SENSITIZE 105
We need to learn that we’re not spiritual.
That’s how we please ourselves–and change.
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Sensitize … September 8th, 2020
SENSITIZE 102
If you’re a human being, you’re not spiritual.
Cring explains.
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Bringing Heaven Down to Earth
I’ve never particularly liked the word “spiritual.”
Since we humans are mortal and flawed, it seems presumptuous for us to think that we can be declared spiritual.
But I believe it is absolutely essential for us to become spirited.
And spirited is the ability to create something in your own image and breathe life into it.
It’s what we are told that God did with humans.
So therefore, humans who wish to incite a “divine possibility” must likewise take things that are inert and give them breath.
It is too easy to complain about Earth, thinking that Heaven is going to be better.
What if we get to Heaven and arrive with a bad case of PTSD? In other words, the shock of the war on Earth has left us frightened—leery of choirs of angels and trumpets blowing?
We have a simple mission:
To take what we believe Heaven possesses and generate an Earthly model.
In doing so, our complaining will ebb.
Our negativity becomes embarrassed.
And we start looking for evidence of intelligent life on the Third Planet from the Sun.
The B. S. M. G. Report
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Fudge the Judge held a grudge
And to this day, does not budge
BAD
Foregone conclusion.
Are our decisions the testimony of experience or the fears that terrify us, keeping us from trying anything new?
All I know is that it’s very bad.
There is a foregone conclusion which screams, “We are so divided.”
It is the explanation given for everything, from our preference on football teams to why some boy goes into a high school to shoot and kill his friends.
It justified a war between the states which was anything but civil and took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
I guess the premise is, if we can convince ourselves “we’re so divided,” we can run to our camps and start hurling rocks in all directions. Why not introduce a new thought?
“We are confused.”
Yes, because of the divisions which have cropped up, we’ve lost all sense of balance.
So when we try to stand up, we fall over.
When we look at our world, the scene is too blurry to determine an intelligent path.
We are confused by those who have forced upon us the foregone conclusion that we are divided and there’s nothing we can do about it.
SAD
“It can’t get better.”
Another foregone conclusion—an assertion that things have reached the point of no return.
It is the position held by both liberals and conservatives. Conservatives are convinced that the souls of all the aborted babies will rise up and scream our damnation, while liberals contend that the Earth itself will swallow and drown us.
Of course, there is a thought out there:
“It won’t get better until we change it.”
The good news is, we don’t have to do major revision to see lasting results.
MAD
“We are all just so different.”
This is such a popular foregone conclusion that it almost sounds like an afterthought spoken in a roomful of strangers.
In the pursuit of making everybody feel special, we insisted on personal uniqueness for each human being, therefore removing any brother and sisterhood.
It makes one curious if we could return to the chemical, scientific, spiritual and psychological reality that we are all human beings, sharing in common.
GLAD
“At least we have our families.”
We’ve begun to believe that as long as a man, woman or child speaks the glory of his or her domesticated unit, that these individuals are blessed with wisdom.
Of course, the truth is, with all the divorces, deaths and disillusionments, most people don’t actually end up with their original family with its common chromosomes.
So we have to keep changing the definition of family to suit our need. I wonder if it would ever occur to us to return to a more generous position: “We are all family.”
In some way, shape or form, because we have been conceived from the same species, we are cousins. Could be twelfth removed, but we are related.
I, for one, feel very bad about the fact that we’re under the curse of foregone conclusions.
But I think I’m about ready to take a chance on some new ideas.
The B. S. M. G. Report
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Life does not come from strife
But love is from above
BAD
Hellhole.
Nazareth, Galilee, was a community constricted by the domination of the Roman Empire, superstitious and afflicted, impoverished by a belief in a God requiring homage instead of offering compassion.
From this environment, two humans emerged, who found themselves in the unenviable position of having to reject all their training and lose most of their friends, to follow what they believed was divine guidance.
Mary of Nazareth and Joseph of Nazareth
What does a young peasant girl do when she’s suddenly found pregnant and she contends it was at the beckoning of Jehovah?
What does a man do when he’s betrothed to be married and his girlfriend is suddenly impregnated, offering the lamest excuse possible: “The Holy Spirit did it.”
