can I be a positive change in the world?". Don't try to be perfect unless you really and honestly don't want to indulge in the temporary satisfactions earthly life can provide. Don't try to be something you aren't. Be authentic, true to yourself, and conscienctious- that is, put your heart into everything you do. Try to be someone you can live with. Try to be happy and have a clean conscience and a worry-free mind. Know that nothing lasts forever, everything dies, and that all things must pass. It is liberating to live as if there is no heaven (I believe there is- you some to the spirit world when you die. But I'm talking about paradise on Earth- which I believe can be true in the future if we work at it). Know you are going to die. It makes you either want to have fun or stick to a principle- but you CAN do both. You can enjoy the Holy Revolution without being just a hedonistic counterculture person who over-indulges in earthly pleasures and without being just a stuck-up revolutionary who forgot how to have fun because he is too caught up in his ideal-future goals. You can have one foot in the City of God and one in the City of Man if that's what you feel. I challenge you to make God your higher power and everything else be directed to him, though. Don't stop having fun, though. Besides, without temporary earthly satisfaction, most of us would feel like doing God's work is all drudgery and hate it.

We could learn something from prayer. When people die, it should not be sad for the person, though. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. They are at peace now. On to their next adventure. It was meant to be, and you were meant to have faith that they are with God now. But the hole a dead person leaves in their absence cannot be filled. That is why the Judeo-Christian-Muslim practice of prayer is great. Talk to the person as if they are still alive, it helps. Believing is seeing, not the other way around. Ghosts and paranormal communication can be true whether they are in the form of a person, in the form of energy, or come to you in your dreams. It is possible souls stay on earth to tend after their kids and grandkids. As long as you believe they can hear you, it is healthy because it is a release. Death is final. Suffering is not. Be happy they no longer suffer. Don't suffer yourself in their stead. They don’t want you to be sad, anyway. Death is inevitable and unpredictable; so why should we pretend it is not? Sure, the circle of life is that first a mother bathes a child, then the other way around, but that is just an ideal instruction of nature. In reality, it is only a possibility. You need patience and discipline to deal with someone’s death, because time will explain to you the reasons they had to die, and what truth you can learn from the loss. Always have hope and faith, whether it is hope that you will see them again or that they are in a better place. Prayer will help the time pass. Same with meditation. Just thinking about what the death means to you, and writing it down, and talking about it. It all helps. Just don’t get stuck in a bad attitude about death, and don’t relive the moment over and over. Remember to be here now. Life is a relationship between you and God first, whatever God is to you. You don’t need anyone, anyway. You are self-sufficient and independent and yet a part of you is in everyone else as well. You mourn the pieces of you in the person that you lost, yet you can have them back again. Embody what made that person great. Meditation, at least one form of it, teaches that when we die our souls go back to zero, from which it came. When we live, we see everything came from the same zero, the same source. When we die, we will be as once back at zero, at nothingness. Death is then cohesive, is it not? Yet we can get so wrapped up in this life, by the infinite possibilities it provides your finite body, you can rush and try to do everything, know everything, conquer everything, obtain everything for yourself in your selfish desires. But you must slow down- the whole world could be at your feet and you wouldn’t be satisfied. That is because without God, life is empty. No money can fill it. If you meditate and focus all your thoughts on God, on everything about your love and truth and beauty in yourself and your life; on everything about the connectivity of us all and underlying equality of how our lives is not all there is, it is made by God and God is inside of it; that when you die you know will not worry anymore and be totally satisfied because you will finally be pure Love, Truth and Beauty, it helps. The idea of death should be liberating, not a burden. Or you can focus on just one thought about anything, it helps when you meditate. You can think too much and have a million thoughts. You just need to focus on a Zen koan or try to meditate on nothingness or repeat a mantra or repeat “Be Here Now” or whatever helps you reach temporary inner peace independently of anything else. Getting high is temporary but faith is a permanent high, it is just forgotten as you get really into what you are doing and being. Remember your intent is to do everything for the Most High. These truths are a valuable lesson of Eastern Religions that complements the Western Religion prayer. And what can we learn from the so-called pagan religions? Let’s look at science. Yes, the earth should be worshipped. Yes, the universe should be worshipped. Yes, the animals should be worshipped. Yes, human’s body and minds and achievements should be worshipped. The divine is in all of these things. The universe ought to humble us. The feeling of equality that God is in all of us and that we are all one ought to humble us. The truth, love and beauty outside of humanity ought to humble us. Be careful though that science and technology are responsible and respect that miracles happen and that there is a metaphysical divine out there. And what of the “primitive religions”, in which people dance around a fire? Dancing is a great form of exercise, but it is an art tpp. You can achieve divine trances through the form of dance, just as in another other activity you put your heart into and that structures body and mind into harmony. Even sex can be divine art. Music and dance can be just as holy as the clergy, just as mathematical and scientifically structured as a lab experiment or complex math problem.

