Sometimes I think the whole world has gone
totally bonkers. Or at least a large part of it has, when you consider
the stories in the “mainstream” news.
Who in their right mind would lie about reasons for going to war, or
be cavalier about prisoner abuse or urinate on the holy book of another
religion? Who in their right mind would plow down the Amazon rainforest,
destroy the financial futures of their employees, or design violent video
games? Who in their right mind would molest young children, decapitate
their pregnant wife, or not admit that their product causes addiction
and cancer?
You’d probably agree with me that all of those behaviors are deplorable,
and that surely, no one in their right mind would do any of them. Some
are indeed the result of mental illness, and others are consciously chosen
crimes against humanity that fall into the category of personality disorders,
all of which whose numbers are on are sharp incline.
But there are also the smaller-scale infractions that go on between people,
the ones that are not as blatantly dark, but damaging nonetheless in
terms of effect. Behaviors that even people who consider themselves “spiritual” display,
unaware that in terms of energy, are actions made from un-owned inner
shadows that unless acknowledged and cleared, are like lead boots on
their journey to awakened states of existence.
Here are a few examples I’ve discussed before in this column but
deem revisiting:
• People who give the impression they are “evolved,” but
you can’t count on them whatsoever. They don’t return phone
calls, they are always late, they make promises but don’t follow
through, they talk big but are full of hot air.
• Healers or spiritual teachers that are completely full of themselves
and their healing abilities or level of philosophical understanding,
and who treat people around them badly. They tend to abuse their power,
lack humility and have a sense of entitlement, thereby completely negating
their self-perceived level of consciousness. Personally, I’m not
impressed.
• Over-zealous personal growth seminar graduates who want to recruit
everyone they know, and use manipulative tactics in their attempts. More
often than not, they are very self-oriented and disrespectful of others
who don’t want to sign up, and lay trips on you using their cult
language and point of view.
• A “love and light” person who espouses New Age jargon
to give them a faux-aura of awakened consciousness, but actually exhibits
higher-self undermining
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behaviors—for instance, is passive-aggressive,
maliciously gossips, is demeaning to who they consider “beneath
them” and/or is not trustworthy in the least.
None of these examples are about me being judgmental; they are just discerning
observations of realities, naked emperors and elephants in the room everyone
is trying to ignore in the guise on being “spiritual.” Please
note that it’s not about the person; it’s about the behavior.
By “right mind” I’m not talking in terms of polarities,
but of a mind completely aligned with Source, which by definition is
non-dual, not separate, and not based in ego, or driven by the inner
shadows of the small self.
 No one in their right, Source-aligned mind would harm or disrespect others
or the planet that gives them a home. But we live in times of Koyaanisqatsi,
a Hopi term for a world out of balance. The masses are heavily influenced
by corrupt political systems and corporations, with messages and images
delivered by a commercial media machine that has ties to both. People
see celebrities get away with murder, CEOs getting a hand slap for illegal
activities and/or ruining the financial futures of their employees, and
politicians spin-doctoring their way into positions of ever-greater control,
and figure if those guys are getting away with it, then why can’t
they?
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