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Greetings All,
If you are reading this ezine, you have much for which to be grateful. I’m ever more grateful that I am breathing, sitting in a comfortable office, expecting phone calls, and have prepared food ready to eat if I take it out of the fridge, that is.
I feel I’m running around, chasing a bubble that burst in 2001. I imagine that dreamy orb; I want to catch up with it, climb back in, and fall asleep. Instead, my lively curiosity swells fascinated.
Inside what appears as maelstroms of unpeace, superstition, and hunger is our staying awake to care for one another. Here are some reminders of our empathy, and the elegance out of which they are created.
We breathe and move and gawk in such an exquisitely thoughtful universe that to consider it is a boggling distraction. Within our universe, we possess astounding and unknowable capacities for discerning choice and intention; for sensing what seems meaningful and fair; for declaring we are doing the best we can. We still must remind ourselves, one reminder at a time: You are my sisters and brothers.
Gawking has become one of my favorite words to describe Earthlings. Gawking seems to be what we were created to do, as well as attend to the creation into which we’ve shown up. But, how much longer can we survive on gawking? I recently heard about neoteny (nee-ah’-teh-nee), and here’s its simple definition.
Some developmental biologists explain neoteny a process by which a species’ adults tend to retain traits observed only in juveniles.
Physiological or somatic development of an animal or organism can be slowed or delayed.
Ultimately, neoteny results in retentions of juvenile (intellectual, psychological) characteristics well into physical maturity.
It appears (some, most, all) humans live entire lives thoughtlessly gawking. Humans are the only species that can language their stunningly prime amnesic trait, a tendency for
Stupefaction: A glorified, arrogant sense of satisfaction while at best only marginally conscious.
Usurped Survival
If we are staying awake, we can’t help but notice world wide governances appear to be aged in their preteens. Apparently, they’re satisfied with their level of preteen competence. They’ve been bequeathed millenniums of their forerunners’ fear-based psychology, and continue usurped survival of citizenries including children.
In its numerous traditionalisms of macabre intent, religion has openly become governments’ intent, and the profane ‘you are with us or not’ exclusivity ever more obvious. Within industrialized circles of exalted preteenaged males, their majesties wink and nod at each other in stupefied fashion. Let’s call those exalted males international lords cloaked in profiteering ideologies, protecting their own survivals as their forerunners did.
This is not supposed to be discussed, but their lordships only pretend to oppose other lordships to whom they secretly owe a disingenuous allegiance, usually interest due on fraudulent loans for combats’ machineries and accessories.
Further, after the already stupefied public learns of the lordships’ attempts to balk judicial systems, a couple of days later, the lordships toss into the main stream media still another press release; another fallacious distraction aptly insinuated as ‘control the population by monolithic fear’ threats, and more fear-laden presumptions about nations’ security. There’s a sort of 48-hour rhythm to their lordships’ alerts colored orange or red or whatever — they know we’re not naïve to historical repeats of such machinations since World War Two.
Are we humans so detached from the workings of our imaginations that we've forgotten everything under the sun has been made up? What can Earthlings be trained not to believe?
By artificial, farcical religious timetables, most lords deploy armed toys against populaces and their infrastructures. To what end, in gamy bacchanalian fashion, but to end lives of women, their children, and other men? And, we call world leaders our elected high officials? whose preteen, sinister goals are right in our faces?
Unethical, unconscionable stratagems have been their lordships’ barbarous contributions to a cosmology that, for thousands of years, has separated humans from the deep and full satisfaction of being part of Universe and its creation. The best we can say for sheeple as a whole is we’ve been caged, then dressed up stupefied with no place to go.
If both genders of the human species show neotenous tendencies, that would include us, dear readers. Helping to end Earthlings’ usurped survival will probably take a grand exercise (of which we yet imagine language or vision) in human consciousness. What may be apparent is the next unimaginable consciousness showing up in an twinkling of an eye, or in a thousand years. Earthlings cannot continue perishing in usurped survivals, or there might not be any of either.