Calls for a stable government-

Anything made can be stolen, and by polarizing a country into political parties, we make the presidency that much more valuable and therefore more coveted come election time, triggering criminal outbursts of competition. WAKE UP WORLD, isn't it time we stopped polarizing and try to reconcile our differences BEFORE election year? And it only gets worse in 3-rd world countries where they are polarized not just by political parties, but by tribes, which is family, and thus it is easier to kill for your family's proud name. Can we not look at each other and see an opposing clan or tribe, and instead see a brother or sister??

Calls for peaceful religions,

You know the song "Imagine" by John Lennon? Well, try the "what ifs" the song suggests: no hell below us, no heaven above us, no borders to kill for, a brotherhood of man, sharing all the world. That doesn't mean burn the Torah, the Bible, or the Qur’an; it means RESPECT. People need something to be passionate about, and when they invest it into a sports team, a political leader, their flag, their ethnic heritage, their religion or whatever, that's okay, TO A POINT. People need to realize that their way isn't the only way, they need to stop becoming fanatics! People have so much invested in their corporations, their last names, their social status, their money!!!, and everything else. They do what is called "dichotomize" (a fancy word for "polarize") the world- "us vs. them", "good vs. evil", our truth vs. their lies. But "nobody's right if everybody's wrong". So we need to respect the fact HUMANITY is DIVINE- and to kill anyone out of hatred makes us hypocrites.

NO ONE IS HOLIER THAN ANYONE ELSE.

If everyone realized that we are all Sacred Souls on a Sacred Journey, they could better respect themselves and respect other people too.

But, going TOO HIGH, people become egotistical, overly proud, cocky, and demonize others. They disassociate themselves from the evils of the world, ignore the fact that we are all Holy, and act like other people don't matter, they are just means to an end, and that end is usually MONEY, or the FULFILLING of a PROPHECY...

Going TOO LOW,
People disrespect themselves. They feel worthless, have low self-esteem, and feel as though they are incomplete and need drugs or peers to vindicate their respectability. I tell you- NEVER MEASURE YOUR WORTH BY OTHER PEOPLE'S STANDARDS. This leads to the problem of the need for SOLIDARITY- where do I fit in? What group, what crowd can I "LOSE MYSELF" in? A social clique, a football team, a religious organization, an extremist circle, a club, a political party, a crew, a music scene...the list goes on. People NEED solidarity, but they TAKE IT TOO FAR- they lose their identity and cannot think for themselves because THEY DON'T WANT TO.

In the MIDDLE is self-love and respect, which must be realized before anyone else can be loved and respected. This may be the hardest part for those told they were born into sin, that they are stupid, that they will always be imperfect, that they are wrong, that they are too weak. Maybe they aren’t told it, maybe they tell it to themselves. Overcome doubt, I say. It is your greatest prisoner.

