It seems like all the different Presidential candidates go on and on about how much they love whatever state they happen to be visiting that day. I can’t help feeling that it has a certain tone of disingenuousness to it. If they would just say a little something about why they love that area and what makes it unique, it could work for me. Certainly, every area does have its own unique charm. I lived all over this country and many places throughout the world, and I do love them all. Every area’s vegetation is unique, as are its people, architecture, climate, etc. Wherever I’ve lived or visited, I could easily expound upon why I love it, even if only in a few sentences. In fact, I wouldn’t be able to help myself once I got on the subject. I just can’t help feeling it would do a lot more for the candidates’ credibility if they did the same.
Embracing the lighthearted fun of April Fool’s Day can offer enjoyment to everyone. However, it’s a very slippery slope. Humor at the expense of another person is not okay. Expense can come in many forms: embarrassment, humiliation, stress, hurt, and even grief or rage.
Before anybody can properly pull an April Fool’s prank, they would do well to imagine the feeling it will elicit in the other person. If it’s not a pleasant, lighthearted chuckle or smile, the prank is better left alone.
In fact, the best forms of humor may well be completely harmless puns. They hurt no one – just a simple play on words. We are all incredibly vulnerable creatures.
Sunday, April 3, on the Nation Geographic Channel, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman will be televised. It will be interesting to see what they say. As times change, people change… human mentality changes. We all share one group consciousness, though it changes in hue, texture, content and form as we traverse the globe, as well as through time. How that group consciousness interfaces with information is called ‘knowledge’.
As Jane Wagner put it, “Reality is a collective hunch.” That is why existence of our universe is called “relativity”, the field of relativity. The Transcendent, the Unified Field, Pure Is-ness, Pure Consciousness, the Absolute (call it what you will) is not of relativity. But we view it from the world of relativity. The tendency is to cling to a relative perspective of the Absolute and call that ‘Truth’. In my college years I called that a ‘clarity trip’. The history of humanity can be viewed as the history of ‘clarity trips’.
As one’s awareness becomes free from identity with clarity trips, one gains the ability to see beyond the horizon. In so doing, we do not reject or belittle clarity trips, but we do come to understand, honor, and appreciate them in a new way. Each clarity trip reaches out to the ungraspable, the Absolute, from a unique angle. In time, everything comes together within you. It is as if all the clarity trips, all the unlimited number of realities come together and crystalize (gelatinize) into a unified whole. At that time, the Absolute is experienced as the Self, as well as the backdrop to all relative existence.
When Elvis Presley was scheduled on The Milton Berle Show in 1956, Berle received a lot of hate mail about Elvis. Berle commented, “It looks like we have a star on our hands”. Oppose or like him, all the protests regarding Donald Trump echo of the same principle.
NOTE: This was written the afternoon of March 11 prior to the protests halting the Trump rally in Chicago later in the evening. With the conflict reaching such a crescendo, I hesitated to post this. However, after some reflection I suspect it is even more relevant.
Sunday, April 3, on the Nation Geographic Channel, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman will be televised. It will be interesting to see what they say. As times change, people change… human mentality changes. We all share one group consciousness, though it changes in hue, texture, content and form as we traverse the globe, as well as through time. How that group consciousness interfaces with information is called ‘knowledge’.