We Three Kings
Oh, yes, let’s be reminded that about one-half of the whole of Earthlings expect their certain Abrahamic messiah, Judaic, Christitanic, or Islamic, to appear and upgrade justice, and who knows what else. Under their guiding star, those three messiahs could arrive proclaiming themselves ‘we three kings,’ bearing gifts to bestow on their corporations. Those three kings will likely not change anything at all, except hurt themselves by tossing their nooses around each others’ necks.(*)
We taxpaying hirelings can expect a male messiah to be glorified and fought over only by other exclusive lordships. Can we Earthlings expect anything different from what we’ve already endured with masculine leadership since the formation of the civilized state? Shouldn’t we? Or, is that the definition of insanity?
I, for one, hope I’m around to witness the next fortuitous arrangement of DNA. The loss of kings, lords, barons, bishops, popes, godfathers, messiahs, saviors (and, autocrats, aristocrats, bureaucrats, corporatocrats, cosmocrats, kleptocrats, phallocrats, plutocrats, republicrats, theocrats) would be a step in the right direction for a peaceful Earth. Until then, we’ll likely endure more emboldened, religious pretense and spins on scripture, concealing pimped management of those three kings’ predicted preposterous swindles.
Remember Your Body
…and, read, read, read, and keep reading especially materials with which you may disagree. Stay close to your body, remain aware of your sensibilities, and keep an eye on your ever ready tendency to imagine something thoughtlessly imagined impossible. Consider it your job to remember your body, and expect those “Surprise!” unexpected moments that gladden and guide you.
There’s a sensibility, or rather a deep archetypal tendency that’s inherent at birth: The infant keeps asking, ‘Where is she? Where is she? Where is she?’ Studies imply that a baby is born with that one intent in mind. As the babe is bathed and coddled and fed and played with, the tendency to love is activated in the babe by its mother.
After a few years of growth, a child can become bereft and confused when left in an unfamiliar home or institution. Her parents have left her behind for some reason. The little girl feels abandoned, there’s no cuddling, nor any of the usual love at meal times. The child doesn’t know what to do, and doesn’t know what she did to justify being left behind. She cries, yells, trying to stay awake to the invisible call of survival only to relinquish an inner instinct while staring through a window, motionless. She had succumbed to lethargy and apathy, or perish in grief.
Wanting to make up with the little girl, the parents return with smiles and gifts and loving words. But, the little girl no longer sees her parents. Her feelings of a lovable and approachable world had already been covered over. She couldn't remember her body.
I think that’s happened to humans. Millennium after millennium after millennium, who has been trained by a scorched consciousness; an unethical, inhumane cosmology? Our personal cosmology is supposed to remind us of Universe and Earth out of which we were birthed. Perhaps, too many Earthlings are marginally conscious of the deep vast vision present for us to fall in love with; too many of us have been trained to negate or dismiss our luminous relationship with Universe.
When wisdom of the universe's sacredness has been awakened in the human, who or what activates the awakening? During those moments we think we’re in awe of Universe, who or what mothers and nurtures that moment of awe? Are we not haunted by a luminous presence, a melody Earthlings are not yet ready to sing?
It’s likely U.S. residents are grieving the loss of what was at best a nation with a history of marginally conscious leadership. One day, ethics may be an anchor for cosmology for the rest of our days shared with our global sisters and brothers.
At this moment, I’m supposing the best we can do is climb back into and stay in our bodies. Taking a deep breath is to remember your body. Share your presence with others who enjoy your fun, your cajoling; listen to your sensibilities, and glee in your intuitive insights. Perhaps, that’s all we could have done: to joyously surrender our bodies to Universe and Earth out of which we were birthed.
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In the next Staying Awake, we explore astrophysicists’ forecast of Sun’s entry into its cycle 24.
Staying Awake :: an ezine with your awareness in mind