Now thinking for yourself is the HARDEST thing you could ever do. Allow me to posit the existential theory to you: life has no meaning besides the one YOU give it. Nothing is right or wrong, good or bad, just or unjust. Only in death exists the world of the ABSOLUTE, but right now here on earth we are in a place of polarization, of RELATIVITY. Opposites must exist to balance out each other, there can be no concept of good without a concept of bad. It is up to you to make your personal decisions about what you believe is Right or Wrong- these decisions paint a picture of yourself, and if you don't like it, you are free to start again. But don't take any knowledge for granted. Question everything, especially your authorities. You must realize that nobody is stupid or worthless, and nobody is inversely of grander quality or more holy than thou. We need to stop believing people who tell us which other people go to hell, who tell us who is evil, who tell us they are more of an authority on God than anyone else. God is inside of all of us. God speaks through all religions, at all times, not just in the desert 2,000 years ago. The "religious elite" is limited and often shortsighted. And you atheists who close yourselves off to ever having a divine experience will never have a divine experience as long as you close yourselves off. Atheists and religious extremists alike, you think you know everything, but you don't. Nobody does. Do you realize how much we take on faith, just because someone told us it was true? Jesus was right, Buddha was right, Marx was right about a lot of things, Nietzsche was right about a lot of things, Freud was right about a lot of things, Martin Luther King was right, Pope John Paul II was right, anyone who preached compassion and open-mindedness and broke taboo barriers was right to that extent. Maybe you can't handle studying every religion simultaneously, and that's okay; focus on one but know its texts should not be taken always literally because it was created by a particular civilization in a particular place at a particular time. There are no dogmas. There is only your choices, your decisions, your thoughts, words and actions. At least handle the fact religion and science can co-exist, and should, should the world want to be stable. Respect the fact everyone has God in them- their personal TRUTH, their personal LOVE, their personal BEAUTY; we are the highest idea we can have of ourselves. Our attitudes should be positive, we should not be afraid of death. We should be afraid of living a life thinking we know everything or know nothing. We should not fear our fellow man. We should do everything we can to look at the individual and not see them as just “The bad guy”. Criticize not a person, but their words and actions. Lead by example.

I call for social institutions and governments to stop imposing moral will on other people. That means legalize drugs, prostitution and do not ban abortion or the right for gays to marry. Listen, I think drugs tend to do more harm than good, but they can be very helpful at breaking down walls of thought that block certain parts of reality from coming in. They can be spiritual too. But yes, they can be abused, and can harm the body, and some drugs are just extreme in themselves. But you don't tell someone not to buy a gun because there's a chance they could kill themselves with it, do you? You let people make their own mistakes, with their god-given free will. Plus, the fact that drugs are illegal, (the same goes for prostitution), it makes it more dangerous and supplies gangs with a revenue to buy guns and be all macho and territorial with their cowboy drug trade, causing more and more deaths. And stop drug testing- that is a huge disrespect of a person's privacy, and it also demonizes people. Maybe we can come up with a way drugs can be legal and distributed safely. And abortion- you can be pro-life and pro-choice.(I wrote an article on this and will post it soon)

I call for education to include classes on self-esteem, independence, and responsibility. Half as many people wouldn't even be doing drugs or joining gangs or causing wars or exploiting the poor or the earth's resources if they had proper education. Yes, I am calling for FAITH IN SCHOOLS, because secularism is just as bad as its opposite. Faith and spirituality are important for good health and awareness of realities we cannot see. People have got to stop taking this so seriously. Speaking of being serious, people need to be able to laugh at themselves, at their leaders, at the history of their families or themselves or their religions or things they can't control. We should emphasize a reconciliation of all religions in the classroom by taking parallel teachings and combining them with metaphysics and general teachings to make society more cohesive. That means that a kid whose dad is a drunken Catholic bigot goes to school and learns something his dad would find radical, but his dad is outdated, and no matter what school his dad tries to send him to, the kid will be taught the same values and goals everywhere. What good is classes on skills such as math, science, English and whatnot if a kid is depressed, antagonistic or confused? If he kills himself or gets himself killed, wasn't the other supposedly more important classes just a waste of time? Nonjudgmental, open-minded teachers and counselors should always be at hand. Also, technical skills like car mechanics and computer programming, cooking, basic car, home and garden maintenance and practical courses should be available to all students. Not everyone is meant to go to college, but there should always be affordable education should they desire it. That's right, stop raising the fucking tuition. Lower it. Drastically. Motherfuckers. Too many people have no common sense, which is why some of these skills should be required. Health classes where you learn CPR and other important things should be everywhere, not just in school. Same with all of these things I’m saying. Also, people need to learn street smarts, because there will always be hustlers and scammers and liars and bullies. Listen, education should not be forced upon people. I’m saying all these classes should be required in every school and community, but school itself should not be. People have to want to learn to learn something. If a person is just really good at selling things, capitalize on that. He shouldn’t be pressed for details in learning algebra or English, he should focus on his merchandizing skills so he doesn't become a drug dealer or hustler as his only outlet. Learning should be fun. School shouldn’t be an unfriendly environment. Each student should be able to write their judgments of schools.