SAD
Joseph was an honorable man, so even though he loved Mary, his training, support system and sense of culture told him that she was a sinful woman, and he must cast her away. He was considering doing it privately so nobody else would know, sending her far away from the Nazareth community, where she certainly would be condemned for being a whore (even though short days earlier she was considered a favored lass).
Mary was given a choice.
God did not intrude or demand that she birth a baby. Yet she replied, “Behold, I am the handmaiden of the Lord.”
But Nazareth commenced to gossip.
She was labeled a sinner. But worse than that—she was blasphemous by proclaiming that she had divine “hookups.”
Yes, it is so sad that religion offers little relief for those who suffer. When there’s a need for mercy, religion falls back on statutes and interpretations. If it had not been for Joseph deciding to let his love for Mary stay strong when the angel told him that she was telling the truth, our story would have been forever altered.
MAD
Then comes the intervention of those motivated by politics and greedy for power. The Romans wanted taxes, forcing Joseph to return to Bethlehem, with his wife in her third trimester. And Herod, who called himself “the Great,” was so worried about losing his title of “King of the Jews” that when Wise Men from the East came inquiring about a star in the sky, he made preparation to kill whatever was being born in that light.
It is important to know this:
There is no such thing as a politician who is spiritual.
There are no Presidents, Kings or Chancellors who have found a redeeming way to combine their faith with their function.
Beware any man or woman who seeks votes by quoting Holy Word.
Herod believed himself to be a righteous man, given responsibility by the Roman government to protect his people from annihilation. It is maddening that even today, we trust powerful pundits in palaces to provide inspiration to our lives.
GLAD
And then there were the Wise Ones.
They possessed that beautiful balance between personal innocence and professional cynicism.
Even though they were willing to trek across the desert, following a Star with no guarantee of a payoff in the end, when they encountered Herod the Great and they realized he was full of chicanery and lies, they avoided any further contact with him.
They took a different way home.
It says they were warned in a dream. But what made them wise was that they already had an inkling that they were talking to a devil with angelic manners.
The Christmas Story is a tale of Bad, Sad, Mad and Glad.
God does not wait until everyone is perfect to set in motion perfection.
There was no other time in history when the world was united in one spot of Mesopotamia. The Roman Empire had extended its influence from India all the way to what we know as England.
So when the Prince of Peace was born, and later was accepted by the Roman Empire as the true message, the Gospel was able to go from the dreariness of the Middle East throughout the whole world.
It eventually crossed the Atlantic to the New World.
It is amazing.
It is always astounding how Bad and Sad, and even that which could make us Mad, by the simple anointing of wisdom, can change the whole story to something Glad.
Sit Down Comedy … August 30th, 2019
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The eyes pop open and the feet are heading toward the floor—it’s the beginning of another day. Right there, in this pivoting moment, you get the message.
A feeling sweeps over your body, informing you where you are and threatening to control your whole living space.
Stop rushing.
With your still feet on the floor, ask yourself a question—out loud, if you’re alone:
How do I feel?
Don’t be surprised if the answer comes back, “Shitty.” Or maybe, “Great.” It could be, “I’m not sure.”
Unfortunately, many people believe it is wrong to run your life by how you feel.
Since educational systems are very similar for all of us, our religions don’t differ that much and our politics bluster controversy but don’t render anything unique, what ends up setting us apart are feelings.
Please do not think you can control your existence through “mind over matter.”
You aren’t a goddamn Ninja and you certainly don’t have a sword.
The best and the worst you’ve got are your emotions. Therefore, speak the question, “How do I feel?” Make it your morning drill.
Then, when you get the answer, ask a second question:
Why do I feel this way?
Sometimes it’s because you watched a scary movie before you went to bed, or you have to pay a bill or take a test. Or maybe you spent your nighttime hours eating like a four-year-old in a candy store.
You will be surprised that the physical, psychological and even spiritual can often hijack your feelings. Identify the reasons.
This is what I refer to as a S.O.D.—a sense of dread.
Something is going to come up that you don’t want to come up and you’re frightened about how it’s going to come down.
It won’t be resolved by a good breakfast. You can’t get the shower hot enough. Playing music in the background has limited possibilities.
Make note:
You aren’t living a life—you are learning to masterfully maneuver your emotions.
