Spiritual development has been made too difficult to achieve naturally with the intellectual approaches we have
created to reach an experiential truth. Intuisdom aims directly at the gap left behind. ~ Anton Elohan Byers
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Saturday, March 27, 2010

How Messed Up Are We and What is it Going to Take To Fix Us? Your Answer?

Over the last 40 years there has been a shift in self-help strategies from pop-psychology to pop-spirituality, but not much seems to actually be getting better. In fact, I personally know of no fundamental advancement in quality of life by any measure during the course of my lifetime. Even in spite of a relatively dramatic shift over the last 20 years in the availability of holistically-based approaches in medicine and astronomical amounts of money being thrown at our problems, we lag behind many much poorer countries in critical measures of the effectiveness of health care such as infant mortality. How bad can our problems really be and why haven't we managed to at least find a basic idea of where we are going wrong?  

Well, I have my own ideas, but I'd like to hear yours. Let's put it out on the table and see what we have stored in our collective consciousness. Answer these four questions in simple language:

1. What is the fundamental problem?
2. What is the fundamental answer?
3. How do we communicate, teach and apply the answer?
4. What are the obstacles to communicating, teaching and applying the answer?

I'm looking forward to your input and allowing you to see what everyone else has to say!

Peace,

Anton Elohan






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Posted by Anton Elohan Byers at 11:18 PM

7 comments:

  1. It is an illusion that advancement happens to groups of people. (Yeah, hundredth monkey bla, bla, bla...). Advancement, like birth and death, happen to individuals, not groups. Quite frankly, I'm not measuring advancement in anyone's life but my own, and there has been plenty of it. I look back to my teens. My twenties, my thirties, my forties, and pretty soon I'll be looking back on my fifties while I navigate my sixties. I can't think of a single moment in the past when I lived more happily or consciously than I do today because I have advanced. I'm a teacher, so I offer what I've learned to others who might benefit. Can what I know advance others? No, I don't think so. If enough of us agree with me, is that advancement? Not at all. We can sit here, from our vantage point as learners who teach, thinking we hold the key. But the truth is, it's all happening in that wilderness of universe that lives between our ears. When the sun goes Red Giant in about 5 million years, what will matter? What you yourself have learned and how that grew you? Maybe. Impossible to say from this now-moment in space-time.
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  2. I would have to disagree with Jennie. Where did the Anasazi go? What technology poured the stones at Macchu Picchu and where are the remnants of that culture as well with the long list of ruins that have no passed down oral traditions for us to learn from of the builders of said cultures. Or did these civilizations ascend? My Money is on ancient culture mass ascencions as a way of explaining the dissapearance from history. Happiness is all that matters and so grateful that any life path is completely wonderful. As a teacher I would hope the influence of J’s teaching impacts lives therefore creating change in the expansion of consciousness of your students. My Dad was a language teacher and to this day long after he is gone his influence continues to shape this world. Teachers shape the space between the ears. If there were no teachers perhaps the amoeba stage would still be the petri dish a future humanity stagnates in.
    Now to address the questions
    What is the fundamental Problem?
    Thats a wide open questions but to qualify it with this What is the fundamental root cause of the problem in this world that is holding humanity back.
    This list goes something like this;
    Money 2% own the world 10% run it for them The bankers The industrial Military Complex and Organized religion are the three key players that hold the largest percentage of this worlds attention in the fear and scarcity paradigm creating the inbalance of nature to the critical detriment of the planets sentient nature.
    Many self helpers are in it for personal gain and forget the bigger purpose for activating universal principles is to serve humanity on a larger scale other than the singular self. In the collective of humanity is the divine will to break free of the subjugation to become that which is woven through every thread of existence .
    What is the fundamental answer. Know thyself...and everything else in the universe....same thing. Once the self becomes as the One ...that Red Giant could be another existence of my own evolved consciousness, because I just happen to think it would be fun to experience that form of consciousness.
    How do we communicate ect...Make it fun.
    What are obstacles? The only obstacle is the self.
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  3. I actually tend to agree with Jennie. Red makes a very wise point, that our teachings live on and continue to effect people even after we are dead or stop teaching. However, that is still their choice. As the saying goes "You may lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink." It's important that we share information with each other. Our theories, our love, our advice. But none of those things can force a person to grow. That is their choice. You could waste your whole life trying, and many do, to change one stubborn person. In my opinion, the availability of pure and good information is the most we can do to help each other grow.

    Which brings me to my own answers to these questions. I'll try to keep them brief.


    1. What is the fundamental problem? The fundamental problem is the limited resources we all continue to fight over. Whether it be limited love and time or money, food and oil. As long as this is the case our selfish natures will dominate our mentality.
    2. What is the fundamental answer? To abolish the monetary system, advance technology the point of self-sustaining societies and discover the basic answers to life's basic questions so we can all agree on what's important and how it should be approached. An open-source society.
    3. How do we communicate, teach and apply the answer? It has to start as a grass roots movement with major open source projects. Showing people that others will contribute their time for free if you allow them to do what they love and not force them to take on unnecessary jobs to make up for the waste and selfishness of others.
    4. What are the obstacles to communicating, teaching and applying the answer? The primary road block is the wide gap between the haves and have nots. As long as those in power have something to lose, they will maintain the current system with all the might of their resources. Aside from that, the fact that no one can agree on what the world really is, where we came from and where we're going after it ends. There is no harmony in society today. Just conflict.
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  4. Short response:

    First of all, I would question whether or not there is anything ‘wrong’ here. Existentially speaking, the emotional system runs the technical system. This applies whether we are referring to our bodies, our relationships, or how we interpret our environment – and, by extension, how we construct our social, cultural, and political systems.

