Navigating the perilous Mental Landscape in the crazy house called America
Like
the earthquake in Japan, man too is in mental motion, a mind quake of
the most devastating degree that is rocking his mental equilibrium to the core!
We must be aware of the times and
what must be done. A blind man named Ray Charles told us "the world is
in an uproar, the danger zone is everywhere...." And so it is, ancestor
Ray, there is turbulence in the land and in man, woman and children. As
the earth enters another 25,000 year cycle of history with the coming
New Age of high spiritual consciousness, there are many who remain deaf,
dumb and blind to present and future events, even though the news is
full of rapidly changing events in the global village. One would need to
be in worse shape than Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder not to see the
earth is in transformation, even Nature itself. The ice is melting, the
sea rising, the forests burning, earthquakes and tsunamis , drought,
famine, pestilence, in diverse places, just as Jesus predicted.
Apparently,
many do not believe what Jesus said even when they see events he
predicted before their very eyes, on the news, Twitter, Facebook, Cable
TV and elsewhere. He said mother would be against child and child
against mother and father. Did he not say brother would be against
brother and sister against sister? And do we not see this in our social
relations today.
It is crystal clear to me we are in times in
which a friend is no longer a friend, a wife and husband no longer wife
and husband. There is no love between them. Husbands and wives say the most
horrible things to each other. Daughters and sons say the most wretched
things to their parents, often when the parents are helping them.
But
when the danger zone is everywhere, no one, no relationships are exempt
from the turmoil sweeping the old order out and ushering in the New
Era. But there is an almost organic relationship between the earth
quaking and the minds of men, women and children becoming totally
unbalanced.
In this time of radical change of Nature and man, those with
no understanding shall become unglued, losing their fragile mental
equilibrium or simply tripping out. Ultimately, they become a danger to
themselves and others and must be committed, for they are not the person
we knew only yesterday. Today they are a total stranger who does not
know us, cannot even recognize us, yet we have known them since
childhood. They could be a sibling yet they do not act like there is any
blood relationship between us. We behave like total strangers.
It
could be parent/child relationships that come to such a low point
children will sue parents or visa versa. In short the love is gone.
Amiri Baraka tells us in his play A Black Mass, "Where the souls print
should be there is only a cellulose pouch of disgusting habits...."
So as we walk the streets be very careful what you say to people, for they
are on edge, on the precipice, ready to strike out at the slightest
perceived negative incident, or wrong word uttered.
Yes, they are ready to kill, so be aware as you make your daily round.
The
political/economic atmosphere is charged with venom, but it is
misplaced aggression, for no one is going after the bankers, the loan
sharks, the Wall Street financiers who were casino gamblers with the
wealth of the people, stealing 13 trillion dollars in the sub prime
housing scam.
And yet hardly a banker is in jail, meanwhile 2.4
million mostly poor are incarcerated for petty crimes, additionally they
suffer drug abuse and mental illness, not to mention lack of proper
legal representation at the time of their trials. The only white man
doing time is the one who stole from the rich, not the poor. Those who
robbed the poor are yet receiving multimillion dollar bonuses while 30
million workers are unemployed and millions are now homeless.
It
is this atmosphere that is so unsettling to the mental state of those
who were already suffering stress from the general hostile environment,i.e., from toxic food, air, water; the media dispensing
information from the world of make believe and promoting the addiction to white supremacy conspicuous consumption.
How do we move from problem to solution, from addiction to recovery, from sickness to healing?
The
Buddhists say wisdom is knowledge plus the right action. We must first
understand the time and what must be done. These are perilous times,
very dangerous, thus one must tip through the tulips, through the mind
fields that lay before us, behind us, to the right and to the left, but most importantly, within us!
We
must practice eternal vigilance and stay on guard against being
deceived. There are those who wish to deceive us so that we remain
victims of the slave system. They will not tell us all the institutions
are exhausted, political, economic, educational, religious, marital.
None of these shall continue with business as usual. They must and shall
undergo radical structural change, if not simply thrown into the
dustbin of history where they belonged long ago.
Those not
prepared for radical change shall be blown by the wayside where they
shall inhabit the lower realms of an animal existence until they die or
recover from savagery and come into the era of civility and spirituality
beyond religiosity.
Those who are a danger to themselves and
others will need to be confined to a program of long term recovery, a
rehabilitation of their disgusting habits, namely greed, ego, pride,
lust, arrogance, and other deadly sins, and most importantly the
inability to practice freedom, justice and equality, constitutionally
unable to share the wealth and practice democracy or the consent of the
governed.
The end is the beginning and the beginning is the end,
or rather what goes around comes around. What we are witnessing and
experiencing is not linear time but circular, for we shall continue, but
only those who are able to jump out of the box of the old structures
into the new.
The fearless ones, they shall be successful. Those
not motivated by the illusions of the monkey mind shall be successful.
We pray for the others who persist in their inordinancy, blindly
wandering on, as the Qur'an says.
--Marvin X
4/7/11