Why 'Race' Is Fiction - by Bonnie Greer on HuffPo
(My comments don't follow the form and its associated meanings in the world so much as seek to uncover the active mentality that underlies all such symptoms as racism)
Comment 1:
There is a mind that differentiates itself to be special - to get one up - to be favoured - to get what it wants regardless of whether it is real, attainable or truly desirable. We all have something of this in us and it cuts us off from the love - the unified being - that is always present beneath artificial divisions.
The willingness to put aside the mind of division is the allowing of love's perspective into a world that seemed unlovely and fearfully compulsive. In this culture we come to celebrate differences as part of a universal human experience in which our unique living presence is honoured and shared.
The unwilling cannot be forced, but nor need they be fed in terms of their habit and its presentation. A blind and fearful sense of self interest is callous to all but its own perceived or believed needs. This kind of 'self-protective' withdrawal of real presence, attention or communication might seem aggressive and contagious - because nothing baits us more to invest in or invite hate into our hearts than to guilt.
The mind that seeks to redistribute guilt onto others is as yet unwilling to put it aside. A true righteousness shares a true integrity. For lawlessness to meet limitation serves an education and rehabilitation. For the truth of us to meet limitation serves to deepen our determination to put our inner chains aside and find our true presence - which is not defined over and against.
Comment 2:
It is always about power over rather than sharing power. It will use whatever is to hand to get, keep or grow in power and is a joining in hate - which is a way of not joining at all!
Darwin felt we were all of one life and sought to prove it. His findings point to the blueprints but haven't yet opened the experience and the realisation of true relation. On surface are all kinds of adaptations and cultural differences and on surface these look to be in conflict.
So relax beneath the surface and get a fresh perspective - despite all the compulsive urges of the mind to run as if it were independent of the life that Breathes It.
The ego is like a thought that has a thick heavy border around it. Inside is what seems to be tiny self in a vast and hostile universe - yet a universe surprisingly aligned for a temporary experience. But actually what is outside and 'other' is what we had denied or closed off from, in fearfully scrambling for some measure of control amidst a chaotic sense of division.
These conditions and rules that we each set around us are a sort of defence against our wholeness.
"There is no holier spot on Earth than where an ancient hatred becomes a present love".
What is the 'power' that hates to love and loves to hate? It is an imagination given the reality of our subscription.
Just say No!
Comment 3:
When we give our Word, we define. And as we define - so do we experience. If you give a false word - a fiction - then you have a fictitious experience, a divided and disintegrated experience.
When you wake up to the power of your Word, you will be able to thank your experience and release it so as to make way for a Word that your tiny little mind didn't make up.
The True Defining Context for our experience is known in guiltlessness - which doesn't demand of or lay trip upon.
There was a baby in the bath when religion got thrown away. Because it was being misused by people who had gotten lost in the surface forms without sharing the Meaning.
Further additions to the comments of not understanding comment 3.
Bonnie dismissed the 'Word' among other points she made. I offered a reminder that your Word is what you are giving - THROUGH which you are experiencing. The way religion withers is when it is interpreted within the world rather than about YOU. You can have no reality BUT Reality. You want a bit on the side? It's your will - and now you've got a split directive - with all the shit that hits the fan of and projects out as experience.
The mind that sleepwalks doesn't realize it is dreaming and anything you say to it is simply unheard or interpreted to support the dream.
Within this reality we call the human condition, there are those who have engaged a virtual life and identify it to the exclusion of their full awareness of what s and what they Are. It can get addictive and one can learn to screen out (sic) the 'interferences' to the continuity of one's virtual existence so as to give priority to the personal experience it offers.
In this example you choose to engage or 'enter' such a framework for experience and to do so, one has to forget to laugh at it. That is one takes it seriously; identification, preoccupation with its drama, and a protective sense of it's 'life' - and all that maintains it's 'life' - including its drama and ultimate (sic) import of its death - which is what provides the tension throughout.
The Word is the Idea - that you give or extend. By not giving true presence, we experience falsely. It's that simple.
The human consciousness is already a virtual 'reality' and the program is running as a layer of emulation. I am inviting communication 'outside the box' to coin a much misused term.
