Sunday Stream (5) ~ One-ness of Duality

[mtmynd]

The race for America's future is drawing closer and closer... Tuesday will be the 'shot heard around the world' as the polls open for the final tally (at least that is the presumption).

The fight for the White House has never been greater in our lifetime, no matter what our ages are. The good old duality is in full force... and the outcome is bleak no matter what side 'wins'. I say that because of so many factors, many of which America, much less other countries are fully aware. But here in the U.S. neither candidate has come clean with what is truly at stake here. Bush and the Oilers and Kerry and the Lawyers are hoping that they will have the say-so of the direction this country will go... and the duality is between attitudes - fear and hope.

But both candidates certainly have to know that what is at stake is who controls the oil. We are aware that Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world. We also know that America is the largest user of oil in the world, with China now running a close second.

In the eyes of those in the know, they understand that "he who holds the key to energy holds the key to dominance in the world" and Iraq is now in the hands of America, albeit the war drags on as the Arab world understands what Iraq has and why the U.S. and it coalition is there... it is no secret to them.

The world is driven by oil. We use oil for not only our cars and trucks, our trains and planes, but oil and its byproducts are used worldwide for many other things, and power is the number one use of oil - to power our energy producing plants. Oil is used for pharmaceuticals, for virtually the majority of what we consume... even this computer that you are using right now - look at how much plastic is used.

The reason ultimately is oil that we are in Iraq. America is the largest user of power in the world. America is an oil junkie, with most other countries reliant on oil also. But in order for the U.S. to sustain its lifestyle, we had better have our hands on the junk. Our economy would quickly crumble if our fix for oil was jeopardized. No telling what our come down off oil would take us.

But as I said, we are not alone in our fix for oil. A commodity as precious as oil has become is in the hands of Arab countries. Sure there are smaller deposits worldwide, but Saudi Arabia and Iraq are the two places on earth that have, what is termed in Petro-Speak, Mega Projects, i.e, fields that have reserves of a minimum of 500 million barrels, which have become more and more scarce. But the world is using more and more oil daily - the world consumes an estimated billion barrels of oil every eleven and a half days.

(see: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/PDF/Commonwealth.pdf)

Do we, the so-called free democratic countries, allow the countries of the Middle East to control our destiny? America, for one, is certainly not taking the chance. According to an article written in May of this year, "Iraqis also know that 14 US military bases are already under construction, enough to accommodate the (for the moment) 110,000 American soldiers who will stay in Iraq until at least 2007." The U.S. is spending billions of dollars to build military bases in Iraq, a country that has the second largest reserves of oil in the world. And the government is also expanding base operations in other Arab countries, including Qatar and Kuwait.

(more - http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec ... 0&num=7942)

All this madness over oil... it’s truly incredible that humanity has reached this peak... where the government in control controls the oil that controls the world... and the Arabs have every right to think that they should have some say-so over what is done with their oil and their countries that have it... it is our human nature.

So, providing these provided links are not full paranoid exaggerations, what do we, the world, do for our oil addiction? Lifestyles are threatened... food supplies are threatened (agribusiness relies heavily upon oil for fertilizers)... economies are threatened... and that of course could easily lead the any hope for world peace being threatened.

If we can believe others in holding out some hope from the end of oil (at least affordable for most people), there appears to be one spark of encouragement for cannabis sativa ("useful hemp"). I know the majority that may read this are thinking, "Right! Stay stoned and who cares what happens..." but any search for information on this plant will reveal many encouraging facts about this ubiquitous plant, and oil is one of them, which is much cleaner for our environment incidentally. Maybe not a billion barrels a day (I don't think so, anyway), but there are many things that can and have been done using this plant for centuries - paper (the U.S. Constitution having been written on it), food, medicine, cloth (stronger than cotton), and even building materials!

( link - http://www.cannabis.com/faqs/hemp1.shtml)

Of course converting to a hemp-based economy from an oil-based economy would throw the balance of power out of whack, but it may be about time.