And by maneuver, I mean find them, identify their source and open yourself up to other people. Yes, never be afraid, when you emerge from your room in the morning, and someone asks you how you feel, to speak the truth out loud.
“Physically I’m pretty good, mentally I’m a little scattered and for some reason I’m a little nervous.”
This statement is for your benefit–because we gain power and healing as human beings when we confess who we are openly.
So let’s review:
First question: How do I feel?
Second question: Why do I feel this way?
Confession: Based upon what I know thus far, these are my beginning sensations today.
Candidly, if you try to ignore your starting feeling, you will fail the day. On the other hand, if you identify the feeling, you will receive a much greater sense of well-being. Once you know how you really feel, have figured out the source of it, and you’ve confessed it out loud—either to yourself or someone else—then you’re ready for the door.
Sometimes it’s a door in, and sometimes a door out.
But many of us ruin our morning, still bleary-eyed and uncertain. We’re not maneuvering our emotions, and we miss the door. But if you know how you feel and you’ve identified where it came from and you’ve confessed your profile, then you’ll see the door in or the door out.
It’s probably one of the most exciting things—and one of the most unexplainable happenings in our lives.
A way is made for us if we are ready to see the door.
Then, once you see the it and you have yourself primed, enter the door. Change, adapt, include, evolve. When you do these things, you find yourself in greater unity with the world around you instead of going into situations kicking and screaming, blaming others and eventually laying it at the doorstep of God.
So find the door in or out, then change—happy that you’ve alerted yourself. And finally you end the day grateful.
There is a much better chance that you will wake up the next morning feeling better if you end your day grateful.
It’s not luck. It’s not chaos. And by the way, God does not have a wonderful plan for your life.
This is your space and your doing. If you want to do it with power, begin each day with, “How do I feel and why do I feel that way?”
Then confess, look for the door in or out, change, and move toward the solution.
And finish it off by giving a big chuckle in gratitude.
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The light of the body is the eye
If the eye is evil, then the whole body is filled with darkness. But if the eye is clear, then the whole being can be illuminated.
Honestly, these words can sound like a bunch of gibberish if they’re not understood. This is the trouble with a lot of deep philosophy and passages that insist they are “spiritual.”
Let me phrase it this way:
Your eyes belong to you, but what you see was programmed by others.
Even though you may insist that you are the master of your own thinking and the manipulator of your vision, there is so much programming that’s gone into you–from childhood, schooling, experiences, defeats, failures and pain–which clouds your vision and only presents the images that memory will offer.
We are very critical of prejudice, but the fact of the matter is, nearly all of our preconceived ideas are deeply ingrained within our consciousness long before we have a chance to vote on whether to accept them or not.
This affects our touch.
If we don’t like what we see, we don’t want to get near it. If we don’t want to get near it, we avoid it and fear it. And once we’ve decided that someone or some group is foreign, then it becomes necessary for us to rationalize our choice by attempting to prove that the forbidden topic, race, religion, gender or sexual orientation is hampered by evil.
Thus, white people who grow up in a bigoted environment really do think the black race looks a bit like monkeys. That’s how they were taught to see them. Therefore, that’s how they view them. The end result is, they decide not to be around them and the unity brought on by touch is forsaken.
Likewise, black parents who teach their children that Latinos are lazy and not to be trusted raise children that purposely avoid anyone with light brown skin, unless there’s enough pigment to welcome them as black brothers and sisters.
Also, the Latinos do it with the Asians, and within their own culture, assuming that Cubans are better than Dominicans, and Asians assuming that Chinese are superior to Japanese.
Once our eyes have been fitted with a pair of glasses by our upbringing, making us see the world in a certain way, then our bigotry becomes a spectacle.
Because once we’re afraid–once our “eyeballing” of other human beings promotes darkness in our minds, we are certainly not going to want to be near them, to shop with them, to go to church with them or to ever risk touching them.
Without touch there is no fellowship. Without fellowship there is no commonality, and without commonality, there is alienation.
Take some time during this Christmas season to consider the vision you have of life–the way you see those around you.
Are you controlling your own perception? Or do you have people you were taught were “untouchables?”
Because if you’re not willing to touch people with the tenderness of your hands, you will certainly end up fighting them with your fists.
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