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A blueprint for the Mystical /
Evolutionary Journey towards a Global Community
At the beginning of the third millennium we are faced with a challenge that beckons us to change direction and to evolve. If humanity is to survive into the next millennium, or even the next generation, then as a species we need to grow, evolve, and establish systems of cooperation, mutual support, peaceful coexistence, and sustainable ecology and economy that will protect us from the greatest threat we have ever faced… ourselves. The evolution that we must undergo is not a physical evolution, but rather a spiritual/psychological evolution, and the starting point is within each of us.
Forgiveness for All, Judgment for None
In order for us to grow spiritually, we must overcome one HUGE spiritual obstacle, and that is our inability to forgive ourselves. Most of us when faced with the idea that we cannot forgive ourselves think that this lack of self forgiveness is a problem that might apply to others, but not to ourselves. We humans have a peculiar ability to block from conscious awareness aspects of our own personalities that are in conflict with our Self Image - the way we want to view and understand ourselves. It must be noted that this tendency is an aspect of our human nature that affects each and every one of us, so we need not feel guilty if we begin to uncover skeletons in the closets of our psyches. We all have them. It also helps to remember that our skeletons always seem more embarrassingly loathsome to ourselves than our skeletons do to other people who might already be aware of them. Parts of our psyches of which we are unaware can never-the-less influence us to act in ways that we often end up regretting. Thus it can be said of each of us that we are our own worst enemy.
While we all can appreciate the statement that we are our own worst enemy in an abstract sense, when it comes to dealing with specifics there is a natural aversion that keeps us from wanting to explore that possibility. We'd rather not confront the specific ways in which each of us opposes what would ultimately be in our best interest, because such a realization would cause us short-term discomfort and embarrassment. And so we cling to our comfortable, even if ultimately self-destructive, illusions and behaviors. It is easy to see this behavior pattern in others but very difficult to recognize it in ourselves. What we cannot see is that we are surrounded by a spiritual ocean of loving forgiveness, unimaginable kindness and compassion, redemption, cleansing, and healing if we will but open ourselves up to this vast and wonderful source of joy and peace. There is no judgment for confronting the illusions that we all carry, on the contrary, there is redemption and sweet liberation. Once we uncover and heal the wounds that we have kept hidden from ourselves, we enable a spiritual awakening and transformation. The process of confronting our illusions may be unpleasant, but the rewards that we gain make it all absolutely worthwhile.
The purpose of this web site is two-fold. First, it is the aim of this website to promote the Liberation that comes when as we fully understand and forgive ourselves, we are freed from our illusions and self-destructive actions.
The second aim of this website is to provide a blueprint for a self-sustaining Community to support the liberation and enable the spiritual growth and transformation of the members and guests while also working to bring about a True Peace within the larger community that is built on Justice and Equity, and to provide information about communities that embrace the ideas shared in this website.
This website offers information about:
PERSONAL LIBERATION Coming to terms with our innermost being through
Vision Quest
and
BUILDING COMMUNITY The Liberation Community website offers the following Liberation Statements
as a set of seven simple rules that can be used to shape a healthy self-sustaining community.
Responses to questions on topics, including...
Embracing Truth
Two Powerful but disturbing papers by Richard H. Lundstrom
Dreaming the REALLY BIG Dream
FAITH a response to the comment Faith and Belief
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