Irrational Fears: Separation Anxiety

Good Morning Everyone,

A few days ago the furor over President Obama's back to school speech reached my awareness, and then, this morning the news about Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during the President's speech last evening regarding health care reform.

I confess I didn't understand how anyone could oppose the President encouraging kids to make something of themselves. I recall President Kennedy's famous, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" speech. Everyone was charged with becoming their personal "best". We studied, we applied ourselves, we even did the calisthenics programs he promoted to be fit. That's what leaders do, they encourage others to become all that they can be. Watch.


Our danger lies not without, but within each individual who feels the separation from Source, God, All That Is. When we cannot feel out connection, the love that that imparts to us, we are alone, naked, scared and see out through a human mind stranded in fear. From this place we are irrational, devious, and unreasonable. We cannot hear anything of Love, for we are on the frequency of fear. Love and fear are opposite frequencies.

Make no mistake, both Democrats and Republicans alike suffer from this separation anxiety. Indeed, our whole nation suffers from it and this is what is eroding us - from the inside out.

If a man awakes every morning, conservative or liberal, and believes he lives in a malevolent world with no support, no love, no eternality, no infinite possibilites, and in an indifferent Universe, he will do anything - good man or no - to feel safe.

We are a spiritually poor nation. Organized religion has failed us, but our own efforts to reconnect with Who We Really Are individually are the route, now. The feeling of fear provokes within us a profound desire for internal peace, calm and rationality. This will guide us inward where each of us has our own, personal connection with God for comfort and Truth.

Do not have the hubris to think this doesn't include you. For if you are someone who is waging war on anything - saving the wolves, saving Tibet, saving the environment, feeling hate and anger at conservatives or liberals, then, you do not understand the Oneness of all things either.

It is each individual's job to find their personal alignment with Source daily - even moment to moment. This is unconditional Love: that external circumstances do not have to change in order for me to feel my Connection to Source. Can you say that? Can you do that? Do you even realize that is the most important awareness that you can take with you into your day?

Even Jesus wasn't in Connection 100% of the time. He got angry in the temple and overturned the money changers tables. And on the cross he is said to have cried out, "Father, why hast thou forsaken me."

If realizing out Oneness with God were easy, this world would look very different indeed. None the less, it is our quest, individually, to return home. Each prodigal is charged with this journey, for therein lies the answer to a world that is heaven on earth.

HMMMM HEMP

Good Saturday to you all!

I like to read the NY Times online. Also the BBC and others. Today in the Times there's a wonderful article about why North Dakota is trying to get permission to legalize the growing of hemp. It's economic. Of course.

I love economics. It moves the world, truly it does. And it causes people to think about things in a new way. For years the whole brouhaha around hemp, to me, has been ridiculous. It's a marvelous plant with wonderful properties. Clothing, rope, all kinds of products for hair and skin care. It's natural, it's full of Life....it's from Source. Yet, some hysterical thinking and pompous righteousness has precluded it's growth here in the US for way too long. The people of North Dakota are to be commended for "thinking outside the box." They want to grow and expand.
And I particularly love what will happen next....they will be interacting with people they never would have had dealings with before. Like my neighbor, Albert. Albert sells hemp products at
http://www.hempys.com/. He and his wife Lydia are the most wonderful folks. They built an awesome eco-friendly home here in the mountains. They are forward thinking and broad-minded loving people. I love the idea of Albert and Lydia dealing with Republicans in North Dakota. Their love with overwhelm them.

Mostly, though, I think I love that the stereotypes are going to fall apart, the labels will disappear and hearts will deal with hearts because of an economic asking.

Ask and it is granted. You have to hear the answer. Kudos to the folks in North Dakota that could hear the answer even though their minds might not have wanted to even consider it as an option. I can hear the Rastafarian music in the pubs of the Dakotas now.

Life's good. Change is. There is always a way and always plenty.

Thanks for reading! Kath


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/us/21hemp.html?th&emc=th