You can’t punish someone to teach them a lesson either. A lot of crimes are committed as outlets, some people need forms of release. Boxing is healthy because street fights tend to be unfair. Exercise is good for the body and mind- it helps the immune system and the self-esteem, which are the body’s best defenses. Emphasize exercise for people’s happiness in their own minds, not as a means to the end that other people will find them sexy or scary. Holistic medicine is important too. We have something to learn- everybody is different, that is, EVERY BODY is different. And everymind is different too! Some people are deficient in certain health areas other people take for granted. Each person should have their own affordable set of vitamins and personal health trainer instead of all these pills for depression and anxiety and aggression. Education of the mind and the body should not be imposed on people, but once they get sad, it should be the first direction society points them in, not in the direction of pills or ice cream or weed or heroin or whatever as an escape. It is so easy to be attached to things, and that defeats the purpose of life, the point being to end all unnecessary suffering, which means stopping unnecessary attachment. In the back of everyone’s mind, society’s voice of reason needs to be saying “God gave you all you need in your willpower and intuition and through the education of those who have followed the same path and are now wise. You don’t need anything or anyone really, just the divinity of conscientiousness, of a passionate work you don’t half-step with, of knowing you are God and so is everyone else. At your best you are Truth, Love, and Beauty, there is no need for anything else”. That way when the going gets tough, the person knows there are places to go to release all the negative emotions that they can’t help but feel. If they want to try psychoactive drugs, fine, at least society will teach them the proper and safe way to handle them without abusing them. But it needs to be coupled with inspiration, which comes from the aforementioned affirmation, as well as physical release, such as aggressive or sexual outlets that virtual reality or safe and orderly institutions can provide.

When people commit crimes, the crime should fit the punishment. Duh. Whoever thought of taking violent and nonviolent offenders off the street, mixing them together in an institution and expected them to play nice? Obedience is for the birds. Free will is where it’s at. You either chose to do something because you want to do it, or you are coerced with a frickin gun to your head (real or a mental rule you self-impose that isn’t really real). If your attitude is, “I’m not going to learn,” you will not learn because you already made up your mind. That’s a self-imposed gun to the head. You talked yourself out of doing it way before you even did it, so when it came time to learn, you didn't give it your heart. If someone forces you to do something though, that just causes resentment or some kind of Stockholm syndrome. Everyone resents their parents to a point. And if someone has blind obedience, they, the sheep, are like Nazi robots who would kill a messenger of God if their pastor told them to, because they are close-minded and too stubbornly stick to what other people say or to dogma. They would sacrifice free will for security, for order. People want order, like I said before. They seek solidarity. They like to put things in nice, neat little boxes and organize everything in the world. If they think they know everything, or their leader knows everything, then they are surely ignorant. They need to know that even though thinking for themselves and defining their own reality is hard, it is better than being under the tyranny of a dictator. Why did the Germans follow Hitler? For many reasons, but for one, Hitler provided a sense of all-knowingness, of order, of stability. They sacrificed the principles of compassion and the divine being in everyone for the order that a gang mentality provides. The same goes for the Italians under Mussolini; they were so disillusioned with the way things were prior to having someone to tell them what to do that they mostly followed him blindly. Russia right now longs for a dictator like Lenin, because at least then, there was order. But not everyone in these countries wanted this, and some were made the scapegoats of disorder by way of polarization. It wasn’t fair that everyone had to follow the dictator of the masses who had not faith, hope or trust that everything would work out fine without their liberties being restricted by an oppressive government. The kind of longing for order happens in prison, too. Some prisoners want to go back to prison because they can’t adjust to the real world after being in prison for too long. They miss the order of a scheduled life where someone always told them what to do. Some people are like this with religion- their Bible doesn't answer everything, and they start to question it, but long for its security. These kind of people need an ideology, and are precisely the kind of people who need God- the God that is inside of them. They need to realize it. Society doesn't want them to see it. As long as society hides everyone’s inner God, they can keep selling them beauty supplies, fake breasts, fast food, sports cars, video games, and all these other things advertisers claim we need. And these corporations that provide these things, these Paxils, these vehicles of escape, these weight loss pills, they pay off the politicians when they lobby them. You see, the whole system is screwed up, from start to finish. Organized religion lowers some people’s self esteem and raises other’s too high; people take school spirit or sports too far and represent their cities or towns to the point of real rivalries; the rich white men who own corporations need there to be a division of rich and poor so they can hold on to their luxury; the politicians impose their beliefs on the people by demonizing non-violent criminals; the police and teachers and politicians and CEOs and religious leaders get corrupted with power and authority to hold on to the ORDER of the STATUS-QUO. They cannot see past their own selves and their needs. They feel empty and try to fill that hole with money.

