http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBhUeLlI9t4
[GWD.F.]
Another video log essay in GWD.F. speaks about the
incompatibility of fearing death, and living. S. Loving, has lived that for 12,
13 years now, it seems . But that video
on the incompatibility of fear of death and living, fighting unviolently,
represents an evolution in my understanding - I've been aware of Gandhi's
obsession with eliminating all fear from himself of death but I didn't fully
grasp it, and in that video, essay I shared, I get it now. I get it now.
There is an incompatibility - the degree to which we fear
death is the degree to which we cannot love, and loving, is living, and warring
unviolently, from a neurological standpoint.
Another evolution in my understanding is this clarity which
stems from what I just discussed, which stems from that other video, essay. In this sickest of all societies, clinically,
as hostile to the healthy human nervous system as is the Matrix, if not more
so, it's so natural to fear death, isn't it?
It's so central, our fear, so ‘right,’ so’normal.’ We're moving toward 20% of GNP being spent on
healthcare, just to avoid death.
Sick.
But we're confronted with a choice. It's a choice that we have been dodging for
forever. Jesus died to make us confront
the choice. Jesus died to save us, to
give us the opportunity to make the choice.
Gandhi did the same, King did the same.
They clearly didn't fear death.
This isn't about a pure academic argument, was there any cell in
their body that had a fear death? Of course.
Was there the capacity within them to fear death? Of course. But that doesn't mean they lived it. We choose to live it, they chose to not live
it. Fearing death is absolutely central
to our being in this society. By no
stretch was it central to their being – King’s, Gandhi’s, the other potent
activists. The fear of other people
suffering and dying was central to their being.
This is the same way of the cells in your body, this is the
way of every organ in your body. It
isn't the way of cancer; it is exactly
the opposite of the way cancer which it seems, fears its own death, and has no
concerns for the body, except to consume it; to rape and plunder it, not out of
malice, but out of not caring about the
body.
Was Jesus a fool? Was
he trying to lead us someplace that we really shouldn't go? We wouldn't be more
joyful to go? He called it heaven. Gandhi beckoned us all there. King beckoned us all there. Was it really just for liberation of India in
Gandhi's case, and civil rights in Dr. King's case? Not unless they were lying to us. No, their objective was much higher than
that. Gandhi ended his life feeling a
great failure because he liberated India and did not liberate India from the
fear of death. It can be said different
ways, but that's what he considered to be his essential failure. King, was clear that his life was dedicated
to the ‘Dream.’
Is this some empty principle that Gandhi felt or was it at
the heart of a brother that hated to see the living death of his brothers and
sisters, because fearing death is to live death, to be lived by death, is to be
a slave to death, is to be a slave to death, is to be the servant of
death. To center one's life around a big
enough house, a big enough bank account, a big enough separation from one's
neighbors, big enough weapons, big enough police force.... And this is how we spend our lives, this is
how I spent my life from the time I was born in filthy overprivileged till I
left the filthy overprivileged 14 years ago.
Clinically filthy in way too much alcohol as clinically filthy, the way
any amount of crack is clinically filthy.
These weren't fools friends.
These were the few people that have retained human health and joy that
goes with it. It so happens that if what
Jesus might have called the second coming of Christ, the mass coming of love to
our hearts, Christ being the spirit of love; if that doesn't happen now, we are
not gunna stop global warming. And Gaia,
the Creator, mother Earth, will exterminate us.
That's the choice.
Will you kill your kids, your grandkids and great grandkids with denial,
out of fear, or is it time to embrace what virtually every great, even mediocre
- author, moviemaker, painter, religious leader of repute, of sanity, the few
of them, and the few great psychologists -
Frankel, and Adler most notably, secondarily Maslow, Rogers and
Csikszentmihalyi, - have all tried to tell us?
It's no longer a personal choice.
The choice you make on this will decide the fate of the next 2000 generations. The fate of hundreds of billions of
people.
What are you going to do?
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