    Long response:


    What remains constant throughout the arc of human history is that, while our individual circumstances can be vastly different, we are all traveling the same spiritual path: to overcome our fear of uncertainty and live our lives guided by our heart’s desire for essence, the feeling experiences we want from life which can only be found in the present moment. Simply put – not so easy to embrace and live.
    We can be inspired by the spiritual works of others, we can find their points of view helpful, we can resonate with various wisdom traditions and teachings, and we can present these to others – but, until we find the courage and willingness to implement these principles into how we live our lives, it all remains theory.
    As humans we have emotionalized our survival issues to an extraordinary degree. When we perceive a threat to our safety, our power, and/or our value we tend to interpret this as an existential issue. Mind starts to look for ways to avoid or control the threat, drawing upon it’s past experience and what it makes up about the future. We have a tendency to tip out of present moment awareness and right into Mind’s enforcement methods: shame, blame, guilt, moral outrage, and pity or self-pity. We have an aversion to feeling pain. This is part of our biology which is why it’s so tough to shift. This is what makes the Earth plane and being embodied in human form such a perfect context through which to do our spiritual work.
    Taking our attention off of what we perceive as problematic in the world, in others, and placing it directly and completely onto ourselves is the only way to awaken to and live from our authenticity. If there is a desire to lead and to serve, we must do so by example and with integrity.
    The only obstacles to moving forward, to healing and evolving, are our issues, our beliefs, our efforts to control what we perceive as ‘outside’ of us and what is ‘inside’ of us. It’s our investment in and attachment to the neo-lithic model of domination and subservience that keeps us acting out as we do.

    One of my favorite quotes by my teacher White Buffalo regarding the human journey is:

    “There’s nothing to do, there’s nothing to believe in, and there’s no one who needs you. So, now, what do you want?”
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  5. Not to oversimplify, but ...
    1. What is the fundamental problem?
    We look for the answers to problems we've created outside of ourselves.
    2. What is the fundamental answer?
    Look for the answers within.
    3. How do we communicate, teach and apply the answer?
    (see answer to number 2)
    4. What are the obstacles to communicating, teaching and applying the answer?
    (see answer to number 1)

    I don't choose to see the world as it's created, but create the world as I see it.
    Namaste, Sherry
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  6. These are some of the fundamental problems:
    we desire power instead of empowerment,
    we focus on the result/winning rather than the integrity of our choices.
    we worship the intellect and discount our feelings or use them as an excuse,
    we don't understand the concept of different but equal,
    we expect to be rewarded for doing the right thing

    The answer: development empowerment, and view the powerful as no better than the powerless

    Honor the choices, not the results

    Realize that no human or creature is better or lesser, just different

    If we expect acknowledgment, reward, or good things to happen as a result of right choice, courageous choices, etc., we are making a trade, we are getting paid, the books are even. Often doing the right thing results in being kicked around. But if we do it anyway, then we have made a contribution to life and to our spiritual evolution.

    We teach by example. We communicate by sharing our experience, support, hope, compassion and understanding, without expectation. Validation and acknowledgment can make a huge difference. But in the end, we can plant the seed, water it, and give it attention. It must choose to grow itself.

    Obstacles: our egos, our need to be right, or better, our fears, our self righteousness and our concern that we are not getting our fair share, and most of all our judgment and lack of tolerance.

    We are responsible for our own growth but we are all connection at some level of consciousness. So we are all in this together. We must respect each other and realize that everyone sometimes needs some support, someone to help prop them up until they can regain their bearings.

    We must learn to disagree without being disagreeable. And most of all, we must become aware of and have the courage to live our own truth and the tolerance to allow others to live theirs.

    Lauren
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  7. 1. I believe the fundamental problem is
    people don't wish to take responsibility for every part of of their lives. From the thoughts we think, the the way we live, to what we eat, to how we take care of ourselves...sooo many people do not want to be responsible for every aspect of their lives

    2. the answer... simple.. 'know theyself'
    dont' wait for someone to define you, tell you, make you. We are the creators of our world
    and seriously World Peace and the answer to all things begin and end with each of us...
    inside us all is the ability to change our lives

    3. from the moment of birth teach to look in
    and share it out..we were taught fear as children.. teach our young how to use their hearts to see, the mind to share, and their hands to help, themselves then radiate it out. if we believe in fear then we give that out

    4. the only obstacles I see is our own fear
    we are all the same...we might walk different paths....believe different things.. but in the end we all want the same things. and if we learn to share as a world instead of a greedy state
    human kind just might make it.
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