To Americans concerned with war
We were are really in Iraq-
Bush vendetta against Saddam for assassination plot on elder Bush? I need to look into this
Oil- Exxon profits
McDonalds and other corporations profit from stable Westernized country
Corporate war profiteering: Private sector gets in on action- Blackwater, Halliburton, Lockheed Martin = Military-Industrial Complex (the man behind the curtain?)

I call on the justice system to focus on rehabilitation. We’ve all seen that show on MTV called Fear, where hardenened cons in prison for life talk to juvenile delinquents about how stupid it is to get into a life of crime. It scares the shit out of the kids. That’s not what I would focus on. What’s important is that the cons speak the kids language. A nerdy psychologist isn’t going to have any affect on the fallacy of gang life, but an ex-gang banger is going to be able to get his message across to a kid about how stupid it is to be in a gang. If a young man murders someone else in a gang fight, because maybe the kid has no parents, or has parents but they're gangsters, or because his parents just don’t give a shit about the kid, the kid looks to his gang as his family. He will die for his gang and kill for his gang. He’s a product of his environment, but he still can be reached. He needs an ex-gang banger and he needs to relocate. I’m not saying imprison the kid for gang activity. But people don’t tend to change unless an equal or greater force comes along an presents a contradiction in peoples lives to make the change- and there is always some form of inertia to the gang banger who isn’t a sociopath. He shouldn’t be in prison; he should be in gangster-rehab. Prisons are just havens for gangs right now. The kid needs books, the kid needs to direct his passions and knowledge elsewhere, the kid needs a new home and people who are willing to live him despite his past. But he also, most importantly, needs someone who’s been down his road before and can teach him the fallacy of gang life. How can you call yourself a human and demand respect, yet you kill another man when he disrespects you because you dehumanize him with labels, with polarization, with stereotypes and assumptions and misperceptions and straight lies. To get out of the gang life or the criminal life involves a spiritual change- spiritual in the sense that the criminal learns to see past the dichotomy of “us vs. them” and into “we are all us”- and looks and sees an individual who isn’t too different from them. He needs to see that everybody is sacred and therefore unworthy of harm. And he needs an ex-criminal to help him on his journey. Also, he needs the family and friends of the person he killed to assert the pain he caused them. He must learn, by himself and not because anyone forces him to, that he should feel guilty for the rest of his life. Yet he must also learn to forgive himself and love himself again despite the past. He must not be let out of rehab until he years to redeem himself until the day he dies.

