Some Considerations - Doug Couch, December 7, 2009

It is understood clearly that this article will not find many willing ears and that it will be disregarded. Nevertheless, it is the most important article posted here.

The primary reason the world is in disarray, and thus the primary consideration in restoring the world to wholeness, is the continuing use of dead principles. Dead principles are any and all rules for guiding behavior, including spiritual principles and traditional cultural mores. Governance of individuals, singly and collectively can be likened unto the biblical gathering of manna. Such governance arises from guidance in the now moment always, and cannot be stored, memorized and codified or canonized and yet retain the living efficacy required to harmonize all things relative to living as a person, as a people.

All forms of disregard for this primary reason generate problems, some of which seem positive appearing, some negative, but all dead. This can be likened unto the biblical story of partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And when you look out into the world today, you see both those who proclaim evil and those who proclaim goodness bringing the world to disarray, depressing difficulties, and disharmony. This is largely because the standards have been established making goodness rote, and in this establishment is also established deadness instead of livingness. To look to yesterday's manna is to eat the worms it generates, and lose proper edification, allowing the vision of death to arise in its many many forms.

A few of the more obvious forms of disregard for this reason are morals, law, religious tenets, culture, tradition, etc. These are so widely accepted that it seems nonsensical to say anything against them, and yet, look out into the world and see their fruits all around you. If these could govern appropriately, they would have done so long ago. If modifying them "just so" and fixing the world's problems could work, it would be so already. This is an inappropriate approach. Rather than returning to earlier, simpler traditional values, people "must" become willing to gather manna daily, in every moment as now...and to not learn and teach and promulgate what they receive as rules to follow. Each one must come to terms with their own gathering, and participate in the world of people according to what is received in that gathering. Absolutely nothing else will work, for that is the nature of our reality; it is what we are, how we properly work, and is that which binds us gently together as a people.

If you look at the examples given above of disregard of this primary reason (which is the foundation of true reasonableness), you will notice that they all are expressed in the world in terms of control. That control varies across multiple spectrums of physical forced control, deeply emotional bonds of psychological control, and many forms of belief-based conditioning control (all of which overlap). Control is that which is anti-autonomy and non-trusting, and all that is this generates resentment, expressed as the disarray of all we see in the world. (This includes self-imposed discipline to rules-based behavior patterns.)

Oddly enough, we've been taught to fear and avoid anarchy, and yet it is order and the structures which provide and enforce order which have brought the vast disarray we see. In this, we do err, for the negativity we associate with anarchy is a perverse anarchy. Such erratic chaotic behavior arises when anarchy is extant among a people who are not gathering the manna of inner guidance from moment to moment. Among a people who are not disregarding the primary reason, and who are remaining willing to notice the truth and follow it daily, such anarchy would not be troublesome or chaotic at all.

To go forward with a general plan to establish a world community of peace, based on love, is a good plan. However, if that plan uses forms of disregard of the primary consideration given to all within their own hearts, such a plan is destined to failure...even when adhering to ancient indigenous traditions and mores. True enough that today's moral and related societal structures could learn much by simplifying and re-humanizing according to such earlier ways, but such changes cannot remove the disarray we see around us.

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