Mar 27 2008
Parable of the Garden
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Our current belief systems, our current faiths, our current spiritualities, are riddled with justifications for hierarchy, inequality, poverty, injustice, and woe. Science, religion, or spirituality, it doesn’t matter. Whatever your particular dogma, you are told you suffer (”we” suffer, “they” suffer) because we deserve it. You suffer because you are unworthy, because you ate a bad apple, because it’s your “karma,” or because you are weak and the strong deserves the reward. Whatever the excuse is, it doesn’t matter. When you boil it right down to essence, you are told the world looks like shit for some divine/natural/genetic/spiritual reason.
Frankly, that’s all bullshit. The world is the way it is not because of some divine plan or cosmic karmic machine but because of the choices that people like me and you (and most importantly the people with power) make. It is you and I, the ones who follow and go along, the ones who rule and set the course, who make the choices that create this world. It’s us who do it, not God or nature. Frankly, the Truth is, In the divine world of Spirit, there’s no reason for suffering, there’s no reason for poverty, there’s no justification for war and it should all end, right now.
So where do we start? Well, we need to start with a new story that doesn’t justify suffering or qualify the terrible condition of this world. We need a new story that doesn’t let us off the hook by speaking about sin or karma, hierarchy or entitlement. We need a new story that speaks to us about our unity, our divine purpose, and our magnificent power in Spirit. We need a new story that empowers each and every one of us to make a difference and change this world.
What follows in this Parable of The Garden is such a new story. Herein you will find an entirely new theological foundation for existing in this world. As impossible as it might seem, herein you will find no justification for inequality, poverty, hierarchy, war, hatred, violence, or evil whatsoever. Here there is no deep philosophical support of “darkness,” there is no biblical justification of divine madness, and there is no way out of the fundamental truth of your primary responsibility for creation. This is a new story, a true story, and a transformative story that puts the power of God and the power of change directly into your hands.
The story is presented in video form (and also appears in my book The Great Awakening). You’ll need about fifteen minutes of quiet solitude, and a nice glass of wine, to get through the story. The story is suitable for anyone over the age of 10 years old.
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