In the United States "the wealthiest one percent control about $2.3 trillion in stocks, or about 53% of all individually or family-held shares. The wealthiest 1% owned 64% of bonds held by families or individuals, and 31% of total financial assets held by families or individuals, which includes everything from stocks to bonds to cash." while "the wealthiest 5% controlled 59.2% of the nation's wealth in 2001, little changed from the 60.3% in 1995.

(see - http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/ine ... naires.htm)

I am not against people having wealth and I do not believe that all wealth has to be shared amongst all people. That is a rather Utopian dream that can never be realized, however, I do see within that article that these same wealthiest are the one's that are benefiting from the current administration's tax cuts... and ultimately it is the citizens that somehow pay for it. The dualities continue, don't they? The Democrats and the Republicans, the Democratic countries and the Arab Theocracy countries, the rich and the poor... dualities are the human way of life, odd knowing that the major religions speak of One God.

One God and One Universe and yet here we are on one planet with multiple ideas of how to bring us to that One-ness. Who would you believe and trust to take you to that One-ness that is the promise of religions? The path is not one but many, or so it seems if we listen to others and follow their advice 'religiously'. There are many religions, most of which sprang from some other religion... divisions and subdivisions... carving the pie into ever shrinking pieces to feed more and more people as we continue to reproduce. If we weren't so damn sociable maybe we wouldn't have quite the problems that we are now experiencing. But that is the way we are - social creatures because we know that we are of the same family of Homo Sapiens, but we'd rather not believe that but we have no choice. It is only the lonely that doesn't see the connection, and in many cases, will refuse to see that connection.

We humans are an arrogant lot, even calling ourselves 'intelligent" as if intelligence is something that can be measured by some thing other than ourselves. Who is to say we are intelligent but ourselves? We measure our intelligence with our progress from the past... look at what we've accomplished since __(?)____.

The life upon this one planet feeds off itself, and we feed off our own humanness - we take advantage of our own kind to better ourselves... wars and greed, lust and gluttony, theft and lies, deceptions and anger, we use these things to survive amongst our own. The human beast that longs for peace and love cheating and stealing, killing and maiming our own to 'better ourselves'...

Where do we learn these things? Is it in our nature? To do otherwise may reveal our innate weakness, or what we measure as weakness. We can't simply live in peace and love one another for that is considered weakness, but weakness is not what it appears so many times - surrender and dropping our defenses is the way to our center... our true being. If we keep our defenses up and refuse to "surrender" to our true Self we never achieve that Oneness that is the promise of many enlightened. The dissolution of duality, the defend/offend, that keeps us at the point of turmoil and stress because that is the accepted level of living that we feel is our destiny.

Our resources to live the way we believe is 'better' are based upon false promises. Our current way of life is just as limited as any form of life... all things are limited in their ability to survive. But if we acknowledge that what we are is more than what we see, touch, smell, hear and taste, we take a giant leap to our One-ness. But that simple thing requires surrender... acceptance of that inner light that is our true life.

Whatever happens at the polls this Tuesday will be but dusty memories a hundred years from now, while our progeny will continue living the human drama under conditions far different from what we are living in today. Life will survive as it always has for the essence of life is One - One Light, One Universe, One Love and One Laugh beyond the veils of our egos to which we shall all return... our home of Non Duality.


cecil
31 october 04

[WIREMAN]

"turned off"......from my vantage point here ....hidden in the hood,
watching all that was held sacred for generations....crumble....well cecil......those 2 words sum up how I wiredly feel about what has become of this system that has progressed to total crap in the marketplace....junk in the movies.....music that is monotonous.....children who want...want...want....now...now...now...manners that are non existent any more.....streets that are garbage bins....a disenfanchised lower class living in obscurity.....plastic everything....
and ya gotta have a car.....buy a home you'll never own.....work........yes work and work....and insurance...life ...health...home....car....fire...flood....to tell ya the truth cecil it's all become such an evil web that I am "turned off!"....
.........let's hope for peace and vote for anybody but this shrub named BUSH!..............wired .....Ft. McHenry...O Say Can You See? from across harbor this morning........