Because as long as we try to solve problems outside ourselves - that are only solvable within ourselves - we perpetuate the problem in different forms. Like the hero who cuts of the head of the serpent and three more grow in place each time.
Now that doesn't constitute a withdrawal of our presence in our relationships (though sometimes there is a period of 'wilderness' time) - but shifts us from a presentation to an actual presence.
The presence of life is not a thought construct - it cannot be defined or depicted in form - and yet pervades your Whole Life and everyone in it.
When we deny presence to play out a virtual sense of limited self - it is always at the expense of - always over and against - always a polarised experience.
So what is it we are against or at the expense of but Life, as Brother and Sister - because they share this Same Life, and our Self. "Even as you do unto the least, you do unto Me doesn't only mean the least - but means without exception. Until we change our Word we will not heal our world.
X1Commented: Black men suffer VERY high rates of prostate
cancer - It's a racial fact. I find it very depressing you'd rather
censor this truth and contribute towards their deaths than acknowledge
your pet theories are in fact lies.
Genetic traits can be called racial - but remain genetic traits. We presume genes to be the Programmer of life - but without looking in any detail I bet it is turning out to be much much more complex than that - AND that somewhere below our conception of ourselves or our world, is a power of intelligence that delivers as it is asked. I'm not saying that little ego-minded critters get to choose anything or even have access to such a level - but the scientific crusade has tended to seek for the Cause of All OUTSIDE MIND - and disregard mind - (except for its defining and controlling rational talent) - as have almost all humans prior to scientists.
Mediumal57 rejoined: I can assure you it is both much more complex and at the same time
remarkably more simple at once If one accepts that we are a product of
Crick and Watson's double helix molecule then chemically all variation
in life forms on this planet are essentially brought about by the way
carbon chooses to combine with other elements. i say chooses, but of
course I don't mean that carbon atoms make a conscious choice to combine
with say oxygen to produce carbon dioxide. That process is best
described using part of the standard model in physics. The trouble with
discussing this subject, as indeed anything related to human biology,
one soon finds one has to keep backing up to resolve other issues before
what one is really after in being resolved can stand a chance of being
tackled sensibly. It's why religious people prefer to blame God.
Blame and God are incompatible - so you must be talking about blame and scapegoat.
I
too find it is much simpler than I can say and remarkably complex to
approach through any attempt to say it. I like you also feel that to
address anything tends to need to back up to incorporate a structural
process in consciousness that is essentially invisible or unconscious to
a mentality directed AWAY from its own source and nature. Yet there IS
no AWAY from truth excepting imagination - and so even scientific
exploration is uncovering Mind. Not a separate Mind, as in a magical
'god' with super powers. But Mind.
Everything expresses its
source, and the notion that reality is split into mind AND matter is a
polarized expression of a divisive intent, taken and used as a
foundation.
The notion of choice is an imagination - a prop in a play
- in which it is accorded status. Yet actually there is only the
acceptance of the reality of what Is or the denial of what already Is or
it could not BE denied.
Human consciousness is a complex of defence
mechanisms, presumed to be acting for surface ego. They are forms of
denial and dissociation. Seeking to focus exclusively on the gross
aspects of what is external to this ego based experience is an attempt
to escape the magical thinking of a personal mythology, not unlike
Pythagoras with his sinlessly divine mathematics. (Apparently)
abstracted from the sin of personal involvement.
Science tends to
try to 'reverse engineer' life as if to know it from the 'outside' and
use such 'knowledge' to control it. But I assure you, neither you (nor
anyone) is outside it in even the tiniest degree. We live out a play of
'as if' in which the mind 'steps outside' or indeed between, to define
and judge all things in its own image.
I accept that all things real
are a direct expression of an indivisibility and that includes what is
real about a double helix molecule and you and I.
