CAN ONE MOMENT OF JUSTICE BRING MANY MORE..OR NOT? April 20, 2021

 This can be a genuine turning point in America living up to its highest ideals and its potential greatness. For it to stick though citizens must hold ourselves and our officials accountable to follow through with its meaning. 

This great historic reminder that "justice and equality' of all persons need not just be a pious phrase but an ever growing reality in this nation. That we can more clearly see the astonishing value and beauty in each human life. And can agree more and more that ALL persons deserve the same protections and supports from our laws and officials.

VOTING SHOULD BE EQUALLY CONVENIENT FOR ALL... March 7, 2021

 It seems like white America continually forgets from one generation to the next how horribly we and our laws have treated our black  brothers and sisters. 

We may be nearing our last chance in Congress to make the votes of black persons just as strong and alive in shaping our country's culture as white votes are. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/07/time-some-more-good-trouble-voting-rights-56-years-after-bloody-sunday/?fbclid=IwAR3olg_t6ZCptKCUAbw7sP8YsyiJTtM5relj9X0rbAvHb8ijIgoXqyqaEaw

White persons must rise above the fearful and backward need to make Americ a white  culture rather than truly the mixed skin color culture that its evolutionary and divine destiny is. We need to determine to have America's laws truly, freely and fairly support a nation whose culture is a natural product of ALL its people. 

We still don't know what that would look like but we could trust it will be more beautiful, strong and inspiring than our white dominated one forced by political suppression of the votes of dark skinned citizens. Oh happy  glorious day to come, a more genuine United States of America.

TOO MANY AMERICANS SEE VIOLENCE AND LIES AS SOCIALLY NECESSARY...January 12, 2021

How can anyone doubt the clear mentality of our white history while so many poorer Blacks have been trying in vain to live in simple real human equality. Our white history is that we have  feared that black persons' increased votes will 'steal' our culture from us.?

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/11/966498544/a-scary-survey-finding-4-in-10-republicans-say-political-violence-may-be-necessa?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR39tLyOok21xzKQAi_0BKf4tTeLYID8U7g6tbrukPxAYI0iCJmyaj5J6O4

Why can't we finally just own it and stop that immoral and silly 'fight.'? Our white history has been a fight to keep a majority white culture and its privilege alive and dominant, even if we've had to approve lies. That is what the violent attack on the Capitol at bottom was about. 

I'm referring to the white unowned, and often barely conscious, gripping  fear that America is headed to become primarily a dark skinned nation where white skin will have no more favoritism than other skin colors. And that we will be finally a grand developed democracy in the world. And ironically that is an accurate and hopeful image of the best new developing America. But the fear of it is a backward looking  tragic delusion. This image instead should be what we are prayerfully looking to and longing for.

It is quite obvious, from this perspective, that an effort to maintain a white skinned privileged culture has been relentless from our start. And it directly opposes both scientific/social evolution and any sober estimate of a Sacred Will for our nation---our two most reliable sources of social truth and human dignity. 

It's time to 'Stop the Steal' of human dignity and mutuality. And time to insist on one equal race. It's way past time to stop these tragic hide and seek games which successfully divide us and foolishly seek to stop our highest and truest national destiny. 

The Capitol assault on Jan 6, 2021, as this post also indicates, makes clear that many (including many in Congress) will now openly support deadly violence to prevent our democracy from outgrowing its undermining determined  'favored white skin' mentality. 

After many conversations this rational is my best and most accurate understanding of America's ongoing, and now definitely most dangerous, internal problems. 

Most responses I get are some form of, 'We've managed this problem for 300 years. It's not as serious as you think it is Jim'. I've come to suspect it is more serious than most anyone knows or imagines. And it is nearly entirely a White People's problem to solve. We hold the real answers in our own history and heart.

AN ASTONISHING NATION FACES ITS ORIGINAL DARKNESS..January 6, 2021

 As a culture we remain significantly unconscious of our original national sin of racism. Our refined rational mind just can't fully face it. We actually know, at various levels of consciousness, how real and egregious such believed ethnic superiority is and the divisions it demands.

Unfortunately removing the segregation of public facilities in the mid sixties only worked on the symotoms, not the racist heart problem of our white majority. It remains as strong as ever as the unspoken fear that 'people of color are going to take stuff of mine and give it to undeserving others making me poorer, holding me and my family back.' That essentially is now the heart problem and big national lie. In this way it's no more complicated than an older sibling being jealous and fearful of a new child in the family.

It is deeply psychological and continues to eat at America's heart. It's in the faces of those who stormed our capitol just minutes before  Congress was to approve the election of a non racist president. It was done in the hope of intimidating Congress from doing it's sworn job thus allowing Trump to stay in unlawful power. It was only a dream-wish. We can be very thankful Congress did not cower in fear that night but came right back and certified the legal President.. 

