A Time When Full Consciousness is Emerging

Since the origin of humanity on earth, we have lived as though there is no spiritual world. Our focus has been almost totally upon the external world, and we have lived without meaning and without eternity. Religion has in various ways attempted to bring to our attention an awareness of spiritual reality, but it has for so many focused on an attempt to stop humanity from performing certain “sins”, through various threats and punitive actions. The idea has always been that to enter into some sort of spiritual reality, however that has been conceived, one has to be “saved” and approved by God.

Now in the present day we have reached a state where we know clearly that there is another side to this, that “sinful” actions cannot be eradicated simply by forbidding them, but only by clarity of vision of wholeness, and by healing the hurt within.  We have, as humanity, reached the place where the motherly nature of God is being expressed by women on earth, and often even by men on earth, and this means that Mother God is able to manifest that part of Her nature which has remained unexpressed throughout so much of the history when men dominated all things.

Uniting the physical and spiritual worlds requires us to be able to perceive the deep meaning in the nature of all things in creation. Perception of the internal nature of all things requires us to accept that the earth itself is not just a commodity which we can use to make profit to enhance our personal small economic life, but is our earth-mother. The earth yearns to supply us all with resources to express the love of the mother, to guarantee us all survival, and to be the basis from which we grow to express our unique, eternal, human and divine natures. 

Humans live as though they are animals with reason, and miss the beauty, the infinite potential all around at all times. But science is truly on the verge of making the step into a vastly greater vision of humans and all of reality.

It is time now for us to look at the land and see the spirit within, as has been practiced by indigenous peoples worldwide. We have destroyed our greatest treasures in the quest for recovering the spiritual world and recovering our awareness of the spirit within us and within nature and all things. Now we can clearly recognize the forces of violence and unchecked desire for power through material wealth and position that have so impoverished our lives in recent centuries. 

No one is looking to take away what so many people rely on for their security, but rather to establish the value of all people, and to ensure that every single person is valued, and able to inherit the earth’s promise of life and security in the physical world, as preparation for eternal joy and life in the spiritual world. We are God becoming, both men and women. Even God lives in potential without manifestation of God’s full nature within the universe, and for the feminine heart of God to have been hidden from humanity, unable to develop within humanity due to the damage done in history, is tragedy.  We are beyond that. 

We can now expect to hear the voices of women, to see the values of the mother gradually emerging within the nations and communities of the earth. 

I want to see the emergence of full health, the overcoming of all disease and the enabling of people to reach spiritual maturity before moving on to the spiritual realms. I want to see much greater ease of travel within the physical world and the universe in the near future, including the revelation of faster-than-light travel. I want to see two-way communication between people in the spiritual world and physical world emerge rapidly in the coming years. The idea that a human can just be dismantled and done away with is so devastating that no one who believes that could ever truly know that God loves us, and yet so much evidence seems to endorse that point of view. This has to be overcome immediately, not as a point of belief but as an actual accomplished fact.

Thus Endeth the Jewish State

Plagued from the beginning by the religious Zionist absolute unquestioning assumption that the land currently occupied by both Arabs and Jews was directly given to the Jewish people by God, Israel has always had to struggle with the duality at the core of its identity, dividing the population into many different factions. The religious, maybe messianic, zeal which determines that almost anything is acceptable in the taking of the land has finally brought us to the point where the very next step takes the region maybe beyond the possibility of the two-state solution. Israel now must decide between democratic values, which would demand equal protection of the rights of all residents, and the apparent the convergence of religious values and politics that seems to be driving the new U.S. administration.

Imagine how devastating it must be to Arabs in Palestine that they don’t even get to vote about such decisive steps! Their fate is being decided by leaders of nations who seem too often to know or care nothing of their daily reality and their recent history. U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May seem more concerned with settling issues between Palestine and Israel according to their own benefit at home, leaving Palestinians as simply chess pieces to be used and moved around the board as they deem best.

Although Prime Minister May has offered some assurances that Britain still believes Israeli settlements in Palestinian lands are illegal, to distance the UK from Europe and the previous US administration for her own purposes is a dangerous and disrespectful course on which to embark. It disrespects all those Britons who actually care deeply about the Palestinian people, and are aware of Britain’s very checkered past in taking on the role of overseer. Let us hope that seeing the jubilant reaction in the far right corridors of power has been enough to convince Mrs. May that she needs a more considered approach.

And President Trump? Initial thoughts that emerged from his own mouth in early days of his presidential campaign seemed to indicate that he was ready to bring his purportedly powerful experience in making deals to the arena of Israeli/Palestinian relations. Yet, Trump’s statement that he intends to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem has led Israel to believe that he will totally support its extreme right wing agenda. The president should stick to his strengths; he is not the elected representative of either Israelis or Palestinians, and simply caving in to the opinions of people motivated by religious conviction will not help any quest to do well by the world.

The people of Israel have other concerns to address, maybe most prominently that of their own identity. Who are they? Who do they want to be in 30 years or so?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has required, as one of his major conditions for a deal, that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Is this a religious identity? The most religious people in Israel would be the ultra-Orthodox, in the sense that they consider themselves to be the only ones following the laws of the covenant made thousands of years ago with their God. But they have actually deeply compromised their own status, since as a result of them joining the governing coalition in order to gain power, their own children are moving towards a more secular form of Judaism.

Religious exemption from the Israel Defense Forces has been a point of strong contention with the rest of Israel, as well as support of the spiritual lifestyle which requires young men to study Torah instead of acquiring a more secular education and entering gainful employment. But in choosing to rely on Netanyahu’s benevolence rather than on the power of their God in supporting these goals, the ultra-Orthodox find themselves compromised. Their own children see them bowing to secular power, and thus themselves are choosing in unprecedented numbers to join the IDF and abandon the spiritual path.

The perspective of religious Zionists and revisionist Jews has allowed for the violence that was an integral part of the founding of Israel to continue today. Palestinians have suffered under this religious zeal, and we are led now to ask, What is the plan for the six million or so Arabs who will be living within the boundaries of a Jewish state? Naftali Bennett, for example, seems to expect them somehow to evaporate and disappear.

Israel has almost become simply another secular country relying on military power more than on spiritual power, and thus one is left asking the question, What is a Jewish state? In accepting the values and the support of outside powers rather than tackling the actual issue of making peace themselves, Israel has essentially eradicated its own agenda of establishing a Jewish state.

At this point, the only way to turn this around may be for the parties in the governing coalition to truly sit down and enter a phase of deep soul-searching as to who they are and where they want to go. Most are happily embarking on the final stages of adopting a path which will leave the Palestinians homeless and stateless, occupied by a foreign body. Everyone should know that this cannot last as a stable reality, with the prospect of morphing into a single state in 30 years or so, with almost equal Jewish and Arab populations. In the meantime, life in the Middle East will be filled with hostility and conflict. Netanyahu seems so focused on today’s reality and on holding on to power that he doesn’t care. Do all the parties in the ruling coalition feel the same way?

​Annexation of the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, a determining step in extending Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, would appear to be the end of realistic opportunity for the two-state solution to retain viability. Opposing this annexation seems to be the only path that can assure Israel’s existence as a Jewish state—as something other than just another secular democratic state.