The problem with criminals is that if crime and their block is all they know, they won’t know how to exist elsewhere, in a different environment, doing a different job. They have to want to get out to get out; they have to want to change to change. Old friends will try to call them back, or the allure of the game will keep callin their name. Criminals and drug addicts are often very clever in their money making schemes. Sometimes they hustle just because they can show off their skills. They can easily turn into artists and tell their story, but rappers tend to glorify their past. Still, rap is a great outlet, the perfect medium for urban youth. But there needs to be a change in career coupled with a change in spirit, a change in attitude. If someone burns down a pizza place, the punishment should fit the crime- he should rebuild the building himself and with a construction crew who he is in debt to, and he also owes the pizza place for loss of revenue. Sure, the man who burned it down will be in debt, but he will be taking responsibility for his action. But should he be forced under penalty of law to rebuild it? What if he refuses? The people who he harmed, like in an intervention, will one by one tell the arsonist how his actions hurt their business. The arsonist will also have a rehab where he will talk with other ex-criminals and with volunteers who all try to inspire conscientiousness in the arsonist. You see, usually people can be reached if you show them the consequences of their actions to its full extent, and they see the contradiction- either I am a responsible person and I take responsibility for my actions, or I am selfish because I hurt people without compensating them; I cannot be one or the other. The person stays in rehab until he realizes what is the right thing to do. This may involve psychologists bringing up issues of how his parents raised him, this may involve him reading a lot of books, this may involve him talking to people who rehab volunteers found by trial and error to speak the arsonist’s language. This isn’t prison because the arsonist will be there for however long it takes for him to be fit for society. But until he is rehabilitated on his own terms, he is too dangerous for society. This is the only exception to the rule of coercion. A criminal will have people trying to help him see the error of his ways whether he likes it or not. Even a murderer, like I said before, except for a murderer the punishment is harder to fit the crime. That’s why there should be a two-fold rehab program for them- 1) the family and friends of the deceased assert their pain to the murderer, and 2) a rehabilitated murderer who has the same fundamental background attempts to discuss the error of the murderer’s ways by speaking to him in a language he understands the two choices: burden to society or conscientiousness. But some people lack empathy- they don’t have the part of their brain that contains it. They can’t control it, they have no free will in the matter, so they can never be reached. These are the type of people for which the insanity plea was developed- they don’t know right from wrong. People who hear voices or have irrational urges to rape kids- nothing will stop them because they are messed up in the head and can’t control themselves. They have no free will, and must be kept away from society for their entire lives, but not killed. They are like animals- they aren’t cold-blooded killers but just don’t feel any emotions over hurting others. They are the Jeffrey Dahmers. The serial killers who kill for pleasure. Now there is a difference between them and sociopaths- the latter don’t feel any emotion as well, but these guys kill for profit and not pleasure. They feel no emotions over murder, not because they got used to it, but because they are messed up in the head as well. They are like animals as well, but they are out to make a living and kill anything that crosses them. They are the Tony Sopranos. They might even have a code. But they don’t look for people to kill, they just want to be secure in their wealth and power and status. They couldn't care less if someone else died, but they cannot be reached because the part of their brains that control empathy are not working properly. They can’t control the fact they don’t feel any emotion, so it’s not their fault because they have no free will. They are clever and can blend it with society a lot more easily than serial killers. They see people’s reactions to killing so they know it’s wrong to the extent society tells them it’s wrong, but they could never figure it out for themselves. All the psychology, all the ex-con mentors, all the books and all the spirituality in the world can’t help these two kinds of people- serial killers and sociopaths. But it can help the gangster who is capable of empathy. CAT scans and other tests can discern between the sociopath and the common gangster. Most people are not sociopaths, thank the Lord. Rehab for criminals should work. Then of course is the final class of criminals- those otherwise conscientious men who kill out of anger in the heat of the moment. They come home, see their wives cheating; they are in the bar fight and just looking to defend themselves and then snap. These people will realize almost immeditately that their murders are wrong. They need help forgiving themselves and redeeming themselves; trying to prevent themselves from making the same mistake again. So we have the three forms of murders: those who kill for solidarity out of loyalty (in a gang, whether it be a drug gang or a family gang or a sports team gang or just a friend gang), those who kill for profit in satisfaction (sociopaths and psycho killers), and those who kill in the heat of the moment. The first set needs to be institutionalized, not in the formal prison we know today, but a through a rehab program focused on the individual; the second set needs to be locked away in a maximum security hospital forever; the third set need to forgive themselves and work hard never to make the same mistake. Hence there should be no more death penalty and no more prisons, just rehabilitation programs. Nonviolent criminals should not go to jail either- they should be in debt to the person they offended. Rapists should get rehab as well, if their brains are normal; that is, if they are capable of empathy. But in the new society, they should be able to relieve themselves with virtual reality or with organizations where someone who wants to be raped can meet with them and act out their fantasies, thus eliminating rape. The only other form of rape left would be those guys who want what they can’t have, so they rape a specific target out of resentment and spite. These people need the rehab but a part of me says they should also be raped themselves, or sodomized or something, so they can see how it feels. But that goes against my principle, so they would be treated as murders- they stay in rehab and talk to people who have done the same crime but now know the errors of their ways, they should be informed by people who have been raped how it feels to be raped, they should by analyzed and get spiritual treatment to lead them into the direction of conscientiousness, but they cannot get out of rehab, like the murderers, until they want to be conscientiousness for goodness’ sake and wish to live their whole lives in redemption for their terrible act. Make the criminals in jail for other violent crimes go through this too instead of prison. Like I said, drugs and prostitution will be legal. But there will also be outpatient rehabs all over for drug and sex abusers who feel like they're losing control of their lives over their attachments to getting high and feeling sexual pleasure. The same goes for people who get drunk or have any kind of addiction. They should know that the rehabs will be very individual-oriented, not cold and impersonal and preachy and judgmental like I imagine they are now. Their family should constantly tell the drug or sex abuser is hurting them and stop being afraid of confronting the problem. But if the drugs or sex is only recreational, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. And if they are institutionalized, they can be managed so that a person cannot buy more than a certain amount a week and for the amount of time they have it, they have to give someone their keys, and they should also attend drug safety information classes. It’ll be like getting a gun license- the focus should be on safety, and adherence to safety regulations and mandatory meetings must be strictly enforced if the person chooses to buy the drug. The local drug dealer gets his own establishment, is chosen for his morality as if he were going to be Pope, and is part of a larger network of drug dealers who have the authority to check up on their clients whenever just to be safe and make sure they aren’t doing anything dangerous like driving. Virtual reality (like video games or even more advanced simulations) can make it seem like the person is driving or skydiving or doing whatever, they don’t actually have to be driving to enjoy their buzz even more. They could get some streets to themselves that are non-residential if they want to drive around bad enough and smoke their blunts and listen to music. There should just be a strict traffic law and no pedestrians. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes" said Gandhi- so true is it that sometimes we have to learn on our own, the hard way that we are hurting ourselves. But if we hurt other people in the process, it is only necessary we are held accountable. But the lesson is learned on our own, personally. No obedience there. I know the reason I did drugs were mostly the illusions- the illusion of coolness and happiness and order. When I should have been feeling accomplished because I was getting high whenever I wanted, I felt my lowest because I was still empty. Some illusions just have to be shattered on their own, such as drugs and sex, and rehab should provide the safety net to give the person a new direction to go to when he wants to change. Any interest will be supplied as long as it is constructive and not trivial to a person leaving an old way of life behind. Rehab can be for anyone. It will be a church, a school and a rehab all in one. No forcing of views allowed. But for violent criminals it has to be different; Gandhi said "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent". This is also true. That is why the violent criminals must be kept in rehab until they wish to live their whole lives in redemption. They say every artist makes art from what he knows, so every criminal must make a lesson to the younger generation why it is wrong to commit crimes. A seasoned criminal may be not be able to learn any new tricks, but he is so valuable if he is rehabilitated because he can reach out to people and turn them away from crime. The vital functions criminal play in the new world of conscientious consciousness is the kind of education you can’t learn in schools but is equally as important. Yes, violence can be funny, when people accidentally fall or when cartoon violence ensues. But intentional violence against an unwilling real person is never funny, though we sometimes pretend it is. It’s just a defense mechanism to deal with being desensitized to violence, which our society enables and advocates by invading other countries and bombing civilians. Violence is one of those wicked traditions passed down from generation to generation, like racial and ethnic prejudice, alcohol abuse or religious lies. Like them, violence is a disease. It spreads from parent to child, from generation to generation, trying to force us to tolerate it because viruses will do anything they can to survive. It’s true, violence is a natural human tendency like sex, because humans are half-animal. The three lower facets, the ones we share with animals, are the energy focuses of 1) survival 2) sex and 3) power relationships. But humans have the CAPABILITY to use their 1) compassion 2) wisdom 3) knowledge and 4) spiritual chakras. Animals live in the moment, they think not about the past nor worry about the future. In that sense, humans could learn a lot from animals, but we should use our 4 higher energy ports as well. The lower three are necessary for survival, and violence is important for self-defense and survival sometimes, but the question is, where do you fall on the spectrum: one on end, you use violence for pleasure, and on the other, violence is a last resort. Ideally, everyone should learn some form of self-defense fighting, safe sex, and the ability to dominate because sometimes we walk down dark alleys, have sex for the passion and intimacy, and need to control our kids or pets or stupid adults. So the lower chakras are important to focus on some times. But violence begets more violence and doesn't teach any lessons- it only causes resentment, trauma, pain and death. Disputes should be settled by evenly matched opponents in a controlled environment either by some form of boxing or martial arts that uses safety gear, or ideally by sports or some other form of competition.
So I call on society to get over its sick fascination with violence. And if you need to let out aggression, don’t do it when you're still belligerent in the heat of the moment. Walk away and calm down so you can figure out another way. Rap battles or other forms of disses are healthy too, just don’t get too personal. Virtual reality helps with this too. Like in Minority Report when the guy got to experience the sensation of killing his boss when it was just a virtual simulation. Video games are fun too, and can be effective knows right from wrong. Writing out violent fantasies can even help if the writer knows this will just hold him over till time calms the flames. Virtual or written forms of acting out fantasies would be complemented nicely by people at rehabs who want to teach lessons about forgiveness and violence, patience and discipline.