But our central problem remains maybe stronger than ever.  It is nearly in the full open which is a spiritual/psychological improvement for it is more honest. None of us can for long hide from behind our white status much longer. Citizen Donald Trump has simply become a living symbol of keeping white supremacy alive in America. 

I suspect this 'uprising'  in following the Trumpian symbol is another last gasping effort to cling to white superiority by a third of us. This in a nation destined for something far more admirable and glorious. This is my living hope. I know of no overt racist organization that does not strongly support Mr Trump and for the open cause of white supremacy. He has purposely and consistently emboldened them culminating in the seige on our Capitol January 6, 2021.

At varying levels of consciousness I suspect all white adults know our real heart truth. And it will have to be faced for its ugliness, maybe sooner than later, by us all. We will finally 'see' our own collective shadow clearly. God help us each to find our own truth and courage. And may we not foolishly spill blood and waste treasure due to a lack of consciousness of our own long-time truth.

TRUST IN WHAT IS FAR LARGER...January 12, 2021

As unpopular and misunderstood as the word 'religion' is in our USA culture it is the large world religions which have in all historic time given cohesive, however imperfct and eventually after a few thousand years becoming irrelevant, form to human affairs.

So should a 'new religion' spontanelusly yet in continuity with the past arise out of our present chaos it would bring into our world a new,  not yet imagined, cultural perspective with new norms for the cooperative affairs of humankind. That is the potential power of the religious instinct that is a part of our collective human make up. That is why it is dangerous, and perhaps absurd, to succumb to the idea of 'getting rid of religion', as if we could. 

So it may be that 'religion', in this psychological/spiritual sense, is the only possible way for a truly relevant and compassionate 'new and better' world order to come into existence.  

This way, when it happens, it would be commonly and humbly known, 'this has come from God '- not primarily from our personal or collective ego strength, ingenuity and brain power. (As important as  these are.)

Presently most Americans are of either the practical secular view that our best mortal intelligence can find a way to a new evolutionary world epoch or the many very conservative religious folks who think their God will force itself on the whole world.

Neither of these attitudes trust in the power of the more authentic timeless religious one of doing what one can, loving as best one knows how, while full heartedly trusting that something in us all is at play which is far larger than our mortal ego efforts.

THE POWER OF LIVING SYMBOL FOR GOOD OR BAD...January 3, 2021

 A Reflection: To be deeply and irreversibly moved by a living symbol(compared to an object which has become only a  socially approved 'sign'  to say be worn as jewelry) is to become 'religious' minded in the richest meaning of the word. This change can begin from either inner or outer experience and it becomes both.

This is how the human psyche is moved to a higher consciousness. And if such transforming is not balanced by the grace of genuine compassion it risks  becoming horribly heartless and ruthless. 

Living symbols, which arrive spontaneously in the human collective mind as needed, have the power to alter the human point of view and values, even against the human conscious will.  They can stimulate the highest or lowest human  motivations and behaviors. 

Human consciousness of these spiritual/deeply psychological dynamics is what makes the difference in the living symbol being the catalyst for good or evil.  On the dangerous side they can definitely create a collective movement that has the same one-mindedness as a religious cult. Only increased human consciousness, psychological awareness of what is happening,  can provide what's needed for persons to 'see' the difference.

US PRESIDENCY AT POINT OF MORAL COLLAPSE..November 20, 2020..

I don't make this statement with any wish or joy that our sitting President's character has not been morally up to the task of being President of the United States of America. I so wish he had been able, like others, to grow into it. So much horrendous loss, now and to come, would have been averted.

Sadly. This symbolic cartoon image is not much of an exaggeration, in my best judgment,  of what is happening  in very high positions of our country,  especially  the presidency.  

This is hard for me to admit.  These are high positions in  which before most of us have been able to respect the moral decency and truth telling of the office holder. 

But never has it been more like this abandon to  self gorging power image in my lifetime. Thankfully  we can still  see some individuals in office, if not  already fired for doing right, who sustain, by their manner of operating,  our respect and confidence. 

And for the health and well being of the nation this state of federal government  needs to be personally and sadly  acknowledged by as many citizens who see it this way in their most honest hearts, even many of those who have before put their hopes in Mr. Trump.  

It has not gone well  or honorably by any definition.  I see no rational way out of our most serious problems other than this sad open recognition by most individual  American citizens. This may be now impossible? 

Perhaps some national spiritual awakening, beyond our rational capacities,  is another possible way for such a recognition of our morally deteriorated state of affairs to  dawn on such a necessary majority..

And , make no mistake, every day until that confidence can be something genuine and practiced in the Presidency our country is not in good, safe or honest hands. This is truthfully how it is now in my opinion.