Saturday, July 18, 2009

Think And The World Thinks With You

Imagine there is no heaven. It’s easy. Give it a try. No hell. Except in your own mind. Above you, before you, only dreams.

You are what you think. You made your life by thinking it so. Nightmares are only in your mind. Mind as creator… Life as mirror. You thinking. Life reflecting.

You can say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not alone. You’re here. We’re all in this kitchen sink soup together. The world can live as one… We just need a wake up call. Pour the coffee into the sink…

Bastardizing John Lennon as my iPod plays.

Man. I miss that man. What the world could have been like if we’d had our great poet and activist to help guide us through these times… Composing and singing us into action against injustice. Who, old enough to remember, couldn’t just sit down and cry for that terrible day the music was murdered in prime time?

Why does the world kill genius? Why does it kill heroes, people who fight for right, justice and truth, and pave new paths for humanity to step up to higher levels of consciousness? Fear?

Why do we set people up on pedestals and then spend the rest of the time trying to knock them off? Do we try to bring them down to the level we think we occupy, so we won’t be challenged or have to strive to be better? Fear?

How much of the mind is genetic make up and how much formed from experience? I know fear is essential for human survival and therefore built into the brain. If we didn’t fear, we might not get out of the way of that Mack truck.

But, is fear and feelings of inadequacy mostly just learned? I mean when it’s not about survival. Can it be passed down from inadequate feeling ancestors? Or is it imprinted from bad parenting and bad experiences?

I’ve seen some very inadequate human specimens who feel far beyond their actual value. Case in point, our last administration in D.C. And I’ve seen wonderful humans totally self-denigrate and waste talents. I’ve seen beautiful individuals who apparently have no mirrors. I’ve seen very unattractive folks who also, apparently, don’t use mirrors.

Are we pavlovianly trained in youth? Is it a mind warp? Are minds telling some that they are not up to snuff due to someone's input or do genes work in there? Or are we all a mish-mash, potpourri of nature/nurture? A little of this, a little of that, and you have a tangled web of thinking guiding some minds into dark mires, and others into limelights, where others can throw rocks at them.

Due to good folks not stepping up and not such good folks thinking they must step up as a favor to all, our world is driven by the ego-driven, clueless ones who seek attention, power for their own sakes, missing the real point entirely. Thus, the shape of our world…

All priorities skewed to make the rich richer with slaves to help their selfish ends. Do the slaves need more stones? Or are they feeling too inadequate to throw them?

Where are you, John? Man. We miss you. I think we need you now more than ever. Come back! It's such a long, winding road... We just need a little truth... Please, sing us back to some semblance of sanity. Help us imagine a world with love. It's all we need.

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