I had heard about it before, keeping an eye on things 'Right' and 'Left' as I do. In my mind it had disappeared onto a back shelf, with the entry into my current awareness of all the other more recent material out, going into the same sort of subject area: the area of Obama's ties to 'Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists' (the subtitle), and also of his ineligibility for the presidency, and all the coverup of his true identity going on regarding that specific issue. But I was happy to 'slow down' a little, in terms of current reality, and take a glance through the past, as it were. And I'm glad I did, and that WND sent me this 'blast from' that past. Because it brought up again for me, to frontal view, my unhappiness with the educational system in America, and its perversion into just being an ideological seller of goods, rather than for its true sake, of educare - i.e., drawing forth from within.
The book - as with 'Red Army' - brings up the subject of the socialist takeover of the educational system in America. Something about that really disturbs me. Something sacred is offended by it. It's the same, in fact, as with the profession of journalism; the perversion of the 'sacredness' of which has nearly equally offended me. As also with science. It's a mater of the fundamental importance of information in our lives.
Let me take a moment with the area of journalism first. Example. A year or so ago I recall reading in an issue of NEXUS Magazine - an alternative magazine of much importance in today's world of mainstream information control, from both the Left and the Right - about the investigative journalists of a TV station in Florida who ran with a well-researched story about the dangers of adding a growth hormone to milk, and were slapped down for it, comparatively mildly at first, but to the point, finally, of the corporate world buying the station and firing them. And so forth; horror story after horror story of the Right's control of information. Yes; and of the Left. But with the likes of the lack of info about GM products, and other 'economic' issues: I am most unhappy with corporate control of the media. The honorable profession of journalism is sorely lacking these days.
But I am also particularly unhappy with the Left's control of the previously honorable profession of education. And because of that control, the Right starts getting into that area now, and wants their2 point of view inculcated, in so-called charter schools and such. And so the battle goes, Right and Left slugging it out. People, people: Education is not supposed to be an ideologue's battlefield. It is supposed to be a drawing-out from the individual, in learning more about themselves and their world, and helping them find their best area of contribution towards making a better world.3
But I do accept that we're living - currently - in a world of dualism, i.e. to say, in part, a world of competing interests And that in itself is a form of educare. So I accept that. But it's so frustrating, to live in a culture where things are so perverted, to different ends. We need to start pulling together, in common cause, to a common end: the 'end' of a transformation of consciousness, out of the mindset of dualism - of parts competing with each other - into a mindset of unity: of the whole pulling together, to unfold our common potential, as sparks of the one divine Source.
And we need to stop looking outside of ourselves for that accomplishment, and the spark to set it off. We are the sparks.
It is unwise to just keep waiting for someone or something else to make a move to set things right. You are the ones you have been waiting for And you will know that, if you listen deeply enough.
The ideological individuals on the Left and the Right are just playing their parts, in the unfolding of consciousness to a higher, unitary level now. Have been doing so. It is up to you to start playing yours now. The you that you have a been waiting for.
In this whole process there is also - has been - the element of Dark and Light. A word of advice: the Dark (on both the 'Left' and the 'Right') gives us the opportunity to grow. For that, we can give thanks. Not to the Dark itself. That is just a role. To honor it for itself is to honor a mirage; and a not-nice one at that.
It is just a means to an end. Not an end in itself. As it has become, for some souls that have become trapped in its energy field; held by its gravity. As for them, I say - after subjecting them to the human justice processes (including a Truth And Reconciliation process): Leave them to heaven. And get on with your own process, of educare.
In summary; and for Americans today:
In a constitutional republic - where the government is of, by, and for the people; not special interests - the people limit the government. In the quasi-socialist system we have today, the government limits us; and is trying to 'evolve' - from both the Left and the Right's perspectives - into a fuller such system, to do more and more controlling of the people. And that will happen - to either side of the current dualistic political fence - if we give in to its siren song of dependency.
We need to become masters of our own destinies. And starting now.
A good bit of advice from the past: He who hesitates is lost.
And now, I need to get lost in some heavy-duty reading...
...because if I hesitate, I'll be lost, all right: under a big pile of pending reading material. And it's just going to keep building up on me. Because I'm a sucker for continuing to be drawn out......even at my ripe old age.
Apparently - according to my understanding of such things - it never ends.
We keep being subject to the spirit of educare until we reach total Unity with the One.
And even then - who knows??
The answer must be in some book somewhere.
Unless it's just in the inner book, of Life, and our interfacing with it...
...if the damn ideologues would just get out of the way......
and let us just serve the Purpose of it All.
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footnotes:1 by USPS; a new wrinkle to me, newly arrived back in my home country as I am. I see that UPS is being given a run for its money, as it were. Good on the US Postal Service for coming up with an innovation in their 'service', in their attempts to compete in the modern world. There's even a better way of being; but that's for another time.
2 not just 'its': there are several pov's from the Right, including the religious 'one'. Or two. Or three...
3 As my old high school motto said, over the entranceway: Enter To Learn Go Forth To Serve.
And still says, I have discovered, in taking the bus past it one day recently; back into my past, of growing up in 1940s and '50s America.
A lost era, now; in more ways than one......
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