Does Spirituality
Belong in Politics?
Q:
I read in one of your books that you can't
divorce politics from spirituality. Can you explain this, Stuart?
A: The
main
part of our spirituality is to learn to love in a world that is intrinsically
restricted and dominated by ego and fear. We have to express our spiritual
journey in the context of a physical body that exists in a society, so it's
impossible to divorce politics from spirituality when politics impinges so
dramatically on one's freedom.
For example, a political system that is in
cahoots with bankers and the multinationals will seek to write rules that
sustain such an elitist association. The government is above the law, and the
multinationals are beyond the law for they can take their business anywhere. So,
although they have to abide by the rules theoretically, they exercise enormous
power. They are the employers of the ordinary people, so it's not hard for them
to get the government to write rules that serve the corporate purpose.
All this regulation and appeasing of the
bankers imposes restriction upon people. The idea is to create societies of
drones who will give their lives to the institutions and support the government,
while the government spends money like a drunken gambler. A system that controls
wages and the conditions of labor — while taxing people 55 percent or more of
their income — in effect controls
people's
ability to express themselves, while simultaneously capturing or controlling 55
percent of their mobility.
We come to the Earth plane to purchase
experiences, to collect knowledge, and to understand ourselves in the context of
creativity and action. Purchasing action and experiences is part of our
spiritual journey as humans. And in a political situation, where mobility is
restricted and commercial activity is regulated in favor of big business, where
most of the proceeds of your efforts are taken from you, it naturally reduces
your ability to experience life, to learn, and grow. So one can't divorce
politics from spirituality.
Unfortunately, our leaders are 35 to 40 years
behind the main thrust of consciousness. The driving forces in politics have
been
globalization, monetary policies designed by bankers, domination by big
business, surreptitious international standardization and regulation,
multiculturalism, one-world government, the cashless society, and endless debt
to sustain the system. The idea is to homogenize our societies, to lose or
disempower the individual, to marginalize dissent via control, to manipulate the
media, and to build societies of drones that will work for low wages and suffer
punitive taxes to sustain the elitist order.
Yet, the mind-set of ordinary people is going
the other way. They are becoming more conscious;
they
want to be individuals and express themselves. They have woken up to the idea
that debt is a form of imprisonment. They want mobility and quality of life.
Tax was sold to people in a socialist guise,
but people are waking to the reality of the old manipulation, which said that
paying half or more of your money to the government was reasonable, for you were
helping your fellow citizens. Of course we have come to see this for the lie it
is, for much of the money never reaches the citizens. And what does reach the
citizens makes them dependent on the system. It disempowers people, truncating
their creativity and forward movement.
As the consciousness movement has grown,
people have moved away from the manufactured mind-set of consent, and toward
liberty and freedom and the empowerment of individuals and small groups of
people. The hippie ashram of the 1960s was the forerunner of our society's
future, where small groups work together to become self-sufficient; where
society, love and friendship, leisure and time off, creativity, and care for the
environment are more important than the nine-to-five imprisonment of tick-tock,
which only offers the illusion of security, not actual security. Security comes
from local society, friendships, connections, the love of people and God, and a
respect for the natural ebb and flow of nature. Security stems from well-being and a
debt-free, stress-free existence.
So, the minds of the conscious people are
going one way, and the government and the institutions are going the other way.
The revolutions and upheavals that were a part of the collapse of communism will
become common in our Western nations as people come to realize that they are
victims of a huge con game. The days of the big families, the bankers, and the
sleazy political collusion that sustains the great lie are numbered.
Spirituality is moving to a new level; it's a natural part of human progress,
and politics is moving the other way. Politics will lose, and spirituality will
win in the end.
(Editor's Note: Please see the related
book review from the last issue: "Beyond Civilization" by Daniel
Quinn. In this book, Quinn expands on the solution.)
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Author
and lecturer Stuart Wilde is one of the
real characters of the self-help, human
potential movement. His style is humorous,
controversial, poignant, and
transformational. He has written 11 books,
including those that make up the very
successful Taos Quintet, which are
considered classics in their genre. They
are: Affirmations, The Force,
Miracles,
The Quickening, and The Trick to
Money Is Having Some. Stuart's books
have been translated into 12 languages.
This column is excerpted with permission
from his book "Simply Wilde"
with Leon Nacson, published by Hay House, 