Money is the main issue here, obviously. If people were conscientious, the rich would give to the poor out of their own free will because it's the right thing to do. If you have a job, you immeditately have the opportunity to give to the needy. Why? Because no matter how much money you give out, there will always be more where it came from, because of your fixed salary. We need to ease the divide between the haves and have-nots, which is ever-increasing. You see, when it comes to one's job, they need to PUT THEIR HEART INTO IT. They need to love what they do. It needs to reflect the divine part of them. We were created with everything us everything we need- the greatest tool is our mind. We need our work, our jobs, to reflect the divine inside of us- our heart and mind (body and God) must work in harmony. Each of us possesses a divine truth. We are the product of our environment (it doesn't dominate us, but it is true), we are the synthesis of our mother and father, and the answer to one of our creator's "what if". Each of us a jig-saw puzzle piece- incomplete in knowledge. But we all have our knowledge. We all have specialized practice in some form or another- some of us can dissect a body, some a car, some a railroad track, some a computer, some the psychology of the mind, some of us can dissect a book by looking at subtexts and metaphors, others can dissect a theory real well- it all is focused and a divine skill. We need to be authentic, and not try to be like anyone else. We need to put our heart, our love, our passion into our work. If all this is done, our work will be beautiful. There is a structure to reality- some patterns exist everywhere in nature. This is proof that things happen for a reason, that there is a method to the madness of life. Out of the chaos, the blank slate, the universe, the Mother, out of God, whatever you want to call it- there exists beauty, harmony, the structured rhythm of vibrations, the melody of a language everything speaks because everything is from the same source. We need every worker in society to make beauty in their work, to put their heart into their work, to be authentic in their work- than society will reflect our creator better. People need to put their individual stamp on their work. People need to learn empathy and karma. People need to be conscientious- that is, feel important because they are divine and sacred souls on a sacred journey, and feel that others are too, without getting too egotistical.