[Arcadia]

best wishes for tuesday, cecil!
See you,

Arcadia

[hester_prynne]

This is a wonderful stream Cec.....thank you for being strong enough to write it, it gives me strength to read it.....
Christ, I feel so alone and weak these days....overwhelmed by this election and all it's shaking loose from my brainwashed brain...
I totally get it. It is all about oil, and wants and haves, and of course money. Some idiots think they are better than someone else just because they have money. Heh. Even when it's their damn family's money that they didn't even work for!
I'm wracked with all this election hoopla and it's fallout.
I read somewhere that the electoral vote was created for times like right now, when the country is so divided. Before the electoral vote, a vote like the one we have going on currently was a surefire precursor of civil war.
I'm not sure a civil war would be so great, but why instead can't we just break off into two different, but peaceful entities? It seems the most logical thing to do. Let the Bushites go and fight with iraq for oil. Those of us not into that could break away from it's idiot grip and find a better resolution for ourselves,
indeed, hemp is a very fertile resource for many many things including energy....it needs to be developed. I'd just as soon work on things like that rather than be a slave to oil and the idiots that want it so bad. But hemp of course too, has succumbed to some fearful idiot's claim that it's an "illegal and evil drug". Good grief. We all know that cannabis is harmless. If you compare cannabis to alcohol, it's way less harmful.
Sigh.
I feel alone and outnumbered.
I feel so very strong, but nowhere to put that strength much, although I am angry.....and frustrated, which I don't like at all.
I feel like an implosion that needs very much to explode, but nowhere to go where that is acceptable or safe.
In fact, i feel i've done alot of imploding in my life, for fear that exploding would land me in jail or the looney bin. heh.
Anyway, thank you for this stream Cec, something I could grab onto......
Peace and vote for Kerry,
H

[mtmynd]

Thanx Wired, Arcadia and Hester for you replies... happy to have made some sense to you!

I am so fucking caught up in this years political nonsense that i can hardly go anywhere else.... i hope it ends soon!

[mnaz]

Cecil...

Thanks for the read. I don't know. It seems there are some major battles coming. The US will will be continue to be attacked by the people and countries it tries to exploit for resources, and it will also come up against other nations competing for those dwindling resources. To me, the outlook is anything but promising.

Humanity is capable of so many amazing breakthroughs, yet its persistent mixture of greed, fear, and ignorance to varying proportions across the planet will be the cause of meltdown, if it comes to that. Perhaps the "last days" prophets merely articulated distant extrapolations of near fatal flaws they saw in human nature.

I'm sounding pretty gloomy tonight, aren't I?...

[mtmynd]

Hey, "gloomy"...

Now that the election is pretty much over, the real 'gloom' shall reveal itself.

Do you feel like your living in a foreign country? Be thankful you're living in a "blue state" of mind, if not soul. ELP went fully Democrat in this election, which means that this city will nnot get any help from Austin (the capital). And NM looks pretty "red", and that rather blows my mind... but hey! this whole country is blowin' my mind lately.

[mnaz]

Hardline "Evangelical Christians" made the difference in this election. Their cancer is spreading. Their religion was hijacked centuries ago to contradict and undermine the foundation of Jesus Christ upon which it was built, and the progression into the modern world seems to only strengthen their resolve to push their narrow brainwashed agenda to new, unprecedented politically active and organized heights. These people wish to impose their narrow view of righteousness on everyone else. Don't kid yourself.

Kerry earnestly professed his Catholic faith, yet he fared poorly even among Catholics. Why? Because he refused to say that he would attempt to legislate his personal beliefs, most notably abortion, on the country as a whole. That isn't good enough for today's mobilizing core of zealots. They want more. They want as many of their doctrinal beliefs pushed into law as possible.

Meanwhile, it's apparently OK with these people to bomb the shit out of some hapless oil-rich Muslim country under false prestenses and slaughter 50-100,000 of its people in the process. You can be damn sure that if Iraq had any credible way of striking back and killing our children and destroying our three-car garages, then Pres. Bush's feet would get held to the fire.

It sickens me. I am one profoundly discouraged human being right now, Cecil.