Religious Right plans for America

[Guest guest]

It's fundamentalism--in any religion, in anything--that

destroys. The stickiness of the lower chakra.

I've followed the fundis for a long time. They're pure

stealth, organized stealth, stealth that won't be stopped

and can't be talked to. They hid from the coasts, the

cities, and worked the small Cotton-Mather-friendly US towns

that became the Red States. They accomplished it with hate:

saying they were the persecuted, that we hated them (and we

didn't and DON'T: freedom of religion is for everyone. They

can believe anything as long as it doesn't harm or force

another to believe--and vive la difference!) establishing

the 'other' as the demon inhabited non-saved. Everything

that worked for Hitler worked for them.

They were just people, as they are now, in the thrall of

something. I saw them because I'd grupped in Wash DC, then

moved to the Midwest. I was their " other. " I saw them in the

schools, the attitudes, the Stepford mom's. The towns where

if you didn't belong to the big mall church, you were shunt.

Halloween disappeared in stages from school; first the

alt.halloween Harvest Party for the dissenters--then it just

ended. Was gone. New principals and school board members saw

to it: stealth Fundi's made it a point to take over those

positions. Harry Potter (--and bless Harry Potter, and now

Igby of Igby Goes Down (see this movie! That the oscar's

ignored it was political), the phantasms who speak truth to

children. For Art is Magic... ) was burned. The fine

upstanding people simply burn things... and like the

Phoenix, the burned are only perfected.

By this time, they'd taken over the media. Hate radio

thrived, and now we have FOX news with the vast unwashed

secular tuned to it. If it wasn't for the internet and

access to foreign papers, we'd know nothing. When the

internet goes down--remember we have each other always.

Don't let anyone snuff your soul. Leave messages in books.

Stick-it notes in the grocery store. *Quietly, don't

comply.*

The Greens. It wasn't the time for Nader to step in. He was

used and played against the moderates. If we really want to

go Green, it's in our power already: just stop buying their

shit. When your brother-in-law buys the SUV, mention often

that it pollutes, what it costs. Be willing to be no fun. If

we would live Green, each of in our daily lives, we would be

Green. We don't need a leader to make us do what's right.

Stop buying their phantasms.

I once got to speak to Rosmus

http://www.ailf.org/notable/arosmus.html, and she told me

that the Nazi's really never went away. Nor did they repent

at Nuremberg. The concentration camps were in every town:

not death camps, but work camps, full of the 'enemy.' The

Nazi's will never go away as long as people don't think, as

long as they are in the thrall of tribalism rather than

individuation. As long as Fundamentalism freezes a soul in

the lower chakra.

It's a collective thing. And so we answer it with its polar

opposite: Love. Trust. Jung wrote just before his death (and

this, mateys, is what Jung was about: not parlor games for

rich folk on couches... but shaking off fundamentalism; to

help us incarnate spirit, open the heart--to go blooming

like a rose) :

" [...] None believes in the blossoming and unfolding of the

individual as the experimental, doubtful, and bewildering

work of the living God, to whom we have to lend our eyes and

ears and our discriminating mind, to which end they have

been incubated upon for millions of years and brought to

light since about 6,000 years ago, viz. at the moment when

the historical continuity of consciousness became visible

through the invention of script.

" We are sorely in need of a Truth or a self-understanding

similar to that of Ancient Egypt, which I have found still

living with the Taos Pueblos. Their chief of ceremonies old

Ochwiay Biano (Mountain Lake) said to me : 'We are the

people who live on the roof of the world, we are the sons of

the Sun, who is our father. We help him daily to rise and to

cross the sky. We do not do this for ourselves, but for the

Americas also. Therefore they should not interfere with our

religion. But if they continue to do so (by missionaries)

and hinder us, then they will see in ten years the sun will

rise no more.' He correctly assumes that their day, their

light, their consciousness and their meaning will die, when

destroyed through the narrow-mindedness of American

Rationalism, and the same will happen to the whole world,

when subjected to such treatment.

" That is the reason I tried to find the best truth and the

clearest light I could attain to, and since I have reached

my highest point and can't transcend any more, I am guarding

my light and my treasure, convinced that nobody would gain

and I myself would be badly, even hopelessly injured, if I

should lose it. It is the most precious not only to me, but

above all to the darkness of the creator, who needs man to

illuminate his creation. If God had foreseen his world, it

would be a mere senseless machine and Man's existence a

useless freak. My intellect can envisage the latter

possibility, but the whole of my being says 'No' to it. "

Deborah