To the fiscal conservatives and poor-people minded liberals: look into Ron Paul’s policies and debate with me what you disagree with about them. His gold-standard policy seems to be the best way to fix inflation. Paul seems to know how to fix social security. I need help from economists to argue the best policy for dealing with issues of health care. We need non-governmental organizations to call out companies that demand too much money. Universal health care- please, debate this idea. Also, Paul gives a compelling argument about how raising the minimum wage will drive up unemployment. Please check out his website and discuss.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/
This man has written books about fixing the economy. I think he knows what he’s talking about. Small government and individual freedom as well as individual accountability. Freedom without responsibility is a form of slavery. That’s where non-governmental organizations come in. They can sanction certain corporations and companies that are unfair. We don’t need government to do the job of American citizens. How can we call ourselves moral Americans and be so blind and irresponsible to the terrible practices of some companies we buy our things from? Or to just sit aside and let the government screw us over with income taxes, the Federal Reserve, NAFTA, and social security we won’t even get? It’s time for us to rise up because our generation is THE generation that will bear the burden of social security and not get any for ourselves. WE suffer and no one else. WE ARE AMERICA. WE ARE THE POLICE. WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. WE ARE THE COMMUNITIES. WE ARE INDIVIDUALS, first and foremost. We are social individuals, but we are individuals first and foremost. Please join the cause!

I am calling for the social conservatives to read what I say specifically in my post On Homosexuality. Social liberals have it right in my opinion. God gave us free will, and if you're afraid of what you don’t understand, it doesn't give you a right to try to control it if it isn’t physically hurting anyone…and involves consent.

That is the Manifesto of the Holy Revolution