A scientist posits a
reason behind a pattern or behaviour, because of splitting off of
effect from cause and then assigning the experience of a past as cause, I
posit that there is a Movement Implicit in all events that is
concurrent or Cause-Event the function of the Living Universe, that is
perfectly unified and indivisible. In our terms it could be called 'Know
Thyself'. It could also be seen as the inherent nature and function of
mind. It is the underlying motive force - yet there is nothing outside
or apart from itself to act upon - because it creates out of itself and
through its creation knows itself in all its expression. Now this is
merely theoretical unless you are uncovered beneath the nature and level
of what is called 'your own thought', and still wont mean anything
unless the momentum of the divisive intent is recognized and released.
But regardless of any attempt to articulate in ANY kind of system of
description - truth is uncovered and not determined by the mind of man.
And what is uncovered pulls out the rug from under our feet. (Therefore
seek and don't find is the interference pattern that keeps the sense of
time from falling away to an edgeless Now.
The truth of data is a
sort of code modelled out in ideas, but truth of being is at rest in/as
its own dynamic and communicates a tangible presence.
Scientific AND
religious people tend to use blame to justify a self righteousness,
instead of consigning guilt to history and opening to a greater honesty.
I realize we are in different systems of thought and I do not expect
either to function or make sense within the other - but that doesn't
mean they are in conflict. Lovers can also practice science. But not at
the same instant - unless the science of love is the uncovering of the
truth of an undefended conscious awareness, and innocence of being, a
wonder of delight, an ever fresh curiosity. A deep sense of safety and
gratitude. A capacity to relate that remains unimaginable to the ego
sense. But none of the 'fruits' constitute a handle of control over ones
existence so much as the provision of a clearer perspective in which
the need for the personal sense of control is undone. To seek control is
the action/reaction experience of division. But to come back into an
integrated and congruent perspective is to be aligned with rather than
resisting, Life.
A Chicken Licken hysteria infects the others in the 'farmyard' and 'Foxy Loxy' sees opportunity for self interest out of an ungrounded and fearful blindness. Conspiracy of self interest is often tacit or even largely unconscious. It was easily discernible in the recent financial collapse.
Reliance on science is often at the expense of unified wisdom. Its mapping/controlling of 'reality' is an expression of arrogance that pretends to power but makes us increasingly powerless.
The CHANGE occurring is much MORE than climate!
(The above was a passing comment to this page of shallow scepticism and opinion - attaching itself to David Bellamy)
As a PS to the comment above, David Bellamy was inspiring because he was inspired. The joy of living was tangible in him - and I hope it still is.
Scientists are human beings who adopt a discipline which can be helpful within a meaningful context - but the interpretation of scientific data in terms of a machine or de-Souled human mind, UNDERMINES the context that I am calling Soul.
[Note: The following may seem dense but is an attempt to articulate something of the nature of the Soul. This can never be seriously achieved because you already are that One - but to a mind that thinks it knows itself differently, I offer this towards remembering].
The capacity to feel is a primary and integral quality of Awareness Itself because true thoughts are not merely data to be processed for the 'survival and defence' of a selfishness, but are expressions of our being.
Descartes famous saying 'I think, therefore I am', can be used to suggest a separated thinker existing because of awareness of thoughts, who is as thoughts define. But in actuality there is an event of awareness-thought that might be better expressed:
"I am" (Awareness Is) - "therefore thought expresses Me!" (qualities of being).
The mind of definition and judgement is the usurpation of the dimension of Feeling (or intuitive-discernment) by templates that create manual programs of conditioned reaction, fuelled by emotional triggers - (including those reactions against allowing emotional communication at all, in fear of losing control) - becomes an insanity by which the mind seeks to manipulate its own experience and hide the fact by means of complex deception or defence mechanism.
This attempt to prevail upon or over a sense of Self made 'other', is a root aspect of our human conditioning and is beneath the range of the scientific worldview - which is presuming to be uncovering truths about an external reality to a sense of limited mind in a body in a physical universe. This split mind is a tiny fragment of what is actual, and its unconsciousness is not imposed by conditions so much as a persistent program of self-limiting intent.
Science is NOT opening a golden age to us and has not brought us what it promised, but within it is still the legitimate search to uncover what is true as well as the service in offering solutions to mechanical problems. As with all things of this world, it is what we use them for - the active PURPOSE or cultural values that we share - which determines what they are to us.